Past Events
GSWS/FQT Open House
Fisher Bennett Hall (outside in the courtyard)
Join FQT/GSWS staff, faculty, and community members as we celebrate the new name of our center at an outdoor reception behind Fisher Bennett Hall. Please come masked!
Rapid Response Event: Afghanistan
Zoom
Four American presidential administrations. Two decades of war. A fundamental misreading of the geopolitical realities of Afghanistan. A humanitarian crisis as Afghanistan falls into the hands of the Taliban. As the situation in Afghanistan continues to unfold, it is more…
Reducing Maternal Mortality: Harnessing Multilevel Approaches to Reduce Maternal Death
Virtual
The increase in maternal mortality and specifically the glaring racial disparities, have been front and center in the news over the past year. Beyond elucidating the depth and breadth of the crisis, we must take bold and innovative steps to prevent maternal death. Please join the…
Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of English at Penn: "Another Aesthetics Is Possible Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" Book Launch
Virtual
LALS is glad to invite you to join Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of English at Penn for the launch of her new book "Another Aesthetics Is Possible, Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" published by Duque University on April 2021. In Another Aesthetics Is…
GSWS Senior Honors Thesis Presentations
Register for zoom link
Join us in celebrating our graduating honors thesis students as they present their work. Presenters include: Erin O'Malley, GSWS Major, "I am Where I Come From: Narratives of Transgender Asian Adoptees" Connor Hardy, GSWS Major, "Navigating University Responses to Sexual Violence…
Virtual Exhibit: Capturing My Healing
Virtual
Healing after trauma and violence is not a linear process, but what can we learn through the voices of those who have experienced it? Dr. Laura Sinko will share her work amplifying survivor perspectives of healing and recovery through storytelling, photography, and film through…
Collective Conversations Alumni Series: Julia Bloch, "Clocking Reproductive Time: On Poetic Forms in The Sacramento of Desire"
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…
On Christopher Chitty's "Sexual Hegemony" (Duke UP 2020): A Conversation with editor Max Fox
Virtual (via Zoom)
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…
