"A World Centre," heliogravure by Jules Chauvet, from Hendrik Christian Andersen's World Centre for Communication (Paris, 1913; no. 19 printed for the University of Pennsylvania) Past events made possible by the Thomas Sovereign Gates Fund include: 2017-02-22 2017 : The Science of Information, 1870-1945: (February 22 -24 ) 2017-03-29 2017 : American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900 (March 29 -31 ) 2018-10-25 2018 : Sound, Gender, and the Color Line (October 25 )