This Year's Past Events at IRWG

Panel discussion on building collaborative research projects with faculty from Michigan Medicine

Panel discussion on the complexities and rewards of building ethical research relationships between Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

The LGBTQ+ VR Museum was created by DiVRse Technologies, a world-leading immersive studio that produces ground-breaking digital experiences using VR and XR technologies. October 7th & 10th.

Panel discussion in IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights new books by our faculty

This event features the voices of Black breast cancer survivors and their hair loss journeys. 

In this public talk, Anne Vetter will discuss their photography exhibition that's currently on display in Lane Hall.

The study of music from the perspective of feminist theory raises significant questions that transcend the methodologies of any one subdiscipline of music. Feminist Theory and Music (FT&M) has met biennially since 1991 to provide an international, transdisciplinary forum for scholarly thought about music in relation to gender and sexuality, as well as for performances that present such thought in sound and embodied action.

Nancy Yunhwa Rao presents this keynote address for the Feminist Theory & Music conference; the lecture is also free and open to the public.

The DISCO Summit is a two-day interdisciplinary summer symposium about digital social inequalities in celebration of the third year of the DISCO Network. The DISCO Summit will include nine panel conversations about the past, present, and future of the intersection between digital technology, culture, race, disability, gender, sexuality, and liberation.

This year's summer institute will explore the intersection of research, practice and advocacy in uniting for mental health equity, in local and global contexts. 

The symposium features a keynote, and presentations by SOAR scholars who share findings from their behavioral and social science research related to HIV and/or sexual and gender minority populations. 

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

Author and Russian independent journalist, Elena Kostyuchenko, discusses her work on reporting armed conflicts, crime, human rights, and social issues.

Takei shares the story of his family's forced internment as Japanese Americans during WWII, his remarkable journey as social media mega-power, and his passionate fght for LGBTQ rights and marriage equality in America empowering others to beat the odds and make a difference.

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 examining social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction in China.

Lori will present an overview of key aspects of ongoing research, advocacy, and activism that have focused on topics from immigration and the border, equity within the built environment, to reproductive justice.

Professor Pinto will discuss his ongoing artistic research and practices, emphasizing how artistic research can be used to advance social justice and self-healing.Professor Pinto will discuss his ongoing artistic research and practices, emphasizing how artistic research can be used to advance social justice and self-healing.

Immerse yourself in a music, theatre, and dance production as survivors transform trauma into healing power via the arts.

For our 28th annual conference, the Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) invites 15 minute presentations based in literary analysis, critical theory, history, politics, anthropology, translation studies, and interdisciplinary work.

For our 28th annual conference, the Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) invites 15 minute presentations based in literary analysis, critical theory, history, politics, anthropology, translation studies, and interdisciplinary work.

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

Panel discussion on maternal and infant health for Black birthing communities with authors of a new anthology.

Evren Savcı speaks about her book Queer in Translation that intervenes in queer studies’ separate, and in fact diagonally opposing approaches to neoliberalism and Islam by using the case of Turkey’s AKP governments for the past 16 years.

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

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

A feminist art performance and discussion.

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.

This talk examines esports' perceived novelty through the lens of its history and popularity in East Asia, particularly South Korea and China. 

The annual leadership conference is a platform for national outreach designed to engage early- and mid-career faculty, senior residents, and fellows with experts in leadership and career-building approaches.

Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?” On October 31st, Tiger Stripes (2023) will be publicly screened at the State Theater at 7:30 pm.

Lecture and discussion about the current situation in Nicaragua and a vigil in solidarity with the families of victims of state violence, survivors, and current political prisoners.

The Ní una más project invites survivors to explore a healing pathway via the arts.

A conference that invites an interdisciplinary audience of critical thinkers to discuss key questions related to Black queer kinship, history, and possibility.

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

We invite everyone who is interested in understanding the impact of AI to join Marina Alsahawneh and Merve Hickok for a discussion of the impact of AI on women in the US and the Middle East. They will discuss gender biases in AI algorithms, opportunities and gender inequity in the AI-enabled workforce, and cyber-based violence against women. They will discuss how these intersect with the political, social, cultural, economic and religious features of different geographic regions.

As a part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies Collective Series, Professor Durba Mitra (Harvard) will be giving a talk titled "Third World Feminism and the Crisis of Authoritarianism".
 

Join us in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space to celebrate Sarah Buckius’ innovative exhibition !!!techn010ffspring!!!

This symposium, held at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, is the second in a sequence planned by the Association of Postcolonial Thought and is aimed at fostering the future of the field.

Panel discussion in IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights new books by our faculty

Dr. Margaret Sallee will discuss the factors contributing to burnout among higher education faculty and staff and offer individual and organizational solutions to counteract burnout and create environments where all employees can thrive.

Meet & greet for U-M faculty, postdocs, and researchers who incorporate gender and/or sexuality in their research.

Learn about IRWG and IFIP's new research grant for faculty projects related to gender and firearms.

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

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

This in-person conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, staff, faculty, and students to discuss innovations in research and practice on sexual harassment and gender-based violence. 

As the culminating event for participants in the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program, this symposium features a keynote talk and presentations by SOAR scholars who share findings from their behavioral and social science research related to HIV and/or sexual and gender minority populations. 

This theme year brings together thirteen scholars from three countries who will explore interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations on the meaning of ethnicity in the study of Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) culture.

This theme year brings together thirteen scholars from three countries who will explore interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations on the meaning of ethnicity in the study of Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) culture.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will be able to paint their own kokeshi dolls with Takatoshi Hayashi.

Reception and roundtable conversation with participating artists from the winter exhibit Portraits of Feminism in Japan.

Join us on for a conversation on the collective translation of Gültan Kışanak’s book, “The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics.”

This presentation examines the transformation of štajga, or the cruising grounds—from a previously invisible site of sexual modernity in late Yugoslav socialism into a counter-archive of queer history in the postsocialist present.

Mark your calendars for the 27th Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) conference. The conference will take place in person on campus, on Friday and Saturday, March 10-11th.

Macario Garcia explores the ways in which incarcerated people center mobility in conceptualizing what counts as alive and human.

Students are invited to come learn about the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program, with current students and staff. Lunch will b

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

Online session to highlight funding opportunities offered through the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation that may be of particular interest to IRWG Affiliates.

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

Online session for U-M faculty interested in learning more about IRWG funding opportunities, particularly Faculty Seed Grants and IRWG Incubators. 

Join us on Zoom to learn about key foundations funding research related to gender and sexuality.

Virtual seminar for U-M students, faculty and staff with Carl Charles, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal

This online talk will examine the realities of reproductive health care for women before the end of Roe, where we are now, in the post-Roe era, and what strategies we need to employ going forward in anticipation of the erosion of even more rights.

A presentation for new and junior faculty at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Join U-M scholars and leaders for a conversation about the history of reproductive healthcare and access at the University of Michigan in the mid-20th century, when abortion was illegal, and lessons for the current post-Roe moment.

The Annual CEW+ Advocacy Symposium returns in person this fall to bring together staff, faculty, students, and community members to create change through introspection, dialogue, and action.

Opening reception for Lane Hall Gallery exhibit with curator remarks.

This workshop is intended for faculty and postdoctoral fellows affiliated at the University of Michigan (all campuses, all ranks).

This year's summer institute will explore the intersection of women's health and chronic health conditions through clinical, policy and research tracks in local and global contexts.

Advocating for Change: The Strength of Our Voices

For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough.

Join The Global Islamic Studies Center as editors Chaplain Muhammad Ali, Chaplain Sondos Kholakhi, and Sister Jaye Starr, Imam Kamau Ayubbi of Michigan Medicine, and U-M Felicity Foundation Chaplai

Current U-M students are invited to learn more about the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program.

This is part of a monthly series of workshops from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, to promote faculty research. 

The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan requests sponsorship for the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer.

Book discussion with Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Aliyah Khan, and Supriya Nair.

IRWG panel discussion of the recent Supreme Court case, including implications for the future of abortion access across the states and reproductive rights and justice in the U.S. more broadly.

The third and final installment of the Afghanistan Series focuses on women in Afghanistan.

This expert panel will discuss recent efforts to grapple with racism and sexism at Michigan, framing them within a broader theoretical and political context.

This is part of a monthly series of workshops from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, to promote faculty research. 

A Conversation with Award Winning Journalist and Author Anand Gopal

A virtual event presented by IRWG's Initiative on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Harassment

Gender: New Works, New Questions book panel on Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance, by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.

The University of Michigan recently announced sweeping changes to how the university prevents and responds to sexual misconduct. To understand these changes IRWG has assembled a panel of leaders to share efforts underway, imagine new possibilities, and engage with UM community members. 

Interdisciplinary presentations by graduate students from the Community of Scholars summer program.

In this 90-minute online workshop, publishing consultant and developmental editor Laura Portwood-Stacer will guide participants through the often opaque world of scholarly book publishing, providing the clarity you need in order to approach publishers and pitch your book with confidence. 

This information session is for students at the University of Michigan to learn more about the SOAR program and meet co-directors, Professors Gary Harper and Anna Kirkland.

Connecting global to local: Program development, evaluation and policy to improve reproductive and sexual health

Biweekly meeting of the faculty reading group on Data Feminism, led by Prof. Libby Hemphill.

Biweekly meeting of the faculty reading group on Data Feminism, led by Prof. Libby Hemphill.

 Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center will give her perspective on how to make the law more equitable in this moment.

This event will focus on the recent anti-Asian and anti-Asian American violence sweeping the nation, and contextualize this violence within broader relational racial dynamics in U.S. history.

The session will be a moderated panel discussion during the winter term about the “gendered consequences of systems involvement.”

Gender: New Works, New Questions discussion of Prof. Annette Joseph-Gabriel's recent book on Black women's roles in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century.

Biweekly meeting of the faculty reading group on Data Feminism, led by Prof. Libby Hemphill.

Panel discussion of Abigail Dumes's new book on Lyme disease, contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the U.S. 

Biweekly meeting of the faculty reading group on Data Feminism, led by Prof. Libby Hemphill.

Biweekly meeting of the faculty reading group on Data Feminism, led by Prof. Libby Hemphill.

Over the past several years there has been a rapidly shifting climate around sexual assault and harassment as a result of the #MeToo movement and growing awareness of sexual abuse in institutional

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference  is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe.

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference  is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe.

Keynote talk of the online 2020 U-M Data Science Symposium. The goal of this talk, as with the project of data feminism, is to model how scholarship can be transformed into action: how feminist thinking can be operationalized in order to imagine more ethical and equitable data practices.

Keynote speaker Dr. Martha Jones will discuss the role of Black women in the civil rights and voting rights movements and the ongoing struggle for voting rights for different populations. 

Faculty share their research progress to examine how their scholarship is working towards the goal of ending gender-based violence and sexual harassment across contexts

This two-part workshop will help you achieve your proposal writing goals by providing grant writing best practices, grant writing techniques, as well as some brief feedback on your proposal Specific Aims/Project Objectives.

Please join us as we commemorate the passage of the 19th amendment and welcome Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Anita Earls.

Online workshop from the Initiative on Gender Based Violence & Sexual Harassment at IRWG. Presenters: Sara Armstrong & Christine Bean (CRLT)

This online event will feature five panelists who will discuss Chinese feminist movements.

Due to the recent events related to the COVID-19 virus, all U-M events on campus convening 100 people or more have been canceled until at least April 21, 2020.  Because the Summer Institute draws a large global audience, it is with deep regret we are canceling the 3rd Annual Global Reproductive and Sexual Health Summer Institute, May 7-8, 2020 conference and May 11-15, 2020 workshops.
 
This year was shaping up to be our most successful Summer Institute to date with higher attendance from a diverse global audience. We will reschedule the event for next year and hope you are able to join us in 2021.

CANCELED/POSTPONED This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2020.

CANCELED/POSTPONED as of 3/12/2020

Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine the well-organized Islamophobia industry and the relentless attacks on Muslim women who face unique challenges borne of both a presumption of guilt, as well as the additional presumption of victimhood.

This event has been cancelled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. We are working to reschedule for a future date or deliver this content in a different format. 

This panel will address the long struggle for women’s right to vote in the U.S., officially secured 100 years ago, and—equally importantly—the continuing struggle to secure full democratic participation in Michigan. 

CANCELED/POSTPONED as of 3/11/20 - please check the sponsoring organization's website for updates: https://lsa.umich.edu/complit/news-events/all-events/cliff.html

Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2 Ato and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty. 

Panel discussion of “Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650,” Edited by Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken. As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change. 

The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a global campaign to improve representation of cis and transgender women, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. There will be a talk and live DJ set by Detroit-based artist, educator and community organizer, Mother Cyborg. Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-arbor-art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-86153035047

Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States.

We're kicking off Health and Wellness Week with a very special keynote speaker, Dr. Joy Saniyah! She will be presenting based on the question: "what is right with you?" and talking about what you can do to improve your overall wellness while focusing on your strengths. 

The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th Century. Marcia Bricker Halperin documented Dubrow’s and other cafeterias in their waning days, drawn to the memorable faces and the liveliness and sorrow of urban life in that vanished world.

Anonymous Autonomous is a robotic art installation being developed by Katherine Behar, Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, together with a team of U-M students. As the Fall 2019 semester draws to a close, we invite the U-M community to meet the team and see the work in progress with live demos of the robots and experimentation in the Duderstadt Center Gallery.

The Spectrum Center, Council for Disability Concerns, and School of Social Work DEI are very excited to host multi-talented brown trans disabled artist, Kay Ulanday Barrett this November. Kay is a poet, performer, and educator whose work has been supported and published by organizations including the UN Global LGBTQ+ Summit, the Asian American Literary Review, and Race Forward. Join us in hosting them during Trans Awareness Week to hear about their work, both in reading and in their experience creating it.

Penny Stamps Speaker Series event: Los Angeles-based public artist, Suzanne Lacy

LGQRI lecture by Professor Matthew Leslie Santana

The mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo will lead a workshop about mapuche poetry, with the reading of selected poems and the display of performances that exhibit the political tensions in the context of violence and displacement of mapuche people living in urban areas of what we call today Chile. The conversation will be in Spanish with translations into English.

Penny Stamps Speaker Series event: New York-based photorealistic painter, Marilyn Minter

This talk will examine the politics of fantasy in relation to representations of Latino male sexuality in contemporary independent and queer cinema.

Please join us as we welcome River Coello to campus as our keynote speaker for National Coming Out Week 2019 and LGBTQ History Month 2019.
 

Join us for the official kick-off party for the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Event Series. The afternoon will include participatory readings of texts and poetry on feminism, queerness and gender written by Gloria Anzaldúa, Zach Blas, Lucy Lippard, Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, and Wu Tsang.

Cosplay allows women to experiment with different ways of blending embodied and disembodied, performative and animating, forms of affective labor.

Two-day symposium addressing the ways in which “Blackness” has been mobilized to make claims on state and other resources.

This is a public symposium of the Cuir Américas Working Group | Grupo de Trabajo Feminista/Queer/Cuir to be held in Ann Arbor on September 20, 2019, to advance the publication of two scholarly journal special issues that will appear in the United States (in English) and in Brazil (in Spanish and Portuguese).

2019 Conference on African American Music for Composers, Performers, and Scholars, featuring a schedule of panels, discussions, and performances

Gender Research and National Science Foundation Funding Presentation and Workshop with Dr. Wenda Bauchspies

2019 Conference on African American Music for Composers, Performers, and Scholars, featuring a schedule of panels, discussions, and performances

This transdisciplinary symposium, organized by the Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD) and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), will focus on the growing tensions between mothers’ well-being and the increasing demands of child-rearing. 

The Pride is a passionate and subversive play that examines queer identities in 1958 and 2008 in order to highlight the changing social constructions around sexuality. In the friction between eras, the play ignites questions about our constructed public persona and the true self we are trying to hide.

Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon will address the politics and law of sexual harassment, focusing on its violation of equality rights, in light of the #MeToo movement, exploring those developments in light of the theory of her most recent book, "Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women." 

The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What are the political dimensions of the affective charge between art and its audience? Between the critic and the art she engages? How does it feel to look ‘critically’ now?” Panel 3: Affective Aesthetics of Race and State and Closing Reflection. 

The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What are the political dimensions of the affective charge between art and its audience? Between the critic and the art she engages? How does it feel to look ‘critically’ now?” Panel 1: Abscence, Abstraction, and Photography, Panel 2: Everyone's a Critic! (What's a Critic?), and Graduate Student Works-in-Progress. 

Documentary and open dialogue about Masculine of Center (MoC) lesbians and how gender impacts our experience, wellbeing, and relationships. 

LGQRI lecture by Trevor Hoppe, exploring how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigating the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease.  

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and mode

Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers  23rd Annual CLIFF Conference with Keynote Speaker Irena Klepfisz. 

Jewish Feminisms/American Visions will bring an array of pioneering and contemporary feminist activists to Ann Arbor to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism.

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and mode

Jewish Feminisms/American Visions will bring an array of pioneering and contemporary feminist activists to Ann Arbor to consider the role of Jewish identity in the framing and development of second wave American feminism.

Over the course of the day, we hope to spark an interdisciplinary and transnational conversation about the methods and ethics of telling the stories of girls and young women of the African diaspora

Saidiya Hartman's keynote on the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.

Gender: New Works, New Questions panel discussion

Scholar, poet and playwright Dr. Carolyn Dunn will lecture on the aesthetics of Native and Indigenous Theater.

Performance by artist/writer/performer/musician Juliana Huxtable, exploring the intersections of race, gender, queerness, technology, and identity.

The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th Century. Marcia Bricker Halperin documented Dubrow’s and other cafeterias in their waning days, drawn to the memorable faces and the liveliness and sorrow of urban life in that vanished world.

Join students and professors as we mobilize and write responses to the Department of Education's new sexual violence regulations, and make our voices heard. Dinner and support will be provided.

This panel will discuss the impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the medical field.

Performance by Suzi Analogue at the Resonance annual sysymposium that celebrates women and non-binary artists in music technology hosted by the Department of Performing Arts Technology. 

CMENAS Teach-in Town Hall with Anna Baltzer of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and Huwaida Arraf, Civil Rights Attorney and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, and a U-M alumna. 

Keywords for Latina/o Studies (New York University Press, 2017) is a transformative volume that includes 63 short keyword essays by 65 leading Latina/o studies scholars.

We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies considers how revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.

Join CEW+ for an inspirational evening featuring a student fellowship poster session, lightning lectures from faculty recipients of the inaugural CEW+Inspire Award, and the keynote Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe lecture by international and award-winning activist, Wai Wai Nu, who is working for human rights and women's equality for the Rohingya people in her home country of Myanmar.

This panel will discuss the impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in engineering.

Exhibit of large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

Day 1 of training seminar for graduate students to become effective peer reviewers for faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in the area of women’s health. 

This symposium brings together global scholars, activists, and media producers who address contemporary representations of LGBTQ people on television.

In this public lecture, Professor C. Riley Snorton (Cornell University) attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

Dr. Affuso investigates the development, structure, and function of grassroots groups to increase physical activity among African American women.

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

 Screening of documentary film that highlights the creative achievements of six Sub-Saharan African women in various intellectual and artistic fields. The director and producer will provide comments.

Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) explores how science and religion come together in in contemporary Hindu nationalism

This original play, written and directed, by Assistant Professor José Casas is inspired by a true-life event in which a smuggler abandoned 30 Mexicans crossing the desert near Yuma, AZ, resulting in 14 dying of dehydration. 

Grantwriting workshop for faculty and postdocs in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences

Free Afro-Cuban Concert and Dance Party featuring Yissy García & Bandancha

As of Jan 31, this event has been canceled.

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?

A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.

IRWG is pleased to cosponsor "The Practice of History: A Kathleen Canning Frame of Mind" this Thursday and Friday in Tisch Hall.

This lecture argues that while the conventional political terrain in South Africa appears to be stalling on delivering the fruits of a democratic process, a new space for effective political activism on the ground has been opened up by women makers and artists. 

Trans* Awareness Week keynote lecture by Dr. Z Nicolazzo, author of the book Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion.

Colonialism, Race & Sexualities Initative (CRSI) event featuring Jasbir K. Puar, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

David K. Johnson discusses his book The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

The symposium will investigate the concept, history and institutional implications of the discourse and practice of “diversity” as an emerging globalized form of inclusion.

Faculty Discussion/Recital. “Momentum – Portraits of Women In Motion” is a collection of musical portraits by jazz composer and pianist Ellen Rowe of women heroes of hers in the areas of music, sports, social justice, environmental advocacy and politics.

While the interdisciplinary history of migration studies makes it an ideal topic for research and scholarship across departments and programs, this workshop will focus on how literary and cultural studies in the postcolonial context of the global South have engaged with experiences of migration.

Exhibit opening with gallery talk and reception. "Chicana Fotos" features photographs by accomplished filmmaker and writer, Nancy De Los Santos, depicting Latina/os' struggles for social justice during the 1970s.

Conference considering the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

Annual symposium showcasing graduate student fellows from the 2017 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars program.

LGQRI symposium in tribute to and reconsideration of Cathy Cohen’s 1997 article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens."

Community literary circle meeting with readings on the theme “Writing Gender.” Featured authors include Linda Gregerson, Laura Hulthen Thomas, Mike Ferro, and Debotri Dhar, who will read from their poetry and fiction and share tips. 

Daylong conference presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Pakistan Students' Association.

This one-day mini-conference will convene a group of interdisciplinary scholars who study historical and contemporary patterns of sterilization and are concerned about social and reproductive justice.

Book launch and panel discussion of Anna Kirkland's recent book Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury (NYU Press, 2016)

Film screening of Exotic, a documentary exploring migrant labor practices in the adult entertainment industry in Guam. The film is from director Amy Oden and Back of the Room Productions (2016).

Saru Jayaraman speaks as part of "Food Literacy for All" series.

Graduate Student Debrief Session for conference on the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution."

Paper presentations on day 2 of a 4-day conference on the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution."

Analysis of two legal cases in which U.S. service members committed violent crimes against women in the Philippines. 

Animal Studies lecture series featuring Harriet Ritvo (Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT) who will speak about historical notions of wildness and domestication. 

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit will deliver the Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture, followed by a question and answer period with the audience. 

Animal Studies lecture series featuring Eva Hayward (University of Arizona)

Panel discussion with U-M faculty to follow-up on the January 30th bicentennial colloquium,"The Future University Community," featuring German Justice Susanne Baer and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. 

A collection of photographs and memorabilia showcasing women’s physical activity at U-M.

Professor Holly Hughes chats with colleagues poet Eileen Myles and Lisa Kron about their work and her recent book Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater.

