The Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies deparment and Louise R. Noun Program in Women's Studies sponsor and co-sponsor a variety of events, including lectures, performances, workshops, panels, and presentations by outside speakers and GWSS students and faculty. These events often are academic in nature, but have also include such things as spoken word poetry and theatrical performances.

Coordinating an event sponsored by the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department or Noun Program? Please email olsonsco@grinnell.edu with the title of the event, its time and location, and a description.

 

Upcoming Events

If you have an event which you think the GWSS department or Noun Program should co-sponsor, please contact Astrid Henry (henrya@grinnell.edu) with the details.

Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies: Senior Seminar Symposium

Friday, May 3rd Mears Cottage 1:00pm-5:30pm

Download a PDF of the official Symposium Schedule.

Session 1: 1-2pm

Panel 1: Arts and Activism: Embodied Experiences (Mears 115)

Anika Manzoor Embody My Identity: A Case for Coalition Building through Performance Art

Elena Lynch Dancing Violence: Feminine Spaces and Volatile Bodies

Panel 2: What's Race Got to Do With It? (Mears 202)

Sarah Swearer Race Still Matters: Colorblindness in the Law

Gigi Dichosa La Negra Tomasa: Negotiating Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.

Refreshments: 2-2:15pm (Mears Living Room)

Session 2: 2:15-3:30pm

Panel 3: Reading Between the Lines: Analyzing Narratives of Sexuality and Romance (Mears 115)

Katelin Fullerton Someday My Prince Will Come: The Wedding Industrial Complex and Online Communities

Liana Eisman Lights, Camera, Crime Scene: A Critical Analysis of the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence in NBC's Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit (SVU)

Anne Damtoft Only to Her, and Her, and Her: Jealousy and Fidelity in Polyamorous Relationships among Women

Panel 4: Queer Pedagogies (Mears 202)

Clara Montague Queering Pedagogy: Where Theory Meets Practice

Claire Fleckenstein Creative Kids: Queer Pedagogies in Elementary School Classrooms

Refreshments: 3:30-3:45pm (Mears Living Room)

Session 3: 3:45-5pm

Panel 5: Gender and Race in Pop Culture (Mears 115)

Hannah Strom The Love Interest, The Team Member, and The Female Lead: Women in Contemporary Action Movies

Leslie Bean A Shock to the System: Blackness, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Static Shock

Qianning Zhang Guilty Pleasure: Exploring Homoerotic Fantasies in a Heteronormative World

Panel 6: Queering Criminality and Discrimination (Mears 202)

Taylor Nys Forget the "Glass Ceiling," We're Trying to Get Out of the Basement: Examining the Prevalence of Transgender Street Sex Workers

Joe Bear "Street Kid Phobia": LGBTQ Homeless Youth Inside and Outside the Law

Christina Colver Stuck on the Sidelines: Sexual Discrimination in Sports

Closing Reception 5-5:30pm (Mears Living Room)