This is an opportunity to meet other graduate students from other units.  For details, go to the SGS website.

At this session, you will meet your fellow incoming students and some faculty; we will also review program requirements, course registration, the funding package, and upcoming events at the Institute.

All WGSI graduate students who are teaching in WGSI for the first time should attend this training session.  It focuses on pedagogical issues arising in classes in women and gender studies.

New Directions in Black Studies: Mining the Raw and the Monstrous with Marlon M. Bailey and Jeffrey Q. McCune For more information click here.

A Life That's Good: Queer Perspectives on ‘Blood’, Sex and Health featuring Marlon M. Bailey, OmiSoore H. Dryden and Jeffrey Q. McCune For more information click here.

This talk explores options for navigating a meaningful career as a 'scholar activist' trained in Women and Gender Studies. Gender equality is a priority for states, NGOs, and private organizations committed to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and as a result, there is broad demand for graduates who can do gender-sensitive critical analysis and […]

Title:  Everyday Transgressions:  Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law In this book, Blackett tells the story behind the ILO’s 2011 Decent Work for Domestic Workers’ Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 – they created the first comprehensive, international standards to extend protections and rights to domestic workers laboring in homes […]

Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota Title:  "Hungry Translations in Search of Justice" Bio:  Richa Nagar’s transgenre and multilingual scholarship, creative writing, and cultural work in English, Hindi/ Hindustani, and Awadhi blurs the borders of academia, arts, and activism to build alliances with people's struggles and to engage questions of ethics, responsibility, and justice through knowledge […]

Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran, The Dickson Poon School of Law Title: Governance Feminism: Assessing Feminist Realities and Futures My talk will discuss the key themes of a project that I have engaged in with my collaborators (Janet Halley, Rachel Rebouche & Hila Shamir) that resulted in two books Governance Feminism: An Introduction and Governance Feminism: Notes from […]

Kandice Chuh, City University of New York Title:  Pedagogies of Il/liberal Humanism Can the humanities be oriented toward the ends of proliferating imaginaries and sensibilities disidentified from the ideologies and logics of liberalism and derived instead from attention to the entangled histories of and ongoing connection among the impoverishment of peoples and worlds, enslaved and […]