Lunch & Learn Cancellation

Due to unforseen circumstances, the October 13 Lunch & Learn event has been cancelled.  It will be rescheduled.  Please watch this space for updates! Thank you for understanding.

Lunch & Learn Reminder

Due to unforseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.  Follow this space for rescheduling information when available.  Thank you for your understanding.   Just a reminder that Thursday, October 13 is another Women’s & Gender Studies installment in the Lunch …

Lunch & Learn Series is BACK!

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues for the fall semester.  Check out what’s on tap:         Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm “’If you don’t want your stick touched, …

An Evening with Carolyn Eichner

Carolyn Eichner, author of FEMINISM’S EMPIRE and THE PARIS COMMUNE – an in-person Boswell event About this event On August 26, 2022, Boswell Book Company hosts an evening with Carolyn Eichner, author of Feminism’s Empire and The Paris Commune. Cohosted by UWM’s Department of …

WGS Co-Sponsorship: Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story

Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story WGS is pleased to be co-sponsoring A Conversation with Maryam Durani and Kathleen Dunn Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story.  Thursday, May 5th at 3:30pm at the AGSL. Please make sure to register in advance …

Lunch & Learn Series Continues

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues for the spring semester.  Check out what’s on tap: Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm “Mapping Reproductive (In)Justice: Curatorial Reflections in Exhibiting Milwaukee as a Hostile Reproductive Terrain” Presented …

WGS Lunch and Learn Series Continues

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at noon with a presentation by Dr. Rae Langes, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at UW-Eau Claire.  She is presenting “This is Sentimental Archaeology!” Excavating, …

Vilas Trust Speaker Named

UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Silvia Federici, professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, as the Vilas Trust Speaker. Silvia Federici is a feminist scholar, teacher, and activist. She was one of the founders …

Community Crisis: Affordable Housing

IGNITE National and UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies Department are happy to host “Community Crisis: Affordable Housing”, an event to create dialogue about affordable housing and how it impacts everyone. Today, many community members are facing housing instability. Affordable housing …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.