Past Events
What's Your Story?, with author Rebecca Walker
Virtual Talk (via Youtube)
Rebecca Walker will talk about her new book, What's Your Story?, written in conjunction with Lily Diamond. Walker is the acclaimed author of Baby Love and Black White Jewish. What's Your Story? is an interactive journal for writers, creatives, scientists, psychologists, lawyers…
Designing Anti-Racist Syllabi
Please register via the CTL website.
Join Professor Abhulhamit Arvas, English and Gwendolyn Beetham, Associate Director, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies for a workshop organized by CTL Graduate Fellow in English Davy Knittle and Graduate Associate Alicia Meyer of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies…
Jules Gill-Peterson (She/Her), University of Pittsburgh A Vernacular Science of Gender: Trans History After Transsexuality
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94653819986
Meeting ID: 946 5381 9986
Passcode: 203662
This talk explores how transgender studies has come to idealize a separation between medical-science and the social field of lived experience in its objects of study. Observing that this tendency rests on a series of premises about history and historical sequence, the talk…
Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium
Online Event (via Zoom)
Tina Campt and Simone White will talk about how their current work engages with "frequency" as a manner of speaking and a matter of fact. Simone White is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for poetry, White is…
Beans Velocci (They/Them), Department of History, Yale University “Apparent Exceptions Occur”: Trans Methods for the History of Sex Classification
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99394197126
Meeting ID: 993 9419 712
Passcode: 034814
Trans histories have primarily focused on trans people, but what happens if you make trans history a method, not a subject? This talk proposes that examining the history of sex classification through a trans lens shows that no forms of sex and gender, including what might be…