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…

This annual seminar series welcomes Maria Smilios , author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis , and Virginia Allen, one of the last living Black Angels. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people’s darkest fears…

Dr. Ian Fleishman, Chair of the Cinema & Media Studies Department and a member of the Executive Board at GSWS, will be launching a monograph on queer film and literature, Flamboyant Fictions : The Failed Art of Passing. This book posits formal experimentation as an index for…

Deion Dresser, "Beyond the Binary: Reimagining Sexual Difference through Relational Ontologies" This paper critically examines a fundamental concept of Italian feminisms, il pensiero della differenza sessuale, focusing on its limitations in addressing non-binary and trans…