Past Events
Pedagogy Seminar: Did Women Have an Enlightenment? And, If So, At What Cost? with Joan DeJean (Romance Languages)
Please join us for a pedagogy seminar led by Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of Romance Languages. "I’ll take up the question of women’s almost total invisibility in the movement we know as the Enlightenment by using documents of various kinds: correspondence, the transcript of an…
Graduate Colloquium with Travis Lau (English) and Gina Elia (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Travis Lau (English) Transfusing Public Health: Dracula and the Case of Vampirism Using two key contemporaneous events with Dracula’s publication, the redefinition of immunity as self-defense by Élie Metchnikoff in 1881 and the invention of the rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur and…
Teresa de Lauretis: The Queerness of the Drive
The Alice Paul Center is a proud co-sponosor of this event, part of the 2015-2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex. You can register for this event, which takes place in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street). https://www.phf.upenn.edu/events/queerness-drive
Sarah Richardson: "Sex, Gender, and the Human Genome"
The Alice Paul Center is a proud co-sponosor of this event, part of the 2015-2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex. You can register for this event, which takes place in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street), here. Epigenetics, the study of how environmental…