Part I: Democracy in Crisis Part II: Civil Society under Attack Part III: What this means at Penn Part IV: Where do we go from here? In a forum on the First 60 Days of the Trump administration we take the long view in order to make sense of the flood of directives, executive…

In the U.S. premiere of Dentro, Giuliana Musso, one of Italy’s most compelling voices in contemporary theatre, explores the devastating impact of silence when abuse occurs at home. Please learn more and buy tickets here. Content advisory: Dentro explores topics that may be…

In the U.S. premiere of Dentro, Giuliana Musso, one of Italy’s most compelling voices in contemporary theatre, explores the devastating impact of silence when abuse occurs at home. Please learn more and buy tickets here. Content advisory: Dentro explores topics that may be…

In the U.S. premiere of Dentro, Giuliana Musso, one of Italy’s most compelling voices in contemporary theatre, explores the devastating impact of silence when abuse occurs at home. Please learn more and buy tickets here. Content advisory: Dentro explores topics that may be…

Calling students, faculty, staff, alum, Philly's broader queer and trans community, and those in solidarity with our liberation! Please join us in our collective table reading of Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation by gay historian Jonathan…

South Asia Studies Department and Wolf Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow Paniz Musawi Natanzi and the Latitudes working group are co-organizing the launch of the book “Ugliness,” published by New Vessel Press, written by author and artist Moshtari Hilal. Author and visual…

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 Susanna Ferguson for a talk on Labors of Love: Gender…

Please join Annie Ting and Aurora De Lucia to learn more about their brilliant work on Thursday, February 27th from 12:00–1:30 on Zoom. Abstracts of Annie and Aurora's talks are copied below. Please RSVP using this form . A Zoom link will be shared with attendees before the event…

In conjunction with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Forum on Keywords, this symposium engages mobile concepts and their genealogies, histories, structures of meaning, translations, and adaptations across time and space. In three panels curated around the Raymond Williams…

GSWS is hosting a book talk for Dr. Sophie Lewis' new book, Enemy Feminisms, moderated by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser. "Where would we be without Sophie Lewis?" asks Judith Butler: "In a more impoverished political world." Join GSWS visiting scholar Sophie Lewis at the Penn bookstore…