Co-sponsorships
Co-Sponsored Events
The Gender and Sexuality Studies Program receives many requests for financial co-sponsorship and support of events. We are unable to honor all of them, and the amount granted varies based on the nature of the request. We will review all requests quarterly. Co-sponsorship applications from undergraduate students must include a letter of support from an NU faculty member.
If your unit would like to request name-only co-sponsorship (i.e. non-financial support), please still complete this form and note $0 in requested funds.
Below are this year's deadlines:
- Friday October 7, 2022 for events taking place during the 2022-23 academic year
- Friday, January 20, 2023 for events taking place during the 2022-23 academic year
- Friday, April 14, 2023 for events taking place during the 2022-23 academic year or Fall 2023
Notification will be sent to all applicants within two weeks following the quarterly deadline. For further information, please contact Eliot Colin at gender@northwestern.edu.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A CO-SPONSORSHIP REQUEST
2022-23 Co-sponsorships
- Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2022-23 Event Series
- Antigone ~ WAVE ~ October 14-15, 2022
- Macbeth ~ WAVE ~ November 11-12, 2022
- Funny Girl: The Musical ~ February 24-25, 2023
- Sara Gmitter's Villette ~ Long 19th Century Colloquium ~ Winter 2023
- "Slavery, Emotions, and Gender" talk by Sasha Turner ~ Global 18th Century Colloquim ~ Winter/Spring 2023
2021-22 Co-sponsorships
- Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium Series ~ 2021-22 Event Series
- "Applied Trans Studies Meets Digital Studies" conference ~ January 21, 2022
- "Black LGBT+ Feminism and the Politics of Revelry in Rio de Janeiro" talk by LaShandra Sullivan ~ Anthropology ~ January 24, 2022
- "Queer Book Club" ~ Multicultural Student Affairs ~ Winter & Spring Quarters
- "Muslim Writers’ Voices: a Symphony and a Cacophony" ~ Middle East Studies Committee and Liberal Arts Program at NU-Qatar ~ March 16, 2022
- "Right that Dares to Speak its Name: The Challenging Life of Sexual Minorities in India" talk by Akkai Padmashali ~ Subcontinent Project ~ April 12, 2022
- "No Ordinary Man: Trans Representation, Performance, and the Archive" ~ The Block ~ April 21, 2022
- Ma Belle, My Beauty screening and Q&A with dir. Marion Hill ~ The Block ~ May 13, 2022
- "Queer Baby Art" ~ Multicultural Student Affairs ~ May 21, 2022
2020-21 Co-sponsorships
- Colloquium for Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2020-21 Event Series
- "Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Pasts" series ~ The Block ~ October 2020
- "Imagining Transgender Cultural Production as Revolt" ~ Queer Pride Graduate Student Association ~ November 12, 2020
- "Queer Book Club" ~ Multicultural Student Affairs ~ Winter & Spring Quarters
- "The Loose Ends of Empire: Unforgetting Colonialism" ~ The Block ~ February 25, 2021
- "Mutual Aid and Community Engagement Interview: Brave Space Alliance" ~ Women's Center ~ March 2, 2020
- "Voices Across Time: Sharing Women’s Experiences of Re-entry" ~ Center for Civic Engagement ~ March 3, 2021
- "Black Trans Feminism and Translatinx Citizenship" ~ Critical Theory ~ April 8, 2021
- "Queertopia: Queer Justice, Queer Transformation, Queer Futures" ~ Queer Pride Graduate Student Association ~ April 24-25, 2021
- "Sex Week" ~ NU College Feminists ~ May 2021
- "The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution" ~ The Block ~ May 9-16, 2021
- "Law in Motion talk with Dean Spade” ~ Legal Studies ~ May 13, 2021
- "Women of Courage: Stories of Post-Incarceation Resilience" ~ WIND ~ May 26, 2021
- "Dreaming Rivers, Weaving Collectives - with Judah Attille, Cairo Clarke, and han heung 한흥恨興 media collective" ~ Women's Center ~ June 3-9, 2021
2019-20 Co-sponsorships
- Colloquium for Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2019-20 Event Series
- Tongues Untied screening ~ September 19, 2019
- Backward Glances: Reboot ~ Screen Cultures ~ September 27 & 28, 2019
- James Cone: Black Theology & Black Power Conference ~ Religious Studies ~ November 1-2, 2019
- E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot book event ~ American Studies Association ~ November 2019
- W.A.R. Because It's Necessary ~ CARE ~ February 10, 2020
- Queertopia: New Queer & Trans Politics? ~ Queer Pride Graduate Student Association ~ February 29, 2020
- Sex Week ~ NU College Feminists ~ May 2020
2018-2019 Co-sponsorships
- Colloquium for Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2018-19 Event Series
- The Cultural Significances of Bette Davis Conference ~ October 5-6, 2018
- All the vivacities lie in differences ~ November 16, 2018
- Earthquake Chica with Lipstick Theatre ~ November 29 - December 1, 2018
- Call Her Ganda film screening ~ November 30, 2018
- "When They Call You a Terrorist: A discussion with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors" ~ January 24, 2019
- Jane: An Abortion Service film screening with Judith Arcana ~ February 2, 2019
- Anne Balay lecture: "'It gets you off your high horse, really': Queer truckers and rolling sexualities" ~ February 18, 2019
- Queertopia ~ March 2, 2019
- Eros & Myth in Black Poetics ~ March 5, 2019
- 21st Chicago Ethnography Conference: Issues of Gender in Ethnography ~ March 16, 2019
- Lipstick Theatre Annual Burlesque Show ~ Spring 2019
2017-2018 Co-sponsorships
- "Backward Glances" Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference ~ September 29-30, 2017
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Spectrum Theatre ~ October 19-21, 2017
- Black Queer Utopia Fest with Rainbow Alliance ~ October 21, 2017
- GEM Fall Art Showcase with iGEM ~ November 29, 2017
- Penny Lane with Radio, Television, and Film ~ February 2, 2018
- Critical Intersections 30th Anniversary with the Women's Center ~ February 28, 2018
- B. Burlesque Annual Show ~ March 16, 2018
- Music Studies Colloquium with Gerhard Stabler and Kunsu Shim ~ April 12, 2018
- Lipstick Theatre Annual Burlesque Show ~ April 12, 2018
- Engendering Change 2018 ~ April 13-14, 2018
- Queertopia 2018 ~ April 21, 2018
- Midwest Graduate Music Consortium ~ April 26-27, 2018
- Vertigo Productions Brighton's Home for Peaceful Transitions ~ April 26-28, 2018
- In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders ~ April 27-29, 2018
- Dohee Lee Artist Residency ~ May 4-13, 2018
- African Studies Graduate Seminar Cluster Annual Conference: Africanisms: Postionality, Knowledge Production, and Narrative ~ May 10-12, 2018
- Solving the Mystery of Grace Jones: It's the Holy Ghost ~ May 29, 2018
- Rage is Sustainable Only When Shared ~ May 31, 2018
- Black Poetics Collective ~ 2017-2018 Event Series
- American Cultures Colloquium ~ 2017-2018 Event Series
- African Gender & Expressive Arts Working Group ~ 2017-2018 Event Series
- Colloquium for Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2017-2018 Event Series
2016-2017 Co-sponsorships
- The Haze with Alpha Chi Omega ~ October 14, 2016
- Ava Kadishson Scheiber Book Discussion with Jewish Studies ~ October 16, 2016
- "Rethinking the Musical Nun in Early Modern Italy" with Musicology ~ October 27, 2016
- Remembering Ourselves, Brother to Brother ~ November 2, 2016
- Elizabeth Chin Talk with American Studies ~ November 3, 2016
- "Romeo and Juliet" with Wave Productions ~ November 3-5, 2016
- "Be Aggressive" with Lipstick Theatre ~ November 10-20, 2016
- "On My Way to Freedom Land: Music, Race, Gender and the Politics of Resistance at the 1963 March on Washington" with Musicology Colloquium ~ January 26, 2017
- "Extra Man: Dining (Out) Beyond the Marriage Plot" with Long 19th Century Colloquium ~ February 7, 2017
- "Why Women's Baseball Matters in the Era of Trump" with Political Science Department ~ February 10, 2017
- Silent Cries documentary screening with Alpha Chi Omega ~ February 15, 2017
