Events
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Salons
Fall Symposium
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
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| 2025 | Breathing With An Other: Queer Vulnerability, Opacity, Relationality | Gayatri Gopinath |
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2024 |
Silence=Death: Gender, Sexuality, and the struggle for Palestine | Sa'ed Atshan, Sarah Ihmoud |
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2023 |
Rethinking Solidarity: Feminist and Queer Transnational Politics in SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) | Evren Savci, Manijeh Moradian |
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2022 |
Performance, Identity, Politics | Mario LaMothe, Naomi Macalalad Bragin |
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2021 |
Decolonial Feminisms |
Afiya Zia, Fania Noël, Bhakti Shringarpure |
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2020 |
Access, Aesthetics, and Activism |
Moya Bailey, Alice Sheppard |
| 2019 | Transfeminisms |
Paisley Currah, Claudia Sofía Garriga-López |
| 2018 | Black Lives and Health: Writing Hidden Histories |
Linda Villarosa, Khary Polk |
| 2017 | The Politics of Knowledge |
Deborah Cohler, Hope Dector, Vashti DuBois |
| 2016 | #sayhername: Gender, Race, and Police Violence |
Andrea Ritchie, Sherri Williams |
| 2015 | Mass Incarceration: Feminists Respond |
Ruth Gilmore, Joy James |
| 2014 | Activism in Queer Times |
Reina Gossett, Amber Hollibaugh |
| 2012 | Women and the Politics of Gender: Election 2012 |
M. Barakso, C. Feimster, N. Folbre, I. Grewal, R. Self, M. Swers |
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2011 |
Confronting Gender Violence: The Personal and the Political | Cynthia Enloe, Andrea Ritchie, Karen Singleton |
| 2010 | Feminist Disability Studies: Embattled Bodies | Eli Clare, Nirmala Erevelles |
| 2009 | TRANSforming institutions: Transgender Studies, Rights and Health | Paisley Currah, Ben Singer, Susan Stryker |
| 2008 | Islam and Gender: Social Changes and Diversity in Muslim Communities | Suzanne Brenner, Yvonne Haddad, Arzoo Osanloo |
| 2007 | Public Legal Anthropology: Engaging Feminist Approaches | Susan F. Hirsch, M.Kamari Clarke |
| 2006 | Questions of Embodiment | Amber Hollibaugh, David L. Eng |
| 2005 | Genes: Gender, Race, Sex | Banu Subramaniam, Jennifer Terry |
| 2004 | Challenges to Gender & Sexuality Discrimination Inside & Outside the Courts | Chai Rachel Feldblum, Reva Beth Siegel |
| 2003 | Transnational Feminisms | Inderpal Grewal, Jasbir Kaur Puar |
| 2002 | Women's Bodies, Women's Rights, Feminist Activism | Rebecca J. Gomperts. M.D., Jennifer C. Jaff |
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2001/2002 |
Feminist Futures in the Global World | M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| 2000 | Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Difference | Janet Jacobsen, Mary Pat Brady |
| 1999 | Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in African Cinema | Kagendo Murungi, Salem Meduria, Flora M'mbugu-Schelling |
| 1998/1999 | Writing Women's Lives | Barbara Goldsmith, Patricia R. Hill |
| 1998 | Figuring the Body | Nancy Bowen, Nancy Davison |
| 1997 | Women & Sport | Christine M. Shelton, Mary Jo Kane |
| 1996 | Feminism, Race, Ethinicity | Micaela di Leonardo, Adolph L. Reed, Jr. |
| 1995 | Fixing Feminism | Carol R. Sternhell, Jennifer Wicke |
| 1994 | Women and Television | Gloria-Jean Masciarotte, Lynn Joyrich |
| 1993 | Poetry Is Not A Luxury: A Tribute to Audre Lorde 1934-1992 | Michelle Cliff, Sharon P. Holland |
| 1992 | Women as Producers and Consumers of Culture | Hazel Carby, Kathy Peiss |
| 1991 | Women Under the Law | Martha Fineman, Patricia Williams |
| 1990 | The Politics of Choice" Reproductive Rights in the 1990's | Rosalind Petchesky, Suzanne Lynn |
| 1989 | Gender and the Global Labor Market | Chandra Talpade Mohanty, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly |
| 1987 | Representation & Reproduction: Women and the Technology of Gender | Emily Martin, Linda Singer, Elizabeth Fee |
| 1986 | Do Women's Studies Make a Difference? | Evelyn Fox Keller, Nancy K. Miller, Joan W. Scott |
Diane Weiss ’80 Memorial Lecture
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 |
Plant Pedagogy and Peripheral Movements |
C. Riley Snorton |
| 2025 |
Great Society Transsexualism: The Gender Clinic As Welfare Reform |
Jules Gill-Peterson |
| 2024 |
The Mark of the Wench |
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson |
| 2023 |
