Past Events
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…
Control Societies Speaker Series: Kara Keeling, University of Chicago
Annenberg School, Room 500
In this talk, Kara Keeling will discuss how “an empiricism that invites surprises” might work as a mode of knowledge production. She will expand upon the ideas offered at the end of her book, Queer Times, Black Futures , where she writes, “In the context of the algorithms and…
A conversation with Sophie Lewis
Kelly Writer's House, Arts Cafe
Sophie Lewis is a writer, occasional translator and part-time faculty member at the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Sophie's interdisciplinary work tends to blend feminist theory and cultural criticism, interrogating work, nature, and…
Y In Vyborg
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Y in Vyborg (dir. Pia Andell, 2006, 51 min., Finland) U.S. premiere, mature audiences only. Directed by Pia Andell, Y in Vyborg (2005) is a compilation of home movies taken by an average family in Finland who purchased a 16mm camera in 1938. Two young architects, Ragnar and…
Penn Lightbulb Café: Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. Philadelphia
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? In this talk, GSWS affiliated faculty member, Melissa J. Wilde, shows how today’s modern divisions began in the 1930s in the public battles over birth control…
Historical Trauma on Queer Communities and the Impact on Health and Wellness: A Conversation with Michele Andrasik, Ph.D. in observation of World Aids Day
LGBT Center Lounge
Michele Andrasik, Ph.D. of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center discusses bias and HIV health care outcomes related to historical traumas. The workshop aims to reduce the impact of bias by putting practice in the context of history and race-based medicine. Lunch will be…
CEAS ICEA Series "Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia"
Williams Hall 623
Professor Mary Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She joined the Harvard faculty in 2003, having previously taught at the University of Chicago for 12 years and at Cornell…
Ritual Realities
4017 Walnut StPhiladelphia, PA 19104
A performance by Elikem Fiatsi exploring how collaborative rituals shape the "reality" and "unreality" of our identities. Slought is pleased to announce RItual reALITies, a performance by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (crazinisT artisT) on Thursday, December 5, 2019 from 6-8:00pm…
