On October 10, 2018, more than 1,100 members of the Penn and Philadelphia community joined the Alice Paul Center at Irvine Auditorium for a timely and riveting conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw, moderated by Dorothy Roberts.

Join us for a screening of Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, the award winning documentary of Anita Hill's testimony during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991 and the implications of this powerful act in Professor Hill's life and in U.S. society more broadly.

Unapologetically Femme: Queering Black Genders in Beyonce's "Sorry” by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Associate Director, Center for Women’s and Gender StudiesAssociate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin Light refreshments will be served…

A film screening and discussion Discussion led by Hsiao-wen Cheng (House Fellow, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations) Dinner from Sang Kee (vegetarian options available) Hosted by Dr. Megan Robb (Rodin Faculty Fellow) To RSVP: robbme@upenn.edu

Renowned feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon will be in conversation with Lubna Mian (L ’97, Adjunct Professor of Law) about her most recent book Butterfly Politics, which touches on a lifetime of her far-ranging work for women. Professor MacKinnon will discuss the Me Too…

The annual Dolores Huerta Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Shereen Marisol Meraji, journalist and co-host of NPR Code Switch. She will address the contributions to labor and culture that Latinxs have made in the United States. For more information

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…