Past Events
Wellness Day
Mar 1, 2020
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12:00AM EST
In Person
Classes will not meet, and WGS staff will be available remotely.
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Celebration of Durba Mitra's New Book, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought”
Feb 24, 2020
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6:00PM EST
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Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Please join us for a discussion of professor Durba Mitra's new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020) in conversation with Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English...
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Celebration of Alice Jardine's New Book, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva"
Feb 19, 2020
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4:00PM EST
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Forum Room in the Lamont Library (Lamont 335), 11 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Please join us in celebrating Alice Jardine's new book, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury Press, 2020). This event features a reception and a conversation with Ann Pellegrini, Professor of Performance Studies...
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Gender & Sexuality Senior Fellows Series: Gregory Mitchell
February 18, 2020
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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CGIS K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Queer people of color face unique challenges in job negotiations, including feelings that they must perform gratitude for having been invited to join the academic "grown-ups table" at all and fears that if they ask for "too much" they may be racistly read...
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Harvard College Exploring Fields of Study Fair
February 10, 2020
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EST
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Annenberg Hall, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
In Person
This year, the Fields of Study Fair (formerly known as Advising Fortnight) will take place in Annenberg Hall on Monday, February 10, from 5pm to 7pm. During this event, first-year students have the chance to speak with advisers from all 50 concentrations...
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Course Registration Deadline
Jan 31, 2020
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12:00AM EST
In Person
Course registration deadline for Spring 2020 courses. More information can be found on the FAS Registrar's Office website.
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The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Logia García Peña
January 30, 2020
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9:15AM - 5:30PM EST
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Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
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This symposium is free and open to the public, and it will be live-streamed at https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu 9:15 Welcome 9:30-11:40 Ethnic Studies and Lorgia García Peña's Scholarship George Lipsitz (UCSB) Lourdes Torres (De Paul, and editor of...
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Welcome Reception for Mel Y. Chen, 2020 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality
January 28, 2020
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5:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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WGS Lounge, Boylston Hall, ground floor
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We invite you to join us for a reception to welcome Mel Y. Chen, 2020 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Chen joins us from the University of California, Berkeley where they are Associate Professor of Gender & Women's...
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Making Comics as Feminist Practice: "Lissa," an EthnoGRAPHIC Story -- talk by Sherine Farouk Hamdy
January 27, 2020
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6:30PM - 8:00PM EST
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Barker Center 024 (McFadden Room),12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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Sherine Farouk Hamdy is Associate Professor, Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and coauthor of Lissa (University of Toronto Press, 2017), a graphic novel. This talk is a part of the Mahindra Humanities Center BBQ+: Studying Black, Brown...
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Guns in the US: A Love Story Counts for WGS elective (GENED 1073)
Jan. 25 - Apr 29, 2020
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10:30AM - 11:45AM EST
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https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-212845/2020/spring/19478
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The U.S. comprises 5% of the world’s population but holds approximately 40% of the world’s guns. We also experience more gun-related deaths than any economically comparable nation. How did the nation become a “gun culture,” and whose rights and interests...
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- University Holiday
Jan 18, 2020
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12:00AM EST
In Person
WGS Office will be closed in observance of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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