Past Events
Work in Progress with GSWS Fulbright Fellow María Sánchez-Ramos
FBH 345 and on zoom
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…
Penn Alumni Reading Club: Akira Drake Rodriguez's Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
Online
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.
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Cianna Jackson (Classical Studies) and Miranda Sklaroff (Political Science)
FBH 345 and on zoom
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…
These Are Our Stories - A Trans Oral History Listening Session
William Way LGBT Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
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
Kelly Writers House & Online
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…
Do We Look Free?: Art/Prisons/Liberation
ICA auditorium 118 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA
Recording available on YouTube
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…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Lucila Rozas Urrunaga (Annenberg) and Thomas Henry "Hank" Owings (Political Science)
FBH 345 and on zoom
Please RSVP by emailing Matty Hemming (mhemming@sas.upenn.edu)
Thomas Henry "Hank" OwingsBetween Freedom and Desire: Toward a Democratic Ethos in Sex Discussions around the monkeypox pandemic and LGBTQ susceptibility instigated debate around whether or not it’s “homophobic” for public health officials to call for sexual restraint. In this…
"Transforming the Academy for Women's Leadership" with Nadeen Spence
In person in FBH 345 & via zoom
The presentation will offer a critique of how the modern university might not be meeting the needs of women for empowerment and leadership development. Spence will also suggest strategies that university administrators, professors and other actors can explore to ensure that women…
Teaching and Researching in the Radical Archive with Brad Duncan
GSWS conference room, FBH 345
This workshop will feature Brad Duncan (@radical_archive), a collector of printed material related to the radical Left and liberations movements. Brad will present a range of materials from his fantastic collection, with a focus on publications, writings, and other materials from…