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…

Kirsten Lee (English) "'Sister, wasn’t it good': Feminist Legacies at The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival" This paper examines the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival to investigate how Black women’s relationships to each other as writers and readers structured the event’s…

In this talk, Maria Murphy takes up Laurie Anderson’s well known “voice of authority,” a voice processing persona created through an H910 Eventide Harmonizer that Anderson uses to alter the pitch and formant of her voice. Anderson’s “voice of authority” emerged in the 1980s…

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, is the author of the best-selling book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. Reflecting on her experience as a Black woman in an academic career spanning…

“My life is not your porn!” This was the cry heard in Seoul on December 22, 2018, when more than 110,000 protesters dressed in red took to the streets to oppose the illegal secret filming of women and the distribution of their images without their consent, a practice often…

Join co-authors David L. Eng and Shinhee Han for the launch of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019). In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han…

This talk works in modes auto-theoretical, historical, and speculative, through several fault lines in contemporary trans politics and culture of gender, sexuality, and race. Considering broadly what it could mean to sometimes turn away from trans gender and back towards the…

This CTL Graduate Workshop will be led by Professor Jules Gill-Peterson, English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh. The workshop invites conversation about how to support trans and gender non-conforming students, and how to design courses and…