Past Events
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…
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…