There will be a real life Battleship competition from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday at the Campus Recreation Pearson Hall Pool 31.

Teams of three will take part in a life-size battleship tournament where the goal is to sink your opponent’s cane in the allotted time to become the last team standing. Points will be awarded throughout the night, and the highest scorers will battle for the win. This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. Participants must register with their teams at Pool 30 by Wednesday.

Kelly Link will read her work Thursday night from 5-6 p.m. in the Women’s Studies Lounge on the eighth floor of Anderson Hall. The co-founder of Small Beer Press, Link is the author of the story collections “Get In Trouble,” “Stranger Things Happen,” “Magic for Beginners” and “Pretty Monsters.”

Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Link has edited numerous anthologies including “The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror,” “Steampunk!” and “Monstrous Affections.” Link was invited as part of the MFA Creative Writing Program. Her reading is free and open to all.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute will lead its TechConnect workshop tonight from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the MBA Commons on the seventh floor of Alter Hall. The workshop offers the opportunity to work with real world technologies, identify entrepreneurial partners and develop strategies to build a business or apply for translational research funding. This two-day workshop continues tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.   

The Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a discussion today from 2-6 p.m. “The Scholar as Activist, The Activist as Scholar” will explore the relationship between academic scholarship and social justice activism.

Speakers will include Robin Andersen from Fordham University, Gabriel Rockhill from Villanova, Liz Sevcenko from The New School Humanities Action Lab and Temple Law School’s Jennifer Lee. They will share their experiences with CHAT Fellows facilitators. A reception with refreshments will follow the event in the CHAT Lounge on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall. The discussion is free and open to all.

The discussion “It’s Always Time to Talk About Social Identity Intersectionalities” will start at 12:30 p.m. today in Annenberg Hall Room 3. Dr. Donnalyn Pompper of the School of Media and Communication will talk about the importance of the intersectionalities approach to understand how people fit into different dimensions of age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation and more.

Organization managers try to create unity in the workplace by understanding these dimensions, but rarely discuss the challenges that arise from the differences. Pompper’s  one-hour discussion is free and open to all.

In celebration of Women’s History Month and Social Work Month, alumna Joan Sadoff will present a film and conversation on Thursday from 3-5 p.m. in the Ritter Hall Walk Auditorium. Sadoff is the producer of “Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders” and the editor of its companion book “Pieces From the Past: Voices of Heroic Women in Civil Rights.”

Sadoff was recently selected as the recipient of a 2015 Alumni Impact Award for her outstanding service, contribution and advocacy to her school and university. This event is free and open to all.

Kimberly Williams will lead her presentation, “Landscapes of Death in Ancient Arabia,” on Thursday afternoon from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. in the Center for Humanities on the tenth floor of Gladfelter Hall. Williams believes the location and details of how people choose to dispose of their dead reflects relationships between the living and deceased in a community.

Williams will discuss the change from the burial cairns of the Oman Peninsula in the Bronze Age to the low, central tombs in the middle of the third millennium B.C. Williams holds that this shift effectively destroyed any individual identity that was previously celebrated. Using GIS modeling to visualize the mortuary landscapes and understand landform use, Williams will model how ancient people transformed physical landscape into a landscape of death. This event is free and open to all.