Past Events
(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…
(POSTPONED) Book Talk with David Eng and Shinhee Han. "Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americas".
Cheung Auditorium, Penn Dental School
240 South 40th Street
Book Talk with authors David Eng (GSWS affliate) and Shinhee Han as they discuss their new book "Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation".
(POSTPONED) Control Societies Speaker Series: Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of British Columbia
Annenberg School, Room 500
Denise Ferreira da Silva’s academic writings and artistic practice address the ethical questions of the global present and target the metaphysical and ontoepistemological dimensions of modern thought. Currently, she is a Professor and Director of The Social Justice Institute (the…
(POSTPONED) Fallawayinto | Workshop Performance
Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street
Fallawayinto is a performance installation aspiring to the forms and spirit of Donna Booker, a Black trans woman activist, sex worker, theologian, house mother and performer living in the San Francicso Bay Area from the early 80s through the mid 2000s. This performance…
(POSTPONED) Teaching during the 2020 Election with Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Regina S. Baker
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
The 2020 U.S. election season brings many pressing issues to the forefront in such a tumultuous, increasing polarizing political climate. These issues can make their way into classrooms, whether intentional or not. This seminar will highlight some strategies and tips for teaching…
(POSTPONED) Esra Akcan: Right-to-Heal: Architecture and Transitional Justice
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Lower Gallery
Esra Akcan is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell AAP. Her scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of urbanism and architecture inspires her teaching. She is the author of Landfill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for…
(POSTPONED) Graduate Research Colloquium: Tim Holliday (History) and Rovel Sequeira (English)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Timothy Holliday, HistoryTitle: "Chronic(ling) Illness and the Work of Historicizing Johanna Hedva's 'Sick Woman Theory'" In their 2016 essay “Sick Woman Theory,” genderqueer artist and social theorist Johanna Hedva described the category of “Sick Woman” as encompassing those…
Canceled: “For Tomorrow For Tonight”: Thai Cinema and the Expansion of Queer Politics with Arnika Fuhrmann
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Arnika Fuhrmann is an interdisciplinary scholar of Southeast Asia, working at the intersections of the region’s aesthetic and political modernities. Her work seeks to model an approach to the study of Southeast Asia that is informed by affect, gender, urban, and media theory and…
