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Kathrine Starkweather, NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New Mexico
Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Queer Bangalore.
Kareem Khubchandani, Professor in the Department of Drama and Dance and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University.
Faculty Book Celebration: "Blackface Broken Records: On the Eve of the Blues Feminist Experiment"
Presentation by Daphne A. Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University - Faculty Book Celebration 2020.
This talk threads together an exploration of women in blackface minstrelsy, race riots of the Progressive Era, the classic black women’s blues craze and the origins of one of the world’s most famous musicals. In particular, it questions the ways that African Americans navigated an early 20th-century popular culture that policed and restricted their sounds. Ultimately, it asserts that the struggle over radicalized sound in the 1910s was a battle waged between women artists — black and white, in the north and in the south, and on the eve of a blues music revolution.
"Off the Hook": Dating in a Hookup Culture
Tim O’Malley oers insights into how God’s plan for
love serves as the antidote for the wounds of hookup
culture, and teaches about the reality of love in a way
that challenges us to recommit, renew, and reconceive
our relationships with loved ones, and with God.
"Porn feels different than it looks”: Porn Work On Set
Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Jennifer Hirsh, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University
Interrogating Incarceration
Come listen to Inez Bordeaux, Manager of Community Collaborations for ArchCity Defenders, speak about the Close the Workhouse campaign! She will be coming to campus at 4 PM this Tuesday, February 11 in Simon 017 to tell her story. Bordeaux was incarcerated at the Workhouse for 30 days after not being able to pay restitution on an old case. Since being released in 2016, Bordeaux has led the campaign to close the Workhouse permanently.
Realist Ecstasy and The Disappearing Christ
Authors, Lindsay V. Reckson and Phillip Maciak in Conversation, moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
[Blank] Monologues
[Blank] Monologues is a performance featuring a combination of Eve Ensler’s original work “The Vagina Monologues” and original pieces written by WashU students. The show aims to engage with the audience about experiences of femininity and womanhood. Tickets $10
Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Lancet Series
A series of 'TED-style' presentations and a panel discussing how to achieve gender equality for better health, both locally and globally.
Queer Sensation: Desire and the Senses in Byzantium - Roland Betancourt, PhD
Roland Betancourt, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine
Professor Melanie Micir Book Talk
Professor Melanie Micir to talk about her book "The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives".
Women as Patrons of Architecture in Renaissance Rome
Dr. Carolyn Valone, Trinity University, is an internationally recognized scholar on the history of patronage in Renaissance Rome. She has published extensively on women as patrons, tracing both the sources of women's wealth and the ways in which they spent their money, particularly as the projects they sponsored benefited other women. The talk promises to be both lively and informative.
First Fridays @ Becker: 'WashU Women'
On the first Friday of each month, grab a cookie with our staff at an informal presentation of themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare books collections. March's theme is WashU Women
Women’s Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment: Lessons from Low Resource Settings
A panel discussion with Jessica Levy PhD, Mary Rupert-Stroescu, Phd, and Lewis Wall, MD
Women’s Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment: Lessons from Low Resource Settings
Join us for The Africa Initiative’s March edition of "Africa Speak," a conversation with WashU faculty on their research engagements in Africa.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged; email africa@wustl.edu.
Prison Education Project Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 18! The Washington University Prison Education Project presents excerpts from the recent PBS documentary College Behind Bars, a film that highlights students pursuing college degrees through the Bard Prison Initiative. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the voices of current PEP students, PEP student alumni, and members of the PEP community.
POSTPONED TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE Banumathi Subramaniam - Decolonizing Botany: From the Herbarium to the Plantarium
Banumathi Subramaniam, PhD
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Sociophonetics of Gender: Acquisition and Processing across the Lifespan
Ben Munson, University of Minnesota
Canceled Researching Identity
Join us for research insights from a panel of scholars in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern studies, and women, gender & sexuality studies.
Canceled - Julia Lindon: Film Screening of 'Lady Liberty'
Canceled - Trending Topic Series: Aly Raisman
There is a link for students to submit questions for Aly Raisman in the event forum: https://tinyurl.com/alyraismanquestions
POSTPONED TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE - Kimberly Templeton, MD, Sex, Gender, and Medicine Lecture - Dr. Marianne Legato
Canceled - Women as a Natural Resource in Greek literature and the Handmaid's Tale
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Ilinois Urbana-Champaign
POSTPONED - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Evidence of Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt
Dr. Mariam Ayad, Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo
*CANCELED* An Anti-Imperial Bestiary: Rethinking Empire in Form and Concept
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Postponed Jasbir Puar - Debilitation in Palestine: Notes Towards Southern Disability Studies
This presentation will detail various histories of disability in Palestine and their import in terms of activism, advocacy, and the field of southern disability studies. Based on fieldwork with disability and rehabilitation center workers and members at refugee camps in the West Bank from the summer of 2018, Professor Puar's research suggests that disability is lived as a likely consequence of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Canceled - WGSS Honors Thesis Presentations
Assembly Series Presents: ‘Race, Sex and Voting Rights: Past, Present and Future’
Three Women's Successful Bids for their Districts' Congressional Seat
University Libraries Book Talk: "The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging" (New York University Press, 2020)
Two Pandemics, One Election: Race, Identity, and the Future of Democracy
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Law, Identity and Culture Initiative Presents "Gender, Race, and the Election"
A conversation with Chryl N. Laird, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bowdoin College, and co-author of Steadfact Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior.
