Fall 2017 Courses
WGS 2100 Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Studies
Instructor Varies
Instructor Varies
Instructor Varies
NOTE: Third- and Fourth-Year Majors and Minors have priority registration for the first two days of class registration, 11/4/2019 and 11/6/2019. The limitation is removed on the third day of class registration, 11/7/2019, and WGS classes are open to all students.
UVA quarterback Bryce Perkins gives a shoutout to Lisa Speidel, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at UVA.
October 31, Krupa Shandiliya, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Miraji, lyrical translation, the poetics of theory: Gender, philosophy, aesthetics, and desire”
cosponsored with MESALC Department
Avijit Mukul Kishore, Indian cinematographer and filmmaker, “Cinema, architecture, are: Envisioning aesthetics, politics, citizenship, and personal stories”
Dinner-salon, 6:00-8:30pm on October 4th, Hotel A, on UVA’s historic Grounds.
cosponsored with MESALC Department
Spanish Italian and Portuguese Film Fest, “Visual Narratives of Diversity, Displacement, and Inclusion from the Mediterranean and Latin America”, times, dates, and locations in development.
cosponsored with Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, Black gay life in the South. Public lecture, 6:00pm in Minor Hall Room 125 on Wednesday, September 25th.
Peter Shinkle, UVA CLAS ’83, author of Ike’s Mystery Man, The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler, biography of a closeted gay man’s career as a national security advisor to U. S. President Eisenhower during the McCarthy Era
Cosponsored with Corcoran Department of History
Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, “Race, Gender and Vulnerability”, 3:30pm in Rotunda Dome Room, on Tuesday Sept 17th.
cosponsored with Page Barbour Lectures, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, and Department of Sociology
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality affirms the importance of respecting and supporting all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia, including those of us who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning. We believe that maintaining the excellence of the Univer