Past Events

March 28, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 27, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 26, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 25, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 24, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 23, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 22, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 21, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 20, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 19, 2024

“A Wall is Just a Wall”: Reiko Hillyer in Conversation with Jerry Harp

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.  

March 19, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 18, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 17, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 16, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 15, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 14, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 13, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 13, 2024

Call for Papers: 2024 Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies

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.

March 13, 2024

Call for Papers: Deadline in one week - Wednesday March 13, for 2024 Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies (copy)

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.

March 12, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 11, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 10, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 9, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 8, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 8, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 3

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. 

Moya Bailey is smiling in a white shirt and glasses. She has her arms crossed and is leaning against a bookcase.
March 7, 2024

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote: Moya Bailey

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.

March 7, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 7, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 2

Day 2 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. 

Avery Dame-Griff is standing in front of a glass wall. He is wearing a blue jacket and is smiling.
March 6, 2024

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote: Avery Dame-Griff

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Avery Dame-Griff, lecturer at Gonzaga University and author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet.

When It Was Ours: A Queer and Trans Counterhistory of the Internet

Presentation description: In this talk, Dr. Dame-Griff explores three capsule histories of queer and trans services and communities from the early years of the nascent Internet. Each of these stories represents not only a path not taken but also an alternative model for our “digital world,” one where accessibility, community investment, and shared governance are prioritized over profit. Even with rising outside pressure, their creators and users resisted the capitalistic impulse to see the web as solely a transactional medium focused on usability and hyper-optimization. By the end, we’ll consider how these stories inspire us to rethink why we connect online.

March 6, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit encourages viewers to reflect on their own and others’ experiences around gender and digital technology.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Isha Elboctorcy ’24, McKenna Jones ’24, and Cecily Munster ’26

until April 1, 2024
March 6, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 1

Day 1 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.

February 20, 2024

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 6-8, 2024.

Snacks are always provided!

February 19, 2024

60th Anniversary Arthur L. Throckmorton Lecture: Kelly Lytle Hernández on “Million Dollar Hoods: Using Maps, Data, and Archives to End Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles”

Los Angeles County operates the largest jail system in the United States, which incarcerates more people than any other nation on Earth. At a cost of nearly $1 billion annually, more than 20,000 people are caged every night in L.A.’s county jails and city lockups. But not every neighborhood is equally impacted by L.A.’s massive jail system. In fact, L.A.’s nearly billion-dollar jail budget is largely committed to incarcerating many people from just a few neighborhoods. In some communities, more than one-million dollars is spent annually on incarceration. These are L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods.

Led by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) research team maps and monitors how much local authorities spend on locking up residents in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Led by Black and Brown women and driven by formerly-incarcerated persons as well as residents of Million Dollar Hoods, the MDH team also provides the only full and public account of the leading causes of arrest in Los Angeles, revealing that drug possession and DUIs are the top booking charges in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Collectively, this data counters the popular misunderstanding that incarceration advances public safety by removing violent, serious offenders from the streets. In fact, local authorities are investing millions in locking up the County’s most economically vulnerable, geographically isolated, and racially marginalized populations for drug and alcohol-related crimes. This talk provides an introduction to the Million Dollar Hoods project, method, and impact.

February 12, 2024

CALL FOR ART 2024 Gender Studies Symposium Deadline today!

43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium March 6-8, 2024
“Being Online”

Art submission deadline is end of day on Monday, February 12, 2024.

February 6, 2024

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 6-8, 2024.

Snacks are always provided!

February 6, 2024

CALL FOR ART 2024 Gender Studies Symposium

43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium March 6-8, 2024
“Being Online”

Art submission deadline is end of day on Monday, February 12, 2024.

January 23, 2024

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting TODAY!

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 6-8, 2024.

Snacks are always provided!

January 23, 2024

CALL FOR ART 2024 Gender Studies Symposium

43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium March 6-8, 2024
“Being Online”

Art submission deadline is end of day on Monday, February 12, 2024.

Andrea Sempértegui
November 20, 2023

Fighting for the Amazon: Indigenous Women’s Stories

Guest Lecturer for GEND, LALS, SOAN and ENVS:
Andrea Sempértegui, Assistant Professor of Politics from Whitman College.

