Past Events
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…
GSWS Graduate Student Colloquium: Sara Mourad (Communication) and Sonia Gollance (German)
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS) Graduate Student Colloquium. Sara Mourad (Communication) will present on the visibilities of queer sexuality in contemporary Lebanese cinema, and Sonia Gollance (German) will present on the…
Ellen Feder: "Disturbing Bodies: Envy in the Medical Management of Intersex"
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Carriage House/LGBT Center 3907 Spruce Street Please join us for the following talk: “Disturbing Bodies: Envy in the Medical Management of Intersex” Ellen K. Feder, Associate Professor of Philosophy, American University Abstract of the talk: In her talk…
Social Justice Media Making: A Conversation with Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall This event brings together two contemporary activist-artists whose multimedia and multifaceted work demonstrates the best that social justice media making can embody: Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez and Aishah Shahidah Simmons. These two vibrant…