Program Highlight
Faculty Highlight
Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (2010)
by Professor of Religious Studies Bjorn Krondorfer
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through the form of confessional writing. Such writing reveals the interior struggle men are willing to share with a larger audience under particular circumstances.
Annual WGSX Colloquium
WGSX Colloquium 2010: (En)Gendering Political Change
Tuesday Evening, 23 March, Cole Cinema, 8.15 PM
Danielle Geong, Alice Cohan, and the Feminist Majority Foundation will kick-off this year's Colloquium with a student workshop on Feminist Political Activism. For two centuries, feminists have successfully engendered political change and can do even more to create a just, progressive society. Feminist activists are still needed to fight persistent inequities that face us. Recent college grads face an immediate gender wage gap that only widens as their careers progress. Gender-based violence is rampant on our campuses, in our communities, and around the world. Women still hit glass ceilings in politics, business, arts, academia, science, and numerous other fields. The FMF will discuss ways to get involved with feminism on and off campus, and the need for progressives to be lifelong activists in the fight for social justice.
Wednesday Afternoon, 24 March, Cole Cinema, 4.45 PM
Madeleine Kunin, the former governor of Vermont and President Clinton's ambassador to Switzerland, will speak about her latest book, Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women can Win and Lead
Wednesday Evening, 24 March, Cole Cinema, 8.15 PM
Caroline Slobodzian, President, DC Chapter of the US National Committee for United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), will screen and discuss Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a film about the women's movement in Liberia which demanded the peace talks that ended the war and ultimately elected Africa's first female head-of-state
Thursday Afternoon, 25 March, Cole Cinema, 4.15 PM
Marc Stein, an historian from York University, will talk about "Queering the History of U.S. LGBT Activism" and his work as editor of the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
Thursday Evening, 25 March, Cole Cinema, 8.15 PM
Colloquium Roundtable with Kunin, Slobodzian, and Stein engaging issues raised by their various lectures
Annual Colloquium - 2009
Caution: Women at Work
Annual Colloquium - 2008
Gender B(l)ending: Beyond the Binary
Annual Colloquium - 2007
Hitched: Marriage in America
Annual Colloquium - 2006
The War on Women's Rights: Money / Body / Movement
Annual Colloquium - 2005
Representations of Sex(uality): Pornography, Obscenity, Deviance
The first annual Women Studies colloquium was held March 22-24, 2000. With the support of the Alice McLellan Birney Women Studies Fund, the cross-disciplinary study area in Women, Gender, and Sexuality presents a colloquium each spring in connection with Women's History Month.Please explore below for past and future events and join us each spring as we bring together speakers on a variety of topics related to women and gender.
