Objection!  Gender, Sex, Law, and Social Change

31st Annual Symposium

March 14-16, 2012

• Overview
• Schedule
• Speakers
• Art Show
• Archive
• Details

2012 Symposium Overview

Join us for three days of workshops, panel discussions, readings, performances, lectures, and other events exploring gender, sexuality, law, and social change.

The symposium also includes a student-curated art exhibition featuring work by artists from our campus and the Portland community.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

About the Symposium

For nearly 30 years, one of the highlights of the spring semester has been the annual Gender Studies Symposium.  Organized by a committee of students, with support from faculty and staff, the Gender Studies Symposium brings together representatives from academia, activism, and the arts for three days of workshops, roundtable discussions, lectures, film screenings, readings, performances, academic panels, and other intellectual and creative explorations of local, national and global gender issues.

Over the years the Gender Studies Symposium has attracted many distinguished speakers.  To name just a few, we have heard from authors Sherman Alexie and Dorothy Allison, artists Mary Ellen Mark and the Guerrilla Girls, poets Nikki Giovanni and Andrea Gibson, scholars Anne Fausto-Sterling and Michael Kimmel, and activists Leslie Feinberg and Angela Davis.  For the complete list, take a look at the archive of past programs.