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 2020-2021 academic year are Matty Hemming, Jacob Myers, and Nat Rivkin. Please contact Jacob (jamyers@sas.upenn.edu) with any questions or to be added to the listserv.
Upcoming Events
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Spring Semester Welcome & Gill-Peterson Reading
January 22, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm -
CTL, & GSWS: Jules Gill-Peterson (University of Pittsburgh) Talk
January 29, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Film Series – Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt (Rosa von Praunheim, 1972)
February 5, 2021 - 3:00pm to 5:30pm -
Film Series – Una mujer fantástica (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)
March 3, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm -
Film Series – The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)
April 7, 2021 - 3:00pm to 5:30pm
Past Events
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Film Series - a discussion of Zenne Dancer (2011) led by Sasha Krugman
November 16, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Introductory Meeting
September 22, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Shoshana Adler, "Queer Method"
July 30, 2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm -
Ava L. J. Kim, "Trans Pedagogy"
July 22, 2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm -
Pamela L. Caughie (Loyola University Chicago), "Creating the Lili Elbe Digital Archive" - CANCELED
March 19, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram Screening & Panel
March 4, 2020 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm -
A Conversation with Sophie Lewis
January 23, 2020 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Lecture: "Towards an Environmental Theory of Sexuality," Greta LaFleur (Yale)
October 15, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Introductory Meeting and Greta LaFleur Reading
September 26, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Conference - Queer Urgencies
April 5, 2019 (All day) to April 6, 2019 (All day)