Past Events
Global Gender Seminar with Ayako Kano (EALC): "Gender and Possible Futures for Japan"
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for a Global Gender Seminar featuring Ayako Kano, East Asian Languages and Civilizations. We will be discussing her working paper, "Gender and Possible Futures for Japan." Faculty Respondents: Robin Leidner (Sociology) and Andrew Lamas (Urban Studies…
Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Judith R. Berkowitz Lecture in Women's Studies for 2013
Location: Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum . Access via 33rd Street Museum entrance just south of Spruce Street. The Alice Paul Center, the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program and the Penn Consortium for Undergraduate Women are pleased to present: Melissa Harris-Perry…
Medieval-Renaissance Seminar: Phyllis Rackin Lecture
401 Fisher-Bennett Hall There will be a reception in the English Department Faculty Lounge after the lecture. "Recipies for Thought: All's Well That Ends Well and Early Modern Knowledge-Practices" Wendy Wall, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University…
Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar: Nancy Hirschmann
"Relational Autonomy? Or Relational Freedom? A Return to Psychoanalytic Theory" Nancy J. Hirschmann, Professor of Political Science Faculty Respondents: Heather Love, Professor of English, UPenn & Sally Scholz, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University Paper Abstract: This…
THE COLLECTION: short fiction from the transgender vanguard
Kelly Writer’s House, 3805 Locust Walk THE COLLECTION: short fiction from the transgender vanguard THE COLLECTION is the first compilation of literary fiction featuring transgender protagonists. While transgender authors have long participated in thriving arts communities, never…
Round Up Holler Girl
Kelly Writers House, Arts Café Readings by 3 Queer Performance Artists from NYC Dan Fishback, Erin Markey, Max Steele Denizens of the downtown art and queer performance scenes, Dan Fishback, Erin Markey and Max Steele all know each other, and are all feminists, and are all…
Captive Genders: Teach-In on Abolitionist Imaginings and Transgender Activism
Penn Women's Center, 3643 Locust Walk Join us for an afternoon of documentary films profiling activists Kiyoshi Kuromyia and Marsha P. Johnson followed by a teach-in with activists Reina and Che Gossett about prison abolition and legacies of transgender activism. NB: Films will…
Dean Spade, "Critical Trans Politics, Violence and Law" R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Sexuality Studies
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall Critical Trans Politics, Violence, and Law Dean Spade, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University Is changing the law the best way to make things better for marginalized groups? Has anti-discrimination law effectively addressed racism, sexism, and…
GSWS Graduate Student Colloquium: Caroline Weist (German, UPENN) and Jennifer Wilson (Slavic, Princeton)
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS) Graduate Student Colloquium with presentations from Caroline Weist (German, UPENN) and Jennifer Wilson (Slavic, Princeton). Caroline Weist (German), "Emblems of the Body: Prosthesis and Corporeal…
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar featuring Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw: "Sympathy for the Devil -or- How to Respectfully Engage
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for a GSWS Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar with Professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (History of Art) who will be leading us in a discussion of " How to Respectfully Engage Ideologically Problematic Scholarship in the Classroom." Dr. DuBois Shaw writes…