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Melissa M. Wilcox (any pronouns) is Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where Dr. Wilcox organizes the annual UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion
The Women’s Chapel
Art exhibit and panel discussion featuring scholars Marie Griffith and Heather Bennett and artist Megan Kenyon
Arseli Dokumaci - Activist Affordances: Disability, Shrinkage, and Improvisation
Curtis Chin: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Washington University is proud to welcome Curtis Chin to the Hurst Lounge.
Workshop on Politics, Ethics and Society: Heather Berg
Ethical Research Data: The Feminist Principle of Examining Power in the Context of Big Data and AI
Lauren F. Klein, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Passionate Work
In Defense of Tackiness: The Queer Environmental Politics of Glitter – 2024 Faculty Book Celebration
Featuring keynote speaker Nicole Seymour, professor of English, California State University, Fullerton, and author, “Glitter,” an environmental-cultural history of a substance often dismissed as frivolous
Experimental Cinema of Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren
Losing HER Voice: Mental Health Implications of Abortion Restrictions
Megan D. Keyes, PhD, Adjunct Faculty, Brown School, Washington University and Founder, Trauma Empowered Consulting, LLC
Visiting Hurst Professor: Tracy Fessenden - Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Tracy Fessenden as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Rafael Soldi Lecture
Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born artist and independent curator based in Seattle (unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples). His practice centers on how queerness and masculinity intersect with larger topics of our time such as immigration, memory, and loss. Soldi's photographic portrait series, Entre Hermanos, is currently on display at The Luminary as part of the Moving Stories in the Making exhibition.
Black Sex: Past, Present, Future Virtual Roundtable
The African & African American Studies Department's Intellectual Life committee is hosting another insightful roundtable with distinguished individuals, discussing the impact of sex on the black family. RSVP to join the discussion!
Machine Desires: Generative AI, Digital Extractivism, and Feminist Politics of Care
Workshop on Politics, Ethics and Society: Lisa Wedeen
Playing Sacred: The Camp Aesthetics of Feminist and Queer Art
Anthony Petro is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University.
Panel on the Vital Role of the Arts and Sciences in Public Health: Reconceiving the Sexual and Reproductive Body
The War on Black Birthing Bodies: A conversation about historical and present harm of Black women in the field of obstetrics and gynecology
The Department of African & African American Studies is honored to present AFAS alumna Dr. Heather Skanes. Dr. Skanes will be delivering a talk entitled "The War on Black Birthing Bodies: A Conversation About the Historical and Present Harms of Black Women in the Field of Obstetrics and Gynecology."
4.18.24
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Hillman 60