PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE OPENING SESSION FEATURING GAYLE RUBIN, MARCH 4TH 7:30-9:30 PM: TALK WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT HARRISON AUDITORIUM IN THE PENN MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY Twenty-five years ago, Gayle Rubin's essay "Thinking Sex" (1984) inaugurated…

2008-2009 Lecture Thursday, October 16thAlice Paul Lecture in Women's Studies"GENDER, THE ELECTION, AND LEARNING TO DRIVE: AN EVENING WITH KATHA POLLITT" KATHA POLLITTAward-winning columnist, The Nation magazine5:00 p.m., Class of '49 Auditorium, Houston Hall

Thursday, October 2nd R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought "GENDERED INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE" PROFESSOR LONDA SCHIEBINGER Barbara D. Finberg Director of The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford…

Friday, September 19, 2008 GASWorks Seminar for faculty and graduate students Professor David Kazanjian, Department of English"(Re)flexion: Genocide in Ruins"Respondents: Melissa Sanchez, English & Karen Beckman, Cinema Studies 12pm, 436 Cohen Hall *RSVP to reserve a lunch &…

Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Southern California "Anti-Social Queer Theory" Friday, February 22, 2008 12pm, 436 Logan Hall *RSVP required to reserve a lunch and receive a copy of the paper.* Please RSVP to Luz Marin: lmarin@sas.upenn…

R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Sexuality Studies Thursday, January 31, 2008 MICHAEL WARNER Professor of English, Rutgers University 5:00pm 200 College Hall

Camille Robcis, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities "French Bioethics: from Human Rights to the Anthropological Function of the Law" Monday, November 5, 20074-5:30pm, 436 Logan Hall