Featured Event Recordings
GSWS/FQT/PWC 50th Anniversary Symposium
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor
Please join us for this three-day symposium celebrating the past and present achievements of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) and the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT).
Trans-Affirming Pedagogies Symposium
ARCH building Rm 108, 3601 Locust Walk
This symposium is part of broader efforts at FQT/GSWS to help departments imagine what trans inclusive pedagogies can look like in their respective fields while positioning gender-affirming pedagogies as co-constituted with anti-racist methodologies, accessible course design, and…
How did Socialism Become a Dirty Word in Western Politics?
Comparative Literature & Theory
Angelina is a graduate student entering her third year in the Program of Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on Contemporary US women writers, Socialist Feminism, femininity, and women’s book clubs.
Grassroots Organizing in the Era of #MeToo
Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
Join us for a panel discussion of grassroots movements fighting against sexual violence honor of International Women's Day. In partnership with Perry World House.
Producing the Mapplethorpe Moment:
Artistic Expression in Fraught Times
Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Mapplethorpe The Perfect Moment exhibit at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art, this panel discussion will use the conflict surrounding the exhibit as a launching off point to consider artist expression in our present moment.
It’s Not Funny:
The Subversive Politics of Comedy
College Hall 200
Have you ever found yourself laughing along with a comedian even when you know you are not “supposed” to? This performative event considers the boundaries of humor, asking who can make a joke about what topics and who can laugh at those jokes?
A Conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeToo Movement.
Location: Irvine Auditorium
3401 Spruce Street
On October 10, 2018, more than 1,100 members of the Penn and Philadelphia community joined the Alice Paul Center at Irvine Auditorium for a timely and riveting conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw, moderated by Dorothy Roberts.
C. Riley Snorton, Fleshy Encounters:
Black Feminisms and the Mutability of Gender
LGBT Center
3907 Spruce Street
Snorton traces how flesh figures one route into the proverbial question of how matter matters. Snorton is a Penn alum, with a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Muslim Masculinities:
A Symposium on Gender, Religion, and the Everyday
World Forum, Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
This location is ADA Accessible.
Muslim Masculinities: Gender, Religion, and the Everyday brings together Penn, national, and international scholars examining Muslim masculinities in all their complexities within and beyond the United States.
Bearing Witness:
Four Days in West Kingston
Penn Museum
First Floor, Merle-Smith Gallery West
3260 South St.
This new exhibition—part art installation, part memorial, and part call to action—sheds light on the “Tivoli Incursion” through compelling video and audio footage featuring firsthand accounts of people directly impacted by the violence.
