Past Events
(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…
(POSTPONED) CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Fesitval (SSMF)
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, Annenberg School for Communication
The Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) provides a creative, collaborative space to explore the affordances and challenges of multimodal strategies in research, and to interrogate their social implications. SSMF is a hybrid between a traditional academic conference and a…
(POSTPONED) Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies
Slought, 4017 Walnut St
ICA 118 S. 36th St
The field of Armenian Studies is on the verge of a sea change. In the last ten years, scholars and artists have made a bid to shift the field's focus to a broader range of new, interdisciplinary and transnational topics through the lenses of critical theory, feminist theory…
(POSTPONED) Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh, Sexuality/Gender/Queer Studies talk
Annenberg School of Communication3620 Walnut Street, ANNS 110
A Vernacular Science of Gender: Trans History After Transsexuality This talk explores how transgender studies has come to presume an idealized separation between medical-scientific discourse and the social field of lived experience in its objects of study. Observing that this…