News and Events
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42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium Focuses on Science and Medicine
This year’s Gender Studies Symposium will explore the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. The symposium runs from March 8-10.
Call for Papers: 2023 Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies
Submissions due by 5pm, Friday, March 24, 2023
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.
Monica Lewinsky BS ’95 Returns to Campus
In her personal, vulnerable narrative, Lewinsky celebrated compassion; destigmatized asking for help; and revealed her hope for a legacy of emerging from the unimaginable to add value to the world.
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.
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.
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
Shannon Boerner ’15
Integrated Marketing Producer at Fast Company
Liz Scott ’12
Executive Assistant at AWS Elemental
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kimberly Brodkin named Lewis & Clark Teacher of the Year
Kimberly Brodkin named Lewis & Clark Teacher of the Year - EVENTS
Past Events
2023 Reception for Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies
Join us for the 15th Annual Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies reception and presentation by award recipients.
An Evening with Poet Amy Baskin — LC English Spring ’23 Reading Series
Amy Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner. Her first collection, NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023), is about Lilith, the mythic “first woman,” and will be available in April. Amy works with students and faculty in the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark and helps run the annual Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop. Her chapbook HYSTERICAL CAKE was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2022. Her work has been featured in journals including Cultural Daily, Timberline Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Friends Journal, Literary Review, and SWWIM.
Love or Compulsion: How Beauty Workers in Pakistan Manage Stigma
When it comes to choosing our careers, we are often told to “do what you love” and expected to be passionate about our jobs. However, most discussions of “work passion” focus on middle-class professionals, college graduates, care workers, or creative workers. Join Sidra Kamran in exploring what it means to profess love or passion for a stigmatized working-class job and why workers use contradictory narratives to explain their occupational choices.
