Past Events
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…
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…