“I Am Delivert!”: The Pentecostal Altar Call and Vocalizing Black Men’s Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality
Public Interest Law and Policing Speaker Series: "Policing the Womb: The Law and Politics of Abortion and Reproductive Justice"
Policing the Womb: The Law and Politics of Abortion and Reproductive Justice - Michelle Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor and Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of Law, and author, Policing the Womb: The New Race & Class Politics of Reproduction; and Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law, and author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present
Book Presentation: ‘More Than Just Hummus: A Gay Jew Discovers Israel in Arabic’
Left Bank Books presents: John D'Emilio with Steven Louis Brawley - Queer Legacies
John D’Emilio is professor emeritus of history and gender and women’s studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. A Guggenheim Fellow and a pioneer in the field of gay and lesbian studies, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, including Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities and Intimate Matters, which was cited in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case overturning US anti-sodomy laws. Both are also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Author Steven Louis Brawley is a historian specializing in LGBT topics. In 2007, he founded the St. Louis LGBT History Project in an effort to help preserve and promote the region's LGBT legacy. The St. Louis community has rallied behind the project, helping amass and archive a rich collection of artifacts and photographs that offer a window into the vibrant LGBT past of St. Louis. Images of America: Gay and Lesbian St. Louis features photographs from project donors, the Missouri History Museum, the State Historical Society of Missouri, local newspapers, and private collections.
Lifting Community Voice in Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Gretta Gardner, Esq., is the Deputy Director for the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Co-Founder of Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, a project of the coalition.
Leigh Goodmark (pronouns: she/her/hers) is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and co-director of the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic.
Black Bodies, Black Votes: Election 2020
Panelists:Professor Nadia Brown, Political Science at Purdue University, Professor Jelani Favors, History at Clayton State, Denise Lieberman, Faculty director of Voter Access & Engagement at the Center for Social Development, Brown School at Washington University, and Professor Lester Spence, Political Science, at Johns Hopkins
Sharing Our Families Stories
Sharing Our Families' Stories: Hearing from Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
LGBTQ+ History Month 2020
The Death of Breonna Taylor
Our panel will include St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Washington University Law Professors Daniel Harawa and Peter Joy. Vice Dean Peggie Smith will moderate.
Black Feminism and the Reimagined Politics of Democracy and Accountability: A Keynote Conversation
Conversation with Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota's 5th Congressional District), Barbara Ransby (NWSA President 2016-2018), and Cathy Cohen (David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago)
Missouri Historical Society presents "The Vote: What St. Louis Men Expected, What St. Louis Women Did"
Economist Linda Harris Dobkins
Gender Responsive Health Security: COVID 50/50
Roopa Dhatt, MD, MPA
Executive Director & Co-Founder, Women in Global Health
University City Library Presents: "Lift Every Voice: African American Poetry and the Freedom Struggle"
Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond
I am a Wanderer: Paek Sin-ae (1908-1939) and Writing Travel
Ji-Eun Lee, Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature
St Louis County Library Presents: "Groundbreakers, Rule-Breakers & Rebels: 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women"
Author, Katie J. Moon
WGSS Fall Colloquium: "Embodied Authority: Women's Experiences as Exegesis" (Open to faculty and graduate students)
Tazeen Ali, Assistant Professor, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Discussant: Kate Moran, Associate Professor, American Studies, St. Louis University
Brown School's Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture: "Beyond the Gender Binary"
Alox Vaid-Menon, gender non-conforming writer and performance artist
Repression and Resistance: Inside and Outside the Academy
A keynote presentation by Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.
Panelists:
Aysen Candas,Visiting Professor, Roosevelt House, Hunter College
Topic: When Resistance Is Not Enough
Gaudêncio Fidelis, University in Exile Fellow, The New School
Topic: The Truth of an Exhibition: Queermuseum against Fascist Politics in Brazil
Teng Biao,Grove Human Rights Scholar, Hunter College
Topic: Is Resistance Possible in China's High-Tech Totalitarianism?
Moderator:
Arien Mack
Founder & Director
New University in Exile Consortium
The New School
Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Research Workshop: Black Girl Dreaming: Dream-Making through Systemic Nightmares
Led by Kenly Brown, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Arts and Sciences, Department of African and African American Studies.
Discussants: Sheretta Butler-Barnes, Associate Professor, Brown School and Ebony Duncan-Shippy, Assistant Professor in Art and Sciences, Department of Education,
After the Election: Feminist and Queer Possibilities
Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Washington University - Brown School Open Classroom
The Radical Potential of Mothering for Abolition, Anti-Militarism, and Transnational Feminist Solidarity
Professor Nadine Naber, co-founder of the Collective Mothers Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity
Everybody is on their way to Russia or Back: The Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent, Cold War Politics and the Ghanaian Nation State
Adwoa Opong is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity. Her PhD is in African History with a focus on African women social workers and the development imaginary of the post Second World War period. Her research sits at the intersections of histories of gender, decolonization and development in modern Africa.
Virtual Event: Letter Writing Party In Solidarity with Incarcerated Survivors
Letter Writing Party In Solidarity with Incarcerated Survivors
OUR Fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Week
The Office of Undergraduate Research is excited to sponsor Fall Undergraduate Research Week.
There is No Sexual Health without Social Justice
Susan Stiritz, Associate Professor of Practice at the Brown School of Social Work
She Leads 2020
Jemele Hill, Emmy Award Winning Journalist
Morgan deBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity Inc and Washington University Alumna
Overseas Programs Fall 2020 Virtual Study Abroad Showcase (Note: not an Intro event)
Campus partners will be present to share additional information for students looking to study abroad during their time at WashU.