Past Events
Designing Anti-Racist Syllabi
Please register via the CTL website.
Join Professor Abhulhamit Arvas, English and Gwendolyn Beetham, Associate Director, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies for a workshop organized by CTL Graduate Fellow in English Davy Knittle and Graduate Associate Alicia Meyer of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies…
Jules Gill-Peterson (She/Her), University of Pittsburgh A Vernacular Science of Gender: Trans History After Transsexuality
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94653819986
Meeting ID: 946 5381 9986
Passcode: 203662
This talk explores how transgender studies has come to idealize a separation between medical-science and the social field of lived experience in its objects of study. Observing that this tendency rests on a series of premises about history and historical sequence, the talk…
Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium
Online Event (via Zoom)
Tina Campt and Simone White will talk about how their current work engages with "frequency" as a manner of speaking and a matter of fact. Simone White is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for poetry, White is…
Beans Velocci (They/Them), Department of History, Yale University “Apparent Exceptions Occur”: Trans Methods for the History of Sex Classification
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99394197126
Meeting ID: 993 9419 712
Passcode: 034814
Trans histories have primarily focused on trans people, but what happens if you make trans history a method, not a subject? This talk proposes that examining the history of sex classification through a trans lens shows that no forms of sex and gender, including what might be…
Examining the Bureaucratic Construction of 'the Urban' in South Asia
Online Event
Join Presenter: Indivar Jonnalagadda, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology and Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University on this event by the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. What is urban? In a…
Uncovering Grad School's Hidden Curriculum with Jessica Calarco
RSVP to Alicia Meyer (aliciame@sas.upenn.edu) for zoom link and any precirculated materials.
Some of the most important things you need to know to be successful in grad school won't be taught in class. That includes things like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit…
PennGALA & Yale GALA Present: Cutting Edge Queer Studies
Where does one find sexuality? Is sexuality possessed by humans alone, or might we discover sexuality in books and buildings, art and animals? If sexuality is locatable, why study it? A foundational (if oxymoronic) premise of LGBT Studies is that sexuality is shaped and reshaped…
Department of Music Colloquium Series Presents Christina Baade: "Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities"
Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities In May 2014, The Guardian featured an interview with the then 97-year-old singer and “national treasure” Dame Vera Lynn in which she revealed her “secret passion” for Dolly Parton. The…
APAHW 2020: Cooking Up Some Food for Thought
Virtual Event
APAHW will be hosting a cooking workshop with Kiki Aranita, chef and previously owner of Poi Dog Philly. Poi Dog Philly was a Hawaiian restaurants known for its poke, spam musubi, and mocha nori fried chicken. Join APAHW over Zoom for a live cooking session with Kiki, as she…
