Georgetown University Women's and Gender Studies Program

03/18/2023

Please join us on Monday, March 20th from 4-6 pm in ICC 450 for a conversation between WGST students and alumni! The alumni work in a variety of fields and are excited to talk to current WGST students. We hope to see you there!

11/09/2022

On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm EST online Georgetown University Linguistics will host Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko for a conversation on "Ukrainian Literature in Times of War." This is part of "Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities," which showcases work on forced migration that addresses the social, moral, aesthetic, and linguistic experiences of refugees and migrants.

Oksana Zabuzhko is an award-winning Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist who focuses on national identity and gender. Her first novel, Fieldwork in Ukrainian S*x, is considered one of the pivotal texts in post-Soviet Ukrainian literature. Controversial and pioneering, it denounces man-woman relationships that reaffirm traditional patriarchal roles and subject women to social and sexual oppression as the equivalent of totalitarianism. Zabuzhko’s second novel, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, addresses Ukraine’s opposition to the 20th-century Soviet regime, debunking the myth of the «friendships of nations» that endured in Putin’s Russia. Among her non-fiction books is Notre Dame d’Ukraine, centered around the fin-de-siècle Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrayinka but also showing the role of the European legacy in Ukrainian literature and culture at that time.

The event will take place via Zoom and you can register here:

Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko will discuss her work in the framework of the past and present ordeals of her nation.

11/07/2022

During Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13-19), the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Film and Media Studies Program, in conjunction with Residential Education, are pleased to sponsor a talk by computer scientist Silvia Sellán on the gender binary in computer animation and her experiences as a trans woman in the field.

Virtual Bodies that Matter: A Trans Researcher’s Career in Computer Graphics
Silvia Sellán, University of Toronto
Wednesday, November 16th
3:30-5:00 PM
Arrupe Hall Multipurpose Room
Zoom link provided on request

11/03/2022

Please join the Lannan Center on Tuesday, November 15th at 7:00PM for a conversation between novelist and essayist Laila Lalami and Aminatta Forna! This event will take place in Copley Formal Lounge and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, most recently, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, which was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.

For more information about this event, please visit: https://bit.ly/Laila-Lalami. We hope to see you there!

11/02/2022

White Privilege is the second of three works by Thomas F. DeFrantz in the Talking|Dance series, co-commissioned by the American Realness festival and Theater Magazine. These performances were conceived to be alongside the Reckoning with Racism in the American South research series at Duke University and have been performed nationally and internationally. A performative lecture by DeFrantz with live sound design and the use of a "Synthball" developed by Quran Karriem, White Privilege is a participatory piece that engages white privilege as a discourse, casting the performative space as an opportunity to enlarge care and do better.

Event Name: WHITE PRIVILEGE: An Interactive LECTURE PERFORMANCE

Thomas F DeFrantz & Quran Karriem

Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2022

Time: 7:00-9:00P

Location: Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts

FREE event

Sponsored by: Department of Performing Arts

Co-sponsored: RJI (Racial Justice Institute); CNDLS: LEAP Initiative

09/29/2022

Join the Journalism Program, the Institute of Politics and Public Service and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program for a Political Pageturners event featuring NBC News correspondent and veteran campaign trail reporter Ali Vitali, author of the new book “Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House…Yet” on the extra hurdles she’s seen women running for president face firsthand — and what it will take for someone to overcome them. Moderated by Journalism Program Director Rebecca Sinderbrand on Monday, October 3 at 6:30 pm in the IOP living room in Healy Hall.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/428616933787

09/15/2022

Join the Woodshed for Art, Thought, and Culture at the Racial Justice Institute and the Initiative on Gender, Justice, and Opportunity on September 28th from 6:00 - 7:30 pm for an event entitled A Celebration of Black Girlhood!

Register for the free virtual event here:

For the last decade, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality has worked to achieve race and gender equity in the lives of Black girls through its Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity. The program has generated groundbreaking research, reports, and events on the challenges and jub...

09/15/2022

Calling all members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies! Capitol Hill Village is hosting their LGBTQ Intergenerational Symposium. This day long event focuses on bringing together generations of the LGBT* community and allies to have fun, connect, and learn. This event is free, virtual, and open to all. The Kickoff will be on September 22nd from 6:00pm to 7:30pm on Zoom, and the Symposium will be on September 23rd from 12:00pm to 4:30pm also on Zoom.

Checkout the Symposium webpage to learn all about the speakers, kickoff, and our supporters: https://capitolhillvillage.org/programs-advocacy/pride/lgbtq-symposium/.

To register click here: https://forms.gle/CwnV6u8XAA6TPu9CA.

The Symposium is a free virtual event sponsored by the DC Department of Aging and Community Living, Capitol Hill Village, and the DC Villages. This event is open to LGBTQ individuals and allies of all ages. Two attendees will be selected at random each day for a chance at winning a $10 gift card! Th...

11/09/2021

TONIGHT! Join the Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity tonight November 9 at 6:00 PM, when the Initiative’s Youth Advisors will lead a discussion with Georgetown Law Professor Kristin Henning about her powerful new book, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth"

The Rage of Innocence examines the causes and effects of racist policing of Black children. The Initiative’s Youth Advisors, all students of color, will discuss their perspectives with Professor Henning on how these policies affect Black girls and gender-expansive youth.

RSVP: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M4C0lPvNSMyAEBMeCpj1Ag

11/09/2021

Join Dr. Sara Omar and Judith Tucker for "Gendering S*x in Pre-Modern Muslim Discourses" next week Nov 19, 2021 12:00 - 12:45pm EST.

This presentation explores the historical discourses over same-sex sexual practices as a means of understanding the formation of Muslim discourses in the broader framework of ideas about the body, gender, morality, science and religion that circulated throughout and beyond Late Antiquity.

RSVP: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4AUnBWW0T1u3lTQtlPdqEg

11/03/2021

New Spring 2022 semester course on Perfroming LGBTQ+ History!

This course explores creative approaches to the theatrical adaptation and embodiment of historical LGBTQ+ materials. Students are invited to serve as artist-investigators who research, adapt, and perform in short theatre works born verbatim from the oral histories and archival documents of real-world LGBTQ+ activists, change-makers, and allies. Interview transcripts, letters, video recordings, newspaper coverage, diaries, and more will serve as creative material for short performances seeking to give voice to the many who have fought for q***r justice at Georgetown, in the United States, and around the world.

The course is offered to beginners and those with experience! More info can be found on MyAccess and if you have any questions, email professors Michael T. Williams or Sivagami Subbaraman.