Past Events
Trans Literacy Project Seminar on Teaching Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory
Penn LGBT Center: 3907 Spruce Street (Robert Schoenberg Carriage House)
The Trans Literacy Project (TLP) is an exciting series of cross-discipline, cross-community conversations designed to advance trans literacy across and beyond the university. TLP workshops and expert panels feature the powerful insights of nonbinary, trans, and gender…
Sound, Gender, and the Color Line
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Sixth Floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
To honor the career of African American Philadelphia-born musician and cultural ambassador, Marian Anderson (1897-1993), the Kislak Center and the Departments of Music and Africana Studies have organized a one-day symposium to explore Anderson's musical career in the context of…
LGBTQ History Month 2018: Street Harassment--Unsafe, Uncomfortable, and Untracked
Houston Hall, Golkin Room (223)
This program will explore the lack of understanding, the unsafe feelings, and the harassment of women, minorities, and those in the LGBT community, as well tips on how to respond and, perhaps, how to end street harassment. Please join our guest speakers Amber Hikes, Director of…
Grad Feminist Happy Hour
Penn Women's Center
3643 Locust Walk
Join the Penn Women's Center for happy hour - learn more about the Center and ways to get involved - refreshments will be served
QUEER GRADS OF COLOR DINNER SOCIAL
Graduate Student Center (3615 Locust Walk)
Master's, doctoral, and professional students of color who also identify as queer and/or trans inhabit the intersection of several underrepresented identities. The QGOC Dinner Social is an opportunity to meet fellow queer grads from other departments over a delicious meal. Come…
From College Campuses to #Me Too with Dr. Susan Sorenson
Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Join the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs and The School of Social Policy and Practice for a lecture with Dr. Susan Sorenson, Executive Director, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships. Dr. Sorenson will discuss how views on sexual assault…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Elena Rosa Maris (Annenberg) and Emily Hund (Annenberg)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3rd Floor
Elena Rosa Maris: Queer Xena, Old Xena: Examining Online Audience Influence through a Fandom’s Tactical Lineage Xena: Warrior Princess was a syndicated TV series that aired from 1995–2001. This presentation considers the case of the Xena fandom in two different eras to examine…
A Conversation with Michael Arceneaux. 2018 Mark D. Gordon Lecture
Arch 208
3601 Locust Walk
Through his candor and wit, Michael unapologetically addresses race, sexuality, religion, and pop culture through the lens of marginalization in today’s America. Michael comments on his life as a black gay man, and how his Catholic upbringing and Howard University education have…
The Black Graduate Women's Association Presents: Say Her Name
Irvine Auditorium, G7 3401 Spruce St.
Join the Black Graduate Women's Association for an evening of discussion on black women, activism, and police brutality in the age of social media. Featuring guest panelists Elisa Foster, Associate Director, Penn Women's Center and Dr. Batsirai Bvunzawabaya, Interim Associate…
Work in Progress Seminar: Jonathan D. Katz
Alice Paul Center: 345 Fisher Bennett Hall, Conference Room
Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Jonathan D. Katz, Visiting Associate Professor; Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo Paper Title: How AIDS Changed American Art: Sex and the Gendering of Postmodernism Discussant: Heather Love, English and APC…
