Sawako Nakayasu has written that Julia Bloch's The Sacramento of Desire traces "a new, feminist, queer machinery that pervades, interrupts, and incurs high charges over a necessary tenderness." Bloch will give a short craft talk on the role of temporality in this book of poetry…

Please join for a conversation with Max Fox, editor of Christopher Chitty's Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System published by Duke University Press in 2020. Max Fox is a founding editor of Pinko magazine, a former editor for New Inquiry…

Elisheva Levy Architecture History and Theory, Weitzman School of Design “Love, Politics, and the Soviet Communal Apartment” In this talk, I will discuss the state of my Ph.D. research into “Communist Love” and the Kommunalka - a unique urban form of communal living that was…

Join Professor W.D. Palmer and SP2’s Racism Sequence for a talk by Philadelphia activist,writer, and the host of the podcast, “Ona Move w/Mike Africa, Jr.” Mike Africa, Jr. is the star of the 2020 HBO documentary, “40 Years a Prisoner.” The film tells the story of his tireless…

This keynote discussion for the GSWS Program's student symposium "Gender, Environment, and Crisis" is co-sponsored by the Weitzman School of Design, part of the series Transdisciplinary Urbanism in Times of Precarity, which emphasizes that times of crisis and precarity produce…

“The environment,” Stacey Alaimo argues, “is not located somewhere out there, but is always the very substance of ourselves.” The environment is materially inextricable from human bodies. But as climate crisis changes environments, climate-related events transform what bodies are…

Hailing from Jamaica, David Chavannes is a queer musician, researcher, and teacher. His research centers sound and storytelling as forms of knowledge that foreground senses, emotions, and collective meaning-making. He crafts narrative vignettes that grapple with race, gender…

In recognition of International Women's Day and sexual Assault Awareness month, the Center for Global Women's Healthand the Office of Global Health Affairs present the Soad Hussein Hassan Global Scholar Lecture featuring Christina Lamb. In her book Our Bodies, Their Battlefield…

Timescales: Thinking across Ecological Temporalities is a new publication with editors Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia E. Kim, and Bethany Wiggin, from the University of Minnesota Press. "This book contends that to represent and respond to crises wrought by climate change requires…