Past Events
Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Woman Challenging World Politics
McNeil Building Room 473
In Vernacular Sovereignties, Manuela Lavinas Picq shows that Indigenous women have long been dynamic political actors who have partaken in international politics and have shaped state practices carrying different forms of resistance. Her research on Ecuador shows that although…
They/She/He/Who’s Gotta Have It? Art across Genders, Nations and Forms
Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S 36th Street
This panel discussion and poetry art presentation will look at visual and textual works which trouble the divisions of states, languages, cultures and genders. The focus will be on contemporary queer artistry in the forms of photography, performance, poetry, anime/manga in queer…
Penn Arts and Sciences Professional Women’s Alliance (PWA) Career Roundtables
Irvine Auditorium, Amado Recital
Penn Arts & Sciences Professional Women’s Alliance (PWA) has partnered with Career Services and the student group, Women in Leadership Series (WILS), to bring a unique Career Roundtable event to campus. Featuring accomplished College alumnae across many industries, students will…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Caroline Hodge and Dixion Li
GSWS Conference Room (Fisher-Bennett Hall 345)
"Beyond Birth Control: The Social Life of Contraception in the US Heartland" Caroline Hodge (Anthropology) Caroline Hodge is an MD/PhD student in anthropology, earning her MD from the University of California San Francisco, and her PhD at Penn, under the supervision of Adriana…
Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Jennifer Higginbotham
Fisher-Bennett Hall
Please join the Med/Ren Working Group for a public lecture by Jennifer Higginbotham, "Renaissance Women’s Writing and the Problem of the Fragment," followed by a reception. Prof. Higginbotham (Ohio State University) is the author of The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters (2013)…