What is abolition? Ruth Wilson Gilmore states “Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons.” Abolition exists within the context of racialized, gendered, and ableist…

This symposium is part of broader efforts at FQT/GSWS to help departments imagine what trans inclusive pedagogies can look like in their respective fields while positioning gender-affirming pedagogies as co-constituted with anti-racist methodologies, accessible course design, and…

Free and open to the public ( register here) "My first bullet flew swiftly through the head of a would-be Mexican president, cut through a street block, a dance club, a Walmart, cut back through to a past never-ending, cut past and rattled in my brain until it bloomed into these…

The Critical Armenian Studies Collective is pleased to announce "Infidelities: Armenian Studies Otherwise" (March 24 – 26, 2023), a three-day international conference about new directions in the study of Armenian memory, culture, and displacement across West Asia and the Middle…

Ovidian-inspired erotic epyllia and their pornographic progeny play an important role in the early modern construction of racial whiteness. Francis Beaumont’s narrative verse Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1602) and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (c. 1684) illustrate…

Cat Dawson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Sawyer Seminar on Race and Visual Culture in the Americas, presents: " Monumentality Without Monuments ," on the relationship between queer, indigenous, and otherwise minoritized cultures, and the monumental form. This material is…

This semester, the students of GSWS 303 have studied the intersection of gender, capitalism, and the environment using heterodox theoretical frameworks. Drawing on Marxist-feminism, Indigenous epistemologies, Black Radicalism, and queer/transgender Marxism, the students…

Join us in celebrating our graduating honors thesis students as they present their work. Presenters include: Erin O'Malley, GSWS Major, "I am Where I Come From: Narratives of Transgender Asian Adoptees" Connor Hardy, GSWS Major, "Navigating University Responses to Sexual Violence…

For the 25th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, Jonathan D. Katz will deliver an online keynote lecture titled “A Viral Theory of Art: AIDS and the Aesthetics of Protest.” Registration is free for the lecture and online symposium. Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957…