Past Events
GSWS Pedagogy Seminar: The Postcolonial Classroom with Ania Loomba (English)
How can we bring in postcolonial perspectives while teaching about gender and sexuality? How do we ensure that we do not work with Euro-American paradigms or theories and then add race or other parts of the world simply as footnotes or exceptions? Ania Loomba will share thoughts…
Major Dinner: Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Our dinner for prospective majors will take place on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 6pm in the Greenhouse Room of Gregory House. Please RSVP here by October 26 at 9am.
Steven Epstein: Living in the Era of Sexual Health
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/coming-soon-0
Envisioning LGBTQ Rights in the Middle East
Presenter: Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, Swarthmore College Location: LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce St, Philadelphia PA The Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is incredibly diverse-- and its LGBTQ communities are just as heterogeneous. How does queer subjectivity differ across the region…
Graduate Colloquium with Kyndall Clark (MLA) and Julia Cox (English)
Kyndall Clark (Master of Liberal Arts) Black Girls Matter: The Politics of Place and Identity In the past year, several regional coalitions have come together to #BreakTheSilence, to #SayHerName and to assert that #BlackGirlsMatter. #BlackGirlsMatter is a national movement to…