Kiana Murphy, Exploding the Spectacle: The Urgency of (Re)Graphing Blackness in Kindred This paper considers the way black cultural objects challenge the fixity of race and also teach us to see and read blackness otherwise/elsewhere. If, as scholar Isaiah Lavender argues, “the…

Graves will discuss her recent work on LGBTQ historic sites and current efforts to recognize and protect historic places and intangible heritage in the face of the economic tsunami reshaping San Francisco. Donna Graves is an independent historian/urban planner based in Berkeley…

This event is only open to the Penn Community. Lunch will be served. Advance reservation required. If you can attend, please RSVP by September 13. Donna Graves is an independent historian/urban planner based in Berkeley, CA. She develops interdisciplinary public history projects…

Professor Ania Loomba will be speaking about her new book, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India. Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the…

Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Lauren Jade Martin, APC Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies Minor Program Coordinator, Penn State University (Berks campus). Paper Title: Delayers, Deciders, and Decliners: Using Longitudinal Data…

Department of History Annenberg Seminar: Newer Women and Newer Men in Interwar Britain, given by Reba N. Soffer of California State University.

This conference will explore some of the many women's voices in Ok, I'll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, an exhibition highlighting selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness. The keynote speaker…

Come and visit the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program in our new space in Fisher-Bennett Hall! RSVP to Luz Marin lmarin@sas.upenn.edu

Alicia Meyer, "Bed(lam): Maidservants, Race, and Sexuality in Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen." In this talk, I investigate the ties between the sexual agency, race, and political power in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613). I argue that the…

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