Presenting:
“Making the Forest, Fighting with the Forest: Mujeres Amazónicas’ Fight against Extractivism in Ecuador.”

November 8, 2023

Ray Warren Symposium Keynote Speaker Aya de León

Please join us at the 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies for a keynote presentation by Aya de León, an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate whose work is at the intersection of social identity and climate justice.

The Apocalypse Is Not Coming: Afrofuturism vs. the Climate Crisis

ASL interpretation will be provided.

Remote streaming will be available at the Zoom link posted to the symposium website. No registration is required to attend in person or stream remotely.

After the talk, please join us for a book signing in the Council Chamber foyer. The speakers’ books will be available for purchase.

November 3, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium 2024: Call for Proposals Deadline is Nov. 3

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

October 26, 2023

BANNED: A Teach-In About the Attack on Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies

An opportunity for students to have conversation with L&C faculty in Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies.

October 24, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium community meeting & Call for Proposals

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

October 10, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium community meeting & Call for Proposals

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

September 26, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium community meeting & Call for Proposals

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

April 10, 2023

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

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April 5, 2023

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.

March 14, 2023

2023 Gender Studies Symposium Art Exhibit Reception

Please join us in celebrating the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit, curated by L&C students Anika Bednar ’23, Burton Scheer ’25, and Sascha Tappan ’25.

Light refreshments will be served.

March 10, 2023

2023 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 3

Day 3 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

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. 

March 9, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote: Dr. Dána-Ain Davis

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Dr. Dána-Ain Davis, professor of urban studies and anthropology at Queens College, and author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth.

Black Anti-bodies and the Repercussions of Obstetric Racism

Presentation abstract: This talk charts the way two Black reproducing bodies are shaped into anti-bodies. In this thought piece, I share the birthing experiences of two women and think through their medical encounters by drawing on Hortense Spillers and Emily Martin to excavate how history degrades Black bodies, shaping them into fodder for medical mistreatment. Using historical examples of how Black bodies sit on a continuum of immunity and susceptibility to illness and disease, I argue that racism produces Black anti-bodies—those bodies weighed down by Black disposability, neglect, and medical abuse.

March 9, 2023

2023 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 2

Day 2 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

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. 

March 8, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote: Jules Gill-Peterson

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. 

Transition and Abortion as Vernacular Medicine 

Presentation abstract: The legal principles of the right to abortion and the right to medical transition have been framed since the 1970s as analogous to one another. Now that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has imperiled both, what other modes of relation activate ongoing histories of mutual aid and care? This talk takes up trans histories of transition and abortion as forms of vernacular medicine to explore what they can teach us in this moment about expertise, practice, and care that exceed legal or state blessings.

March 8, 2023

2023 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 1

Day 1 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

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. 

February 21, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 42nd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 8-10, 2023.

Snacks are always provided!

February 14, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 42nd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 8-10, 2023.

Snacks are always provided!

February 7, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting and CALL FOR ART

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 42nd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 8-10, 2023.

Snacks are always provided!

We are currently accepting submissions for the symposium art exhibit.
Deadline: End of day on February 6
Submit art through this Google form

February 6, 2023

CALL FOR ART 2023 Gender Studies Symposium

42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium March 8-10, 2023
“Bodies of Knowledge: Gender, Sex, Science, and Medicine”

Art submission deadline is end of day on Monday, February 6, 2023.

January 24, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium Community Meeting and CALL FOR ART

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 42nd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 8-10, 2023.

Snacks are always provided!

We are currently accepting submissions for the symposium art exhibit.
Deadline: End of the day on February 6
Submit art through this Google form.

December 4, 2022

DRAG: A Fabulous Workshop!

Join two of Portland’s most beloved gender rebels for an evening of drag, dance, and entertainment where YOU participate in the magic. This special one-of-a-kind workshop combines a lecture about Portland’s drag history and theory, a scintillating all-levels dance warm-up, and performances by Pepper and Isaiah and culminates in a group drag number where everyone gets to shine.

