Events

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Celebrating and Raising Awareness: Students, Faculty, and Staff Share Voices

Celebrating Women’s National History Month

A conversation on young black men moving from Chicago’s South Side to success in higher education. Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Chezare A. Warren, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education – Michigan State University [Post-Doc, Penn GSE]

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Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science, studies the economic and psychological factors that drive women to seek political office. In a new research project, "Nudging Women to Run," Teele, along with scholars at Rutgers University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley, surveyed alumnae of women's campaign-training programs and is in the process of designing experimental innovations to encourage women to launch political campaigns. A leading authority on women and politics, Teele's research examines the causes and consequences of voting-rights reform, forms of bias in politics, and social-science methodology. Join us for an evening of engaging, stimulating conversation, with a Q&A session.

Edwidge Danticat, Award-winning Novelist and Essayist
 

A coffee chat series for parents and caregivers: LGBT Identities and Parenting. Open to all Penn students, staff, faculty and their children are welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided! Please register in advance.

What is your vision of equity and inclusion at Penn? Have your voice heard.  
Sponsored by the University Council Committee on Diversity & Equity, Faculty Senate, and the Penn Forum for Women Faculty.  Sign up to speak by emailing listeningtodiversity@sp2.upenn.edu.

As a part of its Visiting Scholars of Color lecture series Penn GSE welcomes Janelle Scott, an associate professor at the University of California-Berkeley who explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity.  Event details to follow.

Taking Stock of ‘Feminisms’ Today and Looking Ahead,  International Women's Day Conference.  Details to follow.

Celebrates the African diaspora and commemorates the legacy of W.E.B Du Bois’ contributions to the Black community. This year is a special year, as we will celebrate Du Bois’ 150th birthday. 

The conference begins with breakfast at 10am in Du Bois College House and end with the closing keynote address by Dr. Elijah Anderson at 3:30pm in the Michael A. Fitts Auditorium located in Penn's Law School.

Registration is required to attend any of the sessions.

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. While there has been extensive focus on Islam and gender, it has been predominantly in relation to femininities. This conference intervenes in the dominant discourse by shifting the conversation to Muslim masculinities. We seek to theorize Muslim masculinity not only as an embodied performance and discursive representation, but also as a practice of power, de-linked from the male body. Hence, we will bring together scholars across the disciplines of religious studies, anthropology, political science, literature, history, and gender, sexuality and women’s studies whose work examines masculine posturing by women, nation-states, religious groups, and/or development organizations. Relatedly, we will also examine militant masculinities enacted by both men and women. This symposium will be a forum for people to share current work and discuss issues and concerns, and to plan future directions for collaborative research