Past Events
“Between Islamophobia and Homophobia: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberal Engagements with Islam”
Joseph Andoni Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University
Join the Faculty of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for a discussion of Gender and Politics in the 2016 Presidential Election
Historical Perspectives on Diagnosing Gender
Amy Eisen Cislo, PhD
WGSS Fall 2016 Colloquium Series - "Legalizing Sin: Catholic Religiosity and Moral Reckoning Around Abortion in Mexico"
Elyse Singer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology & WGSS Graduate Certificate Commentator: Katherine D. Moran, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Saint Louis University
Ugly Intimacy: Racial Policing and Gun Violence - A community dialoguee
Developing Identity literacy: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Museum
Spotlight on Women in Medicine & Science at WUMS
Clothed/Unclothed: Laura Aguilar's Radical Vulnerability
Dr. Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design and Vice Dean of Critical Studies, USC Roski School of Art and Design University of Southern California
Modern Dance and the African-American Legacy
Professors Jeffrey McCune and Cecil Slaughter
A Talk on Art, History and Love
Bill T. Jones
WGSS Fall 2016 Colloquium Series - "The Erotics of Tears: Moving Beyond Pornographies of Woundedness"
Amber Musser, Assistant Professor, WGSS Commentator: Paige McGinley, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts
Is it Sexist? A Feminist Analysis of the Debate
Provisional Notes on 'Afronormativity' and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa
Jordache A. Ellepen, Post-Doctoral Fellow in African and African American Studies
“Love Letters & Lessons: Notes on the Ethnography of Black Girlhood”
Aimee Cox, Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University
Composing a Life - A panel of 5 dynamic, diverse women sharing insights about life after college
Love Your Body Week presents Stacy Nadeau, Dove Real Beauty Campaign Model and Ambassador for Healthy Body Image
WGSS Decentering the West Lecture Series - "Global City Futures: Desire and Development in Singapore"
Natalie Oswin, Associate Professor - McGill University
WGSS Fall 2016 Colloquium Series - "Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940"
Mary Ann Dzuback, Associate Professor, WGSS & Education Commentator: Linda Nicholson, Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies, and Professor of History
Assembly Series Helen Manley lecture: “Sex in America, Then and Now: The Lasting Legacy of Masters and Johnson”
Tom Maier and Michelle Ashford
Film Screening: From This Day Forward
Striking Poses: The Tensions of Black Refusal in a Photographic Frame
Tina Campt, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s Gender and Studies at Barnard College
Sexploration at Washington University
What the World Owes the Comfort Women
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University
One Person Can Make a Difference: Confronting Today's Global Health Challenges
Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of President George Bush
HBO Documentary: Abortion, Stories Women Tell
screening followed by panel on abortion access in Missouri
The Residue Years
Mitchell Jackson, novelist and author
Lying Signs: Gender, Anatomy, and Desire in Phaedrus's Fabulae
Kristin Mann, PhD - Department of Classics
Trans Awareness Week Presents:"50 Shades of Gender: An Introduction to the Genderqueer Movement"
Jacob Tobia
The Environment in Missouri History Fellowship Lecture: "St Louis's Nuclear Women: The H-Bomb and the Baby Tooth Survey"
Luke Ritter, lecturer, Troy University, Alabama
Faculty Book Talk Series Presents: "Sex Trafficking in the United States: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice"
Andrea J. Nichols, PhD
Sex Trafficking in St. Louis
Andrea Nichols, WGSS lecturer
"Can You Have It All?"
Panelists: Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law / Vice Provost and Jami Ake, Senior Lecturer & Asst. Dean, College of A&S
WGSS Fall 2016 Colloquium Series - "Drawing Sex: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Commix, and Child Sexuality"
Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor, WGSS Commentator: Amber Musser, Assistant Professor WGSS
No Place Lie Home: Unique Housing Challenges for Women Experiencing Homelessness in St. Louis
Nicole Huges - YWCA, Rev. Paulette Sankofa, and Moira Thompson -St. Patrick's Center
"I Don't Believe We've had the Pleasure" Introducing Sex Positivity into Sexual Education
“Beyond the Basics: Community Experts Explore the Intersection of Commercial Sexual Exploitations and Weak Institutions”
Pride & Policy: LGBTQ Rights in a Trump Administration
Washington University panel discussion
"How Do We Find Freedom with/through our Bodies?" (Lecture and Demonstration)
Sydnie Mosley. 2017 Marcus Artist-in-Residence
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2017 Colloquium - "The Price of Success? The Influence of Equal Rights in Social Movement Identity Strategies"
Julie Moreau, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commentator: Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University School of Law
Faculty Book Talk Series presents "Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS"
Shanti Parikh, Associate Professor
"Making [Trans] Media” Panel
A conversation with Mya Taylor, J Mase III and Katrina Goodlett presented by PLUS and the WU Student Union
Bear Witness, Speak Truth, and Promote Freedom: An Afrocentric Intergenerational Sex Trafficking Assessment
Valandra, PhD, MSW, LCSW, University of Arkansas
Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past
Laura Miller, Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology - University of Missouri-St. Louis
No Human Right to Sodomy: The Christian Right and SOGI Human Rights
Cynthia Burack, Political theorist and Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2017 Colloquium - "Academic Theorizing Badly on (SOGI) Human Rights"
Cynthia Burack, PhD Political Theorist and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University
Kanye West & The Impossibility of Black Genius
Jeffrey McCune, Associate Professor WGSS
"Books and Bodies: 500 Years of Printing Medical Texts"
Elisabeth Brander, MA, MLS
“Between Islamophobia and Homophobia: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberal Engagements with Islam”
Joseph Andoni Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University
"The Family Circuit: Games and Cybernetic Family Communication"
Reem Hilu, Northwestern University
Vagina Monologues
Reel Talk: "Emotional Intelligence and Healthy Masculinity"
Dr. Jeffrey McCune, Jr., Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Sakthi Vibrations
Zoe C. Sherinian
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2017 Colloquium - "Listening, Muhabbet, and the Practice of Masculinity"
Denise Gill, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusciology, Department of Music Commentator: Jeffrey McCune, Associate Professor, WGSS
12th Annual LGBTQ Law Conference at Washington University - "Protecting LGBTQ+ Progress in Challenging Times"
Assembly Series presents: "Protecting LGBTQ+ Progress in Challenging Times"
Chai Feldblum, Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opprorunity Commission
TEDxWUSTL "Renegades"
Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Rick Erwin, Director of City Museum, Erin O'Flaherty, Miss Missouri, students: Cay Cheng and Joel Anderson
Rights-based Interventions with Commercial Sex and Trafficking Populations: Harm and Reduction Principles and Social Work Practices
Kathleen Preble, PhD, MSW - University of Missouri
Assembly Series presents: Mumbo Jumbo: The (In)Audibility of Kanye West
Jeffrey McCune, Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Invisible Labor Panel and Book Signing
Professors Miriam Cherry (SLU Law), Elizabeth Pendo (SLU Law), Marion Crain, Vice Provost & Wiley B. Professor of Law (Washington University), Professor Winifred Poster, Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield (Washington University Department of Sociology)
The State of Black Girls and Women in 2017
The History of the Closet
Professor Emeritus Henry Abelove
Understanding & Combating Human Trafficking by Sponsored by: Webster University
The Importance of Women in the STEM Fields
Resha Sujani
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2017 Colloquium - "Expressive Excess: Representations of Women in 1920s Japanese Leftwing Art and Film."
