Past Events
Existing In-Between: Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art
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"Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art" will reflect on such challenges from architectural, literary and artistic viewpoints with specific reference to the Persianate world. Chair/Discussant: Fatemah Shams, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, panelists…
Graduate ColloquiumKirsten Lee (English) and Katelyn Hearfield (Musicology)
To RSVP to this workshop please email Alicia Meyer at aliciame@sas.upenn.edu for the zoom link and a copy of any pre-circulated readings
Kirsten Lee (English) "'Sister, wasn’t it good': Feminist Legacies at The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival" This paper examines the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival to investigate how Black women’s relationships to each other as writers and readers structured the event’s…
Collective Conversations Alumni Series: Maria Murphy, "Laurie Anderson, Ronald Reagan, and Vocal Drag"
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In this talk, Maria Murphy takes up Laurie Anderson’s well known “voice of authority,” a voice processing persona created through an H910 Eventide Harmonizer that Anderson uses to alter the pitch and formant of her voice. Anderson’s “voice of authority” emerged in the 1980s…
Gender, Race, and University Administration: Conversation with Dr. Beverly Daniel. Tatum
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Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, is the author of the best-selling book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. Reflecting on her experience as a Black woman in an academic career spanning…
APC Works-In-Progress Series with Jinsook Kim, "Behind Activism: Feminist Digital Labor Against Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence"
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“My life is not your porn!” This was the cry heard in Seoul on December 22, 2018, when more than 110,000 protesters dressed in red took to the streets to oppose the illegal secret filming of women and the distribution of their images without their consent, a practice often…
