Past Events
Gender-Based Approaches to Work on Urbanization and Migration
Panel Discussion at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration Workshop, convened by Perry World House Janice Madden, Professor of Regional Science, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania Jaya Ramji…
Pedagogy Seminar: Gender Dynamics in the Classroom featuring Nancy Hirschmann and Heather Love
Please join us for a pedagogy seminar entitled "Gender Dynamics in the Classroom" featuring Nancy Hirschmann (Political Science) and Heather Love (English). This event is co-sponsored by GSWS, English, and Political Science and will take place in the GSWS Seminar Room on the 2nd…
GASWorks Seminar with Jessa Lingel (Annenberg) and Danielle Hanley (Political Science)
Together with the LGBT Center, GSWS offers an informal lunchtime session to discuss and workshop the precirculated work of one graduate student and one faculty member whose research touches on issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, and queer studies. Jessa Lingel (Assistant…
Pedagogy Seminar: Did Women Have an Enlightenment? And, If So, At What Cost? with Joan DeJean (Romance Languages)
Please join us for a pedagogy seminar led by Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of Romance Languages. "I’ll take up the question of women’s almost total invisibility in the movement we know as the Enlightenment by using documents of various kinds: correspondence, the transcript of an…
Graduate Colloquium with Travis Lau (English) and Gina Elia (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Travis Lau (English) Transfusing Public Health: Dracula and the Case of Vampirism Using two key contemporaneous events with Dracula’s publication, the redefinition of immunity as self-defense by Élie Metchnikoff in 1881 and the invention of the rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur and…
Teresa de Lauretis: The Queerness of the Drive
The Alice Paul Center is a proud co-sponosor of this event, part of the 2015-2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex. You can register for this event, which takes place in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street). https://www.phf.upenn.edu/events/queerness-drive
GSWS Board Meeting
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Sarah Richardson: "Sex, Gender, and the Human Genome"
The Alice Paul Center is a proud co-sponosor of this event, part of the 2015-2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex. You can register for this event, which takes place in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum (3260 South Street), here. Epigenetics, the study of how environmental…
GSWS Pedagogy Seminar: The Postcolonial Classroom with Ania Loomba (English)
How can we bring in postcolonial perspectives while teaching about gender and sexuality? How do we ensure that we do not work with Euro-American paradigms or theories and then add race or other parts of the world simply as footnotes or exceptions? Ania Loomba will share thoughts…
Major Dinner: Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Our dinner for prospective majors will take place on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 6pm in the Greenhouse Room of Gregory House. Please RSVP here by October 26 at 9am.