Past Events
21st Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Online
Join the Department of Africana Studies and Center for Africana Studies, Annenberg School, and Black Alumni Society for the 21st Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice featuring Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood…
40 Years of Queer BIPOC Feminism with Kandice Chuh, Christina León & Amber Musser
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…
Gender, Capitalism and Environment Student Conference
FQT/GSWS conference room, Fisher Bennett Hall Rm 345
This semester, the students of GSWS 303 have studied the intersection of gender, capitalism, and the environment using heterodox theoretical frameworks. Drawing on Marxist-feminism, Indigenous epistemologies, Black Radicalism, and queer/transgender Marxism, the students…
Mexican Psychotic
Rainey Auditorium | Penn Museum and LIVESTREAM via zoom
Mexican Psychotic is an experimental video-in-progress on the life, art and mythos of artist Martín Ramírez, who spent 30 years drawing beautiful works while incarcerated in California mental asylums. The screening will be followed by a discussion with CEE Fellow Ricardo A…
The Art of AIDS
2021 marks 40 years since a new viral agent with an unknown etiology emerged and instigated a global pandemic, now known as HIV. During and beyond the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis, people with AIDS, activists, chosen families, allies, and advocates formed networks of care…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium
Zoom
Sarah Carson (Department of Anthropology) "Sisterhood" & Gender Discourses in Women's Political Candidate Training ProgramsPresentation Abstract: Training and support programs designed specifically for women political candidates are increasingly influential as rising numbers of…
Displaced Children: Photography and Postmemory in Liquid Time." with Prof. Marianne Hirsch (Columbia)
Cherpak lounge in Williams hall. Please reference flyer for more information.
Designing a More Inclusive Class for Students with Disabilities
Virtual
Given that a portion of the students in our classes will have disabilities, considering those students when designing courses can help increase the likelihood that all of our students can thrive in our courses. In this session Zahra Fakhraai of Chemistry and Heather Love of…
Re-membering Ancient Futures Workshopwith Edyka Chilomé and Vanessa Mercado-Taylor
Virtual
This workshop introduces the genre of Indigenous futurism as a decolonizing technology in the context of Black and Brown colonized realities in the so called U.S. Inspired by the highly praised theatrical play “Where the Earth Meets the Sky,” written by Edyka Chilomé, Ariana Cook…
FQT Works-in-Progress Series with Shae Frydenlund
Options for in-person and online
Join us in welcoming FQT/GSWS Visiting Scholar Shae Frydenlund and learn about her work. "Labor, whiteness, and spatial privilege in Colorado ski country" In the United States, the widespread relocation of wealthy remote workers to mountain towns during the COVID-19 pandemic…
