WGS Vilas Trust Lecture

Women’s & Gender Studies is proud to announce Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and author of Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality (2018), Gender Love (2017), and The Black Body in Ecstasy Reading Race, Reading Pornography (2014).

On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 1:00 pm, Dr. Nash will present “Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars.”

This virtual event is sponsored by the William F. Vilas Trust Fund and Women’s & Gender Studies.  Co-sponsored by African & African Diaspora Studies; Comparative Ethnic Studies; Cultures & Communities; English; French, Italian & Comparative Literature; Geography; Inclusive Excellence Center; Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; Sociology; Center for 21st Century Studies; and the Women’s Resource Center.

The event is free and open to the public: registration is required.

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