Gender Studies Symposium 2021
40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium
Lack & Absence
March 10–12, 2021
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40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium -
Gender Studies Symposium virtual art show gallery -
Artistic Expression of Gender and Sexuality panel -
Conversation with keynote speaker Carmen Maria Machado -
Keynote speaker Jennifer C. Nash with symposium co-chairs Phoenix Bruner '21 and Kendall Arlasky '21 -
Biomedicine, Identity, and the Body panel -
Differing Depictions: Representations of Gender and Sexuality panel -
Domestic Subversion: Resisting Patriarchal Power panel -
Feminist Haunts panel -
Gendered Work, Gendered Labor panel -
Co-chairs Phoenix Bruner and Kendall Arlasky in an interview for the PioLog podcast -
(In)Visibility panel -
Workshop: The Isolation and Loneliness of Prison -
Conversation with keynote speaker Jennifer C. Nash -
No More Stolen Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) panel -
Navigating Oppressive Systems panel -
Conversation with keynote speaker Jennifer C. Nash -
Queer Resistance, Identity, and Spaces panel -
Symposium book display at Watzek Library -
The Secretaries Performance. Photo by Owen Carey.Owen Carey -
Co-chairs Phoenix Bruner and Kendall Arlasky at the Secretaries Performance
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Gender Studies Symposium! Some of this year’s events were recorded, and we have posted those recordings to our website.
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.
This year’s symposium asks where we can witness absences, how we might attend to them, and when they may even be desirable. What leads to absences, and what makes us see gaps as something to remedy? How have boundaries been drawn in academia, communities, or other spaces, and what happens when those boundaries are reconfigured?
Attending to absence is an act of recovery as well as a project of imagination. Join us at this year’s symposium in considering not only what has been lacking but also in exploring what it means to pursue presence.
Student co-chairs 2020-21: Kendall Arlasky ’21 and Phoenix Bruner ’21