Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium

This two-day transnational feminist networks symposium explores the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized world. Amidst a decade of global feminist resurgence fueled by hashtags, neoliberal consumerism, and self-identification, we highlight the enduring work of transnational feminist networks. These networks, spanning digital and physical space, actively contest the global rise of far-right populism, gender-based discrimination, and systemic violence against feminized bodies. Organized by graduate students, this event promises robust discourse spanning academia, activism, and the arts. Through an immersive art exhibition, keynote addresses, and interactive workshops, we aim to amplify marginalized voices and foster collaboration. By providing a platform for rigorous examination and forward-looking engagement, we aim to propel feminist scholarship and activism globally.

Transnational Feminist Networks is organized by the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) and will be hosted at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Global Communication (CARGC) with additional support from the Center for Digital Culture & Society (CDCS), The Wolf Humanities Center, and the Center for Latin American and LatinX Studies (CLALS)

The event includes a Thursday evening keynote (12th September 2024) event and a full day of Friday panels (13th September 2024) and a contemporary art exhibition, Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity.

The event will be in-person and open to the public.

The Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) enables scholars to think and work across institutional, geographic and disciplinary divides. Jointly established by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the center’s faculty, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students seek to address emerging global issues broadly across the field of communication and media.

The first-of-its-kind center not only explores what “collaboration” means for the field of communication and media, but also provides critical infrastructure for reimagining and potentially revolutionizing how collaborative communication can be used to address complex issues such as health care, data privacy, cultural and demographic change, politics, new media, gender/racial equity and justice, media literacy and policy, journalistic trust, and the restructuring of media industries in an evolving age of streaming and networked distribution.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Annenberg School for Communication, Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States