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 Caroline Hodge and Dixion Li
GSWS Conference Room (Fisher-Bennett Hall 345)
"Beyond Birth Control: The Social Life of Contraception in the US Heartland" Caroline Hodge (Anthropology) Caroline Hodge is an MD/PhD student in anthropology, earning her MD from the University of California San Francisco, and her PhD at Penn, under the supervision of Adriana…
Graduate Research Colloquium: James Joshua Coleman (Josh) (Graduate School of Education) and Peter Harvey (Sociology)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Peter Harvey (Sociology) Gender Theory and Class: Bridging the Theoretical Divide Within sociology, gender theory and the theorizing of masculinities was originally built on ethnomethodological foundations that were highly sensitive to the micro-interactional context. And yet…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz (Comparative Literature) and Lauriane Guihard (Romance Languages)
GSWS/APC Conference Room - Fisher Bennet Hall Suite 345
Titles and abstracts TBA All are welcome. Lunch will be served.
Graduate Research Colloquium: Megan Reed (Sociology) and Tabea Cornel (History and Sociology of Science)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Megan Reed: Gender Scripts of the Upwardly Mobile in India: Intersectionality in the Global South This study examines the relationship between social class and gender performance in Indian households by tracking changes in the household practice of female seclusion over time…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Elena Rosa Maris (Annenberg) and Emily Hund (Annenberg)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Elena Rosa Maris: Queer Xena, Old Xena: Examining Online Audience Influence through a Fandom’s Tactical Lineage Xena: Warrior Princess was a syndicated TV series that aired from 1995–2001. This presentation considers the case of the Xena fandom in two different eras to examine…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Kiana Murphy (English) and Dana Cypress (English)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Kiana Murphy, Exploding the Spectacle: The Urgency of (Re)Graphing Blackness in Kindred This paper considers the way black cultural objects challenge the fixity of race and also teach us to see and read blackness otherwise/elsewhere. If, as scholar Isaiah Lavender argues, “the…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Alicia Meyer (English) and Sara Rendell (Anthropology)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Alicia Meyer, "Bed(lam): Maidservants, Race, and Sexuality in Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen." In this talk, I investigate the ties between the sexual agency, race, and political power in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613). I argue that the…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium: Rovel Sequeira (English) and Jess Shollenberger (English)
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Jess Shollenberger (English), On Being “Regularly Gay There”: Gertrude Stein’s Queer Ordinary In this presentation, I revisit Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” a portrait of two ladies being “regularly gay.” I situate this understudied composition with respect to…
GSWS Graduate Student Lunch with Silvia Cusicanqui
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quecha and Aymara cosmologies. She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina…
LALS, Africana, and GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium
Max Kade Center | 3401 Walnut Street | Room 329A
Eziaku Nwok ocha Bio: Eziaku Nwokocha has already earned a master’s at Harvard Divinity School. As a graduate student in Africana and Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she undertakes ethnographic research on gender sexuality, fashion and material culture in…
