Fall, 2019 Brown Bag Series Speakers Announced

Women’s & Gender Studies is hosting the Brown Bag Series of lectures again this fall.  One Wednesday per month, we invite anyone to join us in Curtin Hall, room 535B at 12:30 pm to hear esteemed lecturers speak on a variety of fascinating topics.  Discussion follows.

First up, on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, we are proud to host Maria Novotny, Assistant Professor in the English Department at UWM.  She will be presenting, “Sperm Stories: Testing a Male Infertility Social Media Health Campaign.”

Next, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, UWM’s own Director of LGBT+ Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, Cary Gabriel Costello will speak on “Reframing Nonconsensual Intersex Surgeries as Conversion Therapies.”

We round out 2019 on Wednesday, December 04, 2019 with Women’s & Gender Studies own Visiting Assistant Professor, Jeremiah Favara, speaking on “A Woman’s Work in the Military: Gender & Military Recruiting in the 1990s and 2000s.”

Mark your calendars and bring your lunch and join us for some great information and lively discussion.  Free and open to the public.

Brown Bag Fall 2019

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