Past Events
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar "One Course, Many Kinds of Students: Teaching Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Across the
Please join us in Room 436, Cohen Hall for this installment of the Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar Series featuring Prof. Lance Wahlert (Medical Ethics and Health Policy). It’s an inherent dilemma in teaching any gender and sexuality studies based class that students come to…
"Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era" a conversation with Beatriz Preciado
Please join us in the Neville Classroom (Penn Museum) for this installment of the Trans-Ocular Event Series. Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. A professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of…
Graduate Student Colloquium with Alexandra Sastre and Aliya Rao
Please join us in Cohen 436 for the Graduate Student Colloquium: Alexandra Sastre (Communication) “Groping Around in the Darkness:” Race, Gender and the Transethnic Imaginary on Tumblr In 2012, a user posting under the handle Prince Koyangi shared the following autobiographical…
Inaugural Dolores Huerta Lecture featuring Dolores Huerta
Location: Houston Hall / Hall of Flags. The Latin American and Latino Studies Program is pleased to announce a brand new annual Dolores Huerta Lecture The inaugural lecture will be held by the lecture's namesake, Dolores Huerta, who will be discussing Latin@s labor issues in the…
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar "Navigating Hierarchies in the Academy" with Melissa Sanchez
Please join us in Room 436, Cohen Hall for this installment of the Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar Series featuring Prof. Melissa Sanchez (English). This seminar will address an aspect of professional life that is rarely confronted directly: the fraught landscape of academic…
GASWorks Faculty Seminar: Jeanne Vaccaro, GSWS, "Feelings & Fractals: Woolly Ecologies of Transgender Matter"
Cohen Hall Room 436 Please join us for a GASWorks (Gender & Sexuality Works-in-Progress) Faculty Seminar featuring our very own GSWS Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Jeanne Vaccaro. We will be discussing her paper "Feelings & Fractals: Woolly Ecologies of Transgender Matter."…
Pre-Observation Workshop for Graduate Students with Cathy Turner (CTL) and Melanie Adley (GSWS)
Cohen 436 Please join us for the first part of a new Graduate Student 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, Cathy Turner (CTL) and Melanie…
Archives, Affects, & Activism: Preserving Queer & Trans Histories
Giovanni's Room Bookstore (345 S. 12th Street) Come learn how Philly bookstores, libraries, zine fests, archives, and media artists are creating and preserving Philly queer and transgender histories, and making them available to the public in creative ways. Presenters include…
INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Avant-Garde, a film screening/exhibit and discussion with curator, Malic Amalya
LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street From the depths of the underground emerge new films that defy standards of narrative cinema and normative desires. From stunning 16mm to video performance, these films deploy campy debauchery and sensual studies in light and texture to map…
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar "Recovering Lost Voices in the Classroom" with Prof. Karen Detlefsen
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for a Graduate Pedagogy Seminar led by Penn Philosophy Professor, Karen Detlefsen. This pedagogy seminar's topic is something that applies to teaching the work of historically vulnerable and subjugated people in the contemporary classroom. What…