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: Jasmine Erdener (Communication) and Chris Fite (History and Sociology of Science)
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Chris Fite (History and Sociology of Science): "Queer Encounters in the Garden: Meeting the Polyamorous Christ in a Popular Protestant Hymn" Jasmine Erdener (Communication): "From Puppet to Robot: Excavating Radical Futures" This project examines robots and artificial…
Queering Hip-Hop: The Nicki Minaj Playlist (A Lambda Grads/GSWS Colloquium)
LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce St
Penn Annenberg doctoral candidate Elena Maris discusses her work on the ways Nicki Minaj has queered hip hop, accompanied by a screening of her "queerest" videos. Abstract below: Singer/rapper/actress Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) was the first woman with 4 simultaneous Top 10…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Melanie R. Hill (English) and Davis Knittle (English)
3810 Walnut, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Left-Handed Sermons in a Right-Handed World: Black Women Preachers, Blues Bodies, and the Sound of the Sermon (Melanie R. Hill) This paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of the presence of black women preachers using both sermon and song to counter hegemonic and intersectional…
Graduate Colloquium: Patricia Kim (History of Art) and Sarah Watson (English)
3810 Walnut, GSWS/APC Conference Room
Please join us Monday, October 16 from 12-1:30pm for a graduate research colloquium by Patricia Kim (History of Art) and Sarah Watson (English). RSVP below to reserve your lunch. Patricia Kim (History of Art): "Carceral Heritage and the Gendered Politics of Display in Karia (4 th…