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Wolf Humanities Center: Forum on Kinship

The 2019-2020 Wolf Humanities Forum will focus on Kinship. The following events have been planned to consider how current sectarianisms challenge us to remember and reimagine other, more progressive forms of kinship and community.

September 25: Jason De León: Hostile Terrain 94 (Pop-Up Exhibition at Penn Museum); “Work Is Work” Kinship, Race, and Violence on the Human Smuggling Trail (Lecture); Border South (Film Screening)

October 16: Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Kamila Shamsie with Emily Wilson, Who Belongs at Home?

October 23: Dorothee Brantz: Kinship Reloaded, Humans, Animals, and the Urban

October 30: Deboleena Roy: Molecular Feminisms and Biophilosophies of Becoming

November 13: Su Friedrich: I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

November 20: Erin Moriarty Harrelson: #Deaftravel: An Ethnography of Deaf Tourist Mobilities

Ball Culture Film and Discussion Series: Kiki Kinship

October 7: Paris Is Burning

October 14: How Do I Look?

October 21: Kiki

October 28: Kiki Kinship Panel Discussion

Penn Museum Second Sunday Culture Film Series: The Family Tree

October 13: Dede, I Brought You Back

November 10: We Don’t Need a Map

Visit www.wolfhumanities.upenn.edu for more information and registration information.

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