Upcoming Events

An Evening with Penn: London

Join President J. Larry Jameson for a University update and the chance to connect with local Penn alumni, parents, and friends.

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University Update by
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
Penn President

Wednesday, 11 March 2026
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London
WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom

7:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Welcome & Check-In
7:30 PM – 8:15 PM | An Evening with Penn Program
8:15 PM – 9:30 PM | Networking Reception

By kind permission of the Director and Trustees of the National Gallery.

11 March 2026 | 7:00 GMT

Persuade, Connect, Succeed: 7 Skills to Boost Your Career

In this session, we will share seven game-changing skills that, regardless of whether you work at a startup, as a consultant, or at a non-profit, will help you pitch your ideas, establish trust, and get what you want with confidence. From crafting compelling value propositions to handling objections like a pro, you’ll learn practical, transferable techniques that apply across industries—tech, non-profits, finance, healthcare, or consulting. Backed by insights from LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends report, these skills are proven to drive career growth. Walk away with a one-page cheat sheet, actionable steps to implement immediately, and the confidence to stand out in any room. Don’t lose this chance to redefine your professional image and accelerate your career trajectory.

February 4, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s

This winter, the Arthur Ross Gallery presents a landmark exhibition, Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s that opens a window onto the Lower East Side art scene, where low rents and studio-ready lofts fostered a dynamic arts ecology fueled by fearless critics and intrepid dealers. Join curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, the Inaugural Faculty Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery and James and Nan Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at Penn, and David Galperin, Vice Chairman and Head of Contemporary Art for Sotheby’s New York, for a virtual tour of the show before it opens to the public on January 30, 2026.

February 18, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Sigmund Freud and the Family Dogs

It wasn’t until late in life that Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis, became a “dog person.” Even in his sixties, his friend and colleague Lou Andreas-Salomé could still describe him as someone “who didn’t care much for cats or dogs or animals in general.” But as Freud approached his seventies, his thirty-year-old daughter, Anna Freud, decided she wanted a dog—one big enough to protect her on the long walks she liked to take in the countryside. So, in June of 1925, he presented her with a black Alsatian named Wolf, and by the end of that summer Freud was in love. However much Anna Freud might have preferred to be alone with her dog, Wolf quickly became someone whose affection she had to share—and not just with her father but with the entire family and their social circle. And in 1928, at age sixty-nine, Freud finally got a dog of his own—the first of several he would cherish during the final decade of his life. The story of the Freud family dogs has never been comprehensively told—but needs to be, not only to add this and many similarly important stories to the history and biographies of the early years of psychoanalysis, but also as part of the much larger story of dogs in and around psychoanalysis—including the need better to understand dogs as intimate companions in millions of human lives; as increasingly frequent co-participants in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic treatment; and as nonhuman subjects in their own right, with their own forms of conscious and unconscious experience and intersubjective relationships.

February 24, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET