Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities…

Join MIC and Rutgers University for a conference exploring methods to articulate critical interconnections between crises and forms of resistance. Note: Agenda is still being finalized. We live in a time of rupture. The social, economic, and ecological crises that confront us…

Join us for a vital discussion with women scholars and activists of minority groups from Iran to discuss their grienvances with--and positions within-- the current uprising. We will gather for the first time on this panel to reflect on Jina (Mahsa) Amini's state murder and the…

How is sexual violence against women covered by the press? Media ethics and deontological approach in the Spanish context. Beginning with a study of media coverage of the sexual assault known as the Pamplona's Wolf-Pack rape case in Spain, the present project deals with the media…

This program is being co-hosted by Penn Alumni Lifelong Learning and the Center for Africana Studies, and co-sponsored by the Black Alumni Society and Penn Spectrum Programs. Click here to purchase a copy of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing.

Cianna Z. Jackson The Iphigenia Problem: The Affective Absence of a Sacrificed Daughter in the Iliad Missing from the Homeric poem the Iliad is arguably one of the most harrowing moments from the Trojan War stories. The something-missing is the story of the sacrifice of the young…

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 engagement initiative that collects and makes accessible the stories of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming…

A READING BY MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies, the Creative Writing Program, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and the Department of English Introduced by Piyali Bhattacharya Tuesday, November 29, 6:00 PM Kelly Writers…

The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies and the Institute of Contemporary Art invite you to join us for: Do We Look Free?: Art/Prisons/Liberation Is art-making a necessary aspect of prison abolition movements? What does the…