PENN GRAD TALKS

Penn Grad Talks (formerly known as Grad Ben Talks) features TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs.

Learn more about the finalists here and vote for the audience choice award here

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2024

  • Three Stories every Student Needs to Tell (video)

  • A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: The Effects of Murals on Crime (video)

  • All My Friends Are Dead: Time, Emotion, and Form in Early Islamic Poetry (video)

  • Pain in the Brain (video)

  • Planet X: Can Gravity Solve a Mystery of the Deep Solar System (video)

Previous Winners

2023

  • The Battle for Africa’s Sporting Heart: Can Basketball Overtake Football’s Popularity? (video)

  • Racial Policy and Agenda Instability: Measuring Legislative Attention to Race (video)

  • Aging Virtuously: Cicero on Old Age, Disability, and Character (video)

  • From Zero to Five Thousand: The Current Census of Exoplanets (video)

  • Savoring the Shared Life: Strengthening Marriages Through Collaborative Legacy Writing (video)

2022

  • Witnessing Circularity: Circular Economy Lessons from Amsterdam (video)

  • Harvesting Heritage: The United Fruit Company and Corporate Labor in 20th-Century Archaeological Science (video)

  • Black Like Us: African American Encounters With Soviet Central Asia (video)

  • Deadbeat Dinoflagellates: Symbiotic Cooperation Breaks Down After Coral Bleaching (video)

  • Web 3.0: Embracing the Future of Internet Technologies on the African Continent (video)

2021

  • My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)

  • The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

  • Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

2020

  • My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)

  • The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

  • Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

2019

  • My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)

  • The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

  • Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

2018

  • My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)

  • The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

  • Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)

  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)

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