Past Events
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…
Screening and Q&A: The Punk Singer (dir. Sini Anderson)
Please join us on October 27th from 6-8:30pm ( LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street) for a screening of the documentary The Punk Singer: A film about Kathleen Hanna followed by a q&a with the director Sini Anderson. Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance…
Faculty Global Gender Works-in-Progress Seminar with Kirk Fiereck (GSWS)
Please join us in Cohen 436 for a Faculty Global Gender Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Kirk Fiereck (Postdoctoral Fellow, GSWS) Respondents: Lance Wahlert (Medical Ethics & Health Policy) and David Azzolina (Van Pelt / Folklore) "Authenticating sexuality: Ethno-sexual…
GSWS Pedagogy Seminar with Erin Cross (LGBT Center), Sara Mourad (Annenberg / GSWS), and Roderick Cook (GSWS) on Trigger
Please join us on Monday, October 20th from 12-1:30pm at the LGBT Center for a Pedagogy Seminar with Erin Cross (LGBT Center), Sara Mourad (Annenberg / GSWS), and Roderick Cook (GSWS) on trigger warnings. What are your thoughts about trigger warnings in the classroom? Why are…
Penn Women's Center Open House!
You're invited to the Penn Women's Center's Open House on Friday October 3rd from 2-4pm at the PWC (3643 Locust Walk)!
GSWS Graduate Student Colloquium with Thomas Brinkerhoff and Didem Uca
Join us for the semester’s first Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS) Graduate Student Colloquium in Cohen Hall 436. The colloquium will feature presentations from Thomas Brinkerhoff (History) and Didem Uca (German). Descriptions of the presentations are included below…
Beginning of Year Reception!
We welcome the GSWS community to join us on September 30th from 4:30-6:30pm at POD to welcome our new director, Nancy Hirschmann, and our new postdoctoral fellow, Kirk Fiereck, as well as to celebrate a new academic year! If you are interested in attending please RSVP to Luz…
Global Gender Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Rita Barnard (English)
Please join us on Friday, September 26th in Cohen 436 from 1 2:00-1:30pm for a Global Gender Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Rita Barnard (English) who will be sharing her work "Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism." Respondents: Tsitsi Jaji (English…