Past Events
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…
Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South
Amado Recital Hall
Please join us on November 6th at 5:00pm for our Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought: Theorizing Sexuality from the South: a conversation with Neville Hoad (English, University of Texas at Austin) and Heather Love (English, Penn). This conversation serves as the keynote event…
Graduate Colloquium
Join us for our next Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS) Graduate Student Colloquium on Monday, November 3rd, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in Cohen Hall 436. The colloquium will feature presentations from Jennifer Wilson (Russian Literature, Princeton University) and Danielle…
GASWorks Seminar with Melissa Sanchez (English) and Don James McLaughlin (English)
Please join us on October 30th from 12-1pm at the LGBT Center for an innaugural session of a newly conceived GASWorks Seminar. Together with the LGBT Center, GSWS will offer an informal lunchtime session to discuss and workshop the precirculated work of one graduate student and…