Joel Mittleman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame For the first time ever, LGBTQ+ populations are being invited to “come out” across a wide range of large, population-representative datasets. This new visibility not only provides sociologists with an…

Throughout the Atlantic world, marrons used tactics of evasion, elusion and escape to refuse the yoke of slavery. The autonomous communities they established in the form of quilombos in Brazil and palenques in Colombia stand as some of the earliest examples of Black sovereignty…

Join us to kickoff Penn Women's Center's 50th anniversary. We will celebrate our past, present, and future with the unveiling of a new mural featuring PWC's important historical moments and impact at Penn. We will also celebrate the Class of 1973's gift to support PWC's wellness…

Facilitator: Cam Smith, Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry Trans, non-binary, gender diverse, and gender expansive students are present in growing numbers at Penn. How do we as STEM faculty and instructors provide…

2023 marks 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, the book now revered as the First Folio. This talk introduces what’s significant about this book, and what copies—including the one at Penn—can tell us about the way it was put…

Tara Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University While the category “Transgender” has come to represent gender variance globally, this has not always been the case. Transnationally, there is wide variation in how people have understood gender variance and…

How does writing for “the general public” differ from writing for a scholarly community? What’s involved in reimagining your dissertation for a broader audience? What kinds of “public” writing can we engage in while continuing our work in scholarly journals? In this brown-bag…

Come grab some dinner and learn about the GSWS program with Gwendolyn Beetham, Associate Director of GSWS Program, and Riley Fortier, Program Coordinator for the GSWS program.

In this talk, I’m thinking about the intersection of contemporary and historical attitudes to gender and sexuality, using my current work editing Twelfth Night as the case study. I will draw on the First Folio stage directions and other textual apparatus, critical approaches to…

Monthly queer movie night hosted by Penn Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies. Movie is in French with English subtitles. Snacks will be provided!