Past Events
LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langston Hughes Undergraduate Conference
Fisher-Bennett Hall 135
Please join us for “LGBTQ Poetry from Homer to Langson Hughes,” a conference featuring the work of Penn undergraduates and responses by Stephanie Burt (Harvard) and Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins). The formal papers and responses will be followed by a reception, and all attendees…
Embodied Histories Seminar with Asli Zengin on Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
LGBT Center, Goodhand Room
In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative…
Postmodern Trans Studies
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135
The symposium will feature five speakers, each discussing their work and recent trends in Premodern Trans scholarship for approximately 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A session and open conversation. This event aims to bring together scholars whose work will be featured on our…
Queer Movie Night
Williams 543
Join FIGS for our last movie night of the semester! We will be streaming Born for You in Italian with English subtitles, and there will be light snacks. We hope to see you there!
Graduate Colloquium: Apurva Prasad and Austin Svedjan
BENN 344
AI in the Classroom Pedagogy Workshop
GSWS/FQT conference room Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
In the midst of an already challenging semester, many of us are also grappling with whether and how to incorporate AI into our classrooms. If you are feeling challenged, or inspired, or overwhelmed by this moment in AI, this workshop is a place to discuss concerns, generate new…
Flea Marqet with QBlack & Carriage Senior Society
W.E.B. Du Bois College House, Multipurpose Room (3900 Walnut Street)
Join QBlack and Carriage Senior Society at the FLEA MARQET hosted in W.E.B DuBois College House! Please out this form if you would like to be a vendor and have a table to sell your items at the Queer Flea Market. Invite your friends and stop by to purchase something!
Graduate Student Mixer (21+): Gayborhood Celebration
Franky Bradley's (1320 Chancellor Street)
Lambda Grads, Lambda Law, Wharton Out for Business, and the Graduate Student Center are excited to be partnering with GAPSA to present: the GayBARhood Celebration! This event is open to all 21+ UPenn Graduate/Professional students only. You MUST register to attend. EventBrite…
Agents of Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding Conflicts over Gender-Affirming Care Bans
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPE) 203
Gender-affirming care is based on dangerously uncertain science. So say lawmakers in the 26 states that have banned medical interventions for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to uphold these regulations of what critics have called “experimental” healthcare…
Asian American Studies (ASAM) Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Towards Our Collective Liberation Symposium
PSC Commons (403 McNeil Building)
This year’s theme, Towards Our Collective Liberation, explores how Asian American communities subvert stereotypes, transcend identity politics, and reimagine themselves outside the structures that have defined them. Identity politics in the Asian American community have reduced…