PLUS!  Come get fabulous with LC’s drag club, Gagged! We will be getting ready together before the drag event. Let’s do our make-up, swap boas, hang out, and build community! Sunday 5:30-7:30 Theatre Classroom.

December 3, 2022

Transgender in America: Looking Back and Moving Forward [Online]

Saturdays, December 3 & 10, 2022, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. |  6 CEUs or PDUs

November 11, 2022

Race Monologues: 19th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Learn more about the history of Race Monologues.

November 4, 2022

Gender Studies Symposium 2023: Call for Proposals Deadline is Nov. 4

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on questions of gender, sex, science, and medicine.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.
October 28, 2022

LC English Fall ’22 Reading Series: hurmat kazmi

LC English welcomes hurmat kazmi to our LC English Fall ’22 Reading Series! hurmat kazmi is a fiction writer and playwright from Karachi, Pakistan. They are currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and have published fiction in The New Yorker, American Short Fiction, and McSweeney’s, and The Atlantic.
October 27, 2022

LALS Encuentro 2022: Culture & Diaspora in Latin American & Latino Studies

Join the Lewis & Clark College Latin American & Latino Studies Program on October 27th for three events on the theme of “Culture and Diaspora in Latin American & Latino Studies.”
Ants and Grasshopper poster
October 16, 2022

ENVX Symposium: The Ants and the Grasshopper film screening and discussion

The ENVX Symposium will present a showing of the film, The Ants and the Grasshopper.  The film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Dr. Bruce Podobnik, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Jay Odenbaugh, Professor of Philosophy.
October 11, 2022

Gender Studies Symposium community meeting & Call for Proposals

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 42nd annual Gender Studies Symposium, which will take place in March 2023.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on questions of gender, sex, science, and medicine.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.
March 11, 2022

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Reimagining Bodyminds and Liberation in Pandemic Times

Sami Schalk, associate professor of gender and women’s studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison whose interdisciplinary research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially speculative fiction and Black literature
March 10, 2022

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Fantasy and Sex Work

Fantasy and Sex Work
Moderator: Magalí Rabasa, L&C associate professor of Hispanic studies
Cat, Haymarket Pole Collective
Kat and Saiya, PDX Sex Workers Resource Project
Matilda, Stroll PDX
March 9, 2022

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Holding On to Hope in Human Beings: Transformative Justice for Troubled Times

Kai Cheng Thom, award-winning author and expert practitioner in group facilitation and conflict resolution will provide the keynote presentation remotely for individual viewing or as a group gathered in Olin 301.
Nikky Finney
February 28, 2022

An Evening with Nikky Finney

Join us for An Evening with Nikky Finney as she shares her work and discusses her marvelous craft. Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (pub date April 15, 2020) is her first poetry collection since winning the National Book Award in 2011. In addition to the poems, there are hotbeds, a horticulture term introducing her readers to her journals, the place where most of her poems have always found their calcium and strong knees. There are also artifacts, images and photographs, that assist the words in composing how the poet’s poet-life came to be. Over the last 30 years each and every Nikky Finney book has always been wonderfully different but this long awaited new minglement of word and image crafts a new kind of American poesy.
February 10, 2022

CALL FOR ART: 2022 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

41st Annual Gender Studies Symposium March 9-11, 2022
“Fantasy”
Call for Art submission deadline is Feb. 10th at 11 pm
Picture a Scientist
April 13, 2021

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.

until April 13, 2021
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March 18, 2021

Student Leadership and Service Attends RACE TALKS

Join other Portlanders for this race dialogue!
March 12, 2021

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”
March 12, 2021

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”
March 12, 2021

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”
March 11, 2021

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”
March 11, 2021

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”
March 11, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Workshop–The Isolation and Loneliness of Prison

Workshop: The Isolation and Loneliness of Prison

Facilitated by Joshua Edward Wright, co-founder of Liberation Literacy and co-creator of All Rise magazine

Joshua Edward Wright, who was released two years ago from serving over four years in prison, will discuss the struggle to find identity, stay connected, manage emotions of loneliness and isolation, and navigate a heavily gendered and toxic environment of imprisonment in this facilitated workshop.
March 11, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Navigating Oppressive Systems

Navigating Oppressive Systems

Moderator: Sarah Warren, L&C associate professor of sociology and director of Latin American studies

