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Department ofGender and Sexuality Studies

News & Events

2017–2018

Blaxploitalian

Presentation by Fred Kuwornu, Activist-Writer-Director

2016–2017

Poetry Reading

Lunch lecture by Donika Kelly, Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University

The Feminist Struggle Over Representation, Power, and Voice at the United Nations

Lecture by Sylvanna M. Falcon, Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz

 

2015 – 2016

Catholicizing the Female Body from Childhood to Adulthood: A case study among older women of Mexican origin

Lunch lecture by Socorro Castaneda Liles, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies at SCU

The Gay Revolution: 70 Year Struggle for LGBT Civil Rights

Lunch lecture by Lillian Faderman, Professor Emerita, Fresno State

AntiSocial: Race, Gender and Digital Speech

Lecture by Laytoya Peterson, Owner and Editor of Racialicious and Deputy Editor of Fusion’s Voices section

The Unexpected Belle La Follette: Progressive Model for 2016

Lunch lecture by Nancy Unger, Professor, Department of History at SCU

Skills Training for a “Rising India?” Gender, Technology, and Development in Global Delhi

Lunch lecture by Sreela Sarker, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication at SCU

Islam, Feminist Activism, and Gender Justice in Malaysia

Lunch lecture by Azza Basarudin, Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA

 

2014-2015:

The Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma

Lunch Lecture by Apara Nanda, Senior Lecturer in English & Women's and Gender Studies, Santa Clara University

Wedlocked: A Critical Perspective on Marriage Rights/Rites by Katherine Franke, Columbia Professor of Law; Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality Law

Lunch Panel on Marriage Equality: Supreme Court Update by Katherine Franke, Faculty in Residence & Patricia Caine, Professor SCU Law School

Towards a Jurisprudence of Gender Equality: My Work with the Tanzanian Women Judges Association

Lunch lecture by Margaret Russell, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University

 

2013-2014:

34th Annual Women's Faculty Dinner

Lecture by Leilani Miller

Bro Code: Film Screening and talk

By Thomas Keith, filmmaker

Women's World Banking: Founding a Movement

Lecture by Michaela Walsh, founder of Women's World Banking

Bogeymen and Babes: Addressing Race and Gender Bias in Science News

Lecture by Sally Lehrman, Senior Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Silencing Women Panel Discussion
Born to Fight: Social Expectations, Personal Resilience, and the University Experience of the Daughters of Single Mothers

Lecture by Jessica Gagnon

Seduction Consumption, and Revolution in the Imaginary Pacific

Lunch Lecture by Dr. Michelle Burnham, English Department, Santa Clara University

Why Gender Matters

Lecture by Esther Peralez-Dieckman, Director of Office of Women's Policy at County of Santa Clara Lecture by Kate Bornstein

Trauma and Female Offending: Implications for Detainment and Treatment

Lecture by Dr. Brett Solomon, Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University