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 Research Colloquium
Zoom
Sarah Carson (Department of Anthropology) "Sisterhood" & Gender Discourses in Women's Political Candidate Training ProgramsPresentation Abstract: Training and support programs designed specifically for women political candidates are increasingly influential as rising numbers of…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium
Zoom
Co-Presenters Pris Nasrat, Communications and Ava Kim, English Pris Nasrat (Annenberg School of Communication)Performing Indecency: Interruptions of Orientalized Dancing in Coney Island Courtrooms Within the United States, the coochee-coochee dance grew to fame and notoriety at…
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Wednesday, April 14th 2:00-3:30
Register in advance for this Zoom meeting here.After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Elisheva Levy Architecture History and Theory, Weitzman School of Design “Love, Politics, and the Soviet Communal Apartment” In this talk, I will discuss the state of my Ph.D. research into “Communist Love” and the Kommunalka - a unique urban form of communal living that was…
Graduate Colloquium featuring Anna-Claire Stinebring (Art History) and Aylin Malcolm (English)
To RSVP to this workshop please email Alicia Meyer at aliciame@sas.upenn.edu for the zoom link and a copy of any pre-circulated readings
Anna-Claire Stinebring (Art History) “Adultery, Idolatry, and the Power of Women: Reassessing Van Hemessen’s c. 1540 Judith with the Head of Holofernes” In the c. 1540 Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Chicago, AIC) by the Antwerp painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen, the powerful…
Graduate ColloquiumKirsten Lee (English) and Katelyn Hearfield (Musicology)
To RSVP to this workshop please email Alicia Meyer at aliciame@sas.upenn.edu for the zoom link and a copy of any pre-circulated readings
Kirsten Lee (English) "'Sister, wasn’t it good': Feminist Legacies at The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival" This paper examines the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival to investigate how Black women’s relationships to each other as writers and readers structured the event’s…
Graduate Colloquium with Timothy Holliday (Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies) and Rovel Sequeira (English)
Please email our Graduate Associate, Alicia Meyer (aliciame@sas.upenn.edu), for the link to this event and any precirculated readings.
Timothy Holliday, Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Talk: "'The Weight of Time': Historicizing Johanna Hedva's 'Sick Woman Theory'" In their 2016 essay “Sick Woman Theory,” genderqueer artist and social theorist Johanna Hedva described the…
(POSTPONED) Graduate Research Colloquium: Tim Holliday (History) and Rovel Sequeira (English)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Timothy Holliday, HistoryTitle: "Chronic(ling) Illness and the Work of Historicizing Johanna Hedva's 'Sick Woman Theory'" In their 2016 essay “Sick Woman Theory,” genderqueer artist and social theorist Johanna Hedva described the category of “Sick Woman” as encompassing those…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Angelina Eimannsberger (Comparative Literature) and Heather Jaber (Annenberg School for Communication)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Angelina Eimannsberger: Sophocles’ Antigone and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: Women, Kinship, and the State In her 2000 lecture turned book Antigone’s Claim, Judith Butler engages with Sophocles’ play Antigonebecause she is curious about “what happened to those feminist efforts to…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology) and Raka Sen (Sociology)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
"Sexual Violence, Legal Reforms, and Forensic Reports: The Emerging Medico-Legal Discourse and Practice in Turkey" Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology)My dissertation offers a feminist socio-legal analysis of the sexual assault law in the wake of major legal reforms in Turkey. My…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium
GSWS Conference Room (Fisher-Bennett Hall 345)
Lunch will be provided
"Are Female Engagement Teams a Military Innovation?" Shira Pindyck (UPenn Political Science) The integration of population-based counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine has been difficult. Like other military innovations, implementing COIN involved a reorientation in doctrine…
