Brook's book is the first English language biography of Hirschfeld, the pioneering sexologist and LGBT rights advocate whose research institution in Berlin was shuttered by the Nazis. Brook will talk about Hirschfeld's life and legacy, as well as the craft of writing this sort of…

Please join us to learn about the research from Cienna Davis and Lilly Haave. Cienna Davis is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, with research interests in Black feminist theory, media, diaspora, and cultural politics. Her work explores…

The Philosophy Department welcomes Tareq Baconi at the University of Pennsylvania for a book talk and public conversation with Noura Erakat on his forthcoming book Fire in Every Direction (Simon & Schuster). The event will take place between November 10-14 and center on Baconi’s…

In a dystopian near-future, a protest traps two American tourists at the top of Machu Picchu, Perú. On the same mountain, centuries earlier, a third-gender oracle and their apprentice predict the fall of the Inca Empire. As both timelines approach apocalypse, their worlds collide…

“In the cinema, a society that has lost its gestures tries at once to reclaim what it has lost and to record its loss... For human beings who have lost every sense of naturalness, each single gesture becomes a destiny.” — Giorgio Agamben, "Notes on Gesture" Join us at Public…