Diane Lewis, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies - Commentator: Amber Musser, Assistant Professor, WGSS
#Solidarity is for White Women
This Reel Talk will be facilitated by Dr. Emelyn Dela Pena- Associate Vice Chancellor for Students and Dean for the Center for Diversity & Inclusion.
Eggsploitation: a short film and discussion about the ethics of egg donation
Professor Barbara Baumgarter
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Bisa Adero, St. Louis Youth Poet Laureate and Amber Musser, Assistant Professor in WGSS
Out of Silence
Media Impact on the Female Body Image
A Conversation with Supermodel Maayan Keret
Maayan Keret
Feminism in Islam
Amana Al-Khatahtbeh and Ibtisam Barakat
'Name One Genius That Ain't Crazy': Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis
Jeffrey McCune, Associate Professor WGSS
Men and Masculinities Panel
Stephanie Weiskopf, Associate Director of Campus Life & Co- Creator of the Men's Project, Landon Bennett, Captain of Men's Swim Team, Christian Sandoval, RCD and LGBTQIA Liaison, and Dean Choi, Program Coordinator for Diverse Communities
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring 2017 - "Becoming Electro-domésticas: Maids and Middle-class Domesticity in Mexico City, 1920s-1960s."
Diana Montano, Assistant Professor of History - Commentator: Rafia Zafar, Professor of English
Queering Sexual Violence
a panel discussion hosted by Green Dot WashU
Yes Means Yes: A Conversation on Title IX and Ending Sexual Violence on College Campuses
Independent Study and Honors Thesis Presentations
Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
Keona Ervin
WGSS Fall Colloquium Series - "When I can find the time, I’ll cry': Emmett Till’s Wake and Black Maternal Grief "
Rhaisa Williams, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Performing Arts
Textual Intercourse: What Sex Can Teach Us About Contemporary Problems and Rabbinic Text"
Rebecca Epstein-Levi , Post-Doctoral Fellow in
Reframing Feminism: Visualizing Women, Gender & Sexuality
Professsor Trevor Sangrey
Trans 101
Hosted by Transcending Gender
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China
Minors Engaged in Selling and Trading Sex: Risks, Predictors of Entry, and Missed Opportunities to Intervene.
Dr. Andrea N. Cimino
Environmental Justice and Human Rights Conference
Decentering the West Lecture Presents -"Ethnography of an Idea: There’s a Disco Ball Between Us"
Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Miami
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
Jewish Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
Shaina Goodman, WGSS Alumni
James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture - "The Institutional as Usual: Diversity, Utility and the University"
Sara Ahmed
The Ties Between Till and Trayvon
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley School of Law
The Ties Between Till and Trayvon
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California - Berkeley School of Law
Composing a Life: Women Inspiring Women
Monumental Disagreement: Identity and Public History
Annette Gordon-Reed. Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard University and Washington University Panel
Confronting the Reality of Sexual Violence on the College Campus
David Lisak, PhD
WGSS Fall Colloquium Series - "Towards a Black Feminist Avant-Garde in Detroit: Maya Stovall's Liquor Store Theatre"
Jasmine Mahmoud, Post-Doctoral Fellow, American Culture Studies
“The Fight for Civil Rights is Never a Straight Line”
SAGA And AISA WU Student Organizations Present: Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender, and the Murder of Fred Martinez
“A Racial History of Trans Identity”
Trapped: Sex Trafficking in St. Louis' African-American Community
Sherrita Allen, St. Louis Covering House and panelists
How to Be a Better Ally to the Trans Community
Panel presentation by ACLU, PROMO and the Queer Student Union at St. Louis Community College
Center for the Humanities: "The Greatest Outrage of the Century: White Violence and Black Protest in America"
Crystal N. Feimsetr, Associate Professor, African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University
Refugee Experiences: The Rainbow Haven
Emily Regan Wilis, PhD-Political Studies,University of Ottawa; Sandra A rumugam-Osburn, PhD and Laya Azmi Goushey, PhD, St. Louis Community College
Reclamation
GlobeMed's Hilltop Conference - "Daring to Believe in Your Right to Lead"
Latanya Mapp Frett, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global
Trans Awareness Week - Presentation by The St. Louis based Metro Trans Umbrella Group
The Inaugural Masters and Johnson Lecture: "The Beautiful Tension: Would Masters and Johnson Have Said Sex Is More Like Digestion or Dancing?”
