Past Events
The Machu Picchu Play: Full Reading
William Way LGBT Community Center
In a dystopian near-future, a protest traps two American tourists at the top of Machu Picchu, Perú. On the same mountain, centuries earlier, a third-gender oracle and their apprentice predict the fall of the Inca Empire. As both timelines approach apocalypse, their worlds collide…
The Space of Gestures: Pasolini and Mangini
Public Trust
“In the cinema, a society that has lost its gestures tries at once to reclaim what it has lost and to record its loss... For human beings who have lost every sense of naturalness, each single gesture becomes a destiny.” — Giorgio Agamben, "Notes on Gesture" Join us at Public…
A Conversation with Aria Aber
Williams 623
Aria Aber is an Afghan poet, novelist, and Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont. She published her debut poetry collection, "Hard Damage," in 2019 and her premiere novel Good Girl was published in 2025. Moderated by Dr. Fatemeh Shams
Lunch & Learn: Trans Literatures
LGBT Center, Goodhand Room
Join professors Alex Brostoff (Georgetown University) and rl Goldberg (Hampshire College) at the Goodhand Room in the Penn LGBT Center on October 30th 12-1:30pm for a lunch & learn conversation & celebration of their co-edited special issue of College Literature: A Journal of…
The Machu Picchu Play: Excerpt
Platt Performing Arts House
In a dystopian near-future, a protest traps two American tourists at the top of Machu Picchu, Perú. On the same mountain, centuries earlier, a third-gender oracle and their apprentice predict the fall of the Inca Empire. As both timelines approach apocalypse, their worlds collide…
(Re)Imagining Health: a Pop-up Exhibit on the Histories of Health and Care.
Kislak Center for Special Collections
6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
This pop-up exhibit showcases rare and archival materials that reflect how people have understood their health, well-being, and medical knowledge through the medium of bookmaking.
[GSWS Colloquium Series] Alexis Hernando & Zhanar Beketova
BENN 344
Please join us to learn about the research from Alexis Hernando and Zhanar Beketova.
[Wolf Conference 2025] Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom
Class of 78 Pavillion
Van Pelt Library
Join us on Saturday, 18 October 2025 for a day of conversation at the intersection of film, pedagogy, and freedom. This gathering is organized in conjunction with the Open Access publication of Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom, eds. Kartik Nair and Karen Redrobe…
VOICES: A Sacred Sisterscape Audio Play & Interdisciplinary Performance Art Project & Campaign
Class of '49 Auditorium at Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street
Spearheaded by aja monet (Grammy nominated poet and V-Day Voices Artistic Creative Director), VOICES: a sacred sisterscape is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by and centering Black women across the diaspora. “At a time where so many are being encouraged to…