Past Events
Penn Nursing's Annual Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Presents: "The Black Angels: A Nurse's Story"
2nd floor, Hillel at Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th Street
The mini-documentary Black Angels is the previously untold story of African American nurses who risked their lives to care for patients with Tuberculosis, when there was no cure, and white nurses refused. The film will be introduced by filmmaker and nurse, Denetra Hampton, and…
Control Societies Speaker Series: Kara Keeling, University of Chicago
Annenberg School, Room 500
In this talk, Kara Keeling will discuss how “an empiricism that invites surprises” might work as a mode of knowledge production. She will expand upon the ideas offered at the end of her book, Queer Times, Black Futures , where she writes, “In the context of the algorithms and…
A conversation with Sophie Lewis
Kelly Writer's House, Arts Cafe
Sophie Lewis is a writer, occasional translator and part-time faculty member at the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Sophie's interdisciplinary work tends to blend feminist theory and cultural criticism, interrogating work, nature, and…
Y In Vyborg
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Y in Vyborg (dir. Pia Andell, 2006, 51 min., Finland) U.S. premiere, mature audiences only. Directed by Pia Andell, Y in Vyborg (2005) is a compilation of home movies taken by an average family in Finland who purchased a 16mm camera in 1938. Two young architects, Ragnar and…
Penn Lightbulb Café: Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. Philadelphia
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? In this talk, GSWS affiliated faculty member, Melissa J. Wilde, shows how today’s modern divisions began in the 1930s in the public battles over birth control…
