Past Events
Arthur Tress: A Visual Odyssey
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please join us for a lecture by Arthur Tress. Tress is a renowned contemporary art photographer who uses photography to tell stories. He first gained recognition with his hauntingly beautiful book of images, Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector (1972), which challenged the…
A Century of Queer Korean Literature
Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 337
249 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
As part of a larger translation project called “Of Many Kinds: An Anthology of Queer Korean Literature,” Dr. Perry’s talk examines the works of several writers whose fiction sheds light on popular discourses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance in both colonial and…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium: Jasmine Erdener (Communication) and Chris Fite (History and Sociology of Science)
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Chris Fite (History and Sociology of Science): "Queer Encounters in the Garden: Meeting the Polyamorous Christ in a Popular Protestant Hymn" Jasmine Erdener (Communication): "From Puppet to Robot: Excavating Radical Futures" This project examines robots and artificial…
James Welker "Boys Love (BL) Media and its Asian Transfigurations"
Stiteler Hall, B26
208 S 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Created by and for adolescent girls and women, boys love (BL) media, depicting romantic and sexual relationships between males, took root in commercial shōjo manga (girls’ comics) magazines in Japan in the early 1970s. BL quickly spread into other commercial and fan-produced…
Understanding the Gender Voting Gap in the Era of Women's Suffrage
McNeil, Room 103
This location is ADA accessible
This event is sponsored by the Population Studies Center
Dawn Teele Assistant Professor - University of Pennsylvania, Political Science Department For more information: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/