Past Events
On Developing an Exhibition on the Technologies of (Queer) Porn
Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
The 2019-2020 Workshop in the History of Material Texts will be welcoming John Anderies (William Way LGBT Community Center) for a talk entitled "On Developing an Exhibition on the Technologies of (Queer) Porn." John writes: The John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT…
Rethinking Care Work: Dis(Affection) and the Politics of Paid Household Labor with Premilla Nadasen
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Premilla NadasenProfessor of History, Barnard College Debates on the idea of care have come to dominate scholarship and activism on domestic work and social reproduction. What role did the struggle for rights and inclusion among African American household workers in the 1970s…
Feminist Media and Organizing with Roz Lee, Jessa Lingel, and Rosemary Clark-Parsons
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Across different feminist movements, media has played a key role. From pamphlet and posters to zines and hashtags, media has represented and mobilized feminist praxis. This pedagogy seminar brings together different perspectives and experiences with feminist media, with a focus…
A Reading By Carmen Maria Machado
Arts Cafe in Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn…
"A Hinduism for Us: Feminist Interpretations of Guyanese Hinduism in NYC" with Rupa Pillai
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work-in-Progress Seminar with APC Visiting Scholar Rupa Pillai Rupa Pillai is a senior lecturer of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation, Caribbean Hinduism on the Move, is the…