Julia Watts Belser (Judaic Studies, Georgetown University) examines rabbinic tales of the destruction of Jerusalem through the lens of scarred and wounded flesh.

Leah DeVun (Rutgers) focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, and science in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and feminist studies. 

Talk by CEW's Visiting Social Activist, Susan Eisenberg about women's underrepresentation in the construction industry and how art  can catalyze public and political attention toward social justice goals. 

Exhibit of Japanese prints of Kabuki Theatre from the UMMA Collection, on display through January 29, 2017.

Summer 2016 Community of Scholars fellows present their research. 

Lecture by Natalia Molina, examining relational racism in the U.S. vis-a-vis racial scripts, and its effects on immigration, gender, sexuality, security, and empire. 

Guest speaker Dr. Miranda Griffin from the University of Cambridge will present on Monday, September 19 at 4:00 pm in the RLL Commons, 4th floor MLB. 

The University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Women’s Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are ple

Sunday dialogues with DJ Lynnee Denise and breakout sessions on the last day of a three day conference hosted by FemTechNet. // #FemTechNet

Introductory Panel Presentations on Feminist Labor, Mapping, and Activism as part of a three day conference hosted by FemTechNet.

Professor Qian Wang argues that Chinese popular music displays increasingly high levels of queer visuality.

In this LGQRI talk, Alex Kondakov will offer some explanations for the low rate of participation by lesbians and gay men in conventional political activity in Russia.

Documentary Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña. No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A daylong, interdisciplinary symposium exploring the impact of financial investment in women and girls in the global South. 

Lecture by Amira Jarmakani on her recent book, An Imperialist Love Story, which contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture.

Lillian Faderman, Professor Emerita at Fresno State, will discuss the history of lesbian feminism.

Exhibit opening with curator talk and reception. Above Ground - 40 Moments of Transformation  is a photography exhibition highlighting the performance art and actions of China’s Young Feminist Activists.

Featuring Lola Von Miramar and performance of a new piece developed during the symposium “Carnivale”.

Valerie Jenness (Social Ecology, Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, University of California-Irvine) speaks about her research on transgender prisoners.

LGQRI lecture by Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University.

Featuring a film screening of Sugar Cane Alley led by Mbala Nkanga and a performance by Nadine George of “Annie Palmer”

Panel Discussion + Lecture / Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is Symposium 

Penny Stamps Speaker Series lecture by New York-based performance artist Karen Finley.

Lecture by Peter Drucker, author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism (2015). 

A panel discussion on reproductive justice issues in the LGBTQ community.

Gender: New Works, New Questions draws attention to new works that engage gender and sexuality, and are produced by U-M faculty members.

Penny Stamps lecture by Latvian animator and filmmaker Signe Baumane.

U-M scholars whose work centers on incarcerated women, will speak to current issues, major gaps in knowledge, common problems and the societal impact of women in prisons. 

The 2015 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Symposium on Academic and Intellectual Freedom is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Chapter and Michigan Conference, University of Michigan: Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice-President for Government Relations, Law School, Medical School, Women's Studies, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and an Anonymous Donor. This lecture is free and open to the public. 

This talk is part of Monson and Maltby's QUEER ECOLOGIES: dance as interdisciplinary research method residency, September 27 - October 10. 

Dance performance by Chinese choreographer Gu Jiani.

In this presentation across disciplines, sociologist of medicine and gender Jennifer Reich (Ph.D.) and pediatric researcher Beth Tarini (M.D.) will talk about vaccination policy and newborn screening for genetic conditions as moments of negotiation between mothering, government, and medicine. 

This symposium will feature remarks by Prison Obscura curator Pete Brook, and a roundtable discussion with U-M faculty members.

Gender: New Works, New Questions panel discussion on new book by Nadine Hubbs.

One-day conference on ife writing in and through digital environments. Gender and race serve as critical frames for the day's discussion.

Penny Stamps lecture by graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, presented with cosponsorship support from IRWG.