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Understanding Gender: A Virtual Panel

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Definitions of gender have varied across history and cultures, sometimes promoting consciousness of its diverse, expansive nature while others fostered misunderstanding, bias, and cultural ostracization.

Join us for a presentation, panel, and Q&A event to develop a critical lens to analyze gender individually and systemically while learning about how understandings of gender have evolved over time and how people can construct and experience gender.

Moderator:
  • Favor Idika (they/them), Architecture and Philosophy Major, Member of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, Co-Event Organizer
Lecturers
  • Ava L.J. Kim (she/her), PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
  • Maria E. Murphy (she/her), Associate Director, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists
  • Sam Samore (they/them), PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
  • Malik Muhammad (he/him), Associate Director, LGBT Center, University of Pennsylvania
  • Justin Acheampong (they/them), Psychology Major and Member of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, Co-Event Organizer

This panel is sponsored by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, the SNF Paideia Program, and New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives.

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