Past Events
Trans Literacy Project Seminar on Supporting Trans Educators
Penn LGBT Center (3907 Spruce Street)
The third workshop of our series focuses on support for trans educators in school, nonprofit, advocacy, and university spaces. With trans and allied discussants, "Supporting Trans Educators" aims to promote discussion on improved access, retention, and advancement of trans people…
Men & Masculinities Summit
Houston Hall
The Men & Masculinities Summit will explore and unpack men's gender identity and highlight the work of men's engagement on Penn's campus and beyond. It will offer an opportunity to engage, share, and reflect on topics such as sexuality, power and privilege, emotional literacy and…
Sparer Symposium - Divesting from State Violence
Penn Law School
3501 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
This year’s symposium will examine the systems that contribute to and reinforce the carceral state. State systems and institutions external to prisons use the same mechanisms of control, surveillance, and punishment in order to maintain racial hierarchy. How does policing, public…
Youth Voices Summit
Penn LGBTQ Center
3907 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The first annual Youth Voices Summit is a youth-led and organized event for educators, administrators, policy makers, and advocates to hear directly from LGBTQ youth about their needs and experiences. This event was created and developed by Mazzoni Center’s Youth Leadership Board…
Reading & Writing a Feminist Ethnography
Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398
Pnina Motzafi-Haller is currently an Israel Institute Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. She teaches anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She had worked and published widely based on her work in…
Pedagogy Seminar: Applying to Interdisciplinary Academic Jobs
GSWS/APC Conference Room - Fisher Bennett Hall Suite 345
Featuring: Dr. Helen Pho, Penn Career Services Associate Director Are you hoping to apply to faculty positions in interdisciplinary fields and have questions about you can best position yourself for these roles? This workshop will begin with an interactive discussion on what…
Municipal Law & The Sex Industries: Space, Time And Moral Geographies
Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center, Drexel University
3140 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King’s College London , will present "Municipal Law & the Sex Industries: Space, Time, and Moral Geographies" Though the sex industries are mainly discussed in relation to criminal law and policing, this talk will explore the role that…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Megan Reed (Sociology) and Tabea Cornel (History and Sociology of Science)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Megan Reed: Gender Scripts of the Upwardly Mobile in India: Intersectionality in the Global South This study examines the relationship between social class and gender performance in Indian households by tracking changes in the household practice of female seclusion over time…
The Master and Divino/ O Mestre e o Divino
Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
An eccentric amateur filmmaker and a talented young Xavante filmmaker trade perspectives on 40 years in a village in Mato Grosso Brazil. Directed by Tiago Campos Torres (2013, Brazil) Presented by Mércia Santana Flannery; Penn Cinema Studies F or more information
Penn & Slavery Project - Presentations
209 College Hall
Undergraduate researchers have spent Fall Semester researching ties between the University of Pennsylvania and the institution of slavery. Please join them as they present their findings. Reception to follow