Leonore Tiefer, PhD., New View Campaign founder, sex therapist, and activist
Wash U Prison Education Project (PEP) Book Discussion: College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Daniel Karpowitz, Director of Policy and Academics for the Bard Prison Initiative, Lecturer in Law and the Humanities at Bard College in discussion with Jennifer Hudson, Wash U Prison Ed. Project Program Manager, Lecturer in Political Theory, Dept. of Pol
Trans Awareness Week - Trans Activism
Jamie Hileman, Trans Education Services STL
"Trans Poetics of Color & Resisting Definitions"
Christopher Soto, Latinx poet and activist
A screening of Sean Baker’s film, Tangerine
LIVE Men & Masculinities film screening of "The Mask You Live In"
Beyond Sex Ed: The Importance of Consent and Media Literacy for American Youth
Rebecca Traister Reads From Her Nonfiction
Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and contributing editor at Elle
Sigma Rita Rho Presents the movie, "Sold People" with a dialogue on Sex Trafficking
Andrea Nichols, WGSS Lecturer
Three Survivor Stories: Demystifying the Impact of Trauma
Facilitated by Kelsey Burns, Sam Early, Bethany Miller and Chelsea Jaeger
Celebration of Hope
Katie Rhoads, Healing Action; Rep. Lacy Clay, US Congress; Lindsey Ellis, The Covering House
Angela Davis to speak on "Institutional Racism in the Penal and Criminal Justice System"
Angela Davis
Film Screening of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Anti-Trafficking Initiative Presents: Human Trafficking Resource Expo: From Local to Global
Dept. of Anthropology Spring Colloquium: Beauty and the Black: Aesthetic Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil
Ugo Edu, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month - Awareness and Education Night
Speakers from CATE (Coalition Against Trafficking and Exploitation)
Latinx Studies Lecture: The Future is Now
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Associate Professor of American Studies and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at University of Texas - Austin
Masha Gessen, Russian LGBT rights activist
WGSS Spring Colloquium Series - "Thinking with the Intimacy Contract: Migrant Labor and US Military Bases"
Rachel Brown, PhD with Anca Parvulescu, Respondent
The Department of African and African American Studies Present: "The Medical Activism of Gwendolyn Brooks: Or the Social Afterlife of the Restrictive Covenant"
Lisa Youngs, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies
Writing Homeward Workshop for Asian and Asian American Students interested in exploring questions of identity in a creative and communal environment
Paul Tran
Planned Parenthood + Abortion Legislation w/ WUStARR
"This Might as Well be Prison": Homeless Shelters, Black Sex Offenders, and Hyper-Surveillance
Terrance Wooten, Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Post-Doctoral Fellow
Vagina Monologues 2018
“Mainstream and Extreme: White Nationalism, Masculinity and Racialized Violence from East St. Louis to Charlottesville.”
Duke historian and 2017 National Book Award finalist Nancy MacLean
Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture: "Parenting the Princes: Child Rearing in the Itlaian Renaissance"
Deanna Shemek, PhD - UC Santa Cruz
Pride Alliance: MAJOR!, a 2015 documentary on the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.
'The First 1,000 Days and Beyond: Women's Role in Global Nutrition and Food Security"
Dr. Lora Iannotti, Brown School, Washington University
2018 Diversity and Inclusion Conference - Elevating the Conversation
Gender and HIV Transmission and Treatment Disparities
Jon Conan, writer, Science
Treatment and Research Priorities For Eating Disorders - A panel discussion
From Harvey Weinstein to Aziz Ansari: Pitfalls and Potential of the #MeToo Movement
A Roundtable discussion moderated by Susan Appleton, Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Midwest LGBTQ Rights Conference - "Liberty & Justice, Sisters Under Siege" | an equity panel
James Esseks | Director, LGBT & HIV Project at the ACLU
Decentering the West Lecture - "Making Migrants Matter: the Migrant Domestic Workers Movement in Canada"
Ethel Tungohan, PhD
Writing Homeward Workshop for Asian and Asian American Students interested in exploring questions of identity in a creative and communal environment
Paul Tran
Pride Alliance: Gender Inclusive Clothing Swap
The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Taylor, Dept. of African-American Studies, University of California-Berkeley
“The Color of Motherhood: Enslaved Cubans under the First Spanish Republic"
Lisa Surwillo, Stanford University, Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Director, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.
The Construction and Perpetuation of Female Identity in Ancient Egypt
Patricia Podzorski, Curator of Egyptian Art at the University of Memphis
Women's History Month Event: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Pénélope Bagieu, author and St. Louis illustrator, Rori
Women's History Month Event: Bygone Badass Broads, 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World!
Mackenzi Lee
Child Migrants and Child Welfare: Toward A Best Interests Approach
Ann Laquer Estin, Aliber Family Chair in Law at University of Iowa College of Law
LGBT Health and the Politics of "Who Counts"
Dr. Mindi Spencer, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior & the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina
STL Art+Feminism
The Pitfalls of #Plastic Revolutions
Kristen Warner, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama
Assembly Series Presents: "Voices of the Unheard and a Call for Grace for Victims of Oppression, Racism and Sexism”
The Rev. Traci Blackmon and Rabbi Susan Talve
"Hip Hop/Hip Hope: The (R)evolution of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy"
Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
Omne Trium Perfectum: A Three Part Act on Creating Change to Combat #ChildLabor, #ForcedLabor, and #HumanTrafficking
Charita Castro, Phd
"Ain't I a Woman"
Laverne Cox
Above the Law? Crimes and Punishments of Imperial Women
Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University
THE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE WORKSHOP COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES PRESENTS SPRING 2018 GRADUATE WORKSHOP
American Circumcision
Take Back the Night
Writing Homeward Workshop for Asian and Asian American Students interested in exploring questions of identity in a creative and communal environment
Paul Tran
"The Intersectionality of Diversity, Inclusion and You"
Dr. K. Renee Horton, Unapologetically Being, Inc., Founder, National Society of Black Physicists, President
Menstrual Equity: Expanding Women's Rights
Panel discussion
WGSS Spring Colloquium: "War and Its Aftermaths: Scattered Bodies, Scattered Belonging."
