Past Events
From Congress to the Vatican: The Promotion of Maternal-Fetal Surgery & Perinatal Palliative Care as Alternatives to Abortion Care
Online
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protection for abortion care, maternal-fetal surgery and perinatal palliative care have been heavily promoted as alternatives for people whose pregnancies are complicated by a severe fetal condition. These are…
Heritage & Presence Symposium
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th floorKislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and ManuscriptsVan Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut Street
What is the relationship between heritage—a set of shared articulations and sensations of the past—and our lived realities? How do efforts to construct and erase these shared understandings impact the possibilities of a shared and shareable present? These questions have acquired…
FEB. 23rd: These Are Our Stories - A Trans Oral History Listening Session
Trans Resource Center - William Way LGBT Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
William Way LGBT Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 This location is ADA accessible Save the date for the Trans Oral History Listening/Community Session at the William Way LGBT Community Center! The Trans Oral History Project (TOHP) is a community…
FQT/GSWS Presents New Work in Gender & Sexuality Studies with Simone White and Sophie Lewis
Please join FQT/GSWS for a presentation of new works by Simone White and Sophie Lewis. Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy…
GSWS Graduate Student Mixer
LGBT Center Goodhand Room and Patio
This is a great oppourtunity to come and meet fellow GSWS grad students and learn more about the certificate program! Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
Painted Valentines: The Artful Love Affair Between Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
Irvine Auditorium
Across some of the most famous paintings in the history of American art, Johns and Rauschenberg conducted a very public love affair that was also, by design, very private. In this talk Professor Jonathan Katz, a founding figure in queer art history, decodes their pictorial…
History and Sociology of Science Workshop with Maria Murphy
Cohen Hall 392
Maria Murphy is the Associate Director at Penn's Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. Her work examines the relationship between music technologies and body politics through multimedia performance art, American experimentalism, and aesthetic activism…
Kashmir Week with the Radical South Asian Collective
ARCH 108/208
We are organizing Kashmir Week, a week-long series of events from February 13-17, that is meant to give a voice to a community that has been silenced. The story of Kashmir is not a new one; people all over the world have mourned Kashmir and its people, who are subject to violence…
Care & Caregiving in the Academy
Zoom
An online panel hosted by IRW, featuring Gwendolyn Beetham (University of Pennsylvania), Jina B. Kim (Smith College), Laura Porterfield (Rutgers-Newark), and Stephanie Rytilahti (University of Wisconsin).