Past Events
Lecture by GSWS Postdoctoral Fellow Kirk Fiereck: "Global Health Futures: Ethno-Sexuality and HIV in South Africa"
The Africa Center and The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program invite you to a lecture by Kirk Fiereck (GSWS) "Global Health Futures: Ethno-Sexuality and HIV in South Africa" on Friday February 20th, 2015 at 2pm in 639 Williams
Judith R Berkowitz Endowed Lectureship featuring Signe Wilkinson
Please join us onFebruary 19th from 5:00-6:30pm in College Hall 200 for our annual Judith R Berkowitz Endowed Lecturefeaturing Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson: "Redrawing Stereotypes: Cartooning in Our Charlie Hebdo World" Signe Wilkinson is an…
Global Gender Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Toorjo Ghose
Please join us Friday February 13th from 12-1:30pm in Cohen 436 for a Global Gender Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Toorjo Ghose (SP2). "Dust from her doorstep: The sex worker movement in Sonagachi, India" Toorjo Ghose will be sharing a book proposal on the sex worker…
GSWS Course Observation Program, Pre-Observation Workshop with Cathy Turner (CTL)
Please join us on Monday 2/2 at 12pm in Cohen 436 for the first part of a Graduate Student Course Observation program in which graduate students are able to observe Penn Faculty as they teach courses touching on gender, sexuality, and women. In this pre-observation workshop…
Eliminating Corrective Rape: A Conversation with Activist Ndumie Funda and Salamishah Tillet
Please join us on Thursday, January 29, 2015, 5 p.m., Terrace Room (Claudia Cohen Hall) for: Eliminating Corrective Rape featuring social Ndumie Funda, social activist behind South Africa's 2014 (first) hate crime law and Salamishah Tillet PhD, UPenn faculty and co-founder of A…
Visual Aids Day With(out) Art, Screening and Conversation
The LGBT Center and GSWS invite you to participate in Visual Aid's Day With(out) Art on December 1st from 6-8pm at the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St). December 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of Visual AIDS' essential Day With(out) Art. This year, Visual AIDS has commissioned…
Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar with Tamara Walker (History / Africana Studies)
Please join us in Cohen 436 for a faculty works-in-progress seminar featuring Tamara Walker (History /Africana Studies) Tamara will be sharing her work "Queen of the Congos: Slavery, Gender, and Religious Practice in Late-Colonial Lima, Peru," which focuses on an episode from the…
Gender and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture
Please join us for a symposium on Gender and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture. The event will open Thursday evening, 11/6, with our Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South: a conversation between Neville Hoad (English, University…