"Enemy Feminisms:" A Book Talk With Dr. Sophie Lewis
"Where would we be without Sophie Lewis?" asks Judith Butler: "In a more impoverished political world." Join GSWS visiting scholar Sophie Lewis at the Penn bookstore on her new book's publication day, for a reading, refreshments, and conversation with Dr Lewis and Dean Sarah Banet Weiser (author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny).
Go to eventAinu: Indigenous People of Japan
Join us for a screening of the documentary film Ainu: Indigenous People of Japan, which captures the lives of the Ainu people in their town of Biratori in Hokkaido and the efforts of the communities’ elders to keep their culture alive.
Following the screening, Professor Julia Alekseyeva will moderate a Q&A with filmmaker Naomi Mizoguchi.
Go to eventDating Saints: A Remarkable Late Medieval Hebrew Compendium of Astronomy and Calendars
This event is a segment of The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies.
Penn Libraries' LJS 57, a manuscript written ca. 1361 in Sephardic script, is a remarkable compendium of Hebrew astronomical and related scientific works. It includes four astrological works by Abraham ibn Ezra and the astronomical tables of Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov.Go to event
From the Invisible to the Visible: Food and Life Politics in Global Korea
Food serves as a junction for a vast array of entities, structures and practices, spanning from microorganisms to national politics, the global economy, and the environment. Food also helps us understand the mobility of people, ideas, and materials across time and space. Food cultures have been shaped and transformed by this mobility and the particular historical contexts in which they evolve. In this presentation, I take food as an entry for understanding gender history and culture, with a particular focus on the politics of domesticity.Go to event
Bye Bye Tiberias | Film Screening and Q&A
Join us for a screening of the documentary film Bye Bye Tiberias (2023). After the screening, Director Lina Soualem will be in conversation with University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Arabic Literature Huda Fakhreddine about the film, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Go to eventKathryn Hellerstein: Translating Women Yiddish Poets
Join Professor Kathryn Hellerstein to discuss the history of women in Yiddish poetry as a part of her experience translating Women Yiddish Poets: Anthology.
Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 1838 Black Metropolis, and the Library Company of Philadelphia will be partnering together to host “Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries” on February 20-22, 2025.
Go to eventBuddhism and Violence: The Korean Buddhist Military Chaplaincy
Buddhism is often presumed to be a strictly pacifist religion, thus a Buddhist military chaplaincy would be an oxymoron. Currently, 128 chaplains in the South Korean military, however, see no apparent contradiction between their pastoral function and their Buddhist beliefs as they teach, council, and support soldiers’ actions on and off the battlefield. How did the military chaplaincy system become an integral part of Korean Buddhism and how has it shaped the religiosity of its commissioned officers?Go to event
Women, Demons, and Healing: Women’s Medical History Seen through Amulets
This talk will explore various aspects of women’s medical issues and practices in the Jewish society of late antiquity, based on the rich and overlooked source of Jewish-Palestinian Aramaic amulets.
Healing Women in Jewish History
Go to eventRetreat or Remain? Notions of a Full Life and a Slow Death from Sundarbans’ Eroding Coastlines
As sea level rise erodes coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India, as an adaptation solution. Through long-term ethnographic research with residents of Sundarbans’ coastal communities, this seminar examines their desires to remain in their villages despite recurrent experiences of floods, cyclones, and land erosion.Go to event