Bahia Munem, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Respondent: Professor Tabia Linhard, Romance Languages and Literatures
Community Based Responses to IPV presented by that Pride Alliance and LIVE (Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education)
Reproductive Justice Training hosted by WUStARR
Pamela Merritt, Co-Director of Reproaction
Edward and Ilene Katz Lowenthal Symposium Series | The Color of Policing Symposium (COPS): Youth, Education, and Activism
Women of the Santa Fe Trail
Frances Levine, President of the Missouri Historical Society
Learning What Works: Building an Evaluation Approach for Relationship & Sexual Violence Prevention Programs
Ashoka Presents: Tanvi Lonkar
“A Decade of Anti-Human Trafficking Programming in a Midwest Major Metropolitan Area: Reported Sex and Labor Trafficking”
Erica Koegler Ph.D., MSW Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia
Risky Refuges: Gay and Lesbian Bars in St. Louis 1930-1960
WGSS Honors Thesis Presentations
Molly Brodsky, Sally Rifkin, Carly Wolfer, Emi Wyland, and Priyanka Zylstra
Fishermen Slaves: Human Trafficking and the Seafood We Eat
Robin McDowell, Investigative Reporter, The Associated Press
The 8th Annual Bohigian Lectureship “Dying to Be Beautiful: A History of Toxic Effects of Eye Cosmetics”
Wendy Gasch, MS, MD - Directorof Uveitis Clnic, Washington National Eye Center, Washington Hospital Center
The Divided City Presents: "Black Love and Black Rage in America: The Burden of Hope"
Chris Lebron, Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Hopkins University
Presented by Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences The Annual Maya Zuck Lecture in Child Development: When Sex and Gender Collide Colloquium
Kristina Olson, PhD, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington
Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education (LIVE) present "Can’t Keep Quiet: Raising Your Voice to Ignite Change and Build Community"
MILCK
Bi* Visibility Week Presents: Robyn Ochs
Finding Lost Histories in the LGBTQIA + Alphabet
Fall 2018 Colloquium Series and Graduate Workshop Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies "UNDERSTANDING THE SPECTACLE OF SEPARATING CHILDREN AT THE BORDER: A HISTORY"
Laura Briggs, Chair and Professor Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies University of Massachusetts
"Where did Trump come from? Reproductive Politics, Whiteness, and Neoliberalism"
Laura Briggs, Chair and Professor Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies University of Massachusetts
Black Visual Mourning
Panelists: Professor Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University, Nicole Bridges of Saint Louis Art Museum and Michael Gillespie of City College of New York
Feminist's Night Out with Rebecca Traister: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Composing a Life: Women Inspiring Women
Do you wonder how to balance your life between a professional career and personal goals? Please join us on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, for an inspiring evening with five successful women panelists, good food and networking.
Composing a Life: Women Inspiring Women
Finding Lost Histories in the LGBTQIA + Alphabet
Assembly Series - "Me Too"
Tarana Burke
The Global Injustice Conference presents: "Gender Inequity is Woven into Global Injustice: It is not Inevitable"
Professor Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
Studio Moviemaking: A Conversation with Universal Studios-based Producer and former Paramount Pictures Studio Executive Alison Small
Own It Summit
Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Endicott College
Transnational Feminist Movements Separation and Solidarity
Sigma Iota Rho presents Town Hall Fall 2018:
Transnational Feminist Movements: Separation and Solidarity
Promised Pain and Promised Pleasure: Queering Sexual Debut
Pregnancy in Prisons
Workshop and Panel Discussion: Examining Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
From Home Fires to Hello Girls: The Women of WWI
Does the improving status of LGBT individuals heighten Christians’ concerns about religious freedom?
Clara Wilkins, PhD
#METOO in Muslim America
American Religion, Culture, & History (ARCH) Series Presents
Disentangling the Links Between Gender and Family Planning in Jordan
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Professor Jessica Levy, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
Trending Topics: Carly Fiorina
Come join Student Union and WashU College Republicans in welcoming Carly Fiorina to WashU!
Queering While Black
Professor Goldburn Maynard, Brandeis School of Law and Blake Strode, Executive Director at Arch City Defenders
LGBTQIA + Sex in the Dark
Michael Gendernalik, recent grad of the Brown School and current employee at the SPOT/Project ARK
Embodying the "discourse of rights:" Women's Performance and the Terrains of Gender Justice in Jamaica
Nicosia Shakes, Assistant Professor, dept. of Africana Studies at The College of Wooster
"Gendered attitudes and norms: Impacts on behavior, victimization and mental health among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa"
Lindsay Stark, Associate Professor, Brown School, Washington University and Ilana Seff, DrPHCandidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
St. Louis Mom's Panel put on by Phi Lambda Psi and GlobeMed
Mothers discussing their own experiences accessing healthcare and activism to create change in their communities.
Voguing/Posing: Black Dance Study & Activism
Omari Mizrahi, dancer and choreographer and Professor Jeffrey McCune
150 Years of Women at WU Law
Rachel Sachs
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins
STD's Across Time and Space: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Panelists: Professors Shanti Parikh, Rachel Presti, Bradley Stoner
2019 SLU Bridge Lecture - "In the Matrix: How to Think Through the Politics of Race, Class and Gender in the 21st Century"
Women of War
Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story, and Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Jacob Tobia and Samantha Allen
Law, Identity, and Culture presents Strategic Negativity: Ratchetness and Reality Television.
Raquel Gates
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
NEGATIVE KANYE: Black Genius, Iconography, and the Politics of Disobedience
Kanye Dialogue Series with Dr. Racquel Gates and Dr. Jeffrey McCune
14th Annual OUTLAW LGBTQ Legal Rights Conference - Lathrop Gage Keynote Address - The Fight to Serve: Challenging Trump’s Transgender Military Ban (& More)
14th Annual OUTLAW LGBTQ Legal Rights Conference - Regulating Queerness: Gender Identity, First Amendment, Religion, and Politics
14th Annual OUTLAW LGBTQ Legal Rights Conference - Bridges to Acceptance: Counseling LGBTQ Immigrants and Asylum-Seekers
14th Annual OUTLAW LGBTQ Legal Rights Conference - Challenges on the Road to Sex, Gender, Biology, and Identity Equality - panel
150 Years of Women at WU Law presents "Re-examining Inequalities through the US Feminist Judgments Project"
Political Science Speaker Series Presents Professor Jakana Thomas, Michigan State University: “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: "The Lethality of Female Suicide Terrorists”
Professor Jakana Thomas, Michigan State University
Gender Impacts: Mothers and Reentry
Workshop in Politics, Ethics, and Society, Rachel Brown, Washington University
"Situating Carework within the Settler State"
Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies
Graziella Parati Prof. of Italian, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth
Not Your Habibti: A Typewriter Project
WGSS Colloquia Spring 2019 and LIC - "Interracial Intimacy Redux"
Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law / Vice Provost
Rebecca Wanzo, Commentator
150 Years of Women at WU Law
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
LIVE and Assembling Series Presents: Yes Means Yes
Sayak Valencia Workshop
WGSS Graduate Workshop: "Co-Authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism"
"Everyday Discrimination and Cardiovascular Disease: Implications for African-American Women's Health."
