Past Events
Trans-Affirming Pedagogies in the Sciences
134 (CTL/OLI Seminar Room)Van Pelt Library
Facilitator: Cam Smith, Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry Trans, non-binary, gender diverse, and gender expansive students are present in growing numbers at Penn. How do we as STEM faculty and instructors provide…
Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400: What is Shakespeare’s First Folio and Why Should I Care?
Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor
2023 marks 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, the book now revered as the First Folio. This talk introduces what’s significant about this book, and what copies—including the one at Penn—can tell us about the way it was put…
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: "Unruly Categories: The Transnational Circulation of 'Transgender'" with Tara Gonsalves
McNeil 150
Tara Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University While the category “Transgender” has come to represent gender variance globally, this has not always been the case. Transnationally, there is wide variation in how people have understood gender variance and…
Who Are We Writing For? with Emma Smith
Faculty Lounge, Fisher Bennett Hall, Room 135
How does writing for “the general public” differ from writing for a scholarly community? What’s involved in reimagining your dissertation for a broader audience? What kinds of “public” writing can we engage in while continuing our work in scholarly journals? In this brown-bag…
GSWS Majors and More Dinner
Harrison College House