Join us for the 16th Annual Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies reception and presentation by award recipients.

Please join Associate Professor of History and Department Chair Reiko Hillyer discuss her latest book, A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Century America (Duke University Press, February 16, 2024)  in conversation with Jerry Harp. Influenced by her work teaching in the Inside-Out program, Hillyer traces the decline of practices that used to connect incarcerated people more regularly to the free world.  

Submissions due by 5pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.

Submissions due by 5pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.

Day 3 of the 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium focuses on the ways in which digital technology, internet platforms, and online spaces have shaped and been shaped by understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality. 

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, multidisciplinary panels, workshops, readings, and other events, as well as an art exhibition. View the complete event schedule for details. 

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Moya Bailey, associate professor at Northwestern University and author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance.

What Are Gender and Sexuality in the World We Want?

Presentation description: This presentation takes the form of a short story that explores gender and sexuality at the end of the anthropocene. Gather round to hear a tale of hope, even as the world as we know it is at an end. Dr. Bailey will explore what kinds of digital worlds we are dreaming in the aftermath of apocalypse and how our attachment to “identities” might help or harm our process on this unfolding path.