Past Events
Lecture Series on the Synthetic: Denice Frohman
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Lower Gallery
Supported by the Provost Office at the University of Pennsylvania and the Dean’s Office at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. This series is organized by Sophie Hochhäusl, Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory, Maya Alam, architect and Visiting Lecturer, and…
Queer Bauhaus with Libby Otto
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Elizabeth Otto is an art historian and the author of Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics and Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, and the coauthor of Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective. She has…
A Reading and Conversation with Joshua Whitehead
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe
Join the Kelly Writers House on Wednesday, January 29, at 12:00 PM, for a reading by Joshua Whitehead, an Oji- nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). Whitehead's book of poetry, Full Metal-Indigiqueer, was shortlisted for the 2017 Lambda…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology) and Raka Sen (Sociology)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
"Sexual Violence, Legal Reforms, and Forensic Reports: The Emerging Medico-Legal Discourse and Practice in Turkey" Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology)My dissertation offers a feminist socio-legal analysis of the sexual assault law in the wake of major legal reforms in Turkey. My…
A Timely Revelation: Trans Temporality, Crip Time, and the Testimony of Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán with Rob Franco
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work in Progress Seminar with Penn Predoctoral Fellow for Excellence in Diversity Robert Franco Born in 1965 to Communist parents, the transgender and disability rights activist Echeverría Gaitán was a child of the Mexican counterculture and leftist movements that emerged in the…