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GSS, Co-sponsored, and Featured Event Archive

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SPAN Summer Research Fest

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

The SPAN Summer Research Fest will feature brief, informal research presentations from graduate students who received a research grant from...

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Title IX at 50: Day 3 Program

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Title IX at 50

8:00 a.m. Walking tour of Walter Athletics Center and Ryan Fieldhouse Visitors to Saturday’s sessions are invited to a walking tour of...

Jun
7
2023

Lavender Graduation

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA)

Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) that celebrates the achievements of graduating students in...

Apr
14
2023

SPAN Postdoc Talk: Annie Wilkinson

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

Annie Wilkinson will present her research in the talk, "Gender as Conspiracy: Mistrust & Misinformation in Anti-Gender Organizing in Mexico." Annie...

Mar
1
2023

SPAN Postdoc Talk: Annie Wilkinson

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

SPAN posdoctoral fellow Annie Wilkinson will give a talk on her research, followed by a Q&A.  This will be a...

Feb
19
2023

A Mirror is Not a Window: Roe Versus Wade

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts

A reading of a new play by award-winning novelist, non-fiction writer and playwright Sarah Schulman, directed by Obie-winner Lisa Peterson....

Feb
2
2023

Leslie Reagan: Abortion is an American Tradition

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

"Abortion is an American Tradition: The Supreme Court, Fake History, and the Dobbs Decision" Professor Reagan will discuss the history, practice,...

Dec
5
2022

Shoniqua Roach: The Black Bedroom

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

While both Black and Queer studies have frequently theorized the domestic and its interiors (e.g., the closet) as paradigmatic spaces...

Oct
14
2022

The ROE Reversal in Historical Context

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

To best understand or act in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, we need to know the legal, social,...

Sep
23
2022

LGBTQ-focused Monkeypox Conversation

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Do you have all the info you need? PROF. STEVEN THRASHER (Journalism/ISGMH) & PROF. CHAD HORNE (Philosophy) will lead an...

May
23
2022

Celebration Reception for Jan Radway & Mary Dietz

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Please join Gender & Sexuality Studies (in collaboration with Political Science, Communication Studies, and American Studies) to celebrate Jan Radway...

May
21
2022

Queer Baby Art Fair

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA)

We invite you to attend, Queer Baby Art, an art fair co-organized by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Brown Baby...

May
16
2022

Teach In on the End of Roe V Wade

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center

What wil the end of Roe v. Wade mean for abortion justice in the United States and here in Illinois? Get...

May
4
2022

GSS Senior Thesis Info Session

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Hosted by Professor Tessie Liu. Learn more about what a senior thesis in Gender & Sexuality Studies is all about...

Apr
29
2022

GSS Graduate Student Lunch & Learn

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

As the current GSS Graduate Coordinator, I am hosting a virtual “Lunch and Learn” on Friday, April 29 from 12-1...

Apr
7
2022

SPAN Summer Research Fest

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

Details TBD. 

Apr
6
2022

GSS TA Info Session

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

An Info Session will convene Wednesday, 4/6 at 12:15 PM, over Zoom, for about thirty minutes. If you are interested...

Feb
24
2022

Queer Book Club

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Are you interested in talking about LGBTQIA+ books and issues? Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Multcultural Student...

Oct
27
2021

LORETTA ROSS: Reproductive Justice as a Human Right

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Activist. Public Intellectual. Professor. Loretta Ross joined the women’s movement in 1978 by working at the first rape crisis center in...

Oct
12
2021

Women's Center Open House, Evanston

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center

Our fabulous, purple fanny packs are stuffed with goodies and waiting for you at the Evanston Women's Center.   We won't be...

Oct
7
2021

GSS Fall Reception

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Will be outdoors. Exact location currently being finalized. All snacks will be individually wrapped. Click here for event poster.   Email Eliot at gender@northwestern.edu...

Sep
30
2021

Feminist First Year

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center

Feminist First Year is an opportunity for students *new to campus to learn about feminist student organiuzations, meet staff from...

Sep
28
2021

Feminist First Year

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by The Women's Center

Feminist First Year is an opportunity for students *new to campus to learn about feminist student organiuzations, meet staff from...