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Teaching Professor of Sociology and Criminology
hbs103@psu.edu
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Commencement Card Pickup
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
119 Sparks Building
Apr
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11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Liberal Arts Chaiken Center for Student Success, 139 Sparks Building
Apr
30
Penn State Horror Network Film Series
6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies—Sonia Martin
9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
May
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9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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1
Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab Meeting
12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
130 Moore Building
May
1
The Penn State Film Studies Working Group
6:00 p.m.
Carnegie Cinema, 113 Carnegie Building
May
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Film Screening: The Housemaid (1960, 108 min.) and The Handmaiden (2016, 144 min).
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Carnegie Cinema, 113 Carnegie Building
May
5
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Liberal Arts Chaiken Center for Student Success, 139 Sparks Building
May
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7:00 p.m.
May
6
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Liberal Arts Career Enrichment Network, 101 Sparks Building
May
8
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2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Hintz Family Alumni Center
May
9
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8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
121 Sparks Building
May
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5:00 p.m.
Bryce Jordan Center
May
11
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Dewey Room (WO43A), Collaboration Commons Pattee Library
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