Penn Grad Talks (formerly known as Grad Ben Talks) features TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs. Visit Penn Grad Talks for more information on the…

For the 25th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, Jonathan D. Katz will deliver an online keynote lecture titled “A Viral Theory of Art: AIDS and the Aesthetics of Protest.” Registration is free for the lecture and online symposium. Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957…

Joing BGAPSA and Makuu Black Cultural Center for a Fireside Chat on Black Activism, Systemic Racism, and Empowering Power. This event will feature Amalia Z. Dache, PhD, Akira D. Rodriguez, PhD, Krystal Strong, PhD. Akira Z. Dache, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education…

About the event: The Alice Paul Center’s year-long programming theme Environmental Feminisms concerns the overlapping projects of environmental justice, feminist activism, indigenous epistemologies, and artistic performance as feminist method. Amidst ever more urgent calls to…

Join the Center for Experimental Ethnography for a virtual Third Thursday event, where Ricardo Bracho will be in conversation with Jennifer Ponce de León. Ricardo will be discussing current projects. Ricardo Bracho is currently Sachs Artist-in-Residence in the Gender, Sexuality &…

Jenny Zhang is a write based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing is an exploration of the transition from Chinese immigrant girlhood to Chinese american womanhood, and by broader extension, Asian American identities in the U.S. Her latest collection of poetry, My Baby First…

Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection, Sour Heart, and the poetry collection, My Baby First Birthday. She’s currently adapting Sour Heart into a feature-length film for A24. This talk will be introduced by Professor Jo Park. Co-sponsored by: The Asian American Studies…

Join Penn's LGBT Center and Penn VIolence Prevention for an open discussion on masculinity in different cultural contexts and the intersections of race, religion, and other factors which influence how we view, interpret and navigate masculinity. This is the first of four…

Join us for the launch of “Left of Queer,” a special issue of Social Text co-edited by David L. Eng of University of Pennsylvania and Jasbir K. Puar of Rutgers University. A dozen+ contributors to the special issue will gather to put one keyword, concept, or idea on the table for…

"Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art" will reflect on such challenges from architectural, literary and artistic viewpoints with specific reference to the Persianate world. Chair/Discussant: Fatemah Shams, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, panelists…