Past Events
Rethinking Care Work: Dis(Affection) and the Politics of Paid Household Labor with Premilla Nadasen
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Premilla NadasenProfessor of History, Barnard College Debates on the idea of care have come to dominate scholarship and activism on domestic work and social reproduction. What role did the struggle for rights and inclusion among African American household workers in the 1970s…
Feminist Media and Organizing with Roz Lee, Jessa Lingel, and Rosemary Clark-Parsons
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Across different feminist movements, media has played a key role. From pamphlet and posters to zines and hashtags, media has represented and mobilized feminist praxis. This pedagogy seminar brings together different perspectives and experiences with feminist media, with a focus…
A Reading By Carmen Maria Machado
Arts Cafe in Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn…
"A Hinduism for Us: Feminist Interpretations of Guyanese Hinduism in NYC" with Rupa Pillai
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work-in-Progress Seminar with APC Visiting Scholar Rupa Pillai Rupa Pillai is a senior lecturer of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation, Caribbean Hinduism on the Move, is the…
Lecture Series on the Synthetic: Denice Frohman
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Lower Gallery
Supported by the Provost Office at the University of Pennsylvania and the Dean’s Office at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. This series is organized by Sophie Hochhäusl, Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory, Maya Alam, architect and Visiting Lecturer, and…
Queer Bauhaus with Libby Otto
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Elizabeth Otto is an art historian and the author of Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics and Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, and the coauthor of Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective. She has…
A Reading and Conversation with Joshua Whitehead
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Arts Cafe
Join the Kelly Writers House on Wednesday, January 29, at 12:00 PM, for a reading by Joshua Whitehead, an Oji- nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). Whitehead's book of poetry, Full Metal-Indigiqueer, was shortlisted for the 2017 Lambda…
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology) and Raka Sen (Sociology)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
"Sexual Violence, Legal Reforms, and Forensic Reports: The Emerging Medico-Legal Discourse and Practice in Turkey" Tugce Ellialti-Kose (Sociology)My dissertation offers a feminist socio-legal analysis of the sexual assault law in the wake of major legal reforms in Turkey. My…
A Timely Revelation: Trans Temporality, Crip Time, and the Testimony of Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán with Rob Franco
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work in Progress Seminar with Penn Predoctoral Fellow for Excellence in Diversity Robert Franco Born in 1965 to Communist parents, the transgender and disability rights activist Echeverría Gaitán was a child of the Mexican counterculture and leftist movements that emerged in the…
Penn Nursing's Annual Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Presents: "The Black Angels: A Nurse's Story"
2nd floor, Hillel at Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th Street
The mini-documentary Black Angels is the previously untold story of African American nurses who risked their lives to care for patients with Tuberculosis, when there was no cure, and white nurses refused. The film will be introduced by filmmaker and nurse, Denetra Hampton, and…
