The Sis Uprising: A Critical Kiki with Arien Wilkerson will be an online event in which Wilkerson and their collaborators will present new and previous work to Ricardo A. Bracho’s creative writing workshop, Passion Projects, and to the greater Penn community. The work will…

Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine There has been much written on the forms of control enacted in the splintering occupation of Palestine, in particular regarding mobility, identity, and spatiality, yet this vast scholarship has presumed the…

The transition to online teaching poses particular challenges for those invested in teaching sexuality and gender studies. Please join us for a conversation with Maria Murphy (APC Interim AD), Archana Kaku (Ph.D. Political Science) and Kiana Murphy (Ph.D. English) to discuss…

Join us in welcoming ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Jorge Sánchez Cruz, as he presents his work: "Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocu-Queer Aesthetics, and the Right to Thrive." This talk examines literary and cultural productions as timely responses by undocu-queer…

Join APC/GSWS faculty Anthea Butler (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies) and Dawn Teele (Associate Professor of Political Science) for a conversation about the 2020 election.

The Arthur Ross Gallery presents a panel discussion on the removal of monuments in the U.S. and abroad as symbols of racism, colonialism, and oppression. From the toppling of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, to the burning of the Albert Pike statue in…

Timothy Holliday, Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Talk: "'The Weight of Time': Historicizing Johanna Hedva's 'Sick Woman Theory'" In their 2016 essay “Sick Woman Theory,” genderqueer artist and social theorist Johanna Hedva described the…

Join Dr. Stephanie Joes, Dept. of Education for Grinell College and Davy Knittle, CTL Graduate Fellow in English for this workshop. It will focus on promoting teaching in literature and writing classes that is explicit about manifestations of anti-Black racism, and which affirms…

This roundtable launches the Alice Paul Center's year dedicated to Environmental Feminisms, with programming that concerns the overlapping projects of environmental justice, transnational feminist activism, indigenous epistemologies, and artistic performance as feminist method…

The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed a surge in incidents of bias, discrimination, violence and hate directed against people of Asian backgrounds. This event, the first in a discussion series sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Task Force on Providing Support to Asian and…