Tené T. Lewis from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Please RSVP to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAI7rkJJffyr43D6C_M5D0HSezAMV_j6FbsEHDrFM38hf-EQ/viewform
Keep Them Sacred: Honoring Generations of Indigenous Women.
Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies 29th Annual Pow Wow
Women Who Ruled the World
Kara Cooney, PhD, Egyptologist
QFest St. Louis
Honors Thesis Presentations
QFest St. Louis
Innovations in Gender-Based Violence Prevention
QFest St. Louis
QFest St. Louis
QFest St. Louis
Historia Medica presents "The Influence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender on Healthcare Outcomes": Hedwig Lee, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity, and Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of S
Graduate Workshop: Co-Authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism
The Office of the Provost: Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program present: Professor Richa Nagar "Journeying Together for Justice: Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, Hungry Translations."
The Me Too Era: How We Got Here, and What's Next
The Legacy of the Annie Malone Children's Home
150 Years of Women At WashULaw Women Faculty Speakers Series-Elizabeth Katz
The Legacy Wall at Washington University, starting September 29, 2019
Faculty Book Talk: Adia Harvey Wingfield
Sociology professor Adia Harvey Wingfield will discuss her new work, Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy.
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Making Motherhood Work, How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Professor Caitlyn Collins, Department of Sociology, Washington University
PILPSS Lecture: Melissa Murray on “Sex and the Supreme Court”
LGBTQ+ History at WashU
Composing a Life - Women Inspiring Women
Refuse Lives, Disposable Bodies: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and History
Michael Brown to Michael Johnson: The American Experiment of the BlackQueer
A “Five Years from Ferguson” Lecture by Professor Jeffrey McCune
She Leads Conference: Brittany Packett
Love Your Body Week presents: "Intersectionality and Body Acceptance"
150 Years of Women At WashULaw Women Faculty Speakers Series-Adrienne Davis
Love Your Body Week presents: "Disability and Body Respect Panel"
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fall 2019 Colloquium - "Optimism and Accountability: How We Fail to Learn from Wounds"
Researching Identity: A Panel Discussion
2019 Transgender Spectrum Conference
OWN IT: A Summit for Women's Leadership
150 Years of Women At WashULaw Women Faculty Speakers Series-Peggie Smith
The Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture: 'Radical Sex Positivity'
Africa Speak: 'Human Rights, Gender and Health Implications in Africa'
Department
Institute for Public Health
Event Contact
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Speaker Information
Leila Sadat
James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law; Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor
Leila Nadya Sadat currently serves as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor. Trained in the common law and civil law systems, she is an internationally recognized authority and prolific scholar writing in the fields of public international law, international criminal law, human rights and foreign affairs. She has published more than 100 books and articles in leading journals, academic presses, and media outlets throughout the world and regularly lectures and teaches abroad. She is the Director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a ground-breaking project to write the world’s first global treaty on crimes against humanity, and the incoming President of the International Law Association (American Branch) as well as a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.
Carolyn Sargent
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate)
Sargent has worked in West Africa (Benin, Mali), in Jamaica, and for the last seven years have been conducting fieldwork in France on reproduction and representations of family among migrants from the Senegal River Valley now residing in Paris. Most recently, her writing has focused on how colonial and postcolonial relations between France and its former West African colonies in the context of the global economy have shaped the policies and politics of state institutions responsible for managing immigrant populations. Her research in progress involves West African and North African immigrants living with breast cancer in France, and the collective production of meanings about this condition.
PILPSS Lecture: Michelle Oberman lectures on “Her Body, Our Laws: On the Frontlines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma”
Inter-Imperial Interventions: A Feminist-Decolonial Reframing of Literature, Translation, and Geopolitical Economy
Laura Doyle, Professor of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-Coordinator of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP)
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Dr. Kenan Omurtag discusses Periods, Period.
Kenan R. Omurtag, MD is an Associate Professor at Washington University in Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fall 2019 Colloquium - "Introducing Porn Work"
How Women's Subsistence Work Shapes Biology: Impacts of Shodagor Women's Work on Health and Development
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.
Rethinking Black Feminist Solidarity in Germany
Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
Human Trafficking Panel
ImpactSTL, a student-run advocacy group, is hosting a panel session on human trafficking.
Panel Presenters:
Patricia (Trish) McKnight: Founder, Butterfly Dreams Alliance; Sarah Pretorius: Director of Programming and Partnerships, Selah Way Foundation;
Rumi Kato Price, PhD: Founder of Human Trafficking Collaborative Network, Washington University Institute for Public Health and Jessica Wilkins: Administrator of Community Based Services, The Covering House
WGSS Spring Colloquium: "Calculating Couples: Computational Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software" Colloquium for Faculty and Graduate Students
Skandalaris Startup Webinar: Women in STEM
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World"
Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson
Sex Trafficking in Missouri
A Conversation with Pepper Schwartz
Join the Alumni Association for a conversation with Pepper Schwartz, on-air relationship expert for Lifetime's "Married at First Sight” and prolific author and researcher on the subjects of love, sexuality, and commitment. Hedwig "Hedy" Lee, professor of sociology, director of undergraduate studies, associate director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity, will moderate this event.
Tanisha C. Ford on "Truth to Power: Writing Black Feminist Memoir"
Writer and historian Tanisha C. Ford will discuss her critically-acclaimed memoir Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion and the political importance of Black feminist memoir today.
Learn about the 3-2 Program in Social Work - Earn your MPH or MSW - This is not an Intro event
Learn about the 3-2 Program at the Brown School that allows you to finish your undergraduate degree and MPH or MSW in just 5 years! Join us for a brief presentation from Sarah Birth, Associate Director of Admissions & Recruitment, Tess Hankin, a WGSS major now in her second year of the MSW program, and Keishi Foecke, an Anthropology major and now a first-year MPH student to learn about this exciting opportunity.
“Misogynoir”: American Contempt Towards Black Women and How to Change It
Missouri Historical Society: Women's History Month Kick-Off: Continuing the Legacy of Empowering Missouri Women
Inspired by the Missouri History Museum’s exhibit Beyond the Ballot, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we will talk to women who are continuing Missouri’s long legacy of empowering other women. Join us for a conversation with Leslie K. Gill, president of Rung for Women; Wendy Doyle, president and CEO of United WE; and Keri Koehler, executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis. We’ll discuss the challenges facing women in our state today, how the pandemic has amplified these challenges, and how women are finding ways to support one another. The conversation will be moderated by Andrea Henderson of St. Louis Public Radio.
Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business
Please join Andrew Simon, AB ’63, and Andi Simon, co-founders of the Simon Initiative, for a panel discussion featuring alumnae who have smashed the myths of women in business.
St Louis University Bridging Black History Month & Women's History Month: "Rebel Archives: The Life and Legacy of Queen Mother Audley Moore"
Dr. Ashley Farmer is a historian of black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive intellectual history of women in the black power movement. The award-winning book introduces new and overlooked women activists into the history of black power, examines the depth and breath of their political and intellectual engagement, and shows the relationship between women’s gendered theorizing and the trajectory of the black power movement. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, an anthology that examines four central themes within the black intellectual tradition: Black internationalism, religion and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice, and black radicalism.
She is a graduate of Spelman College and holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies and an M.A. in History from Harvard University.
Black Girlhood Studies Lab in Conversation with Dr. LeConté Dill
In this conversation, Dr. Leconté Dill will share her expertise in public health, Black girls, and creative projects as contributions to the field of Black girlhood studies.
Reproductive Justice and the Prison-Industrial Complex: Examining the Connections
Missouri Historical Society: Three Flags Day: Colonial St. Louis Women under Changing Regimes
In the 40 years between the time St. Louis was founded in 1764 to when the American flag was raised in 1804, St. Louisans were the subjects of three different empires, and with each new flag came new laws and customs. Community Tours Manager Amanda Clark will discuss how women—free and enslaved—experienced life in colonial St. Louis under Spanish, French, and finally, American rule.
Black Italians and Digital Culture
Director Fred Kuwornu discusses issues of culture, race, identity, and citizenship in contemporary Italy drawing from the new arena of social media. Kuwornu shines a spotlight on a generation of Black Italians - artists, entrepreneurs, and bloggers- who have been affirming themselves in Italian culture and society gaining more visibility nationally and in the Global Black Diaspora. Among the topics: race and national identity, second generations and issues of citizenship in Italy, new media and activism, Black women in Italy, music and media industry.
Perspectives: Unlearning Masculine Over Feminine Bias
This discussion will focus on specific examples of gender bias in work and learning environments. We will discuss the impacts of these biases on women at both the individual and institutional level. The session will conclude with strategies and tactics for practicing allyship and shifting cultural norms to value the perspectives and contributions of women.
Missouri Historical Society: Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice
Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
Professor Erika Denise Edwards, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Anti-Asian America
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Asian American Studies Minor at Washington University in St. Louis invite leading scholars to talk with us about how we can understand Anti-Asian America.
Panel Discussion: The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women
This event will feature a panel of women, representing various identities, to provide an intersectional look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate impacts on women. From their roles as caregivers to frontline workers, women’s mental health, careers and overall well-being have been negatively impacted in ways we may not fully understand for some time.
Monumental Women: Female Statuary and the Struggle for Suffrage, 1870-1920
Dr. Nicole Williams, Honorary Guest Scholar, Department of Art History and Archaeology
St. Louis University WGS Department: "Navigating the Borderline: The History and Conflicts of a Gendered Diagnosis"
Dr. Michelle Bach
Black Girlhood Studies in Conversation with Dr. Nikki Jones
Nikki Jones is a Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.
Moderators: Dr. Kenly Brown and Nya Hardaway
WGSS Spring Colloquium, "A Timely Revelation: Trans Temporality, Crip Time, and the Testimony of Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán"- Colloquium for Faculty and Graduate Students
Presenter: Robert Franco, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discussant: René Esparza, Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Missouri Historical Society: Advocating for Pride
Join a panel of representatives from local advocacy groups and LGBTQIA-friendly organizations to learn about their work as they discuss the challenges and successes of advocating for LGBTQIA+ communities in the St. Louis region.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship presents Dr. Shanna Greene Benjamin: "Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay"
Shanna Greene Benjamin is a literary critic and biographer who studies the literature and lives of black women. She has published on African American literature and black women's literary history in MELUS, African American Review, Studies in American Fiction, and PMLA.
Race + Sorting Algorithms? The New Sexual Racism in Online Dating
WashU Women’s Health and Empowerment Network (WHEN) is hosting a panel on gynecological, vulva, and vaginal pain
The panel will feature speakers from Planned Parenthood, WashU Medical School, and Tight-Lipped, a podcast focusing on female chronic pain.
Missouri Historical Society: Women's History on the Hill
When it comes to St. Louis’s Hill neighborhood, much has been made of the famous men who have called it home. For this talk Community Tours Manager Amanda Clark will highlight the women—some who you may know and many you may not—who have shaped the Italian enclave’s history.
Transforming Misogynoir through a Digital Health Practice
Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Northeastern University
South Asia's Best Kept Secret: Repackaging Caste in the Diaspora with Yashica Dutt
In this student-faculty collaborated talk, Yashica Dutt joins Prof. Shefali Chandra (Washington University) and members of the student group Ekta to discuss how caste is "the invisible arm that turns the gear in nearly every system in India," and how this invisible arm has extended its reach to the diaspora.
The PRIDE Study: Updates from the First Long-Term National Study of LGBTQ+ Health
Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity Presents: "Change ‘Gon Come: Black Love-Power and The Inner Work of Racial Justice"
The inaugural talk of the CRE2-funded Mindfulness & Anti-Racism series presents the work of Professor Rhonda Magee. Rhonda is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and an internationally-recognized thought and practice leader focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social justice.
The Vagina Monologues
“LOVE THYSELF” Black Women, Mental Health, and Radical Joy in Troubled Times
Honors Thesis Presentations
You are invited to the annual WGSS honors thesis presentation on Wednesday, May 5 from 11:00-11:30.
Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism
Virtual Pride: Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
Women Founders in the Wellness Industry
Celebrate PRIDE Through CommUNITY
P&P Live! Work, Inequality, Gender, and Capitalism in Modern America Panel
Join this panel of authors to discuss their latest books, all centered around the theme of work, inequality, gender, and modern capitalism.
