Past Events
#FromNO2Love: Black Feminist Forum on Disrupting Sexual Violence
Location: Lightbox Film Center, Annenberg School for Communication, African American Museum in Philadelphia
There isn’t a more significant time to lift the courageous, intergenerational, diasporic Black voices in NO! The Rape Documentary, and love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse anthology than now. Fall 2019 will mark both the 25th anniversary of the…
Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and "Multiculturalism" in Rural South korea
Williams Hall 623
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Minjeong Kim examines Filipinas who married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Against a backdrop of the South Korean government's multicultural policies and projects aimed at integrating marriage…
Ritual and Recollection: Assembling The Love Balm Project
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work in Progress Seminar: Arielle Julia Brown (APC Visiting Artist) Join Visiting Artist Arielle Julia Brown as she shares about her leadership and development of The Love Balm Project. The Love Balm Project (2010-2015) is a series of workshops and performances based on the…
"The Novel of an Invert, a Nineteenth-Century Queer Confession" with Michael Rosenfeld
Williams Hall 543
French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania welcomes Michael Rosenfeld ( Université Catholique de Louvain and Université Paris 3 ) on Tuesday, October 29 th at 4:30PM . His talk entitled “ The Novel of an Invert, a Nineteenth Century Queer Confession ” will…
Indigenous Languages Today: Celebration Week at Penn
University of Pennsylvania
The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages and we are happy to join this commemoration. The Quechua Language Program and the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania are partnering to organize a week of events that promote…
Liliana Porter lecture
Claudia Cohen Hall, Auditorium G17
249 S. 36th Steet
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Arthur Ross Gallery is proud to announce that artist Liliana Porter will present the fourth annual Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. LILIANA PORTER was born in 1941 in Argentina and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. She works…
Violence Against Women & the U.S. Military
Fitts Auditorium at Penn Law, 3501 Sansom Street
Join the Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse to learn about current policy and research on violence against women and the U.S. military. Panelists: Melissa Dichter, Ph.D., Temple University,conducted multiple studies on violence against women service members Andrea Goldstein…
Professors Michael Leja and GSWS Visting Associate Professor Jonathan Katz on Productive Engaging Discussions
Jaffe 104
This workshop is intended for graduate students who want to improve and think critically about their teaching practices. Attending the workshop also counts towards the Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate :
Phuck It!: Philanthropy, Politics, and Protest
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work in Progress Seminar: Roz Lee (APC Professor of Practice) GSWS Professor of Practice Roz Lee will lead an interactive discussion on how social justice philanthropy supports political activism and social protest, and how current events are requiring us to grapple with race…
The Legacy of 1619: The 2019 Annual Callaloo Conference
Thursday, October 17: Class of ’49 Auditorium; Houston Hall; Room 230 (5pm–7pm)
Friday, October 18: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 S 36th St. (10am - 7pm)
Saturday, October 19: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library; Room 602 (10:30am - 7pm)
The year 2019 marks the quadricentennial of a momentous event in American history: the arrival of “20 and odd” enslaved Africans in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia Colony. This event and its attendant histories would alter the course and character of not only the United States…