Past Events
2026 Rackin Lecture with Dr. Erin Murphy
FBH 135
3340 Walnut Street
ADA Accessible
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Erin Murphy from Boston University for this year's Phyllis Rackin Lecture.
Transdisciplinarity Now
Research in Feminist, Queer, & Trans Studies
Fisher Bennett Hall, Room 344
3340 Walnut St
Bringing together current visiting scholars, this roundtable discussion explores a range of transdisciplinary approaches to feminist, queer, and trans studies through the lenses of ethnography, art history, translation, and literary, visual, and cultural studies.
Landing in Place:
Graphic Novel Talk
Penn Museum, RM 438
In Spring 2026, Penguin Random House published Landing in Place, a poignant coming-of-age graphic novel that tells the story of Anisa, a second-generation immigrant girl’s attempts to fit in at college.
The Rise of Queer Manga
Lecture and Conversation
McCabe Library, LibLab (1st Floor)
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Yuri is a genre of Japanese media that depicts intimate relationships between women, with a century-long history heavily intertwined with Japan’s feminist movements and LGBTQ+ politics. In the genre’s early iterations, explicit discussion of politics was deliberately avoided…
The Permenance of Anti-Roma Racism
(Un)uttered Sentences
College Hall 209
ADA Accessible
This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression.