The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is currently accepting submissions for its 27th annual WGSS Student Research Symposium. Undergraduates and graduate students are welcome to submit research papers, creative writing, or performances engaging topics of gender and/or sexuality and their intersections with race, ethnicity, class, ability, coloniality, etc. Interested students can submit their proposals by 4:30 p.m. Friday, February 16.
This year’s symposium will be held in the Bone Student Center’s Prairie Rooms from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, April 12. The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Lauren Gutterman, associate professor of American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and affiliate of LGBTQ Studies and History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her keynote is titled “Queer Survival: LGBTQ Leadership in the Child Sexual Abuse Survivors’ Movement.”
More information about events related to the WGSS Program’s landmark 50th anniversary will be made available later this spring.
