Past Events
J-Bagel Hosts Assi Azar, Israeli Television Personality- Penn LGBT Center, Goodhand Room, Co-sponsored by the Alice Paul Center
Penn's LGBTQ+ student group is participating in Hillel's Israel Week. In honor of the week of programming, we are bringing Israeli LGBT television personality Assi Azar for a lecture. Not only is he an accomplished actor, host, and producer, but he has also written and published…
Mental Wellness Week April 4-10
Sponsored by the CAPS Student Advisory Board Co-sponsored by the Alice Paul Center For schedule see: https://www.facebook.com/UPennMWW
Rethinking Leadership from the Bottom Up Conference
Rethinking Leadership from the Bottom Up This one-day conference brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists, journalists and artists from within and outside the Penn community for a transformative conversation on the meaning of leadership. In a moment where the public…
Leading While Dreaming: Spoken word performance and workshop with Kavindu “Kavi” Ade
This generative writing workshop, led by spoken word artist and PYPM International Slam Coach Kavi Ade, will focus on how art, in particular poetry, can be a powerful tool in grassroots organizing and ground-up leadership. Kavi will discuss how they have used poetry over the…
Mona Eltahawy. Complicating and Confusing the Image of Muslim Women
Stiteler Hall, Room B21 Mona Eltahawyis an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. During the 18-day revolution that toppled Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, she appeared on most major media outlets, leading the…
Mods: Work-in-Process with Jill Richards
An Infinity of Committee Meetings: Négritude Women, Feminist Praxis, and UN Bureaucracy Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 222 This Mods event is co-sponsored by the Gen/Sex working group and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women. In 1945, the Charter of the…
Graduate Colloquium: SaraEllen Strongman (Africana Studies) and Natalie Shibley (Africana Studies/History)
Please join us on Wednesday, March 23 in the seminar room on the second floor of 3810 Walnut Street for our graduate colloquium featuring SaraEllen Strongman (Africana Studies) and Natalie Shibley (Africana Studies/History). SaraEllen Strongman (Africana Studies) "The Struggle…
After Obergefell: What's Next for the LGBTQ Movement
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 110; 3620 Walnut Street in partnership with the LGBT Center Five distinguished scholars and activists will discuss the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage and share perspectives on what could be next in the LGBTQ…
Faculty Works-in-Progress with Hsiao-wen Cheng. Knowing Women: Medicine, Religion, and Female Sexuality in Medieval China
Faculty Works-in-Process with Hsiao-wen Cheng. East Asian Languages and Civilizations Respondents: Dr. Beth Linker, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science Dr. Josephine Park, Associate Professor, English GSWS Conference Room, 3810 Walnut Street (please note our new…