This panel brings together feminist scholars across the disciplines to discuss the histories of anti-black violence in a range of locations, the ways these histories are connected, and the strategies people are using to counteract them.

Facilitated by Jessica Mertz, Director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Education at Penn, and Litty Paxton, Director of the Penn Women's Center If a student discloses an occurrence of sexual violence, would you know what to do? What resources are available to your students and…

Speaker: Diana Henderson (Professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), whose scholarship on women's writing, performance and media has been of great importance to scholars of gender and culture in the Renaissance. The author of Collaborations with the Past…

This workshop focuses on various ways instructors can teach theory in a humanities classroom. This discussion puts pressure on the divide between primary texts and theory by asking: How can we guide students to theoretical concerns through source materials? How do we teach close…

In this lecture Prof. Johnson will share excerpts from his current creative nonfiction research on black southern women who love women to demonstrate how he employed performative and creative writing as a feminist method for conducting oral histories.