Past Events



Perry World House Workshop: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration

Feb 25, 2016 at -

Penn Sociology professors Michel Guillot, Emily Hannum, and Janice Madden, along with PhD candidate Natalie Young will participate in the following workshop:



Penn Humanities Forum on Sex Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

"Liberating Sexuality: Starting with Black Women"
Feb 24, 2016 at -

R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Lectureship in Sexuality Studies:

Following on her first lecture, "What's So Dangerous about Black Women's Sexuality," Professor Roberts shifts from historical critique to…



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Andrew Schrank, Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University

Colloquium
"The Private Roots of Public Regulation in the United States: The Case of the National Consumers League."
Feb 24, 2016 at -



Education & Inequality

Works in Progress Workshop
Feb 23, 2016 at -

Meeting Schedule



PSC Colloquium Series: Dean Spears

"Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality"
Feb 22, 2016 at -



Family & Gender: Miliann Kang, Associate Professor, UMass - Amherst

Workshop
"Race, Reproduction and Representation: Second-Generation Asian American Mothering and the Global Mommy Wars"
Feb 19, 2016 at -

Miliann Kang is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and affiliated…



Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies Lecture: Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Prof. of Sociology and Gender Studies, Univ. of Southern California

"Serial Labor Migration: Filipino Women's Patterns of Temporary Migration"
Feb 18, 2016 at -

Co-Sponsored by the Penn Sociology.

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, will discuss "Serial Labor…



Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

"What's So Dangerous About Black Women's Sexuality?"
Feb 17, 2016 at -

Acclaimed for her pioneering work in law and public policy, Dorothy Roberts traces the long history of policing and punishing Black women’s sexuality, including current policies that sustain fearful stereotypes of…



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Kimberly Kay Hoang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Colloquium
“Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work”
Feb 17, 2016 at -



Black Graduate Women's Association Showcase

Black Lives Matter Showcase: A Celebration of Black Love, Black Joy, and Black Life Through the Arts
Feb 12, 2016 at -