Events

Photographer Harvey Finkle - exhibition, reception and panel discission documenting the 13 year history of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia. The Exhibition will be on display as of early September.

The talk explores how the language scholars use in crafting histories simultaneously reveals and constitutes an epistemology of the LGBTQ past. It will chiefly grapple with how a modern lexicon informed by transgender studies and community practice offers scholars an expansive new way of understanding the lives and histories of a group designated by gay and lesbian historians in the 1970s as “passing women.”

Kermit Roosevelt, Professor – Penn School of Law speaks as part of the Diversity Lecture Series.

Although poverty and uneven development exists throughout the United States, the South has had a disproportionate share of the nation’s socioeconomic problems. For decades, poverty has been the highest and most persistent in that region, and the Great Recession has only worsened the problem.

In this talk, Dr. Regina Baker, assistant professor of sociology, School of Arts & Sciences, will address the reasons for this regional disparity and why, as a nation, Americans should care. Drawing on her research on the South, Dr. Baker will discuss the role of demographic, economic, political and racial factors in understanding poverty in the context of place. She will also touch on the uncertainty of future safety nets for America’s most vulnerable populations in the current political climate.

Guest Speaker: Amber Hikes, Director, Office of LGBT Affairs – City of Philadelphia

A panel of scholars who will engage the Penn community in conversation around: a) the role of identity in shaping the 2016 US presidential election and b) how we might expect issues of identity (e.g., race, immigration, gender, religion, citizenship, among others) to develop under the Trump Administration. Following the panel discussion, program attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A with the panelists.

As part of LALSIS - Latin American and Latino Studies Speaker Series - a talk by Christopher Heaney, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

As part of the Latinx Heritage Month, keynote address provided by a leader in the Latinx community that exemplifies the contributions to labor that Latinxs have made in the United States. Speaker: Gabby Rivera, creator of Marvel’s America series and author of "Juliet Takes a Breath."

A Panel discussion with Kristina Arriaga (US Commission of International Religious Freedom), Dan Barker (Freedom From Religion Foundation), Khalid Latif (NYU Islamic Center), and David Saperstein (Union for Reform Judaism).  Moderated by Jeffrey Rosen (National Constitution Center).

Penn Professor of Education, Political Science, and Philosophy Dr. Sigal R. Ben-Porath discusses and signs “Free Speech on Campus.” Everyone with a stake in campus controversiesprofessors, students, administrators, and informed members of the wider publicwill find something valuable in Ben-Porath's illuminating discussion of these crucially important issues.