Past Events
Return to the Andes, Q&A and Film Screening
Houston Hall, Golkin Room
Join Quechua @ Penn for a screening of “Return to the Andes” (USA/Peru= 50 min) and Q & A with director Mitchell Teplitsky and protagonist Nélida Silva. After living in New York City for 20 years, Nelida Silva (from the film Soy Andina) returns again to her Peru birthplace…
Renegade Women in Film & TV
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk | Arts Café
Join Kelly Writers House for a conversation with film critic ELIZABETH WEITZMAN about her newest publication RENEGADE WOMEN IN FILM & TV, an illustrated tribute to groundbreaking women across the history of film and television. Peter Decherney will moderate. ELIZABETH WEITZMAN is…
Screening: Period. End of Sentence with Claire Sliney
GSWS/APC, Fisher Bennet Hall, Suite 345
Please join us for a special screening of Academy Award winning documentary, Period. End of Sentence which follows girls and women in Harpur, India and their experience with the installation of a pad machine in their village where the stigma of menstruation persists. The…
Hey, Sissy, Introduce Yourself
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Work in Progress Seminar: Ricardo A. Bracho (APC Artist in Residence) For this noontime presentation, incoming Artist-in-Residence Ricardo A. Bracho will read from his body of work, spanning plays, essays and poetry produced in the last three decades in New York, Los Angeles and…
Positions in the Patriarchy: Retooling the Metaphysics of Gender
Cohen Hall, Room 402
Decades of feminist theory have approached the question ‘what is gender?’ with an eye to gender as a system— in particular, the system that creates and sustains patriarchy. Using this approach, feminists have proposed theories of gender focused on the social positions that…
Screening: A Conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw: Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeTooMovement
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Twenty-nine years ago, the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program hosted Anita Hill in her first public talk after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. In October 2018 Professor Hill returned to Penn at yet another historic moment in the movement against sexual harassment and…
Public Policy in Practice with Valerie Jarrett
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, Auditorium
Lower Level Auditorium, 133 S. 36th Street (36th & Walnut Street), Philadelphia, PA 19104
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm Event Information: Please join Fels for a conversation with Valerie Jarrett, the longest-serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. Valerie B. Jarrett is a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and Attn, a Senior Distinguished…
Internal Speaker Series: Colonialism, Gender and the Accumulation of Capital
ARCH Building, Room 108
Variations welcomes Ania Loomba, author of Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism, for a workshop on Friday, September 6 from 4-5:30PM in ARCH 108. In preparation for this workshop, Variations will hold a special reading group session on Friday, August 30. This…
GSWS @ Penn Open House
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Join us for food, drink and an opportunity to meet the new members of the GSWS community. Please RSVP
Graduate Research Colloquium: James Joshua Coleman (Josh) (Graduate School of Education) and Peter Harvey (Sociology)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Peter Harvey (Sociology) Gender Theory and Class: Bridging the Theoretical Divide Within sociology, gender theory and the theorizing of masculinities was originally built on ethnomethodological foundations that were highly sensitive to the micro-interactional context. And yet…
