Events Calendar
SPRING 2008
Thursday 1/31/08
R. JEAN BROWNLEE LECTURE IN SEXUALITY STUDIES
MICHAEL WARNER
Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University
"SECULAR SEX"
5pm, 200 College Hall
Friday
2/15/08
Global Gender Faculty Seminar
Wal-Mart, "Katrina," and Other Ideological Tricks:
Jamaican Hotel Workers in Michigan
Professor Deborah Thomas (Penn, Anthropology)
Respondents: Lisa Mitchell, South Asian Studies and Sheetal Majithia, English
12pm Logan 436
*RSVP required to reserve a lunch and receive a copy of the paper.*
Please RSVP to Luz Marin: lmarin@sas.upenn.edu
Thursday 2/21/08
The Faculty-in-Residence in Gender & Sexuality Studies Event Series presents:
a public lecture by
JUDITH HALBERSTAM
Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
"QUEER ANIMATION"
5pm, Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Sponsored by The Alice Paul Center and the LGBT Center
with support from the Provost's Diversity Fund, the Annenberg School for Communications, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Gender and Sexuality Reading Group in English
Friday 2/22/08
The Faculty-in-Residence in Gender & Sexuality Studies Event Series presents:
a GASWorks Seminar for faculty and graduate students by
JUDITH HALBERSTAM
Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
"Anti-Social Queer Theory"
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.edu
Sponsored by The Alice Paul Center and the LGBT Center
with support from the Provost's Diversity Fund, the Annenberg School for Communications, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Gender and Sexuality Reading Group in English
Thursday
3/20/08
JANE S. POLLACK MEMORIAL LECTURE IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
bell hooks
(Distinguished Professor in Residence, Berea College)
"Claiming One's Place: Race, Gender, and Class"
5pm, Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Africana Studies
Thursday-Friday 3/27-28/08
South Asia Feminism Conference
Click here for time, location and complete conference information.
Friday 4/11/08
Works-in-Progress Faculty Seminar
Professor Eve Troutt Powell (Penn, History)
"Translating Slavery:
Memories of Forced Labor in the Nile Valley"
Respondents: Beth Baron, CUNY History and Barbara Savage, Penn History
12pm Logan 436
Co-Sponsored by the Middle East Center
*RSVP required to reserve a lunch and receive a copy of the paper.*
Please RSVP to Luz Marin: lmarin@sas.upenn.edu
Friday
4/25/08
Faculty Tenure Workshop
12pm, 436 Logan Hall
Speakers: Janice Madden (Sociology), Thadious Davis (English), and Ayako Kano (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
*RSVP required to reserve a lunch.*
Please RSVP to Luz Marin: lmarin@sas.upenn.edu
FALL 2007
Thursday 9/27/07
BERKOWITZ LECTURE IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of Backlash
SUSAN FALUDI
"The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America"
5pm College Hall 200
For more information, click here.
Friday 10/5/07
Global Gender Faculty Seminar
“Ethnography in Public: Feminism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday in Kerala, South India”
Professor Ritty Lukose (Penn, GSE)
Respondents: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History and
Ayako Kano, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
12pm Logan 436
Thursday-Friday, 10/25-26/07
GENDER, WAR, AND MILITARISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE featuring CYNTHIA ENLOE (Research Professor of International Development and Women's Studies, Clark University) as the BROWNLEE LECTURER IN FEMINIST THEORY and award-winning journalist and co-founder of “Democracy Now!” AMY GOODMAN
For full program information, click here
Friday 11/9/07
Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar
featuring Penn Professors Kathy Peiss, Heather Love, and
Demie Kurz
12pm Logan 436
Friday 11/30/07
Works-in-Progress Faculty Seminar
"Inner Selves, Outer Selves:
Makeover Television, Audiences, and the Problem of Gender"
Professor Katherine Sender (Penn, Annenberg)
Respondents: Kathy Peiss, History and
Felicity Paxton, English & Critical Writing Program
12pm Logan 436
