Past Events
Combating Anti-Blackness in the College Classroom
Online (register for Zoom Link)
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…
Environmental Feminisms Opening Roundtable
Livestreamed on our YouTube and Facebook pages
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…
Stopping the Hate and Starting to Heal: Living With and Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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…
(CANCELED) Pinko with Abrams Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho
LGBT Center
More information coming soon!
(POSTPONED) GSWS Honors Thesis Presentations
GSWS/APC Conference Room
Suite 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Seven GSWS majors will present their honors thesis work. All are welcome!
Under Quarantine: On community and collective action under plague, surveillance in times of emergency, and social intimacy in illness
YouTube livestream (updated link!)
A roundtable of poetry, art, history, and performance with members of the APC/GSWS community. Q & A to follow via YouTube live stream. Join us and feel free to comment and ask questions! Shana Bahemat: Opening Meditation Jonathan Katz: “On a Viral Theory of Art” Tim Holliday: “…
(POSTPONED) "An Unavoidable Death and Archival Offering in Haiti" with Grace L. Sanders Johnson
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
This work-in-progress uses the archive of Haitian women’s “miscellaneous” and “unavoidable” deaths under the United States occupation (1915-1934) to trace how Haitian exceptionalism is articulated through the banal capture and cataloguing of women’s lives. Taking Michel-Rolph…
(POSTPONED) Circa: a staged reading of a new play by Abrams Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho
Slought | 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
6:00-7:00PM: Reception7:00-9:00PM: Staged Reading Circa: About, approximate, near, a time both close to and far from now. Setting: East Hollywood: Thai Town, Little Armenia as it borders Los Feliz, where the hood meets the hills. Time: The recent past, the near future. Urban…
(POSTPONED) Sophie Hochhäusl: Memories of the Resistance: The Defiant Life of a Female Architect, 1938-1945
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, B3
Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl is an Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Before joining the Faculty at the Weitzman School, she was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for…
(POSTPONED) Control Societies Speaker Series: Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Annenberg School, Room 500
Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) published with Duke University Press in the…
