Past Events
Anthea Butler, Berkowitz Lecture: Intersectionality at a crossroads: Race, Feminism, and the trials of Social Media
Intersectionality at a Crossroads: Race, Feminism, and the Trials of Social Media Join us for the 2016-2017 Judith Roth Berkowitz Lecture featuring Penn's own Anthea Butler (Associate Professor of Religious Studies) Social Media has changed the ways in which feminists collaborate…
DIscussion with Professor Jonathan Zimmerman on the Global History of Sex Education
Penn LGBT Center, Goodhand Room The Penn Education Society, along with Penn Women SPEAK, the Penn History Department and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality & Women will be hosting GSE professor Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman for a discussion about his recently…
Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions
For More Information Location: Van Pelt Library, 241 Speakers: Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film. Title: The…
Mala Htun: Three Worlds of Women's Rights
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall Sponsored by The Comparative Politics Workshop Co-Sponsored by Alice Paul Center For more information
Queer Internet Studies Symposium
The Queer Internet Studies Workshop brings together thinkers, makers and doers draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet.
DCC: Kamala Kempadoo, The War on Humans: Anti-trafficking in the Caribbean
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor ( Accessibility) / Free and open to the public Citizenship on the Edge. Sex/Gender/Race: 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Program . in partnership with the Alice Paul Center KAMALA KEMPADOO is Professor of Social…
Graduate Colloquium: Danielle Hanley (Political Science) and Natalie Shibley (Africana Studies/History)
Please join us on Thursday, February 16 from 12pm-1:30pm in the GSWS conference room (second floor, 3810 Walnut Street) for a colloquium featuring Danielle Hanley (Political Science) and Natalie Shibley (Africana Studies/History). Please RSVP below to reserve your lunch. "Toward…
Graduate Student Lunch with Trish Salah, Trans Literatures: notes towards their emergence
Location:Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Trans Literatures: notes towards their emergence. What does it mean to suggest that transgender literature is now emerging? Or, how can we take stock of what is emerging under the aegis of “Trans”? In this talk I will raise some…
Pedagogy Seminar: "Teaching Difficult Subjects in Difficult Times" with Sharrona Pearl (Annenberg)
Please join us for our next pedagogy seminar with Sharrona Pearl on Wednesday, January 25 from 12pm-1:30pm in the Silverstein Forum of Stiteler Hall. While every teaching topic has the potential to be deeply personal, political, meaningful, and even explosive, some issues are…
DCC: Lynne Haney, A Family Portrait of Mass Incarceration: The Gender Politics of Parenting in the Penal State
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor ( Accessibility) / Free and open to the public Citizenship on the Edge. Sex/Gender/Race: 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Program . in partnership with the Alice Paul Center LYNNE HANEY is Professor of Sociology…