Past Events
Janet Jakobsen: Critical Inquiry and Engaged Pedagogy
Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room
This location is ADA accessible.
How can the classroom make connections and contributions to the world beyond the academy while also protecting the need for critical inquiry that challenges administrative imperatives for efficiency and practicality? H ow can graduate students think about realizing feminist…
Sacrifice & Service: When Women Come Marching Home
Penn Bookstore, 2nd floor
3601 Walnut Street
This location is ADA accessible
This event is sponsored by Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic
Join the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, for an enlightening discussion with a diverse panel of women veterans, as we explore issues of diversity among…
Janet Jakobsen: Queer Ethics in Hard Times: The Promise of Melancholy Utopias
Annenberg 500, 3620 Walnut St.
This location is ADA accessible.
Listen to a podcast interview with Janet Jakobsen on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? In this paper, based on her current book project, “Why Sex?: Religion, Secularism, and Possibilities for Justice,” Janet Jakobsen reflects on what she has learned from her experience of living…
Open House Mixer for LGBTQ + Faculty
Penn's LGBT Center
3907 Spruce St.
Please come meet other LGBTQ+ faculty and hear brief remarks by Provost Wendell Pritchett. The Center’s LGBTQ+ Faculty Diversity Working Group is dedicated to ensuring faculty voices and needs are heard, increasing LGBTQ+ faculty presence on campus via hiring and retention…
Jody Benjamin l Complex Engagements: Global Cotton, Commerce and Self-Fashioning on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1820-1850
3401 Walnut Street
Africana Studies Seminar Room, 330A
Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies
Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce, and History in…