To Have and To Hoard: Xandra Ibarra's Object Lessons |
Leticia Alvarado |
| 2022 |
Colonial Domesticity and Social Reproduction |
Lisa Lowe |
| 2021 |
Because of Sex Trans Identity and the Law |
Gayle Salamon |
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2020 |
Unsettling Citizenship: Naturalization, Indigenous Dispossession, Queer Reading |
Siobhan Sommerville |
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2019 |
This Grey Gulf: James Baldwin and the Making of American Celebrity |
Robert Reid-Pharr |
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2018 |
Bare and Spare: The Charisma of the Skeleton |
Sumatho Ramaswamy |
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2017 |
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Michelle Murphy |
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2016 |
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Ann Cvetkovich |
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2015 |
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Elizabeth Wilson |
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2013 |
Sex, Gender and Public Life |
Janet Jakobsen |
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2012 |
Plasticity and the Gendered Brain: Trading Essence for Potential |
Rebecca Jordan-Young |
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2011 |
The Queer Art of Failure |
J. Jack Halberstam |
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2010 |
Four Lives - Feminism, Nationalism and Communism in India |
Ania Loomba |
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2009 |
Ending 'Jane Crow': How Women's Workplace Activism in the 1970's Changed the Country |
Nancy MacLean |
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2008 |
Feminism: Why Now More Than Ever? |
Chris Cuomo |
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2007 |
The Harmonious Play of Sexuate Freedom: Kantian Beings to the Legacy of Critical Theory |
Drucilla Cornell |
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2006 |
Between the Boudoir & the Global Market: Shen Shou (1874-1921), Embroidery, and Modernity in East Asia |
Dorothy Ko |
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2005 |
Theorizing Agency, with Particular Attention to Gender Relations |
Sherry B. Ortner |
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2004 |
Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Representation and the Perils of Translation |
Gayatri Gopinath |
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2003 |
The Politics of Literary Reputation |
Joan D. Hendrick |
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2002 |
Are All Human Beings by Nature Bisexual |
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl |
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2001 |
Inhuman Forces. Pleasure and Power in Feminist Theory |
Elizabeth Grosz |
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2000 |
The Logic of Difference: Race, Gender and 19th Century American Medicine |
Evelynn M. Hammonds |
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1999 |
Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together |
Rey Chow |
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1997 |
The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Turn-of-the-Century London |
Judith R. Walkowitz |
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1996 |
Romancing the Stone: The Sexual Politics of Idealization |
Barbara Johnson |
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1995 |
Do Sex Hormones Really Exist? |
Anne Fausto-Sterling |
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1994 |
Rethinking Access and Social Change: Feminism and the Law |
Michelle Fine |
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1993 |
Soul Murder and Slavery |
Nell Irvin Painter |
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1992 |
Eleanor Roosevelt: Women and Power |
Blanche Wiesen Cook |
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1991 |
Bath Time: French Representation of the Bathe in the Latter 19th Century |
Linda Nochlin |
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1990 |
How Did Feminist Theory Get This Way? |
Catherine R. Stimpson |
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1989 |
Teaching Shakespeare's Sister |
Carol Gilligan |
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1988 |
Gender Ideology in Historical Reconstruction |
Alice Kessler-Harris |
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1987 |
Women and Community Activism: The Feminist Frontier |
Nancy Hewitt |