Past Events
Graduate Student Reception
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…
Re: Thinking Queer Series: Film Screening "Diagnosing Difference" & Panel Discussion
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…
GSWS Current & Potential Majors/Minors Info Session and Social
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…
WIP Seminar with Karen Detlefsen: "Margaret Cavendish on Freedom"
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…
Girl Culture and Fashion Show
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
"THIN"
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
Marjane Satrapi, author of "Peresepolis"
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…
Conference on Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the Body
Co-Sponsored Event: Conference on Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the Body Thu-Fri, March 31-April 1, 2011 Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall For full conference program and more information, click here
"Berlusconi and the Body of Italian Women"
Gender and Sexuality Works-in-Progress SeminarStefania Benini (Romance Languages)"Berlusconi and the Body of Italian Women" March 25, 20111:00 p.m. 436 Cohen HallRespondents: Kathy Peiss (History) and Meta Mazaj (Cinema Studies)
Historicizing Sex: A State of the Field Conference in Early Modern Gender and Sexuality Studies
Historicizing Sex: A State of the Field Conference in Early Modern Gender and Sexuality Studies Friday, March 18, 2011 "Historicizing Sex” will feature seven eminent scholars who will discuss the relationship between historical inquiry and contemporary theory. How do we…