Gender Studies Symposium
39th Annual Gender Studies Symposium
Tensions of Possibility
March 11-13, 2020
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39th Annual Gender Studies Symposium -
GSS co-chairs India Roper-Moyes '20, Rayce Samuelson '20, and Sharon Soffer '20 -
Keynote speaker Jack Halberstam -
Keynote speaker Jack Halberstam -
Keynote speaker Jack Halberstam -
GSS art show curators Nicole Vannewkirk '22, Lauren Cloughesy '20, Hannah Ronningen '20, and Eliana Wolper '20 -
GSS keynote speaker Feminista Jones with L&C students -
GSS keynote speaker Feminista Jones -
Keynote speaker Jack Halberstam and Rishona Zimring, L&C professor of English -
L&C President Wim Wiewel, Alice Wiewel, and Charlotte Powers '21 -
GSS co-chairs India Roper-Moyes '20, Rayce Samuelson '20, and Sharon Soffer '20 -
Keynote speaker Feminista Jones with audience -
GSS co-chairs -
Sage Walters, L&C ’18 presenting for the "On Screen: Representations of Gender and Sexuality" panel -
Film makers Yee Won Chong and Brooks Nelson at the Film screening and discussion: Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer -
GSS co-chairs introducing Jack Halberstam -
GSS co-chairs attempting social distancing with keynote speaker Jack Halberstam
Imagining future possibilities can provoke a combination of terror and hope. Imagining past possibilities can fill us with regret and relief. The present, then, serves as a forum on the possibilities of the past and future—the peril and promise, the cost and opportunity.
The 39th Annual Gender Studies Symposium invites us to think about invention, speculation, and possibility through theoretical lenses that focus on gender and sexuality. How have we imagined prospects for community, politics, and artistic expression? What might the future hold for understanding intimacy and the human body? In what ways are institutions, social ties, and ideologies entangled with the drive to innovate? Where are we headed, and what will those possibilities mean in relation to gender and sexuality?
2019-20 student co-chairs: Val Perry ’20 (fall only), India Roper-Moyes ’20,
Rayce Samuelson ’20, and Sharon Soffer ’20
All symposium lectures, workshops, performances, and panel discussions are free and open to the public.
No registration is required.