Past Events
Positions in the Patriarchy: Retooling the Metaphysics of Gender
Cohen Hall, Room 402
Decades of feminist theory have approached the question ‘what is gender?’ with an eye to gender as a system— in particular, the system that creates and sustains patriarchy. Using this approach, feminists have proposed theories of gender focused on the social positions that…
Screening: A Conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw: Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeTooMovement
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Twenty-nine years ago, the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program hosted Anita Hill in her first public talk after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. In October 2018 Professor Hill returned to Penn at yet another historic moment in the movement against sexual harassment and…
Public Policy in Practice with Valerie Jarrett
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, Auditorium
Lower Level Auditorium, 133 S. 36th Street (36th & Walnut Street), Philadelphia, PA 19104
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm Event Information: Please join Fels for a conversation with Valerie Jarrett, the longest-serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. Valerie B. Jarrett is a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and Attn, a Senior Distinguished…
Internal Speaker Series: Colonialism, Gender and the Accumulation of Capital
ARCH Building, Room 108
Variations welcomes Ania Loomba, author of Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism, for a workshop on Friday, September 6 from 4-5:30PM in ARCH 108. In preparation for this workshop, Variations will hold a special reading group session on Friday, August 30. This…
GSWS @ Penn Open House
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Join us for food, drink and an opportunity to meet the new members of the GSWS community. Please RSVP
