Past Events
It’s Not Funny:
The Subversive Politics of Comedy
College Hall 200
Queer Politics in the Age of Trump
Silverman Hall 245A at Penn Law School
3501 Sansom Street
Coffee & Conversation: The Combahee River Collective and Identity Politics
Enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee and join Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Penn MFA candidate, for a conversation inspired by artist Cauleen Smith’s ICA exhibition Give It or Leave It. The discussion will focus on the reference within the exhibition to the black radical feminist group…
Trans Literacy Project Seminar on Teaching Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory
Penn LGBT Center: 3907 Spruce Street (Robert Schoenberg Carriage House)
The Trans Literacy Project (TLP) is an exciting series of cross-discipline, cross-community conversations designed to advance trans literacy across and beyond the university. TLP workshops and expert panels feature the powerful insights of nonbinary, trans, and gender…
Sound, Gender, and the Color Line
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Sixth Floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
To honor the career of African American Philadelphia-born musician and cultural ambassador, Marian Anderson (1897-1993), the Kislak Center and the Departments of Music and Africana Studies have organized a one-day symposium to explore Anderson's musical career in the context of…