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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Lunch & Learn Reminder

Just a reminder that Thursday, December 08, 2022 is the last in this semester’s Lunch & Learn series.  Beginning at 11:30 am, Leah Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor will present, “Queer (Re)Orientations: Reclaiming our Bodies, Our Selves.”  Be sure to be …

“Son-Mother,” Iranian Film Presentation

Iranian director and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi spent two years in Evin Prison, now famous around the globe, after her arrest in 2014 for charges of endangering national security and more, based on her documentary work; Son-Mother (2019) is her first …

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