Past Events
Phyllis Rackin Lecture: Rebecca Laroche on ecofeminsim, early modern women’s writing, and medical history
Rebecca Laroche (Professor of English at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs), whose scholarship on ecofeminism, early modern women's writing, and medical history has been of great importance to scholars of gender and society in the Renaissance. The author of Medical…
Decriminalizing Prostitution with Nina Lopez (Global Women's Strike - UK)
Sponsored by The Center for Global Women's Health Research and Global Health Affairs (SON) Claire M. Fagin Hall, Room 114 RSVP Required Hear about the challenges women in countries like Haiti, India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand and the UK face in supporting their families and why…
DCC: Ellen Samuels
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 ELLEN SAMUELS is Associate Professor of…
Pedagogy Seminar: "Radical Pedagogy and Critical Theory: Creating Alternative Possibilities within Conventional Spaces of
How might we respond -- at the level of collegial relations and classroom practice -- when the vision of the university (and the larger society of which it is a part) regarding who we are, who our students are, and what our university is for is different than our own? How might…
DCC: Ellen Samuels, From Anomaly To Alarm: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State (Ellen Samuels)
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 FROM ANOMALY TO ALARM: Trans and Crip…
GenderTalk Open Mic
Join Penn Non-Cis for Gendertalk, their annual open mic night focused around gender identity/expression. It's a great time with a lot of different performers and some amazing free food. If you are interested in performing: tinyurl.com/GenderTalk16 Sponsored by: Penn Non-Cis…
Deconstructing the Malala Effect. Gender, Race, and Religion in Transnational Contexts
Huntsman Hall, Room 350 Penn Pakistan Society Presents Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolj i, Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program This lecture examines the dominant ways in which the figure of Malala Yousafzai is interpreted…
Work In Progress: Megan Robb, "Urban Emotions in Seclusion: An Early-Twentieth Century Muslim Wedding in Shahjahanabad.
Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Megan Robb (Religious Studies). We will be discussing Dr. Robb's new article: Urban Emotions in Seclusion: An Early-Twentieth Century Muslim Wedding in Shahjahanabad. Discussant: Fariha Khan, Asian American Studies Discussant…
Work in Progress: Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Towards a Genealogy of the Educated Muslim Woman/Girl in Colonial India and
Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Shenila Khoja-Moolji, DCC and APC Post-Doctoral Fellow. We will be discussing a chapter from Dr. Khoja-Moolji's forthcoming book: Towards a Genealogy of the Educated Muslim Woman/Girl in Colonial India and Postcolonial Pakistan (…
Graduate Student Colloquium: Clare Mullaney (English) and Maria Murphy (Musicology)
Please join us on Wednesday, October 26 from 12pm-1:30pm for our graduate colloquium featuring Clare Mullaney (English) and Maria Murphy (Musicology) in the Silverstein Forum of Stiteler Hall. RSVP below to reserve your lunch. Paper descriptions are as follows: Clare Mullaney…