Past Events
Morir Sonyando (Die Dreaming)
Play Excerpt Reading & Discussion
Platt Student Performing Arts House
This location is ADA accessible
Join us for an excerpt reading of Morir Sonyando by award-winning playwright Erlina Ortiz, followed by a disscussion with the creative team.
Nursing the Symposium: Care Work in Revolutionary America
McNeil Center
This location is ADA accessible
In 2026 the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania will open its year-long exhibition, Nursing the Revolution.
Dorothy Roberts Book Celebration
"The Mixed Marriage Project"
Penn Carey Law
This location is ADA accessible
The Program on Race, Science and Society (PRSS) presents a very special book celebration event for Prof. Dorothy Roberts' memoir The Mixed Marriage Project.
For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies
Kislack Center
Van Pelt Library
This location is ADA accessible
The graduate students of the Department of Music at University of Pennsylvania invite proposals for individual papers and performances for our graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies.
The Barbara Loden Project, with Elena Gorfinkel
TBD
Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miner's wife and mother, electing instead to drift.
Book Reading & Party for Sex Isn’t Real
Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
Second Floor
This location is ADA accessible
Please join us in congratulating Beans Velocci on their new book, Sex Isn't Real, with a book reading/launch party! In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes…
Graduate Student Colloquium Series
344 Fisher-Bennett Hall
Please join us to learn about the research from Bonnie Maldonado & Marina Nascimento . Bonnie Samantha Maldonado Asencio is a Doctoral Candidate and Benjamin Franklin and William Fontaine Fellow of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds graduate…
Lip Sync for Your Life
The Street Queen and her Record Acts
344 Fisher-Bennett Hall
Join us as FQT Postdoctoral Fellow Eva Pensis presents her work in progress. All members of the community are welcome. Food will be served. Image: photo from the first Miss Continental Pageant circa 1980 featuring Andrea Nicole, Chilli Pepper, and Dina Jacobs (left to right)…
Yugoslav Women, and Global Socialist Feminisms
623 Williams Hall
This talk examines the transnational political friendships forged between Malian activist Aoua Kéita and Yugoslav socialist women, particularly members of the Conference for Women’s Social Activity (KDAŽ). Drawing on correspondence, reports, and interviews, it shows how these…
[GSWS Colloquium Series] Talia Fiester and Erica Quinones
The Public Spectacle of Gendered Truth Claims in Lively v. Baldoni
BENN 344
Please join us to learn about the research from Talia Fiester and Erica Quinones (University of Delaware). Talia Fiester’s research interests include networked publics, affective truth claims, post‑#MeToo digital culture, and mediated feminisms. Before coming to Annenberg, she…