Lectures and Conferences
Past Lectures and Conferences
After Obergefell: What's Next for the LGBTQ Movement
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 110; 3620 Walnut Street in partnership with the LGBT Center Five distinguished scholars and activists will discuss the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage and share perspectives on what could be next in the LGBTQ…
Dorothy Roberts, Brownlee Lecture: "Liberating Sexuality: Starting with Black Women"
G17 of Claudia Cohen Hall (249 S. 36th Street)
The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women and Penn Humanities Forum present the second of Two Lectures on Black Women's Sexuality. You can register for the event, which takes place in G17 of Claudia Cohen Hall (249 S. 36th Street), here. Following on her…
SOARS (Story of a Rape Survivor) Multimedia Performance, 2015 Judith Roth Berkowitz Lecture in Women's Studies.
International House (3701 Chestnut Street)
Please join us on Monday, September 21 at 6pm in International House (3701 Chestnut Street) for the 2015 Judith Roth Berkowitz Endowed Lecture in Women's Studies featuring SOARS (Story of a Rape Survivor). SOARS is an award winning multimedia performance that entertains as well…
Biocode: Performing Transgression after New Media
Please join us for this cross-disciplinary, three-day conference. Faculty and graduate students from the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication will host “ Biocode: Performing Transgression After New Media,” an international conference featuring key…
Brownlee Event in Sexuality Studies: Dirty Looks -- a panel discussion on contemporary queer performance
Please join us for our Brownlee Event in Sexuality Studies on April 9th, 2015 at 5:00pm (Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall. As part of the Biocode conference, we welcome Dirty Looks NYC, a performance-based traveling panel featuring contemporary queer luminaries Dynasty Handbag…
Judith R Berkowitz Endowed Lectureship featuring Signe Wilkinson
Please join us onFebruary 19th from 5:00-6:30pm in College Hall 200 for our annual Judith R Berkowitz Endowed Lecturefeaturing Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson: "Redrawing Stereotypes: Cartooning in Our Charlie Hebdo World" Signe Wilkinson is an…
Gender and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture
Please join us for a symposium on Gender and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture. The event will open Thursday evening, 11/6, with our Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South: a conversation between Neville Hoad (English, University…
Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South
Amado Recital Hall
Please join us on November 6th at 5:00pm for our Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South: a conversation with Neville Hoad (English, University of Texas at Austin) and Heather Love (English, Penn). This conversation serves as the keynote event…
GSWS 40th Anniversary Conference
Houston Hall
Please SAVE THE DATE for our upcoming GSWS 40th Anniversary Conference! In the Spring of 1973 faculty, staff, students and community members staged a sit-in in College Hall in response to a series of rapes on campus and demanded that Penn improve the campus environment for women…
40th Anniversary Plenary Lunch and Award Ceremony (Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall)
Houston Hall
Please join us, as part of our 40th Anniversary Conference, for a special Plenary Lunchtime Session and Award Ceremony. 1973: Celebrating Our Founders and Early Activism at Penn Michelle Fine, Moderator, Member of WEOUP, Women for Equal Employment Opportunity at the University of…