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!

Genevieve Tan (she/hers) "Daughters of Japan: Women and the Household Registration System" [Abstract Forthcoming] Yingchen Kwok (she/hers) "Can Protozoa Die? On Heredity and Reproductive Futurity in Late Nineteenth-Century German Biology" In 1881, the German zoologist August…

Explore the world virtually, both far and near, with Penn faculty members and your fellow alumni community. Each live, interactive lecture features Penn professors sharing new and innovative research on a variety of topics. Participants will have the opportunity to ask in-depth…

The Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication invites you to celebrate the launch of two incredibly pertinent books on October 5th. Join us to celebrate the publication of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and…