Past Events
Evening of Comedy & Poetry with ALOK
Annenberg Center, Zellerbach Theatre (3680 Walnut St)
All PennCard holders can attend this event FREE – just come with your PennCard, no advance registration required! This includes students, staff, faculty, alum, and guest card holders. There will also be a meet and greet after the performance! Submit an optional question for Q+A…
HSS & FQT/GSWS Present Banu Subramaniam's Floral Dreams: Sex Told, (Un)told, (Re)told
392 Cohen Hall and Zoom
Please join us Monday April 10 for a workshop featuring Banu Subramaniam, co-sponsored by GSWS. We'll be meeting in Cohen 402 to accommodate a larger group than usual! Time remains the same—3:30—and as usual you can also tune in via Zoom. We'll have a reception in the lounge…
Take Back the Night at Penn 2023
College Green, ARCH 108
Take Back the Night is an international campaign designed to take a stand against interpersonal and sexual violence. On Penn’s Campus, Take Back the Night includes a speaker on College Green, a rally/protest and a march around campus with the Penn Band, and a survivor speak-out…
Trans-Affirming Pedagogies Symposium
ARCH building Rm 108, 3601 Locust Walk
Professor Irving Goh: “The Problem of Failure"
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
Professor Irving Goh will visit Penn on Thursday, March 30, to deliver an open lecture on “The Problem of Failure.” Irving Goh is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore and a 2022-23 National Humanities Center Fellow. His first book, The Reject…
Unsovereign Elements
Kelly Writer's House
Curated by Cecilia González Godino, PhD Candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, this group exhibition features artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora. The exhibition examines the ambiguous role of geological elements in the (re)production of the archipelago-…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Nat Rivkin (English) and Liz Rose (Comparative Literature)
FBH 345
Nat Rivkin ‘as a rond of flesche yschore’: The King of Tars, Race, and Trans Childhood Liz Rose In Excess of Empire: Black Feminist Mothering and Trans Temporalities in Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez
Exceptional: A Conversation with Kate Zernike & Interim Provost Beth A. Winkelstein, PhD
Hybrid (Golkin Room of Houston Hall, livestreamed on Zoom)
Come hear Interim Provost Beth A. Winkelstein, PhD, in conversation with Pulitzer-Prize–winning New York Times reporter Kate Zernike as they discuss her new book, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science. The talk will be followed by a book signing…
Bring in the Bystander Program Training Sessions
Sayre High School, 5800 Walnut St
Training sessions for the Bringing in the Bystander Program will be held at Sayre High School, 5800 Walnut St on the following days: Day 1 - Tuesday, March 28, 3pm - 5pm Day 2 - Monday, April 3, 3pm - 6pm Day 3 - Thursday, April 6, 3pm - 6pm The Successful Bystander Program…
bala.fruta/bullet.fruit: A Performance and Conversation with Jesús I. Valles
Penn Live Arts Montgomery Theater
Free and open to the public ( register here) "My first bullet flew swiftly through the head of a would-be Mexican president, cut through a street block, a dance club, a Walmart, cut back through to a past never-ending, cut past and rattled in my brain until it bloomed into these…