Past Events
Infidelities Conference
Slought & LGBT Center
4017 Walnut St
The Critical Armenian Studies Collective is pleased to announce "Infidelities: Armenian Studies Otherwise" (March 24 – 26, 2023), a three-day international conference about new directions in the study of Armenian memory, culture, and displacement across West Asia and the Middle…
Gen/Sex, Mod/Con: Arthur Wang: “Inventing Rape Ecology: Octavia E. Butler and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence"
Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (Room 330)
Join the Gender and Sexuality Reading Group/Modernist and Contemporary Literatures Reading Group in FBH's graduate lounge for a work-in-progress by Arthur Wang, the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at Annenberg. Please reach out to Jonathan Dick ( jondick@sas.upenn.edu) or Eilis…
Solidarity and Complicity in Liberation
Caster 311
The MSSP program is hosting the next Social Policy Speaker Series featuring Dr. Mijke van der Drift and Dr. Nat Raha, international guests and scholars from London and Scotland respectively. They will be joining us on Wednesday, March 22 from 2:30-3:30pm for a talk titled…
OWN IT Penn 2023
ARCH (3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
OWN IT Penn is proud to present our 7th annual empowerment summit at ARCH (3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104) on March 18 from 9:00am to 2:00pm. Join us in addressing this year's theme: resilience. SUMMIT SCHEDULE (3-18-23) 9:00 – 9:30 Refreshments and Networking (ARCH 208…
Women Transforming Societies: The Global Fight for Human Rights
Perry World House
A conversation honoring International Women's Day, looking at how women mobilize to demand their rights and challenge government policies.
These Are Our Stories - A Trans Oral History Listening Session (Virtual)
Save the date for the Trans Oral History Listening/Community Session (Virtual) The Trans Oral History Project (TOHP) is a community engagement initiative that collects and makes accessible the stories of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people, beginning with those who…
“If This Story Was a Stack of Photographs”: How We See Queer African Resistance.
330 Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St
This talk looks at photographs and documentary practices of and by queer African artists who use images, primarily in domestic spaces, to tell stories about the imperfect forms of adaptation, life-building, and queer belonging on the African continent. By looking at writers…
"Racializing Subjectivity in 17th Century Erotic Narrative" 2023 Phyllis Rackin Lecture by Professor Valerie Traub
Ovidian-inspired erotic epyllia and their pornographic progeny play an important role in the early modern construction of racial whiteness. Francis Beaumont’s narrative verse Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1602) and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (c. 1684) illustrate…
Abolition. Feminism. Now Group Discussion
Join FQT/GSWS for a conversation about Abolition. Feminism. Now (Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie). Arielle Julia Brown, Kathy Brown, and Kirsten Lee will lead a discussion about the indivisibile projects of abolition and feminism.
Connecting Conversations: Strengthening LGBTQ+ Families Panel
Join Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative for an interdisciplinary panel discussion. Moderator Jessica Halem speaks with experts from research, policy, and startups to explore how we can strengthen LGBTQ+ family formation through community, healthcare, and services. Join us on Zoom…