Past Events
Empower Foundation: A Sex Worker Collective from Thailand
School of Nursing, Claire M. Fagin Hall, Room 203
Featuring: Liz Hilton; Thanta Laovilwanyakul (Ping Pong); Chatchalawan Muangjan (Oa); and Arsio Laechoe (Pueng) Hear their stories about their work with Empower and its impact on promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers, especially access to education, health and legal…
Beyond Apu: A Community Conversation
URBN Center Screening Room
Drexel University
3401 Filbert Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
When was the first time you remember seeing yourself reflected onscreen? Or have you yet to truly experience this? On March 10th, SAADA will host the Philadelphia premiere of Hari Kondabolu’s The Problem With Apu documentary, followed by a community discussion about…
In Translation: Transnational Feminisms Today
World Forum, Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the shifting meanings and practices of transnational feminisms in today’s volatile world. Panelists include: Ann Farnsworth, Associate Professor of History & GSWS Affiliated Faculty LaShawn Jefferson, Deputy Director, Perry World…
Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Organized by guest curator and artist Nayland Blake, Tag: Proposals On Queer Play and the Ways Forward explores how the expanding influence of digital and online technologies, fandom subcultures, and artistic discourse has created new possibilities for queer identification…
Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Featuring new and never-before-seen works, Cary Leibowitz: Museum Showmarks the first comprehensive survey and solo museum exhibition of Leibowitz’s work to date. Organized in close coordination with the artist, the exhibition brings together nearly 350 works that span the…
Taking Stock of Feminisms Today and Looking Forward. An International Women's Day Conference
Perry World House
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Graduate Research Colloquium: Melanie R. Hill (English) and Davis Knittle (English)
3810 Walnut, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Left-Handed Sermons in a Right-Handed World: Black Women Preachers, Blues Bodies, and the Sound of the Sermon (Melanie R. Hill) This paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of the presence of black women preachers using both sermon and song to counter hegemonic and intersectional…
Beyond Attendance: Gendered Impacts of a Cash Transfer for Education and the Unpaid Care Burden in Rural Morocco
McNeil, Room 103
This location is ADA accessible
This event is sponsored by the Population Studies Center
Luca Pesando, van de Walle Prize Winner PhD Candidate - University of Pennsylvania For more information: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/
Muslim Masculinities:
A Symposium on Gender, Religion, and the Everyday
World Forum, Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
This location is ADA Accessible.
CITY PLANNING POETICS 5, "THE QUEER ORDINARY": Jen Jack Gieseking & Erica Kaufman
Arts Cafe (Kelly Writers House)
3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
co-hosted by: Davy Knittle and Jess Shollenberger sponsored by: Creative Ventures Organized and hosted by Davy Knittle, " City Planning Poetics " holds events that invite one or more poets and one or more planners, designers, planning historians or others working in the field of…