WGS Center for Social Justice at OU

05/04/2022

Congratulations to Director for the WGS Center for Social Justice Dr. Rodney Bates for receiving the "It Takes a Village" Black Excellence Award, presented by African American Programs and Services. Recipients of this award are African American faculty members who have made significant contributions to the African-American community at the University of Oklahoma.

04/18/2022

Join us tomorrow!

RSVP here: https://ou.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8036987.

How does a seemingly ordinary item — the sneaker — provide an accessible starting point for examining complex issues, such as gender constructs, economic justice, and racial hierarchies?

Join us as the Gender + Equality Center's MVP (Men Valuing Progress) Initiative and Dr. Rodney Bates, Center for Social Justice bring to you: Sneakers and Social Justice. This event is a chance for sneakerheads to talk about the culture around kicks and how it intersects with social justice. Food and free giveaways will be provided to all attendees.

RSVP here:
https://ou.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8036987.

For questions regards accommodations please email [email protected].

04/14/2022

The Women's and Gender Studies Department is delighted to announce that our very own Dr. Carrie Schroeder has been chosen for the VPRP’s Award for Excellence in Research, Design, and Creative Expression in the Humanities and Fine Arts. This prestigious award is conferred upon a tenured or tenure-track OU faculty member whose career-long and/or recent work offers a transformative new direction in humanistic or creative development.

Dr. Schroeder’s work is broadly regarded as transformative humanistic research that changes how we collectively understand gender and women’s and children’s lives in late antiquity. Her many accomplishments include renowned scholarly monographs and peer-reviewed journal articles, an influential edited collection, and a digital humanities research project that has won the support of four institutional grants from the NEH. The VPRP award attests to Dr. Schroeder’s remarkable impact; her cumulative work has transformed and will continue to transform, research in a wide array of humanities-based scholarship.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Schroeder on this well-deserved award!

Learn more about Dr. Schroeder's research here https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/carrie-schroeder. To keep in touch via social media, follow her on Twitter at .

04/11/2022

How does a seemingly ordinary item — the sneaker — provide an accessible starting point for examining complex issues, such as gender constructs, economic justice, and racial hierarchies?

Join us as the Gender + Equality Center's MVP (Men Valuing Progress) Initiative and Dr. Rodney Bates, Center for Social Justice bring to you: Sneakers and Social Justice. This event is a chance for sneakerheads to talk about the culture around kicks and how it intersects with social justice. Food and free giveaways will be provided to all attendees.

RSVP here:
https://ou.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8036987.

For questions regards accommodations please email [email protected].

04/06/2022

Happening today! See you at 12pm!

"Keepers of the Dream: The Black Witness of the Jackson 5"

The next Gender and Justice presentation for the Spring of 2022 will be given by James Hill, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

The talk will take place on April 6th at 12pm via Zoom. To register, please visit https://oucenterforsocialjustice.wufoo.com/forms/k2b0f21194b148/ or scan the QR code on the flyer.

This talk examines the advent of the Jackson 5 within the discourses of racial unrest and law and order texturing the United States of America at the dawn of the 1970s. Central to this talk will be the ways the Jackson 5 and their prodigious leader negotiated the politics of their generation, the fantastic dimensions of Black popular culture, and the theocratic convictions of a faith community (Jehovah's Witnesses) eagerly awaiting the end of the world.

For more information about the Gender and Justice Speaker Series, visit https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/gender-and-justice-speaker-series. For accommodations, please email [email protected].

03/29/2022

"Keepers of the Dream: The Black Witness of the Jackson 5"

The next Gender and Justice presentation for the Spring of 2022 will be given by James Hill, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

The talk will take place on April 6th at 12pm via Zoom. To register, please visit https://oucenterforsocialjustice.wufoo.com/forms/k2b0f21194b148/ or scan the QR code on the flyer.

This talk examines the advent of the Jackson 5 within the discourses of racial unrest and law and order texturing the United States of America at the dawn of the 1970s. Central to this talk will be the ways the Jackson 5 and their prodigious leader negotiated the politics of their generation, the fantastic dimensions of Black popular culture, and the theocratic convictions of a faith community (Jehovah's Witnesses) eagerly awaiting the end of the world.

For more information about the Gender and Justice Speaker Series, visit https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/gender-and-justice-speaker-series. For accommodations, please email [email protected].

03/23/2022

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