'Shout-out' From UVA Quarterback Bryce Perkins Shocked UVA Professor
UVA quarterback Bryce Perkins gives a shoutout to Lisa Speidel, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at UVA.
Women, Gender & Sexuality is an interdisciplinary department in which students study gender and sexualities with an emphasis on transnational perspectives.
Miraji, lyrical translation, the poetics of theory: Gender, philosophy, aesthetics, and desire
October 31, Krupa Shandiliya, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Miraji, lyrical translation, the poetics of theory: Gender, philosophy, aesthetics, and desire”
cosponsored with MESALC Department
Cinema, architecture, are: Envisioning aesthetics, politics, citizenship, and personal stories
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
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
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, Black gay life in the South. Public lecture, 6:00pm in Minor Hall Room 125 on Wednesday, September 25th.
Ike’s Mystery Man, The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
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
Race, Gender and Vulnerability
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
Transgender Children - New Evidence
Kristina Olson, University of Washington, McArthur Award Winner, “Transgender Children - New Evidence”, 3:30pm, Gilmer Hall Room 190, on Monday Sept 16th.
cosponsored with UVA Psychology Department
Kate Bornstein
Kate Bornstein, award-winning transgender author, activist, and performance artist; author of Hidden: A Gender, Queer & Pleasant Danger, and many other books.
cosponsored with Charlottesville Pride
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A “short take” linking old-age justice and racial justice that was recently published by WGS Associate Professor Corinne Field and Cultural Critic Margaret Gullette.
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) has selected 9 scholars to join its 2020-2021 class of faculty fellows.
Dear WGS Students:
We here in the WGS Department hope that you are all safely and comfortably self-quarantining. We understand that this time has been strange, eventful and stressful, and we appreciate all you are doing to stay healthy and remain engaged with your studies.