Past Events
Former FQT/GSWS Visiting Scholar Cat Dawson presents "Monumentality Without Monuments"
In-person and via zoom
Cat Dawson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Sawyer Seminar on Race and Visual Culture in the Americas, presents: " Monumentality Without Monuments ," on the relationship between queer, indigenous, and otherwise minoritized cultures, and the monumental form. This material is…
Rivers that Feed Us Heritage in Poetry
October 26, 2022 (Wednesday) / 6:00 pm—7:30 pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South StreetLivestream also available
Rivers that Feed Us Heritage in Poetry Herman Beavers Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania Airea D. Matthews 2022–2023 Philadelphia Poet Laureate; Associate Professor and Co-Director of…
CELEBRATING QUEER HISTORY MONTH, AN EVENING WITH KALKI SUBRAMANIAM
ARCH Auditorium (rm 208)
Join the LGBT Center; the Penn Carey Law School; the South Asia Center; the Pan Asian American Community House; Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies Program; the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies; the Department of South Asia Studies; and our nonprofit…
Navigating Caregiving: Making it Work No Matter Where You Work
In person and online
This session, part of the Penn Alumni Momentum program, will focus on how employers and caregivers can navigate challenges and find solutions in today's changing workplace. Momentum: The Power of Penn Women began as a virtual conference in 2021 and has expanded to a series of…
GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium ft. Kirsten Lee (Department of English) and Zoe Zhao (Department of Sociology)
FBH 345 and on zoom
Kirsten Lee Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Postbellum Poststructuralism In her 1869 novel Minnie ’ s Sacrifice , Frances Ellen Watkins Harper depicts the political aftermath of the Civil War as a drama of miscegenation, citizenship, and public service in the American South. The…