Asian American Speaker Series: Eric Wat: Love Your Asian Body: What AIDS Taught Us about Sex in a Pandemic
What kind of racial reckoning is this? Black LGBTQ Practices of Care amid Spatial Marginalization
Marlon M. Bailey, PhD, MFA is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies & American Studies at Arizona State University.
Texas and the Future of Abortion Law and Reproductive Justice
Panelists:
Marie Griffith, Director, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities;
Zakiya T. Luna, Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Department of Sociology; and
Susan Appleton, Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Virtual Book Launch - Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis
Join the Washington University Department of Sociology in virtually celebrating the book launch of Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, co-edited by Drs. Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle.
The Prison Education Project Maggie Garb Lecture Series - Sisters of Carceral Liberation: Building a Movement of Social Justice for and About Black Women in Higher Education in Prison
The Prison Education Project Maggie Garb Lecture Series: Restoration
Syrita Steib is the founder and executive director of Operation Restoration, a nonprofit that creates opportunities for formerly incarcerated women, eradicating the roadblocks that she faced when returning to society after incarceration.
A Retrospective: 50 years of LGBT Campus Center Activism - LGBTQIA History Month Speaker featuring Will Sherry
Thursday Nights at the Museum: Madam Mayor
More women than ever are being elected to positions of leadership in local government. Join us to hear from a panel of women who have served or are currently serving as St. Louis–area mayors.
GS X SIR Speaker Series: Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Engendering War: Strategies and Tactics in the Cuban and Nicaraguan Revolutions
. . . and she died: Early Modern Re-imaginings of Aethiopica
Margo Hendricks, University of California -Santa Cruz, Emerita
The Gastronomic Revolution and Other Stories of Race and Coloniality in Peru
Dr. María Elena García, Associate Professor, University of Washington
She Leads Keynote Speaker: NASA's Moogega Cooper
Faculty Book Talk: Heather Berg
Celebrating Josephine Baker
Join us on Nov. 30th at Graham Chapel to celebrate Josephine Baker.
MLK 2022: Cultivating Empathy and Change: Recognizing the Life and Legacy of Henrietta Lacks, Film and Discussion
WGSS Colloquium: 'Issa No for Me': Black Networked Resistance and the Complexities of Cancel Culture
Race and Human Trafficking: How Racial Inequality Impacts Human Trafficking
NYU Libraries: Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
EALC Lecture Series | Trans in Relation, Topos in Motion: Narrativity and the Power of Congruency
Howard Chiang, Associate Professor of History at University of Calfornia-Davis
Reading by Visiting Hurst Professor francine j. harris
This event will be held via Zoom.
Americanist Dinner Forum: Work, After the Future
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum: (UN)MASKING HEALTH
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: Theories, Myths and Holistic Responses
Black Girlhood Studies Lab In Conversation With Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright
In this conversation, Dr. Wright will discuss her manuscript, Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century and recent digital humanities project, “DIGITAL GI(RL)S: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century.”
Sex Week 2022: Ethical Porn Discussion and Erotica Writing Workshop
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Spring Colloquium: AIDS and Time: Queering and Decolonizing the Health Crisis
Professor Ivan Bujan is the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Professor Marlon Bailey, Associate Professor Arizona State University will be the faculty respondent.
Black History Month: HeLa 100 – Race and Eugenics 2022
Join School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Division of Biology and Biomedical Science’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Student and Alumni Affairs for a discussion regarding race and eugenics in relation to Henrietta Lacks.
This program seeks to be a critical space for participants to recognize how science has perpetuated harmful and racist narratives that deeply affect marginalized communities. Participants will read a short selection of pre-work to prepare for the discussion. This program is part of WUSTL’s commemoration of Henrietta Lacks’ 100th birthday.
St. Louis University 2022 (Virtual) Bridge Lecture: "Wicked, Licentious, and Free: African Women in the French Atlantic World"
SLU 2022 (Virtual) Bridge Lecture
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of lectures bridging Black History Month & Women's History Month
Guest speaker Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson
Women in Global Health - Midwest Chapter Speaker Series Leadership During the Pandemic with Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis
St Louis Public Library Presents: Who is the St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline (Not an Intro event)
Please join St. Louis Public Library for a presentation from SQSH. St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline.
Raising Queens: The Important Role of Racial Socialization in the Lives of Black Girls
Presentation by Sheretta Brown, Associate Professor, Brown School
St Louis Public Library Presents: Trailblazers: Navigating the World of Academia as a Woman
Thinking about where your journey will take you in college and beyond? Thinking about teaching higher education and whether it's worth it?
Leadership Perspectives: 'She Suite'
A panel discussion on women and leadership in the business world
A Queer Perspective on Successful Aging
Vanessa Fabbre, Associate professor at the Brown School
St Louis Public Library Presents: Women Artists Panel Discussion
While much of art, including music, continues to be male dominated, women have made and continue to make an important impact.
Panel Discussion for ‘Behind the Sheet’
Co-Hosts: Ron Himes, Founder and Producing Director, The Black Rep; and Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, Director of Medical Humanities
Lecture by Visiting Hurst Professor Anne Cheng
This event will be held via Zoom. Register below.
Supporting Transgender Youth - Transgender Day of Visibility
Speakers include Lisa Brennan (she/her), co-leader of TransParent St Louis and author of The Auditorium in my Mind/Treasuring My Transgender Child; Jess Jones (they/them), owner of Jess Jones Education & Consulting; Sayer Johnson (he/him), Executive Director of Metro Trans Umbrella Group; Christopher Lewis (he/him), co-director of Pediatric Transgender Health and director of Differences of Sex Development Clinic at Washington University School of Medicine. This panel is moderated by Kelly Storck (she/her), a licensed clinical social worker and author of Gender Identity Workbook for Kids. Brown School Open Classroom.
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Diversity Studies Presents: Joint Book Launch
Professor Heather Berg, Washington University in St. Louis and Professor Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto
Moderator: Professor Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis
"Monsters, Cyborgs, and Vases: Specters of the Yellow Woman"
Anne Cheng is professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Committee on Film Studies at Princeton University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, drawing from literary theory, critical race studies, film theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. She works primarily with 20th-century American literature and visual culture with special focus on Asian American and African American literatures. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press, 2001), a study of the notion of racial grief at the intersection of culture, history, and law. Her second book, Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface (Oxford University Press, 2013), excavates the story of the unexpected intimacy between modern architectural theory and the invention of a modernist style and the conceptualization of Black skin at the turn of the 20th century.
