Past Events
Trans-Affirming Pedagogy in Language Classrooms: Creating and Modifying Course Materials
134 (CELTI Seminar Room) Van Pelt Library
Join Dr. Julia Heim, Lecturer in Italian Studies, for the Trans-Affirming Pedagogy in Language Classrooms: Creating and Modifying Course Material workshop! This session will provide practical approaches to trans-affirming pedagogy in language classrooms. We will discuss specific…
What’s Gender Got to Do With It?
Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
In a world threatened by armed conflicts, climate collapse, widening inequality, and potentially ungovernable technologies, political leaders have plenty on their plates. At the same time, regressive and repressive gender policies are taking center stage in many places around the…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium ft. Senit Kidane (Africana Studies) and Rose Poku (Africana Studies and Comparative Literature)
Penn Women's Center (Living Room)
Senit Kidane (she/her) "Destroying Shyness; Constellating Eritrean Feminisms" [Abstract Forthcoming] Rose Poku (she/her) "Eusebia (Dis)embodied: An Analysis of the Performances of Eusebia Cosme" This presentation, titled “Eusebia (Dis)Embodied: An Analysis of the Performances of…
Bates Center Seminar Series: Dr. Kelly S. O'Donnell
Biotech Commons (3610 Hamilton Walk)
Bates Center Seminar Series During the academic year, the Bates Center hosts prominent scholars from around the globe to present new historical scholarship in its seminar series. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. DR. KELLY S. O'DONNELL I am a historian of medicine and…
Reader Studies in the Digital Age: Community, Diversity, and the Data of Literary Consumption
Varies for event; please check individual events below!
This symposium marks the rise in recent years of empirical reader studies: data-driven research into what, why, and how people read. The full emergence of this field has been a long time coming. Literary scholars have never shown much interest in conducting empirical study of…
A History of Hands: A Multimedia Mixtape on Philly Queer/Trans Community and Artistry, Memory and Insurgency, Pre Civil War to Present
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.
A multimedia mextape on Philly's Sodomite, Invert, Homosexual, Homophile, Gay Liberationist, Lesbian Feminist, Queer, Trans, Kween, Bi, In the life, Puto, Pata, Gender Bender, Illusionist, Non Binary, Throuple, Drag: History, Politics, Community, Organizations, Leadership, Dive…
"Coming to You" Movie Screening with Director Byun Gyuri
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
It is my honor and pleasure to host Director Byun Gyuri and screen her award-winning documentary here at Penn (followed by a Q&A). Please mark your calendars for this one-of-a-kind event! yPINKS 연분홍치마 ( https://pinks.or.kr/) is one of the most important queer feminist activist…
Coming to You
Fisher-Bennett 401
yPINKS 연분홍치마 ( https://pinks.or.kr/) is one of the most important queer feminist activist groups in South Korea since the early 2000s, composed of filmmakers who have made numerous award-winning documentaries on gender and sexual minorities, sex workers, labor activists, Sewol…
ASAM Fellows Symposium - "Existence as Resistance"
ARCH 108
Join ASAM fellows for a day of insightful exploration as they delve into the theme "Existence as Resistance," to illuminate the power and agency of Asian American communities amidst struggles tied to histories, land, politics, health, and culture. The symposium will showcase how…
Tea with Dr. Nancy Hirschmann
Houston Hall 218
This Thursday, the @philomatheansociety is hosting an open-ended discussion with Dr. Nancy Hirschmann, a professor of GSWS and Political Science, where attendees are free to ask any questions they like about her areas of expertise. This event is open to the public, and if you…
