Past Events
Feminist Pedagogy Zine Making Workshop: Session 2
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Women´s Struggles in Defense of Pachamama. Trans-regional and Trans-ethnic Alliances in Bolivia, Berkowitz Lecture
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall
208 S. 37th St.
For more information on Women Against the Megaprojectos or to send words of support, please visit the Collectivx Ch'ixi blog or F acebook page Drawing from her previous work on colonialism, ethnicity and gender in the Andes, Rivera Cusicanqui will give a historical background for…
GSWS Graduate Student Lunch with Silvia Cusicanqui
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quecha and Aymara cosmologies. She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina…
Jack Halberstam: "Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability" In partnership with the English Department
LGBT Center
3907 Spruce Street
Event Description coming soon. Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books and has written articles that have appeared in numerous…
Written on the Body
Penn LGBT Center, The Goodhand Room
3907 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Join editor, Lexie Bean and contributor, Nyala Moon for the Annual Mark D. Gordon Lecture on Written on the Body which contains letters from trans and non-binary survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Prospects for Reform on International Migration and Refugees
University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Schedule 10:00AM Welcome & Opening Remarks William Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House 10:05-11:30AM Reporting on Refugees and International Migration: The Role and Responsibilities of Journalists and the Media Moderator: • Trudy Rubin…
QPenn Presents: Amir Ashour
Irvine Auditorium
QPenn is very excited to bring Amir Ashour to campus as a speaker this year! He will be on campus the Tuesday of QPenn for a discussion addressing his experience as the founder of IraQueer, Iraq's first LGBT+ organization, and his experiences as an openly gay man in both Iraq and…
Resiliency in Queer Religious Leadership
Penn LGBT Center, The Goodhand Room
3907 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
A discussion with local Muslim, Jewish and Christian Queer leaders about identity, spirituality and embodied resistance. Raquel Evita Saraswati Co-founder, Sacred Justice Commissioner, Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari Kol Tzedek Synagogue Rev. Naomi…
LALS, Africana, and GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium
Max Kade Center | 3401 Walnut Street | Room 329A
Eziaku Nwok ocha Bio: Eziaku Nwokocha has already earned a master’s at Harvard Divinity School. As a graduate student in Africana and Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she undertakes ethnographic research on gender sexuality, fashion and material culture in…
Arthur Tress: A Visual Odyssey
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please join us for a lecture by Arthur Tress. Tress is a renowned contemporary art photographer who uses photography to tell stories. He first gained recognition with his hauntingly beautiful book of images, Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector (1972), which challenged the…