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Presentation and Q&A with Italian director and historian Gabriella Romano (in person or via Zoom)
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One
The Spring 2023 MENA film series features "In Between" (February 13), "The Unorthodox" (March 2), and "The Syrian Bride" (April 19 - Iftar to follow)
Facilitated by Drs. Ayala Hendin and Younasse Tarbouni
Kindred: A Senior Dance Showcase
Kindred is a showcase of two senior dances choreographed by Diamond Warren-Tucker & Izzy Yanover exploring themes of family and belonging.
Graduate Conversation with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993
Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Sponsored by the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in collaboration with the Obstetrics and Gynecology Interest Group
An Evening with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993
Lunch with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993
Gender-Affirming Care: Facts and Myths
A Discussion of Gender-Affirming Care: Facts and Myths
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Joya Misra
On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Joya Misra. Dr. Misra is the Provost Professor and Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research considers intersectional inequalities and policy solutions at both workplace and societal levels. She is currently President-Elect of the American Sociological Association.
Black Women in Media - Missouri History Museum
AFAS and FMS professor Raven Maragh-Lloyd will be featured in the Missouri History Museum's Thursday Night at the Museum program on Black Women in Media.
Virtual Book Club: The Book of Madness and Cures
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Whitney Pirtle
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Whitney Pirtle. Dr. Whitney Pirtle is an Associate Professor of Sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, where she also directs the Sociology of Health and Equity (SHE) Lab. Her latest research includes writing on Covid-19 pandemic inequities from the standpoint of the Black Radical Tradition. She is the co-editor, with Zakiya Luna, of Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis with Routledge Press. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, one of race in post-apartheid South Africa and the other is under contract with Polity Press tentatively titled, Black Identities: The Expansiveness of Blackness in the US.
AFAS Featured Hybrid Event: Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil
Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil: A Conversation & Documentary Screening co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies, the Department of Music, Latin American Studies Program, & the Office of the Provost at WashU.
Visiting Writer: Eula Biss
Eula Biss’ most recent book is "Having and Being Had," described as a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. She will be joining us in the Hurst Lounge on March 23rd at 8:00 PM.
Department of Music Lecture: Lisa Pollock Mumme & Tad Biggs
African Film Festival: Saint Omer
The 2023 Festival will run March 24th through March 26th at Brown 100, Washington University.
The History and Politics of Birth Control
Seanna Leath, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University
African Film Festival: Xalé
The 2023 Festival will run March 24th through March 26th at Brown 100, Washington University.
50 Years of Title IX with Vanessa Grigoriadis
Vanessa Grigoriadis is author of “Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus.”
AFAS Featured Event: Virtual Roundtable on Reproductive Justice; The Social, Political, & Legal Implications of the Overturning of Roe vs Wade
The Department of African & African American Studies Speaker Committee presents the Spring Series "Future of Sex" virtual roundtable. This roundtable focuses on the direction of reproductive justice and its potential negative or positive implications on public health.
Activism, Scholarship, and Radical Self-Care: a Conversation with ericka huggins
Come join the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows for the 2023 virtual symposium.
Kimberly Templeton Lecture on Sex and Gender in Medicine
Marianne Legato, MD
Emerita Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University
Founder and Director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies: "Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust in Italy: Space, Place, and Testimonies"
Alberto Giordano, Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University
AFAS Featured Event: Talk with Maya Berry The Black Corporeal Undercommons in Post-Fidel Cuba
Historic expansion of market reforms in post-Fidel Revolutionary Cuba has contributed to increasingly stark racialized class inequality on the island. The contours of these socioeconomic changes are felt and mediated by Black people in distinctly gendered ways. In this talk, based on ethnographic fieldwork with rumberos (rumba performers) between 2012 and 2018, the embodied practices of African-inspired faith systems are engaged as means for ritual kin to form a space of well-being autonomous from the state and its development designs.
Joshua Chambers-Letson: One More Try
Professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America.
MEDFRAN SPEAKER SERIES with Dr. Julie Hernandez, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Can community-based service delivery mitigate failing health systems in fragile environments?
Lessons from family planning programs in the DR Congo"
Virtuous Healing: Therapeutic Knowledge in Women’s Educational Literature in Early Modern Japan
W. Evan Young, assistant professor of history, Dickinson College
Pleasure, Danger, and The Long History of (Social) Media: A Symposium
Gendering Male Dan: Jingju Male Cross-Gender Performers and Performance in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era
Yan Ma, postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures, Washington University
Micah Bazant - Anti-Racism and Creative Practice
Visiting artist Micah Bazant is a trans, Jewish artist and organizer.