- Jennifer Reeder talk with Radio/TV/Film Department ~ February 23, 2017
- Sociology Department Culture and Society Workshop with Japonica Brown-Saracino ~ March 30, 2017
- Sugar and Spice Summit ~ April 1, 2017
- Simone Browne Talk ~ April 5, 2017
- Anne Emmauelle Berger Visit with French & Italian Department ~ April 17, 2017
- Chantal Akerman's Cinema: Time and the Politics of Everyday Life Symposium with French and Italian Department ~ April 28, 2017
- Lisa Gitelman Talk with Northwestern University Digital Humanities Lab ~ May 12, 2017
- “I, Too, Am the Afterlife of Slavery: A Symposium on Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route” ~ June 2-3, 2017
- Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium ~ 2016-17 Event Series
- Early Modern Colloquium ~ 2016-17 Event Series
- Colloquium for Ethnicity and Diaspora ~ 2016-17 Event Series
- American Cultures Colloquium ~ 2016-17 Event Series
- African Gender and Expressive Arts Working Group ~ 2016-17 Speaker Series
2015-2016 Co-sponsorships
- Sexing Sound with Bienen School of Music ~ October 20, 2015
- Sex Work Politics with Political Science ~ October 26, 2015
- Tanwi Islam Book Reading with Asian American Studies ~ January 27, 2016
- Lisa Lynch Talk with NU Digital Humanities Lab ~ February 5, 2016
- Andrea Ritchie Talk with Black Lives Matter NU ~ February 15, 2016
- Annie Silverstein Visit with Radio, Television, and Film ~ February 18, 2016
- Leah Garrett Talk with The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies ~ March 3, 2016
- Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Lipstick Theatre ~ March 3-5, 2016
- Kabe Wilson Lecture with English ~ April 5, 2016
- Queertopia Conference with Queer Pride Graduate Student Association ~ April 14-15, 2016
- Knowing Africa Conference with the African Studies Graduate Student Seminar ~ April 15-17, 2016
- La Loba Loca talk with M.E.C.h.A. de NU ~ May 2016
- Steph Cha Event Series with English ~ May 2016
- Black Feminist Futures Symposium ~ May 20-21st, 2016
- Long 19th Century Colloquium with English ~ 2015-16 Event Series
- Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora ~ 2015-16 Event Series
2014-2015 Co-sponsorships
- Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora ~ 2014-15 Event Series
- Early Modern Colloquium ~ 2014-15 Event Series
- Long 19th Century Colloquium ~ 2014-15 Event Series
- Marcus Britton (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) "Residential Segregation and Very Preterm Birth among Non-Hispanic Black Women: The Role of Maternal Immigrant Status" ~ October 21st, 2014 with the Urban/Community Workshop
- William Maxwell, "F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature" ~ October 24th, 2014 with the American Studies Program
- "Timing is Everything: A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium on Non-Linear Temporalities" ~ October 24th-25th, 2014
- James Currie (University of Buffalo), "When Genet Comes to Dinner: Music and Hospitality in Said's Late Style" ~ November 5th, 2014 with Music Studies
- Alan Nadal, "Singin’ in the (HUAC) Rain: Job Security, Stardom, and the Abjection of Lina Lamont" ~ November 11th, 2014 with the American Studies Program
- Samantha Majic (John Jay College/CUNY), "Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision ~ February 6th, 2015 with the Department of Political Science
- "Queer in the City" roundtable ~ February 25th, 2015 with African American Studies
- "Loving Day" exhibit, screening & discussion at Dittmar Gallery ~ March 5th with MIXED
- Lipstick Theatre's production of "The Queens" by Mormand Chaurette ~ March 12th-15th, 2015
- 4th Annual César Chávez Commemorative Day of Service ~ April 2015 with the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Omega Delta Phi Fraternity
- Sex Week 2015 ~ April 5th - 11th with College Feminists
- Anita Sarkeesian ~ April 8th, 2015
- Wright/Edelman/Berlant event ~ May 7th, 2015 with the Critical Theory Cluster
2013-2014 Co-sponsorships
- Reeling Chicago LGBT International Film Festival ~ November 7th-14th, 2013
- Before You Know It screening & panel ~ November 9th, 2013 with the Department of Radio/TV/Film
- Sexual Reputations ~ November 8th-10th with the Department of Sociology
- College Feminists Fall 2013 Speaker Series: Feminism, Pop Culture, and the Media
- Susan James (Birkbeck College), "Mary Wollstonecraft's Conception of Rights" ~ February 3rd with The Department of Political Science
- Stephen Cone, Directing LGBTQ Narratives Lecture/Workshop ~ February 5th, 2014 with Radio/TV/Film
- Contemporary Thought Speaker Series ~ Writing History: An Evening with Tony Kushner ~ February 11th, 2014 ~ with CTSS & The English Department
- Panel on Interracial Dating ~ February 12, 2014 ~ with MIXED
- Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt), Disposable Bodies, Provisional Lives ~ February 27th, 2014 with the Early Modern Colloquium
- Desiree Morris (Rice), "Sexing the Coast: Landscape, Racialized Femininity, and Embodiment in Nicaraguan Art and Literature" ~February 28th, 2014 with The Afro Latin@ Working Group
- Sex Week ~ April 7th-12th, 2014
- Alok Vaid-Menon ~ "Brown Gurlz Do it Well: A Writing and Performance Workshop" ~ April 26th, 2014 ~ with Performance Studies & the LGBT Resource Center
- Estelle Ferrarese, Professor of Political Science at the University of Strasbourg ~ "The Vulnerable and the Political: On the seeming impossibility of thinking vulnerability and the political together" ~ April 29th, 2014 with The Critical Theory Cluster
- Queering Pride graduate student conference ~ May 2nd-4th, 2014 with QPGSA
- Each Hour Redeem: Time, Justice in African American Literatureby Daylanne English, Macalester College with the Department of African American Studies & the Black Arts Inititative ~ Spring 2014
2012-13 Co-sponsorships
- Diane Kahlo exhibit at the Dittmar Gallery ~ Fall 2012 with Latina/o Studies
- American Cultures Colloquium 2012-13 lecture series
- Nana Adusei-Poku, art historian and lecturer at the University of the Arts in Zurich and PhD candidate in the Gender Studies Program at Berlin's Humboldt University ~ October 2-5th, 2012 with Art History
- Lovers and Madmen's Macbeth ~ produced by a student theatre company
- "Religion and the Trans" graduate student conference ~ October 12-14, 2012 with Religious Studies
- LGBTQ Film Series ~ October 18th-20th, 2012 with Project ShoutOUT
- Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges ~ October 29th, 2012 with Political Science
- Panel Discussion on filmmaker and media mogul, Tyler Perry ~ November 28th, 2012 with RTVF
- Chicago LGBTQ Health & Wellness Conference ~ November 30th, 2012 with the Center on Halsted
- "Sex Scences: Content, Controversies, and Issues of Concent" a discussion with Nick Davis ~ December 3rd, 2012 with SHAPE
- "Engendering Change" annual Chicago-area graduate student conference ~ March 14th-15th, 2013 with the University of Illinois Chicago, Loyola, and the University of Chicago.
2011-12 Co-sponsorships
- Carmelita Tropicana ~ November 9th, 2011 with Performance Studies
- American Cultures Colloquium ~ 2011-2012 Event Series
- Backwards Glances: Media & Historiography ~ November, 11th & 12th, 2011 with Screen Cultures
- Queer(ing) Poetics ~ February 7th, 2012 with the English Department
- Queertopia! : Sexing the Law: Love as/ at the Limite: Mary 25-27, 2012 with QPGSA
2010-2011 Co-sponsorships
- Trans 101 ~ October 28th, 2010 with QPGSA
- THATCamp: Humanities & Technology Conference ~ November 20th, 2010
- American Cultures Colloquium ~ 2010-2011 Series
- Maria Cotera, "Chicana por mi Raza" ~ January 27th, 2011 with the Latino/a Studies Program
- Wendy Moffat, "A Great Unrecorded History" ~ with The Department of English
- Susan Lee Johnson ~ February 24th, 2011 with The History Department
- Queertopia ~ May 27th & 28th, 2011 with QPGSA