Events

The crisis of political legitimacy and the collapse of the center left that have fueled the rise of the far right is often described as a failure to listen. Within this context, Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith, assistant professor of music, School of Arts & Sciences, will examine how neoliberalism has transformed the way we hear, leading to a crisis of listening, and how studying the soundscapes of protest can provide new insights about a phenomenon that might be called global Trumpism. Dr. Waltham-Smith will share field recordings she made at marches, demonstrations and occupations in the U.S., the U.K. and France in response to the Brexit referendum, the election of Trump and the French presidential-election campaign.

We invite you to join us in a Campus Conversation designed to strengthen and support our community.

This has been a challenging year for everyone in the Penn community. While there is no quick and easy fix to the many challenges we face, the Campus Conversation will be one part of our ongoing effort to support and care for one another. 

At this event, we will be joined by members of our community from across campus to discuss what we can do, individually and collectively, to take care of ourselves and others and to foster individual and community resilience.  

We intend to have follow-up conversations around campus in the coming weeks, through which we hope to gather and refine additional ideas to support our community. We welcome your input.

APC Works in Progress Seminar with Jasbir Puar, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

A talk by Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin.

Issues of race and racial division have been prominent features of  social organization and culture in the United States from as far back as the historical record goes. As a leading scholar in American race relations, Dr. Camille Z. Charles maps the major divisions of, and trends in, U.S. racial attitudes, and documents both significant progressive changes as well as substantial enduring frictions and conflicts that continue to make race such a fraught terrain. She will tackle the conceptually broad and analytically powerful record which is a strong caution against glib generalities that attempt to reduce an enormously multifaceted social phenomenon to simplistic catch phrases like “racist America,” “the end of racism” or, more recently, “post-racial America.” --Camille Z. Charles, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, School of Arts & Sciences, professor of sociology, Africana studies and education, School of Arts & Sciences, and director of the Center for Africana Studies.

Rhonda Reddock discusses her paper, providing a detailed discussion of women’s mosque movements globally as a backdrop for a historical exploration of the changing position of women in Islamic religious practice in Trinidad and Tobago during the 20th and early 21st century with specific emphasis on their use of masjid (mosque) space.

The inaugural conference of the Marginalized Populations Project in Africana Studies at Penn, brings together scholars from the UPenn community with internationally renowned scholars and activists to examine the role of organized violence in the lives of black populations in multiple societies.

Join us celebrating the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) Center's 35th anniversary.  Registration recommended ($35/person, $10/student).

As a part of the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the LGBT Center, you are invited to join the rededication of the Carriage House in honor of founding director Bob Schoenberg upon his retirement.  All are welcome at no cost.

Community Leader and Chef, Cristina Martinez emigrated to the U.S. crossing the desert in unimaginable heat and at a dangerous risk. She met her husband Miller when they worked in a restaurant in Philadelphia together, a restaurant that would soon fire her when they discovered her undocumented status. “This is something that can be achieved only through struggle, perseverance, and hard work,” said Martinez, whose decision to declare her status puts her business and livelihood at risk, but whose success has been an inspiration to the Mexican/Latinx communities in Philly.