The Future is Feminist examines how Muslim feminists in colonial Algeria looked East for inspiration and offers a new perspective on the relationship between gender, Islam, and the French empire. These feminists rhetorically challenged the colonial claim of Islam’s inherent…

The collective for advancing multimodal research in the arts (CAMRA), a graduate student community nested at the Center for Experimental Ethnography, organizes a community-oriented practitioner festival called SSMF (Screening Scholarship Media Festival) each spring. This year…

The Department of History at Rutgers – Camden invites you to our third Lees Seminar for the Spring 2025 semester with Assistant Professor Javier Samper Vendrell (UPenn) and Associate Professor Joseph Fischel (Yale) on Friday, March 28. Dr. Javier Samper Vendrell , Assistant…

In this talk based on her book, Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco, Dr. Otálvaro-Hormilosa will present on trans performance within the burlesque and cabaret worlds of mid-century San Francisco. The conversation will be moderated by Abrams Artist in…

Cole Rizki, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, will present a talk titled "Choreographies of Survival, Art of Repair." This talk will draw on Professor Rizki's ethnographic work with travesti and trans survivors of dictatorship in Argentina focused on their…

Join Serene Khader, author of Faux Feminism, and Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms, for a conversation about their recent books!

We are thrilled to announce that the Embodied Histories Working Group—focused on the study of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Global South—has been awarded an SAS grant for the 2024-2025 academic year! Please join Sara Rahnama for a talk on The Future is Feminist: Women and…

Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and our Spring Scholar in Residence. A national leader in transgender rights litigation and advocacy, Chase has been counsel in some of the past decade’s most pivotal legal fights on behalf of transgender litigants…

Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and our Spring Scholar in Residence. A national leader in transgender rights litigation and advocacy, Chase has been counsel in some of the past decade’s most pivotal legal fights on behalf of transgender litigants…

The Department of Africana Studies invites you to our 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, "Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self”. For reasons of space, we encourage community members not affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania to join us…