We're looking forward to seeing you next Tuesday, 3/15, from 5-630pm, for a virtual talk with Jill Richards (Yale). She will be giving a talk (cosponsored by Mod/Con) titled "The Queer Atlantic Triangle," drawn from her work-in-progress, This Body Called Empire. You can join us…

We invite all Penn faculty and community members to a conversation about Penn's impact on West Philadelphia and the city, and its history of disposessing and displacing Black, Brown, and immigrant families. What is Penn's civic obligation to the public schools? How can Penn help…

Presenting a live performance of Jungle Nama (text by Amitav Ghosh, composed by Ali Sethi, and directed by Brooke O'Harra) The Center for Experimental Ethnography invites audiences to the first English stage performance of Amitav Ghosh's adaptation of an episode from the legend…

The Carework Network is excited to announce that registration is now open for the First Carework Network Virtual Symposium: “Moving Past Emergency Responses: Care as Essential Infrastructure”, which will take place March 1-3, 2022 (Register here.).

Women’s human rights have seen astonishing advances in recent decades, thanks to new laws and sustained organizing around the world. These campaigns aim to stop violence against women; improve their safety and security both inside and outside the home; eliminate discrimination…

Join us in the first Third Thursday event where Author Amitav Gosh CEE'S SPRING 2022 FELLOW will discuss his course, a special musical theatre performance course with composer Ali Sethi, author Amitav Ghosh, and director Brooke O'Harra. Instructors will lead students in a…

From mutual aid to charity: violence and women’s changing interethnic relationships in Rakhine state, Myanmar This chapter approaches Myanmar’s unfinished post-war transition through Rohingya and Rakhine women’s memories of their lives before and after 2012, when racially…

Destiny Crockett, Department of English, UPenn African American Girlishness in Black Women's Photography 1970-2003 How do we know when we are looking at an African American girl? What is made in our looking at the girls in the images Black women photographers capture? How do we…

As part of a year of programming on Care for the Future , the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies is hosting a series of events to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist thought, This Bridge Called My…

We are pleased to present our seminar series for Hilary Term (February and March 2022), which will be on ‘Gender Identities in Early and Premodern Text Cultures.’ The seminar will be held in a hybrid form, with Zoom connection complementing a limited on-site presence at the…