This panel invites scholars to consider the confluences between science and technology studies and gender and sexuality studies in their own research. Feminist, queer, and trans studies scholars attending to science, technology, environment, and disability are dismantling the rubrics of gender and body at the core of our fields in order to think more critically…
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Facilitated by: Dr. Moya Bailey is Assistant Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Panelists: Dr. Yndia Lorick-Wilmot is the Scholar-in-Residence at the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute (2018-2020), Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Dr. Kinitra…
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Join the WGSS program for a talk with visiting scholar Emily Hainze, who will talk about her current work in progress. Lunch will be served. This talk will examine the literary and artistic work produced through mandated educational programming in Framingham Reformatory for Women in Massachusetts and New York State Reformatory for Women in the…
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If you need more information on the event, please feel free to visit the webpage at www.bostonathenaeum.org. For registration (free for members, $15 for visitors), you can follow the link here.
To commemorate the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, we are excited to announce a Transcribe-a-thon of the Library of Congress’s Collection hosted by the National Parks of Boston and DH Hub with the Digital Scholarship Group and NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Please join us on Tuesday, January 28th from 12-2pm in 422…
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Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Special Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, will come speak at Northeastern University School of Law on January 13, 12 – 1:30 p.m. In 2017 the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Mr. Madrigal-Borloz as UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender…
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Savannah Shange will be discussing her book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco on Friday December 6th, from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. in the Cabral Center. Please register for this event in the link provided below!
Please mark your calendars for December 2nd, 2019, when we will welcome Porsha Olayiwola, Boston’s Poet Laureate, to Northeastern campus for a reading and conversation. There will be a reception prior to the event, on campus 5:30 – 6:30 PM, location TBA. More details to follow!
WGSS Executive Committee member Carla Kaplan will be presenting her work, “Queen of the Muckrakers:” Jessica Mitford and the Arts of Activism, at the Fall 2019 Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series. Other presentations will include Matthew Bowser, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, on his work Misdirected Rage: The Anti-Immigrant Response to Co-Colonialism and…
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As a part of the Health Sciences and IHESJR’s Works in Progress Series Dr. Rachel Rodgers will be presenting her work Reel2Real: An Online Social Media Literacy Intervention for Body Image. Dr. Rodgers is an associate professor in the department of Applied Psychology and the director of the APPEAR lab (Applied Psychology Program for Eating…
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