Past Events
LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langston Hughes Undergraduate Conference
Fisher-Bennett Hall 135
Please join us for “LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langson Hughes,” a conference featuring the work of Penn undergraduates and responses by Stephanie Burt (Harvard) and Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins). The formal papers and responses will be followed by a reception, and all attendees…
Embodied Histories Seminar with Asli Zengin on Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
LGBT Center, Goodhand Room
In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative…
Postmodern Trans Studies
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135
The symposium will feature five speakers, each discussing their work and recent trends in Premodern Trans scholarship for approximately 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A session and open conversation. This event aims to bring together scholars whose work will be featured on our…
Queer Movie Night
Williams 543
Join FIGS for our last movie night of the semester! We will be streaming Born for You in Italian with English subtitles, and there will be light snacks. We hope to see you there!
Graduate Colloquium: Apurva Prasad and Austin Svedjan
BENN 344