WGSS Senior Presentations
Our students contribute to the field of WGSS and everyday practices
The Maid of McMillan Screening
Come enjoy a film screening of The Maid of McMillan, a 15-minute silent film written and produced by Washington University in St. Louis students in the Thyrsus Dramatic Club in 1916. Also, hear about grant-funded work to preserve and digitize the film, more about the film itself and WashU at the time, along with an update about activities of the still active Thyrsus Club. Light refreshments will be available.
Reproductive Justice after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Weird Barbie: Feminist, Queer, and Industry Issues in Greta Gerwig's Blockbuster
Sex Eliminativism
Dr. Marina DiMarco
WU Cinema Presents: PETITE MAMAN
Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to the internationally acclaimed Portrait of a Lady on Fire brings the writer-director’s exquisite craft and acute insights into longing to bear on a tale of childhood grief and wonder.
Department of Music Lecture: “Big Feelings: Feminist Affect and Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl”
Dan DiPiero, Assistant Professor of Music Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Khiara Bridges Keynote Address
Join us for a keynote address from Khiara Bridges,Anthropologist and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
“Community as Rebellion” Lorgia García Peña
Featuring Lorgia García Peña, professor of Latinx studies at Princeton University and author of “Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color” – Annual McLeod Lecture on Higher Education
Open Classroom | Navigating the Landscape of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice: Abortion Access Post Roe
Kersha Deibel, MSW, MPH, Senior Advisor to the President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America & Planned Parenthood Action Fund
S33n & #Cited: Dawn-Elissa Fischer Lecture
An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at San Francisco State University, Dr. Fischer teaches courses about racism, gender, globalization, hiphop, and virtual ethnography.
She Leads Symposium @ WashU 2023
She Leads @ WashU is the annual event hosted by the Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin-Chancellor's Fellowship at Washington University. For nearly 50 years, this treasured event has featured programming designed to empower women to lead at the highest levels of society.
Department of Music Lecture: “Mrs. Wardwell’s Plan of Study: The Women’s Club Movement and the Historiography of American Music”
Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology, University of Iowa
Writing and Embodied Creativity
A Talk with 2023 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer Leslie Cuyjet
Poetry reading from the trans epic "Algarabía" (Graywolf Press, 2025)
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures present the 2023 Massie Visiting Professor, Dr. Roque Salas Rivera
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Joel Mittleman
On Monday, October 23, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Joel Mittleman. Joel Mittleman is the William P. and Hazel B. White Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated with the Gender Studies Program and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. Mittleman’s research analyzes inequality in schools and society with a focus on sexuality and LGBTQ+ populations. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, and Gender & Society, among other venues, and has received outstanding article awards from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, Sociology of Population and Sociology of Education sections of the ASA. Currently, Mittleman is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, working on a new, nonbinary history of educational stratification in America.
Public Lecture "Condemned to Contemporaneity: Trans Poetics in Puerto Rico"
Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The Spring Symposium will take place Friday, April 19, 2024
Poetry reading from the trans epic "Algarabía" (Graywolf Press, 2025) In partnership with Changeling Queer Series
Queer Hits for Hitler's Hollywood:Bruno Balz, Zarah Leander, and the Nazis
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Megan Neely
On Monday, October 30, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Megan Neely. Dr. Neely is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and a faculty affiliate of Stanford University’s Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. She studied workplace and economic inequality through the lens of gender, race, and social class. Her current research investigates how gender, race, and social class influence access to earnings and capital in some of the wealthiest industries in the United States. Her recent book, Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (2022, University of California Press), presents an insider’s look at the inner workings of the notoriously rich and secretive U.S. hedge fund industry. Her first book, Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance (2020, Oxford University Press) with Ken-Hou Lin, demonstrates why widening inequality in the United States cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research from 2017-2020. In 2017, she graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Book Talk with Elizabeth Bernhardt
Elizabeth Bernhardt, lecturer in Italian, is author of “Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna”
Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna
Elizabeth Louise Bernhardt, Lecturer in Italian Language
Study Abroad Panel
Identity Abroad Series
Queer Identities Abroad
Mellon Mays Information Session
Join us November 8, 2023, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Cupples II L009 to learn more about the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
Carry Your Weight: Sexual Violence on College Campuses
Black Barbie Documentary Showing - St. Louis International Film Festival
The African & African American Studies Department is proud to sponsor the film "Black Barbie", as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Tickets are free but please register using the link attached.
‘Birthing Justice’ Screening & Discussion
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival