Events

Join us in remembering victims of trans-based violence and lift up those who give us hope in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance. Co-sponsored by the LGBT Center, CAPS, and SHS

Facilitated by Jessica Mertz, Director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Education at Penn, and Litty Paxton, Director of the Penn Women's Center

If a student discloses an occurrence of sexual violence, would you know what to do? What resources are available to your students and to you as an instructor? How might we navigate these traumatic issues both inside and outside the classroom? This workshop is intended for graduate students, faculty, and anyone in an instructional role. We will be discussing basics such as mandatory reporting obligations and Penn resources. But we will also consider a more expansive set of best practices around pedagogy and various forms of sexual violence, including but not limited to abusive relationships, harassment, stalking, and sexual assault. We will work through a number of scenarios in which disclosure by a student might occur and strategies for responding.

This event is sponsored by the English department and open to the public.

A light lunch will be served

Although terms such as “displacement” and “exile” have been more recurrent in the wake of the ongoing refugee crisis across the world, the constant search of ”home” has been always present in various literary traditions including Persian literature. In this talk, Dr. Fatemeh Shams, Persian poet and professor in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, School of Arts & Sciences, will explore various meanings and representations of “home” throughout the classical and modern literary traditions in an attempt to understand the notion of “exile” and “displacement” as a mental and physical mode of existence. 

Speaker: Jennifer Ponce de Leon, Assistant Professor of English

In this lecture Prof. Johnson will share excerpts from his current creative nonfiction research on black southern women who love women to demonstrate how he employed performative and creative writing as a feminist method for conducting oral histories. Johnson will also point to how creative nonfiction provided him a space to allegorize cross-gender ethnographic and oral history praxis and the tensions that arise therein.

Penn Museum Second Sunday Culture Films

A dialogue between practitioners and academics to increase women’s representation in public life.

On the 10th anniversary of the Holt Lecture in International Law, we welcome Ernesto Zedillo, who served as President of Mexico from 1994 – 2000.

A lecture by Leo Bersani, an internationally renowned scholar who has worked in a variety of fields including gender/sexuality studies, literary studies, psychoanalytical theory, and film and media studies. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Princeton University; the University of Chicago; and the University of Pennsylvania.

The crisis of political legitimacy and the collapse of the center left that have fueled the rise of the far right is often described as a failure to listen. Within this context, Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith, assistant professor of music, School of Arts & Sciences, will examine how neoliberalism has transformed the way we hear, leading to a crisis of listening, and how studying the soundscapes of protest can provide new insights about a phenomenon that might be called global Trumpism. Dr. Waltham-Smith will share field recordings she made at marches, demonstrations and occupations in the U.S., the U.K. and France in response to the Brexit referendum, the election of Trump and the French presidential-election campaign.