Please join us in Room 200, College Hall for this year's Berkowitz Lecture in Women's Studies featuring Lateefah Simon. "The Power of the People" For nearly two decades, Lateefah Simon has worked alongside and on behalf of low-income young women of color as the Executive Director…

Please join us in Room 436, Cohen Hall for this installment of the Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar Series. In this session, Prof. Phyllis Rackin (English) will discuss how best to facilitate and manage classroom discussions in courses that engage content in gender, sexuality…

Please join us for this symposium in the Benjamin Franklin Room of Houston Hall. Following the symposium, there will be a recpetion at the Penn Women's Center from 5-6:30 p.m. The Symposium will examine the fields of feminist and queer studies and their intersections with each…

436 Cohen Hall The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program welcomes graduate students from all disciplines, schools, and programs to come mingle, eat, drink, talk to GSWS staff, and learn more about opportunities for graduate students interested in all things gender…

Fisher-Bennett Hall Room 401 Re:Thinking Queer will present an exploration of gender diversity and its treatment in the medical field. The award-winning and groundbreaking documentary Diagnosing Difference, by Annalise Ophelian, humanizes the debate around the Gender Identity…

If you are thinking about or currently are majoring or minoring in Gender, Sexuality, or Women’s Studies, at Penn, please come to an informational/social event in Dr. Shannon Lundeen's (Associate Director, GSWS Program) campus apartment from 4-5pm. All potential majors/minors are…

Please join us in Cohen Hall Room 436 for a Faculty Works-in-Progress Seminar featuring Karen Detlefsen from Penn's Department of Philosophy. Prof. Detlefsen will be disussing her paper, " Margaret Cavendish on Freedom." Faculty Respondents: Toni Bowers (English) and Melissa…

Co-Sponsored Event: Opening Reception of GIRL CULTURE and FASHION SHOW Exhibit by LAUREN GREENFIELD with a Gallery Talk by Lauren Greenfield Arthur Ross Gallery 5:00-8:00 p.m. April 8, 2011

Co-Sponsored Event: Screening of the documentary "THIN" by Lauren Greefield followed by a Talk Back with JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG and SUSAN VILLARI 5:00 p.m. April 6, 2011 Meyerson Hall B-3

Thursday, April 2nd Jane S. Pollcak Memorial Lecture in Women's Studies MARJANE SATRAPIInternationally renowned graphic novelist, illustrator, and film director; author of the bestselling graphic novel Persepolis, now a major motion picture Barbara D. Finberg DirectorMichelle R…