Gen/Sex
The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group (Gen/Sex) at Penn provides a regular forum for discussions related to gender, sexuality, feminism, queer theory, and their intersections with other fields. The group convenes several times per semester to discuss readings and provides a space for graduate students and faculty in and outside the Penn community to present works-in-progress. Invited speakers in past years have included Carrie Rentschler, Michael Trask, José Muñoz, Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, and Jordana Rosenberg. The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group recently helped organize Queer Method, a conference that explored queer studies' inter- and anti-disciplinary impulses and methodological innovations, and asked what the tangible parameters of a queer methodology might be. Queer Method featured talks by Alison Bechdel and a host of scholars in the field. The Gen/Sex coordinators for the 2021–2022 academic year are Rosed Serrano (rns@sas.upenn.edu) and Liz Rose (lizrose@sas.upenn.edu). Please contact us with any questions or to be added to the listserv.
Past Events
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Conference - Queer Urgencies
April 5, 2019 (All day) to April 6, 2019 (All day) -
Davy Knittle, WIP: "'It’s Impossible to Say Anything New about the East Village Changing': Toward a Trans Theory of Gentrification with Eileen Myles"
January 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Davis Knittle, WIP
January 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Kyla Tompkins, "'Everthing 'Cept Eat Us'" from Racial Indigestion
December 4, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Anjali Arondekar, "Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive"
October 17, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Welcome Back Reading, Introduction to Alison Kafer’s Feminist, Queer, Crip
September 18, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Queer Urgencies Conference Planning Meeting
September 13, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm -
Mecca Sullivan (Bryn Mawr), WIP: “‘Let the Madness in the Music Get to You’: Poetic Possibilities from the Black Sonic Underground (Or, ‘Sound Carries’)"
April 3, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Carolyn Dinshaw
March 29, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Victor Mendoza Talk
*rescheduled from 2/8/18*February 22, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm