Past Events
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality
Cohen 204
Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's critical role in this rebuilding process and…
Black Hospitals, White Caps: How Philadelphia’s Black Community Confronted Segregation in Healthcare
Claire Fagin Hall, room 114
Join the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing for a screening of The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital, followed by a Q&A with Dr. Hafeeza Anchrum and Karen Smyles. Join the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing for a screening of The…
Altarpieces: A 3-Day Particpatory Art Project for/by the LGBTQIA+ Community
The Rotunda
Queer Italian artist Ruben Montini is inviting members of Philadelphia's LGBTQIA+ community to join him and come together to create a collaborative art installation that he has called "Altarpieces." This three-day event of artistic creation, is part of a larger project that…
Three Films Across Two Decades: An intimate look at the Isreal-Palestine conflict in the work of award-winning filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Virtual
"Towards the upcoming meet-the-fellows event I am sharing links to 3 films I made about Israel/Palestine in the last two decades. The films disclose the way I position myself towards the place that I come from, and my effort to communicate my understanding of the conflict with…
Reflecting on Abortion Rights 51 Years Post-Roe: A Film Screening
The Forum (Second Floor)
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PSPCE)
The Andrea Mitchell Center and Penn Reproductive Justice are organizing an event called "Reflecting on Abortion Rights 51 Years Post-Roe” where we will watch a screening of the short film “Abortion and Women’s Rights in 1970”, which tells the illegal-abortion stories of two women…
Trans Art(s) of Abstraction
LGBT Center
Goodhand Room
Please join us for "Trans Art(s) of Abstraction" in the LGBT Center on January 25th at 6:00 pm. Queer/Trans art historian David Getsy in conversatioin with the curator of the exhibition "Transcendent Mess: To Outwit Representation" at Vox Populi Gallery, Lane Timothy Speidel and…
Women as Sexual Beings Under Communism
PCPE 200
How the State Interest in Reproduction Inspired Research on the Female Orgasm and How the Pro-Family Policies Fueled Divorce
GSWS Graduate Colloquium ft. Yara Damaj (Political Science) and Lauren Bakst (English)
FBH 345
Yara Damaj (she/her) "Disrupting Binaries: #MosqueMeToo, Double Duress, and Colonial Mimicry" [Abstract Forthcoming] Lauren Bakst (she/her) "Lesbian Surrounds: Studying with Shakedown and the Clit Club" How do lesbians have sex in the city, beyond the parameters of the domestic…
Queer Women’s Feminist Spaces: Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses
GSWS/FQT Conference Room
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Coinciding with the 51st anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Dr. Alex Ketchum's book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and…
A Symposium on Love and Sex
Radio Kismet (130 S 34th St)
A Symposium on Love and Sex is a transdisciplinary discussion between three amazing panelists: Dr. Sukaina Hirji (Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Penn) Dr. Marcia Chatelain (Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies) Dr. Sophie Lewis (Visiting Scholar, Center…
