13th Annual Colloquium
Faculty Highlight
Barrett Emerick presented at the UK-SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) conference, "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophical Traditions," in November. The title of his paper was "A Defense of Doxastic and Affective Voluntarism."
Annual WGSX Colloquium
WGSX Colloquium 2012
Going Viral: Thirty Years of Living with HIV/AIDS
March 20–22 2012
Over the past thirteen years, the WGSX Colloquium has become an established tradition at St. Mary’s College. This very successful annual program has regularly drawn large audiences to events that have offered powerful interdisciplinary combinations of scholarly discourse and artistic expression (including film screenings, theatrical performances, and exhibitions) to discuss a topic critical to the lives of women.
The 2012 event takes as its theme HIV/AIDS. Although the most current research traces the virus back even further in the twentieth century, 2011 marks the thirty-year anniversary of the first officially recognized cases of the syndrome in the United States. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), since the pandemic began approximately 25 million people have died of AIDS-related illness. Colloquium speakers will explore ways in which gender and sexuality framed and continue to frame our representations of and responses to the epidemic, both in the United States and around the world. With recent breakthroughs in HIV prevention and the concurrent recognition that the rate of new HIV infections in the U.S. is rising at an alarming rate, “Going Viral” will provide a timely and critical discussion of the biological, historical, medicinal, and cultural implications of the disease.
Women in War: Object/Subject
Annual Colloquium - 2010
(En)GEndering Political Change
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.
