IRWG hosts a wide variety of lectures, panel discussions, symposia, and other events to stimulate conversations and share new scholarship related to women, gender, and sexuality.
Our events appeal to a university audience as well as the general public, and are always free of charge. We feature speakers from a variety of academic disciplines, from U-M as well as from other world-class institutions.
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STeMS Speaker Series: Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty StandardsFebruary 3, 2025 - 4:00pm |
Cosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. |
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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: International PerspectivesNovember 13, 2024 - 4:00pm |
This interdisciplinary panel will discuss ongoing efforts around the world to defend reproductive justice as an essential human right, tied to the rights to life, health, equality and autonomy. |
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Feminist Research Methods Series: How to organize and Sustain Collaborative Research/Building and Maintaining Collaborative Research CommunitiesNovember 8, 2024 - 2:00pm |
Panel discussion on building collaborative research projects with faculty from Michigan Medicine |
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Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Muslim Horror Short Films from Palestine, Morocco, Jordan, and AzerbaijanOctober 31, 2024 - 7:30pm |
Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2024! |
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Creating Ethical Research Relationships with Minority Serving InstitutionsOctober 18, 2024 - 2:00pm |
Panel discussion on the complexities and rewards of building ethical research relationships between Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). |
"It was incredible to sit on a panel and hear my dream team of scholars from each field—Professors Karyn Lacy from Sociology, Gayle Rubin from Women's Studies and Anthropology, and Charles Hiroshi Garrett from Musicology—engage my book from their differing disciplinary perspectives. . .What a brilliant format and series for discussing new work in gender and sexuality studies.”
– Nadine Hubbs (Women’s Studies, Music), author of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music