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Mar 15, 9:30 AM: Intimate Provocations: Theorizing Consent in the Age of #MeToo

How are contemporary debates about consent shaping conceptions of intimacy, bodily autonomy, and moral decision making? How has the concept of consent been mobilized to garner support for political...

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Apr 25, 5:00 PM: Eve L. Ewing, "Into a Daybreak: Representing Black...

2019 Distinguished Alumni Lecture Eve L. Ewing, AB '08 “Into a Daybreak: Representing Black Feminism Across Genre” In this Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Assistant Professor Eve L. Ewing (School of...

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Apr 22, 4:30 PM: Virgie Tovar, "Lose Hate Not Weight: An Intersectional...

Virgie Tovar, Author You Have the Right to Remain Fat "Lose Hate Not Weight: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Diet Culture" Virgie Tovar, named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch...

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Jun 3, 9:00 AM: LET ME HEAR YOUR VOICE!” WOMEN, THE SONG OF SONGS, AND...

From its foundation, American culture has employed biblical texts and traditions in recurring and legitimizing the subordinate place and role of women, muting their voice and agency. This looks to be...

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Mar 6, 6:30 PM: Sexual Violence and Transformative Justice

What opportunities does responding to sexual violence provide for re-imagining our communities and institutions? What are the opportunities and limitations of approaching sexual violence through the...

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May 22, 4:30 PM: Working Together: Phoenix Survivors Alliance

Working Together is a new series that brings undergraduate and graduate student activist groups to the Centers to present about their initiatives to the broader community of faculty, staff, and...

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May 1, 4:30 PM: Vivek Shraya: Trisha

Vivek Shraya discusses her photo series in which she occupies spaces and wears outfits to recreate photographs of her mother from the 1970s when she was a single woman recently immigrated to Canada....

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Apr 11, 12:30 PM: Navigating the Norms of the Academic Job Market

Are you a PhD student who is planning to go on the academic job market? The norms and unpredictability of the market can leave applicants feeling confused and overwhelmed. This workshop will provide an...

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May 30, 5:00 PM: CSGS Faculty Book Party

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality is grateful to our faculty affiliates from across departments, divisions and schools who generously contribute their time and energies to the Center and...

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Apr 26: Documenting the Archive: Department of Cinema and Media Studies...

Documentary film practice inflects and is in turn also inflected by the theories and practices around the study of the archive. Documenting the Archive will be a forum for theoretical and...

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Apr 15, 4:30 PM: Jenn M. Jackson, "When Our Faves Fail Us: Rape Culture,...

In recent months, increasing attention to celebrity sexual abuse involving entertainers like R. Kelly and Michael Jackson has called into question how mainstream culture often silences victims of these...

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Apr 11, 5:00 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Sex Work 101

This workshop provides a basic overview of the services that the Sex Worker Outreach Project provides, examines cultural biases about sex workers, and considers effective service provision techniques...

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May 6, 4:30 PM: Evren Savci, "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics...

Evren Savci Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam" Evren Savcı is a scholar of transnational...

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May 2, 5:00 PM: LGBTQIA+ Graduate & Professional Student Mixer

We invite new students to join us for a welcome reception with returning students, faculty, and staff. This is a great opportunity for graduate and professional students from all departments to learn...

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Apr 29, 6:00 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Telling Today's Immigration Stories

For our next Feminist/Queer Praxis event, we will be joined by Nissa Rhee, executive director of 90 Days, 90 Voices, an immigration journalism nonprofit based in Chicago. She is an award-winning...

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Apr 16, 4:30 PM: CHD Colloquium: Angela Frederick -- The Double Edge of...

Modern ideologies of “good mothering” demand the resources and family configurations primarily available to privileged mothers. Though less often explored than dynamics of race and class, mothers...

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Apr 23, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Kara Keeling, “Queer Times, Black Futures"

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Tuesday, April 23rd: “Queer Times, Black Futures" Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Papers are made available in advance via our...

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Apr 19, 9:00 AM: “Nativism, White Power, and Anti-Immigrant Violence in the...

This conference seeks to structurally locate white backlash and the reemergence of militant white supremacists in the context of American politics over the last 60 years. The conference's second goal...

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May 6, 4:30 PM: Evren Savci, "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics...

Evren Savci Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam" Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's President and...

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May 2, 5:00 PM: LGBTQIA+ Graduate & Professional Student Mixer

We invite new students to join us for a welcome reception with returning students, faculty, and staff. This is a great opportunity for graduate and professional students from all departments to learn...

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