Events

 

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.

Many events are sponsored by IRWG affiliates, while others are part of ongoing series such as Gender: New Works, New Questions, or partnerships with other units and departments.

If you need accommodations to get the most out of an IRWG event, please contact our events planner Heidi Bennett at heidiab@umich.edu or 734-647-6394.

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Upcoming Events

Event Title and Date Event Summary
A picture of the three speakers Imagining a World #WithoutFear: The role of the arts in confronting and transforming gender-based violence
December 6, 2023 - 9:30am

Three visionary Arts Fellows come together to discuss the challenges they see, the changes they've inspired, and their hopes as they work towards a future #WithoutFear

Rewriting Conventional Societal Narratives with Data and AI
December 6, 2023 - 2:00pm

In this mini-symposium, we will hear presentations from leading researchers who have used data and AI to challenge and rewrite the conventional narrative about a variety of social issues. We will also organize faculty research roundtable discussions to stimulate new research ideas under the same theme.

illustration of a person writing December IRWG Write-In
December 8, 2023 - 9:00am

Treat yourself to some structured writing time with the fabulous members of the IRWG community.

Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam
January 26, 2024 - 12:00pm

As a part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies Collective Series, Professor Evren Savci (Yale Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) will be giving a talk.

A picture of the book cover Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II
February 13, 2024 - 3:00pm

Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.

An Info poster. RLL Martin Luther King Jr Annual Lecture
February 20, 2024 - 4:00pm

Please join the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures for their annual MLK Junior Lecture delivered by Professor N. Michelle Murray.

Riding the Leviathan: Gender, Fertility, and the Selfhood in Autocratic China
March 29, 2024 - 12:00pm

As a part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies Collective Series, Professor Yun Zhou (U-M Department of Sociology) will be giving a talk.

Browse Past Events

Event Title and Date Event Summary
Gendered Mutualism in Southeast Africa: Personhood and Society in Deep-time Historical Perspective
November 20, 2023 - 12:00pm

As a part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies Collective Series, Professor Raevin Jimenez (U-M Department of History) will be giving a talk.

UNFAS poster Union of Feminists Against the System (UNFAS) Transborder Convening Performance, Reading and Info Session
November 17, 2023 - 6:00pm

A feminist art performance and discussion.

DSI Esports Symposium | Esports Unveiled: A Journey into the Light and Shadows of a Thriving Global Phenomenon
November 10, 2023 - 3:00pm

This talk will examine the current state of the esports industry, discussing and dissecting both the light and the dark side of this captivating space.

DSI Esports Symposium | #TechFail: From Intersectional (In)Accessibility to Inclusive Design
November 10, 2023 - 11:00am

This talk provides an exploration into the (in)accessibility of gaming technologies, most notably the Xbox Kinect. While the gaming world remarked on the possibilities created when the body becomes the controller, many Black gamers illustrated the centrality of race in deciding who can (and cannot) participate in this technological potential.

illustration of a person writing November IRWG Write-In
November 10, 2023 - 9:00am

Treat yourself to some structured writing time with the fabulous members of the IRWG community.

Who's your dream team?

  

"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