Past Events
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
Penn & Slavery Project - Pop-Up Exhibit
Lea Library, Van Pelt
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
Transgender Health–A Multi-disciplinary Approach
Smilow Center for Translational Research3400 Civic Center Boulevard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Today’s healthcare system must address transgender issues from the perspectives of physical health, mental health and the individual’s integration into society. Penn’s Center for Human Appearance is holding a symposium to bring together the many related disciplines to discuss…
World AIDS Day at Penn
Charles Adams Fine Arts Hall Courtyard, 200 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
A Day With Art: Respect for HealthFeaturing two participative Love/Live art displays created by Penn Fine Arts students that raise awareness about people living with HIV/AIDS in our local communities, and that can help us all think about the issues around people living with HIV…
