Past Events
On Thursday, April 5th, Stacy A. Clifford gave a talk titled "Contracting Disability: Democracy, Anxiety, and Cognitive Disability" as part of the Women's and Gender Studies Program's new faculty and graduate student lecture series. Stacy Clifford is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science.
On March 17th, Stanley Thangaraj spoke as part of the WGS Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lecture Series.
On February 22nd, Rebecca Traister gave a talk on women, politics and the 2012 presidential election. Traister is a staff writer for Salon.com and author of the book Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, the Department of Political Science, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Office of Active Citizenship and Service, the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center, the Writing Studio and the Department of Communication Studies.
On December 1st, 2011, the Women's and Gender Studies program hosted our annual conference, "Intersections," featuring research papers by WGS students. Conference participants included Jordan Walker, Dana Diehr, Elizabeth Panke, Shana Lowenthal, Kate Stidham, Elena Talbott, Abby Randall, Cole Garrett, Candace Barbour and Danielle Morrison.
On October 26th, 2011, Women's and Gender Studies hosted a community forum in which interested faculty met with new director Katie Crawford to attend a community forum to discuss the future of the Program. Topics included the WGS major, minor, and the graduate certificate in Gender Studies, as well as plans for future programming.
On October 17th, 2011, Director André Lee led an outreach workshop on his documentary film The Prep School Negro. Lee is an independent producer who has worked on such films as RuPaul's Starbooty Reloaded. In his new film, he explores his own past and investigates the experiences of prep school students of color.
On September 27th, 2011, Professor "Jack" Halberstam delivered the WGS fall lecture, "Pregnant Men, Heteroflexible Women, and Gaga Feminism." The lecture was co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center, and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Life. Dr. Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, and is the author of Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book and other works on gender and sexuality.
On April 19th, 2011, students and faculty attended the Women's and Gender Studies Spring 2011 Open House.
The winners of the Susan Ford Wilshire essay contest were announced.
Women’s and Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Open to Faculty and Graduate Students from all departments and programs, the colloquium asked the following questions: What paradigms currently exist, at this institution and others, that structure and encourage engagements with sexuality studies? How does “sexuality studies” share concerns or diverge from “women’s studies,” “gender studies,” “queer studies,” and “LGBTQI studies”? How might the structure of the Women’s and Gender Studies program change given these emergent categories?
On March 24th, 2011, Catherine Keller, Ph.D., gave a talk titled "And Truth -- So Manifold!: Transfeminist Entanglements." Dr. Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew University and author of Apocalyse Now & Then: a Feminist Guide to the End of the World, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, and On the Mystery. For the 37th Annual Antoinette Brown Lecture, she discussed the meaning of feminist theology in the 21st century -- freed from sex and gender essentialism, what distinctly feminist contributions remain to be made?
On March 24th, 2011, faculty contributed to the panel discussion "HIV, AIDS and Women: A 360 Degree Perspective." The event was sponsored by Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program and the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center.
On February 23rd, 2011, Heather D. Russell spoke on "Vodou, Modernism and Social Justice." Professor Russell is an associate Professor of English at Florida International University and author of Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic. She discussed Vodou as a modern religion that foregrounds contingency, fluidity, complexity, and nuance, especially in relation to ideas about knowledge, power, and subjectivity.
Intersections: Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Undergraduates presented papers during two sessions on Friday, April 2, 2010 in Buttrick 123.
Anna Guest-Jelley, Jordan Walker, Julie Fesmire, Mary Beth Harding and Charlotte Pierce-Baker at last year's Intersections.
Conference attendees Mary Beth Harding and Jordan Walker share deep thoughts.
Mary Beth Harding with Charlotte Pierce-Baker.
On October 27, 2010, Kathleen Bogle gave a talk on "Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus." Kathleen A. Bogle, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
