Graduate Research Colloquium Series
The Graduate Research Colloquium Series is a space for graduate students to share their GSWS-related work with other grad students from across the university's many schools and departments. It meets twice a semester and allows students the opportunity to workshop parts of chapters, articles, essays, conference papers, and presentations. Longer pieces are pre-circulated.
The colloquium series is made possible thanks to generous financial support from the Departments of Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, English, French, German, Hispanic Studies, History, History of Art, Italian, Political Science, and the Center for Global Women's Health.
Colloquia are currently coordinated by the GSWS Graduate Associate Zhanar Beketova (FIGS, Germanic Studies). Please contact Zhanar at beketova@upenn.edu for more information.
Past Graduate Research Colloquium Series
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Nat Rivkin (English) and Liz Rose (Comparative Literature)
FBH 345
Nat Rivkin ‘as a rond of flesche yschore’: The King of Tars, Race, and Trans Childhood Liz Rose In Excess of Empire: Black Feminist Mothering and Trans Temporalities in Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez
Work in Progress with GSWS Fulbright Fellow María Sánchez-Ramos
FBH 345 and on zoom
How is sexual violence against women covered by the press? Media ethics and deontological approach in the Spanish context. Beginning with a study of media coverage of the sexual assault known as the Pamplona's Wolf-Pack rape case in Spain, the present project deals with the media…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Cianna Jackson (Classical Studies) and Miranda Sklaroff (Political Science)
FBH 345 and on zoom
Cianna Z. Jackson The Iphigenia Problem: The Affective Absence of a Sacrificed Daughter in the Iliad Missing from the Homeric poem the Iliad is arguably one of the most harrowing moments from the Trojan War stories. The something-missing is the story of the sacrifice of the young…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Lucila Rozas Urrunaga (Annenberg) and Thomas Henry "Hank" Owings (Political Science)
FBH 345 and on zoom
Please RSVP by emailing Matty Hemming (mhemming@sas.upenn.edu)
Thomas Henry "Hank" OwingsBetween Freedom and Desire: Toward a Democratic Ethos in Sex Discussions around the monkeypox pandemic and LGBTQ susceptibility instigated debate around whether or not it’s “homophobic” for public health officials to call for sexual restraint. In this…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Kirsten Lee (Department of English) and Zoe Zhao (Department of Sociology)
FBH 345 and on zoom
Kirsten Lee Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Postbellum Poststructuralism In her 1869 novel Minnie ’ s Sacrifice , Frances Ellen Watkins Harper depicts the political aftermath of the Civil War as a drama of miscegenation, citizenship, and public service in the American South. The…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Jackie Radford (Graduate School of Education) and Genevieve Tan (Department of History)
FBH 345 and zoom
Abortion Access: Implications for Institutions of Higher Education Jackie Radford The reversal of Roe v. Wade will have significant implications for how colleges and universities provide reproductive care to students. This session will cover: ·the statutory & cultural history of…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Matty Hemming (English) and Anna-Claire Stinebring (History of Art)
Fisher-Bennett Hall Suite 345
Locating the History of Sexuality in Jean Rhys’s Birth Narratives Matty Hemming This talk considers how the fiction of British-Caribbean author Jean Rhys registers and intervenes in early twentieth century discourses of classed and racialized biological reproduction. Focusing on…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Haley Ferise (Carey Law School) and Elisheva Levy (Architecture)
Virtual
Haley Ferise (Penn Law) Disparate Suffering: The Consequences of the Illegal and Unconstitutional Federal Funding of Abstinence-Only Sex Education The United States funds abstinence-only sex education through a variety of spending programs, such as the Title V Sexual Risk…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium featuring Destiny Crockett (Department of English) and Lauren Harris (Department of Sociology)
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Destiny Crockett, Department of English, UPenn African American Girlishness in Black Women's Photography 1970-2003 How do we know when we are looking at an African American girl? What is made in our looking at the girls in the images Black women photographers capture? How do we…
