Past Events
Police Violence and Mass Incarceration at the Intersections of Identity: A Conversation with Andrea Ritchie
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights will lead a broad-ranging discussion with Andrea Ritchie, activist, attorney, and scholar. Ritchie’s new book Invisible No…
Feminist Pedagogy Zine Making Workshop: Session 2
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Women´s Struggles in Defense of Pachamama. Trans-regional and Trans-ethnic Alliances in Bolivia, Berkowitz Lecture
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall
208 S. 37th St.
For more information on Women Against the Megaprojectos or to send words of support, please visit the Collectivx Ch'ixi blog or F acebook page Drawing from her previous work on colonialism, ethnicity and gender in the Andes, Rivera Cusicanqui will give a historical background for…
GSWS Graduate Student Lunch with Silvia Cusicanqui
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quecha and Aymara cosmologies. She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina…
Jack Halberstam: "Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability" In partnership with the English Department
LGBT Center
3907 Spruce Street
Event Description coming soon. Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books and has written articles that have appeared in numerous…