Samuel Shelton
, PhD candidate in women, gender, and sexuality studies, Oregon State University, “Learning to Live Together: Community Building Through Reparative Accountability Mapping”

Katelin Ling Cooper, L&C ’21, “Prisons Engender Harm”

Sam Harrell, PhD student in social work, Portland State University, “Care & Coercion: The History of Social Workers as Prison Wardens”

JahAsia Jacobs, L&C ’20, “Collections and Crises: Black Affective Publics and the Suspension of Student Loan Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

March 10, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Presentation: Carmen Maria Machado

Keynote presentation by Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties, and writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania
March 10, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Differing Depictions: Representations of Gender and Sexuality

Differing Depictions: Representations of Gender and Sexuality

Moderator: Rishona Zimring, L&C professor of English

Emma Piorier, University of Puget Sound ’21, “The Girl House Project: Narratives of Girlhood and Building a Site of Analysis”

Ryce Matsumoto, University of Puget Sound ’21, “Capturing the Relationship Between (Human) Hegemonic Expectations of Gender and Nature Photography, Frame by Frame”

Phoenix Bruner, L&C ’21 and GSS co-chair, “The Persistence and Impossibility of Queer Life: Representations of Queerness in Katherine Mansfield’s At the Bay

Pamela Nassar Altabcharani, L&C ’21, “Who’s Afraid of the French Lesbian?: Comparing Sapphic Characters by Male and Female Writers in 19th- and 20th-century French Literature”

March 10, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Artistic Expression of Gender and Sexuality

Artistic Expression of Gender and Sexuality

Moderator: Rebecca Lingafelter, L&C associate professor of theatre

Dana Levy, University of Puget Sound ’21, “We Are Ever New: ‘Transing’ the Time of Music Through the Life and Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland”

Cas Urban, University of Puget Sound ’21, “Escaping and Transcending the Construction and Performance of Gender in Irish Dance Shows”

Additional presenters to be confirmed.
March 10, 2021

Gender Studies Symposium Panel–Domestic Subversion: Resisting Patriarchal Power

Domestic Subversion: Resisting Patriarchal Power

Moderator: Andrea Hibbard, L&C assistant professor with term of English

Ashley O’Leary, L&C ’22, “Rocked the Cradle and Ruled the World: The Transcendent Possibilities of Maternal Feeling in George Egerton’s New Women”

Claire Phegley, L&C ’21, “Raising a Revolution: Free Love and Anarchist Motherhood, 1890-1915”

Kendall Arlasky, L&C ’21 and GSS co-chair, “Captive Domesticity: Gender, the Home, and Escape in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan and John Millington Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen

Charlotte Powers, L&C ’21, “Receive and Resist: British Colonization’s Impact on Maori Women’s Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction”

Poster for Joint Virtual Fair in Handshake. Registration begins Feb. 1st for Alumni and Students. RSVP in Handshake.
February 24, 2021

Spring Joint Virtual Career Fair

The Career Center invites you to attend our spring Joint Virtual Career Fair in Handshake!

Student and Alumni registration is currently open - sign up for a 1:1 or group session ASAP!
Multi colored profile faces are surrounded by chains that are breaking. Underneath are the words, RACE TALKS. Uniting to break the chains...
February 18, 2021

Student Leadership and Service Attends RACE TALKS

Join other Portlanders for this race dialogue!
February 12, 2021

Call for Art: Gender Studies Symposium 2021

The 40th Gender Studies Symposium will explore ideas of absence and lack in relation to gender and sexuality. Though we especially welcome works engaging with this year’s theme, all visual art examining gender and sexuality will be considered. This year’s exhibit will be a virtual gallery.
Submission guidelines:
• Send 3-5 images of work(s)
• Include a short creative statement (150-300 words) to accompany your works
• Provide title, dimensions, and materials
Submission deadline: Monday, February 15 at 6 pm
To Submit: Use this submission form.
February 10, 2021

