Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective

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Director(s): 
Rovel Sequeira (LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow of Women's and Gender Studies) & Seda Saluk (Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies)
Steering Committee : 
  • Charlotte Karem Albrecht (WGS/American Culture)
  • Victor Román Mendoza (WGS/English) 
  • Yi-Li Wu (WGS/History)
Tags: 
global feminism
transnational feminisms
speaker series
faculty programs

The Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective aims to develop a multidisciplinary space for engagement with issues of gender, sexuality, and racialization through postcolonial, decolonial, and critical area studies approaches. It spotlights innovative conceptual frameworks for research on subaltern feminist, queer, and transgender pasts and presents in the Global South, while centering the politics and possibilities of studying and teaching these topics in the Global North. By foregrounding connections among communities located in diverse geographies who are experiencing ongoing forms of colonialism and imperialism, it seeks to build intellectual bridges and solidarity among scholars siloed within region-based research domains.

The GS2 Collective plans to host approximately 3 events per semester during the academic years 2023-24 and 2024-25.

Global South Gender and Sexuality Collective Speaker Series 2023-2024:

Durba Mitra (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University)
Third World Feminism and the Crisis of Authoritarianism
Friday, October 6, 2023 / 12-1:30 pm / 2239 Lane Hall
 
Raevin Jimenez (History, University of Michigan)
Gendered Mutualism in Southeast Africa: Personhood and Society in Deep-time Historical Perspective
Monday, November 20, 2023 / 12-1:30 pm / 2239 Lane Hall
 
Evren Savcı (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University)
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Friday, January 26, 2024 / 12-1:30 pm / 2239 Lane Hall
 
Yun Zhou (Sociology, University of Michigan)
Riding the Leviathan: Gender, Fertility, and Selfhood in Autocratic China
Friday, March 29, 2024 / 12-1:30 pm / 2239 Lane Hall