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40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium explores Lack and Absence
For 40 years, the Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium has fostered timely and thoughtful academic discourse on gender and sexuality. From March 10–12, this year’s theme of “Lack and Absence” used what is missing, overlooked, excluded, or invisible to find what it might mean to uncover, include, illuminate, amplify, or recuperate what has been absent or lacking.
Call for Papers: Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies
Submissions due by 5pm, Friday, March 26, 2021
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.
Theatre Department Explores Gender and Performativity in The Secretaries
The Secretaries, a campy horror-comedy that exemplifies feminist, queer theatre took performativity to extremes by showing violence and intimacy while remaining six feet apart.
Exhibitions Celebrate 40 Years of the Gender Studies Symposia
Two exhibitions in Watzek Library are celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the gender studies symposia. One, located online and on the top floor of the library, examines “Lack and Absence”. The other, found near the writing center and online, examines the history of the symposia.
Savage and Lokey Awards Celebrate Outstanding Faculty
Both the David Savage Award and the Lorry Lokey Awards prioritize and celebrate inspirational leadership, rigorous scholarship, and creative accomplishments in the classroom and in the broader academic community. This year’s awards recognize four Lewis & Clark faculty members from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities for their excellence.
Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling Launch TransActive Gender Project
The move is a strategic expansion of the graduate school’s social justice mission
Gender Studies Symposium Explores (in)Security
The 37th annual Gender Studies Symposium will explore what security looks like in the face of modern dangers. Students, faculty, and guests from Portland and beyond will examine issues through the lenses of community engagement, gender politics, and misconceptions surrounding sexuality. The student-run symposium runs from Wednesday, March 7 to Friday, March 9.
Annual Gender Studies Symposium Finds a Point of Access
Featuring panels, discussions, and keynote lectures from Roxane Gay and Eli Clare, Lewis & Clark’s 36th annual Gender Studies Symposium, “Point of Access,” will confront how gender and sexuality interact with power. The symposium, which runs March 8 through 10 and is free and open to the public, is a student-led effort to foster conversations on the nuances of privilege and accessibility.
39th Annual Gender Studies Symposium Explores the Tensions of Possibility
For almost 40 years, the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium has been fostering cutting edge academic discourse on gender and sexuality. From March 11–13, this year’s theme, Tensions of Possibility, transcends traditional scholastic boundaries and takes an interdisciplinary approach to research on gender and sexuality.
Kimberly Brodkin named Lewis & Clark Teacher of the Year
Kimberly Brodkin named Lewis & Clark Teacher of the Year
Students Create Nonprofit to Provide Undergarments for Homeless Women
Paige Sanders BA ’18 and Ashley Garber BA ’17 started the Portland Panty Project to address the lack of clean, size-appropriate undergarments for homeless women in the Portland metro area. Their passion project has become a social enterprise.
Shannon Boerner ’15
Integrated Marketing Producer at Fast Company
Liz Scott ’12
Executive Assistant at AWS Elemental
Q&A with adjunct faculty member Sara Appel
The Gender Studies Department is happy to welcome Sara Appel, an adjunct professor. Sara will be teaching GEND 200: Gender & Sexualities in the United States this spring, along with a section of Exploration & Discovery (CORE-107) which focuses on social class.
Photo gallery for 8th annual Dorothy Berkson Award in Gender Studies
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Past Events
Picture a Scientist Film Screening and Discussion Panel
The Department of Teacher Education at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling is pleased to present a virtual screening of the thought-provoking film, Picture a Scientist, followed by a panel discussion featuring MAT science teacher alumnae, current MAT candidates, and women scientists from the local area who will discuss their experiences as a diverse group of women in science.
Student Leadership and Service Attends RACE TALKS
Join other Portlanders for this race dialogue!
Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Gendered Work, Gendered Labor
Gendered Work, Gendered Labor
Moderator: Daena Goldsmith, L&C associate dean of faculty development and professor of rhetoric and media studies
Dorrell Thompson, L&C ’21, “A Truck of Her Own: Women, Space, and ‘Gender Tools’ in the Trucking Industry”
Shelby Rockelein, L&C ’19, “The Price of Dying: How Capitalism Stole Women’s Role in the Good Death”
Michelle Kofman, University of Puget Sound ’21, “Food for Gendered Thought: An Examination of the Patriarchal Division in the Domestic and Professional Realms of Cooking”
Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Queer Resistance, Identity, and Spaces
Queer Resistance, Identity, and Spaces
Moderator: Melanie Kohnen, L&C assistant professor of rhetoric and media studies
Mie Kumin, L&C ’21, “‘It Comes from The West’: Sexuality, Nationalism, and Otherness in Russia”
Ecem Ece, PhD candidate in sociology and criminology & law, University of Florida, “Being Spaceless: A Post-Structuralist Study of Non-Spatiality in LGBTQ+ Movements”
Arunima Azad, L&C ’21, “Relational Bodies: Working with Water and Womxn in Urban South Asia”
Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Biomedicine, Identity, and the Body
Biomedicine, Identity, and the Body
Moderator: Sepideh Bajracharya, L&C assistant professor of anthropology with term
Luca Sax, L&C ’22, “Illuminating the Intersection of Socioeconomic Status and Transgender Identities in Medical Emergencies”
Audrey Barrett, L&C ’21, “Narrating Eating Disorders: Illness and Healing in the Context of American Culture and Biomedicine”
Zo Norling, L&C ’21, “Questioning Embodiment: A Trans Analysis of the Potentiality of the Felt Sense”
40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium: Lack & Absence
The 40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will focus on questions of absence and lack, exploring the theoretical, political, and interpersonal dimensions of these questions in terms of gender and sexuality. We invite participants to consider who or what is overlooked, hidden, excluded, silenced, or invisible, as well as what it might mean to uncover, include, illuminate, amplify, or recuperate what has been absent or lacking.
Gender Studies Symposium Panel–(In)Visibility
(In)Visibility
Moderator: Magalí Rabasa, L&C assistant professor of Hispanic studies
Samuel Shelton, PhD candidate in women, gender, and sexuality studies, Oregon State University, “Barely Hanging On: The Challenges of Care Work and Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Time of COVID-19”
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, associate librarian and coordinator of library instruction, California State University, San Bernardino, “Reproductive Failure: Neoliberal Bodies & Invisible Labor”
Chasia Elzina Jeffries, University of Southern California ’21, “Wretched Women: Frantz Fanon & the Unarchivability of Black Women”
Madisyn Taylor, L&C ’21, “Not-So-Hot Girl Summer”
Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Feminist Haunts
Feminist Haunts
Moderator: Therese Augst, L&C associate professor of German
Alyssa Dewees, PhD candidate in English, University of Florida, “Rise Again: Southern Ghost Heritage and the Ladies of the Night Tour”
Faolan Thompson, L&C ’13 and former GSS co-chair, master’s student in gender studies at Charles University of Prague ’22, “To Archive the Ephemeral: ‘Dead’ Platforms and Studying Identity Formation in the Online Era”
Jenna Tamimi, L&C postdoctoral fellow in theatre, “Flirting with Resurrection: Eulogy for a Dyke Bar”
Kendall Arlasky, L&C ’21 and GSS co-chair, “Summoning Spectres: Considering Ghosts as a Framework Through Which to Address a Lack of Feminist Narratives Within the Historical Archive”