Combating Caste on U.S. College Campuses
A Dalit History Month Speaker Panel
"Now is the right time. Come, come!": Unpacking Gender, Caste, and Humor in Bharatanatyam Performances of Eroticism
Anusha Kedhar, Assistant Professor in Dance, University of California, Riverside
Neuroscience & Society Colloquium: Sex and Gender Development in Research and Healthcare
Melissa Hines, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Director, Gender Development Research Centre
University of Cambridge
Who Owns Women’s Rights?: Reflections on The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Bull in a China Shop
An Island Retreat: Sin, Secrecy, and the Offshoring of Sexually Abusive Priests
A public lecture by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
LGBTQ + Mental Health Panel
MedQ and Stem present a panel on LGBTQ and Mental Health
Honors Thesis Presentations
HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Class of 2022 Celebration
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduation Celebration
What Does Reproductive Health Look Like, post Dobbs?
Panel:
Dineo- Khabele, MD - Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Professor, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology;
Tessa Madden, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Family Planning;
and Rebecca Wanzo, PhD (moderator), Chair, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
What does reproductive health look like post-Dobbs?
Join this discussion around reproductive health, designed to help guide us in the wake of the Dobbs ruling.
The Politics of Reproduction presents Professor Adrienne Davis: "Sexual Political Economies of Slavery and Abortion Access"
Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law; Founder & Co-director of the Law & Culture Initiative; Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Olin Business School
History Colloquium: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Caregiving: Surfacing Coalitional Intimacies through the Domestic Archive
Stephen Vider, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative, Cornell University
The Politics of Reproduction presents Professor Colin Burnett: "The Rights of Intensity: Or, What Does 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007) 'Say' about Abortion?"
Colin Burnett, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University
Banned Comic Books
Panel discussion moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University
WGSS Colloquium: "How (Not) to Become White"
Presentation by Shefali Chandra (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and History)
Discussant: Stephanie Li
St. Louis University Women's and Gender Studies Brown Bag Series presents:" What Does Care Mean to You?"
Amanda Gray Rendón, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, St. Louis University Women's and Gender Studies
The Politics of Reproduction presents an International Perspectives Panel
The panel: Anca Parvulescu, Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature; Rachel Brown, Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Shanti Parikh, Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies and Mytheli Sreenivas, Professor of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University
The Politics of Reproduction Presents: Professor Mytheli Sreenivas, "Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India"
Professor of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University
Simone Veil: How an Auschwitz survivor and conservative politician won the battle for abortion rights in France.
Simone Veil: How an Auschwitz survivor and conservative politician won the battle for abortion rights in France.
Organized by the French Connexions Center of Excellence, in collaboration with the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
‘She Leads’ symposium to focus on empowering women leaders presents the Inaugural Karl King Hoagland, Jr. Speaker: Paula Boggs, Founder, Boggs Media, LLC, Tedx©Speaker, Writer, Lawyer, Army Veteran, and Musician
Haley Swenson: Doing Feminist Work: Wielding Narrative, Data, and Intersectionality Outside the Academy
The speaker, Haley Swenson majored in English & Women's & Gender Studies in undergrad, and received a Masters Degree and PhD in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, while volunteering as a grassroots organizer for several campaigns and movements throughout her academic career. In 2017 she made the leap from higher education to a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC, where she edited a daily vertical that ran at Slate.com on gender, work and social policy. Today she writes for a variety of mainstream news outlets, and has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CBC Radio, and CNN International. She also runs a research and action initiative on rebalancing the division of labor at home and its connection to gender, racial, and class equity, which has been featured in the New York Times and at CNN.com
"Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine"
Frances S. Hasso is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of History. Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality in the Arab world. ORCID
The Politics of Reproduction Presents Professor Caitlin Myers, Middlebury College: "Who Gets Trapped in Post Roe America?"
Caitlin Myers, John G McCullough Professor Of Economics at Middlebury College
Jihad and the Negotiation of Gender and Religious Difference
Asma Afsaruddin is a Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington.
How Do Black Lives Matter in Italy?
Join us for a virtual lecture and conversation in English with Italian-Brazilian activist and writer Kwanza Musi Dos Santos
Faculty Book Talk: Tazeen M. Ali
Alison Bechdel - Washington University International Humanities Prize
Lecture and reception for cartoonist-memoirist and MacArthur “Genius” Alison Bechdel, author of “Fun Home” and winner of the 2022 Washington University International Humanities Prize
The Politics of Reproduction Presents Professor Alison Kafer, "Disability and Reproductive Justice"
Alison Kafer, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, University of Texas - Auburn
Disability justice activists have long been concerned with ableist approaches to pregnancy and abortion. Disabled people also face many barriers to reproductive health care and have a heightened risk of sexual assault and pregnancies they did not choose. How does a disability studies lens reshape some of the conversations about reproductive justice?
Masters and Johnson Lecture Series 2022: Let Young People Tell Their Story: From Robert Rayford to the Current Generation
The Masters and Johnson Annual Lecture honors late sex researchers and founders of modern sex therapy, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters and Johnson conducted clinical sex research at Washington University from the 1950s through the 1970s. Their clinical observation of sexual behavior enabled them to dispel myths about vaginal orgasm, erectile dysfunction, masturbation, and older adult asexuality.
Reproductive Justice Through the Lens of Social Work, Public Health and Social Policy
Gabriel Peoples Lecture: This Song Will Never Die
Reading Annie Ernaux
Asian Voices for Affirmative Action
What's Slavery Got to Do with It? Plautus' Rudens, Roman Slavery, and 1884 St. Louis
Queer Zine Archive Project and the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives for a panel discussion about AIDS activism and organizing!
Special Perspectives: Anti-LGBTQIA+ Legislation, Rhetoric, and Violence
Baci Rubati/Stolen Kisses Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy. A documentary
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
“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
Khiara Bridges Keynote Address
Join us for a keynote address from Khiara Bridges,Anthropologist and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley
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
The Future of Lifestyle Medicine: Dr. Michele Justice, Ob/Gyn
Embodied Inequality & Gender/Sex Diversity: Challenging Binary Concepts as Social Determinants of Health
Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral
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