Past Events
Collectivizing Kinship Rural China’s Women in the 1950s
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Gail Hershatter Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Santa CruzIn the first several decades of the People’s Republic of China, ambitious state initiatives worked to reshape everything about rural communities. State authorities created powerful new…
LALS External Speaker Series Presents: Domestic Violence and the Specters of Colonialism: Abjection and the Gendered Nation in Puerto Rico
473 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Maria Glikin, PhD Candidate, Hispanic & Portuguese Studies.
GSWS Graduate Colloquium
GSWS Conference Room (Fisher-Bennett Hall 345)
Lunch will be provided
"Are Female Engagement Teams a Military Innovation?" Shira Pindyck (UPenn Political Science) The integration of population-based counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine has been difficult. Like other military innovations, implementing COIN involved a reorientation in doctrine…
Trans Day of Remembrance
The trans flags on Locust Walk in front of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall across from the Graduate Student Center and Penn Women’s Center.
On November 20, 2019, the LGBT Center (Center) is taking over Locust Walk. Every hour, on the hour, a student and faculty or staff member will assemble to read aloud the names of the reported 24 gender nonconforming, nonbinary, or transgender humans who were assassinated in 2019…
Panel: Thinking Out Loud in Public
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S 36th St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Drawing on the themes of individual spirit and collective power, this panel will explore the resonances between the individual practices of Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka and their collective artistic output as fierce pussy in the context of ICA…
Black Spatial Relics: Artist Talks with Julia B. Johnson and muthi reed
Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street
Join Black Spatial Relics Artists-in-Residence, Julie B. Johnson and muthi reed in converation with Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist and Black Spatial Relics Director, Arielle Julia Brown. Black Spatial Relics is a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom. At…
Men & The #MeToo Movement Conference
Houston Hall
The Men’s Center for Growth & Change is hosting a conference entitled, Men & the #MeToo Movement: What Individuals and Organizations Can Do . Presentations will focus on creating awareness around sexual violence prevention, raising boys in the #MeToo era, reducing harm in the…
Teaching GSWS/Queer Studies Across the University
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
A GSWS Pedagogy Seminar: Lance Wahlert, PhD What is it like to teach gender, queer, and LGBTQ content across the university? How does a teacher best traverse the various methodological trainings and interests of graduate students in law, medicine, nursing, social work, and Ph.D…
Global Policy and Practice Perspectives in Health Justice
Perry World House
Join Perry World House for a conversation with featured panelists: Tjedza Goabaone Matenge (BSc I, MBChB, MMED, MBA) is a family physician from Botswana with interests in women's health and trauma; Leigh Senderowicz, PhD is a social demographer and reproductive health expert at…
Violence Prevention Grad Student Meet-Up
Graduate Student Center
3615 Locust Walk
Want to connect with other grad students who are interested in violence prevention and advocacy on campus? Attend our grad student meet-up!
