Winter & Spring 2016 Events At IRWG | The Institute for Research on Women and Gender

	Event Title and Date	Event Summary
	signal/noise: A FemTechNet conference on Feminist Pedagogy, Technology, Transdisciplinarity / Sunday Dialogues April 10, 2016 - 9:00am	Sunday dialogues with DJ Lynnee Denise and breakout sessions on the last day of a three day conference hosted by FemTechNet. // #FemTechNet
	signal/noise: A FemTechNet conference on Feminist Pedagogy, Technology, Transdisciplinarity / Saturday Workshops April 9, 2016 - 10:00am	Interactive Workshop sessions as part of FemTechNet's conference, Saturday, April 9
	signal/noise: A FemTechNet conference on Feminist Pedagogy, Technology, Transdisciplinarity / Friday Panels April 8, 2016 - 2:00pm	Introductory Panel Presentations on Feminist Labor, Mapping, and Activism as part of a three day conference hosted by FemTechNet.
	The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality April 6, 2016 - 4:00pm	LGQRI lecture by Suzanna Walters Editor-in-Chief of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
	Queering the Ambiguity: Identity, Entertainment, and Politics in Chinese Popular Music April 4, 2016 - 4:00pm	Professor Qian Wang argues that Chinese popular music displays increasingly high levels of queer visuality.
	Guynecology: Men, Medical Knowledge, and Reproduction April 1, 2016 - 2:00pm	Rene Almeling, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Yale discusses her current research examining the history of medical knowledge-making about men's reproduction and its social and clinical implications.
	Everyone Hates Politics: How the Legacy of the USSR Influences the Political Engagement of LGBT Citizens in Contemporary Russia March 30, 2016 - 4:00pm	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.
	Lisa Lowe: "Ports, Archives, Museums" March 24, 2016 - 3:00pm	Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University explores "Ports, Archives, Museums.”
	No Más Bebés: Film screening + Q&A with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña March 15, 2016 - 4:00pm	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.
	Gaytrification: How Do Gay Men Gentrify the City? March 14, 2016 - 4:00pm	From New York and Paris to San Francisco, Berlin, and beyond, gay men for several decades have played a major role in urban gentrification.
	Does Equality Mean Business? Gender Equity at the Crossroads of Feminism and Finance March 11, 2016 - 9:00am	A daylong, interdisciplinary symposium exploring the impact of financial investment in women and girls in the global South.
	Queering Like a State: Naturalization, Race, and Colonial Desire March 7, 2016 - 3:00pm	Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor of English, Gender and Women's Studies, and African American Studies, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will give a talk on the naturalization ceremony carried out by federal officials in the early twentieth century to confer citizenship on American Indians under the Dawes Act.
	An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror February 22, 2016 - 11:30am	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.
	A Planet Yet Undiscovered: Nicki Minaj's Grotesque Aesthetics February 19, 2016 - 2:00pm	A book talk by Uri McMillan (UCLA) pondering the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.
	Rise and Fall of Lesbian Nation: A Brief History of Lesbian Feminism and What it Accomplished February 18, 2016 - 4:00pm	Lillian Faderman, Professor Emerita at Fresno State, will discuss the history of lesbian feminism.
	A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo February 17, 2016 - 4:00pm	A Gender: New Works, New Questions discussion by Nancy Rose Hunt, Professor of History and Obstetrics/Gynecology.
	Above Ground - 40 Moments of Transformation January 26, 2016 - 4:00pm	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.
	"Using Women" Redux: Reflecting on Feminist Ethnography of Women on Drugs January 13, 2016 - 2:00pm	Nancy D. Campbell reflects on what has changed for those who are considering gender, drugs, and drug policy in the 15 years since the publication of her book Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy and Social Justice.