Wednesday, March 13, 2024 in Union E245A at 6:00pm-8:00pm
Come celebrate the recipients of the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award!… Continue Reading »
Vilas Lecture Series Speaker Kavita Panjabi
Friday, April 5, 2024, in Mitchell Hall 195 at 3:00pm
Kavita Panjabi continues the Vilas Lecture Speaker Series tradition with “Affects of War in Civil Society: A South Asian Feminist Movement” in Mitchell Hall room 195 at 3:00 p.m.… Continue Reading »
Racist Love: #MeToo and Techno-orientalism’s Sexy Things
This talk explores the ways that Asian Americans are subject to “racist love,” fetishistic attraction counter-intuitively linked to racial anxiety.… Continue Reading »
Meet Jane Ward!
Bagel Time with Jane Ward Women’s & Gender Studies is offering the opportunity for Graduate Students to get some time with this spring’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker Jane Ward, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, in advance of … Continue Reading »
WGS Feminist Lecture Speaker: Jane Ward
Women’s & Gender Studies Feminist Lecture Series Presents The Tragedy of Heterosexuality in Global Context A Lecture by Jane Ward Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward critiques one of the basic … Continue Reading »
WGS Lunch & Learn Series Returns for Spring, 2023
Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn series returns for Spring, 2023. On Thursday, March 30, 2023 we kick off with a presentation of “Women’s Roles in Language Revitalization” by Margaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean, … Continue Reading »
26th Annual Festival of Films in French
The 26th Annual Festival of Films in French runs from Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 26, 2023. Women’s & Gender Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event. This festival attends to women’s choices and showcases adaptations … Continue Reading »
Cynthia Laborde, “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France”
Women’s & Gender Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Global Studies Speaker Series’ presentation on Friday, February 17, 2023 at 2:00 pm. In her talk “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France,” Dr. Laborde will focus on … Continue Reading »
WGS Paper & Project Contest Now Open
Interested in a Scholarship? In anticipation of Women’s History Month (March), during February each year Women’s & Gender Studies hosts the annual UWM Student Research Paper & Project Contest. Undergraduate or graduate research papers or projects having to do with women, gender, … Continue Reading »
Calling All Student Activists!
The Casey O’Brien Activist Award is now open in the scholarship portal! The award is given in recognition of student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women’s issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or racial … Continue Reading »