Past Events
Shakespeare and the Sexologists: Gender and “Classic” Literature in Victorian Britain
Zoom
This talk will focus on the literary pursuits of Havelock Ellis and a coterie of Victorian sexologists, printers, and scholars who created the original Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists. The Mermaids series is best known for making affordable paperback editions of Renaissance…
Author Event: Lisa Niver presenting Brave-ish
Penn Bookstore (3601 Walnut St)
Penn Women's Studies graduate Lisa Niver will be joined by her publisher and fellow Penn grad Debra Englander to discuss her travel memoir Brave-ish. While Brave-ish chronicles Niver’s inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya…
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: "Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary" with Joel Mittleman
PSC Commons, McNeil 403
Joel Mittleman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame For the first time ever, LGBTQ+ populations are being invited to “come out” across a wide range of large, population-representative datasets. This new visibility not only provides sociologists with an…
"Cimarronando / Marooning!" Palenquera Women and Fugitive Self-Making in the Colombian Caribbean
Cherpak Lounge, Williams Hall
Throughout the Atlantic world, marrons used tactics of evasion, elusion and escape to refuse the yoke of slavery. The autonomous communities they established in the form of quilombos in Brazil and palenques in Colombia stand as some of the earliest examples of Black sovereignty…
Penn Women's Center 50th Anniversary Homecoming Reception
Penn Women's Center (3643 Locust Walk)
Join us to kickoff Penn Women's Center's 50th anniversary. We will celebrate our past, present, and future with the unveiling of a new mural featuring PWC's important historical moments and impact at Penn. We will also celebrate the Class of 1973's gift to support PWC's wellness…