Call for Art: Gender Studies Symposium 2021

The 40th Gender Studies Symposium will explore ideas of absence and lack in relation to gender and sexuality. Though we especially welcome works engaging with this year’s theme, all visual art examining gender and sexuality will be considered. This year’s exhibit will be a virtual gallery.
Submission guidelines:
• Send 3-5 images of work(s)
• Include a short creative statement (150-300 words) to accompany your works
• Provide title, dimensions, and materials
Submission deadline: Monday, February 15 at 6 pm
To Submit: Use this submission form.
February 8, 2021

Call for Art: Gender Studies Symposium 2021

The 40th Gender Studies Symposium will explore ideas of absence and lack in relation to gender and sexuality. Though we especially welcome works engaging with this year’s theme, all visual art examining gender and sexuality will be considered. This year’s exhibit will be a virtual gallery.
Submission guidelines:
• Send 3-5 images of work(s)
• Include a short creative statement (150-300 words) to accompany your works
• Provide title, dimensions, and materials
Submission deadline: Monday, February 15 at 6 pm
To Submit: Use this submission form.
February 3, 2021

Call for Art: Gender Studies Symposium 2021

The 40th Gender Studies Symposium will explore ideas of absence and lack in relation to gender and sexuality. Though we especially welcome works engaging with this year’s theme, all visual art examining gender and sexuality will be considered. This year’s exhibit will be a virtual gallery.
Submission guidelines:
• Send 3-5 images of work(s)
• Include a short creative statement (150-300 words) to accompany your works
• Provide title, dimensions, and materials
Submission deadline: Monday, February 15 at 6 pm
To Submit: Use this submission form.
November 13, 2020

Roundtable discussion: Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Crisis. Ray Warren Symposium2020

Friday, November 13


2–3:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion: Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Crisis
In early April 2020 a group of activists, writers, and scholars convened to conduct interviews about the unprecedented mutual aid efforts emerging simultaneously around the world as communities of all kinds were forced to rapidly confront the challenges posed by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This transnational collaboration resulted in the formation of Colectiva Sembrar and the publication of a book in late June, Pandemic Solidarity, that includes over 100 interviews with individuals and collectives in over 17 countries and one autonomous territory, Rojava. This panel will bring together members of Colectiva Sembrar as well as some of the people interviewed in the book for a roundtable about solidarity, mutual aid, and social justice in the age of Covid-19.

Moderator: Magalí Rabasa, L&C assistant professor of Hispanic studies
Conversation featuring Hari Alluri, Timo Bartholl, Lais Gomes Duarte, Seyma Ozdemir, Magalí Rabasa, and Marina Sitrin

November 13, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


November 12, 2020

Black Diasporic Motherhood. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

4–5:30 p.m.
Black Diasporic Motherhood 
This panel centers the daily lived experiences of Afro-descendent mothers and explores their methods of resistance and ways of forming while mothering in an anti-Black society. The discussion will examine how Black mothers prepare their children to live in a racialized state, how Black mothers of different ethnicities socialize their children, and how transnational kinship is formed between Black mothers of varied cultural backgrounds.
November 11, 2020

2020 Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies-Keynote event

Wednesday, November 11
7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

November 11, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


November 9, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


November 6, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


November 5, 2020

Gender Studies Symposium 2021: Call for Proposals

We are accepting submissions for the 40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium!


November 5, 2020

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution
Zoom Webinar
Thursday, November 5th
4-5pm PT
Register now: bit.ly/LORU-LC
November 4, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


November 3, 2020

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution
Zoom Webinar
Thursday, November 5th
4-5pm PT
Register now: bit.ly/LORU-LC
November 2, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


October 30, 2020

Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations. Ray Warren Symposium 2020

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations


October 27, 2020

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution

Log On. Rise Up: The Global Women’s Revolution
Zoom Webinar
Thursday, November 5th
4-5pm PT
Register now: bit.ly/LORU-LC
March 12, 2020

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Jack Halberstam, After All: On Dereliction and Destitution

Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English, Columbia University
March 11, 2020

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Jack Halberstam, After All: On Dereliction and Destitution

Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English, Columbia University
March 10, 2020

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Jack Halberstam, After All: On Dereliction and Destitution

Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English, Columbia University
March 9, 2020

Gender Studies Symposium Keynote Event: Jack Halberstam, After All: On Dereliction and Destitution

Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English, Columbia University