CEW+ presents its annual fall symposium themed Creating Change through Introspection, Dialogue, and Action. The 2020 Symposium includes a diverse group of scholars and community practitioners who embody leadership in varied ways as they advocate for change. This year’s Symposium will be a virtual event that includes a series of presentations and workshops that will take … Read more
Register on Eventbrite Schedule At-A-Glance for Saturday, November 21: 9:00AM – 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism 10:45AM – 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism 1:00PM – 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity View the conference program. The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting … Read more
Register on Eventbrite Schedule At-A-Glance for Friday, November 20: 9:00AM – 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women 10:45AM – 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics 1:00PM – 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality 2:45PM – 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II 4:30PM – 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life 6:15PM … Read more
Register on Eventbrite Schedule At-A-Glance for Wednesday, November 18: 12:00PM – 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College 4:30PM – 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead 5:00PM – 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge View the conference program. The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, … Read more
Catherine D’Ignazio, Assistant Professor, Urban Science & Planning; Director, Data + Feminism Lab; Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT Lauren Klein, Associate Professor, English, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, their asymmetrical methods of application, and their unequal effects on both individuals and … Read more
Introduction by Provost Susan Collins, Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, professor of economics, and former dean of the Ford School Annette Joseph-Gabriel, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies and Editor of the Global Black History section of Public Books Ian Shin, assistant professor of History and American Culture (Asian/Pacfic Islander Studies) … Read more
Fatima Goss Graves, CEO and President of the National Women’s Law Center With the announcement of the Biden administration’s creation of the White House Gender Policy Council, which will guide and coordinate government policy that impacts women and girls, across a wide range of issues such as economic security, health care, racial justice, gender-based violence, … Read more
Anne Cheng, Professor of English, Princeton Madeline Hsu, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin Dylan Rodríguez, President, American Studies Association (2020-21); Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, UC Riverside Frances Wang, Journalist, activist, poet, artist; Intermittent Lecturer, American Culture, University of Michigan Moderator: Yi-Li Wu, Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies and History, University of Michigan This event … Read more
In the last two decades, representation of Afghans and Afghanistan has been rendered to a people and landscape in void of love and life. In the heteropatriarchal and orientalist depictions, Afghan women have remained as the historically oppressed and devotedly loveless while Afghan men move between the violently masculine and categorically weak. The non-binary, trans and queer … Read more
Senior Fellows and co-organizers from the Center for Applied Transgender Studies: Oliver Haimson Alex Hanna Anna Lauren Hoffmann The Center for Applied Transgender Studies is proud to host its first virtual symposium, co-organized by Senior Fellows Oliver Haimson, Alex Hanna, and Anna Lauren Hoffmann and co-sponsored by: Northwestern University (NU) Institute for Sexual and … Read more
UM Concert Band Performance – Let Woman Choose Her Sphere This concert by the University Concert Band with special guest speakers, singers, and composers utilizes the centenary of the ratification of the 19th amendment as an opportunity to showcase the broader fight for equality throughout this country’s history to the present day. It is well … Read more
Join the Global Islamic Studies Center on Wednesday, November 10th at 3pm EST for a Conversation with Award Winning Journalist and Author, Anand Gopal. RSVP: http://bit.ly/AnandGopal Anand Gopal is a fellow at Type Media Center, a journalist covering the Middle East, and a scholar who studies political violence. His reporting on Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan has appeared … Read more