Pedagogy Workshop with Erin Cross, Director, Penn LGBT Center In this workshop, we will address challenges and opportunities in creating an inclusive classroom for trans and gender nonconforming students. Topics include: how to facilitate discussions that allow for respectful…

Open to the public. Please join us for the Philadelphia premiere of the critically acclaimed documentary film After Auschwitz: The Stories of Six Women. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Jon Kean, Penn alum, C’89. Sponsored by the University of…

When on October 13, 2007, at Eid Namaz, Feroza Rose Mohammed instigated the temporary removal of barriers which had been placed to separate the women from the men at her masjid: she was probably unaware of the contemporary global movement of women to gain equal access to and use…

Please join us Monday, October 16 from 12-1:30pm for a graduate research colloquium by Patricia Kim (History of Art) and Sarah Watson (English). RSVP below to reserve your lunch. Patricia Kim (History of Art): "Carceral Heritage and the Gendered Politics of Display in Karia (4 th…

Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? Many gatherings in LGBTQ affirming spaces ask people to state their preferred pronouns when introducing themselves. This conversation will examine the underlying philosophy of gendered language as…

All around the world voters are choosing leaders and policies that promise to break away with the politics of the recent past. From Brexit, to the victory of the No in Colombia’s Peace Accords referendum, to the selection of a political outsider to the U.S. presidency, we are…

Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? In partnership with the LGBT Center, the Alice Paul Center welcomes Jen Manion, Associate Professor of History at Amherst College. Jen received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D…

A compelling and moving documentation of state repression and women's resistance in Kashmir. Screening followed by a discussion with the director. Presented by UPenn's Social Justice/Global South Group, English Department, with GSWS, South Asia Center, and Cinema Studies

The Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law invites you to a screening of “Second Looks, Second Chances for Pennsylvania Lifers: Commutation by the Numbers” which was produced in collaboration with Lifers, Inc. at Graterford and the Pennsylvania Prison Society. This screening is…

Kiera Kenney graduated from the School of Social Policy and Practice with her MSW in 2013. She is Manager of Health and Social Services at the African Family Health Organization in Philadelphia, where she works with immigrants and refugees. She previously worked in Lusaka, Zambia…