Past Events
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…
GSWS Info Session and Social for Prospective Majors/Minors, Current Major/Minors, Graduate Students, and Faculty
436 Claudia Cohen Hall This is an informal, social gathering for prospective majors, minors, and current majors and minors, graduate certificate students as well as core and affiliated GSWS faculty to get to know one another and learn more about the GSWS program. Please be sure…
Graduate Student Conference: "(un)SAFE: An Interdisciplinary Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Graduate Student
Bi-annual Graduate Student Conference Series: "(un)SAFE: An Interdisciplinary Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Graduate Student Conference" http://unsafeconferenceupenn2012.wordpress.com Featured Keynote Speaker: LAUREN BERLANT (un)SAFE: A Graduate Student Conference in…