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Alice Jardine Quoted in the New York Times!

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WGS Professor Alice Jardine was quoted in the New York Times. Read the article here.

Congratulations to Jane Kamensky!

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WGS Affiliate Faculty Jane Kamensky has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship! Read the story here.

Congratulations to Afsaneh Najmabadi!

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WGS Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant! For a full list of grant recipients, including Professor Najmabadi, please visit here.

Schlesinger Library Awarded $870,000 Mellon Foundation Grant!

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The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has received a grant of $870,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read the full press release here.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Gender and Sexuality Workshop

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Who We Are The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Gender and Sexuality Workshop is open to graduate students in any discipline working on questions related to gender and sexuality. The workshop is an opportunity for students to receive detailed feedback...

Caroline Light's Course Featured in The Harvard Gazette

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WGS professor Caroline Light's highly popular course, Love’s Labors Found: Uncovering Histories of Emotional Labor, has been featured in The Harvard Gazette. The topic of emotional labor, “resonates so much for this generation of students, because many of...

Winter Recess

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The WGS Office will be closed for Winter Recess from Saturday, December 21 st, 2019 through Wednesday, January 1 st, 2020. See you in the new year!

Celebration of Alice Jardine's New Book, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva"

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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...

Celebration of Durba Mitra's New Book, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought”

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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...

CANCELLED Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Global Perspectives -- 2020 Radcliffe Gender Conference

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This has event has been cancelled as a precautionary measure due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). See https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus for more information. Please join us for The Radcliffe Institute’s 2020 gender conference, “ Sexual Rights and Wrongs...

Michael Bronski's Essay Published

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WGS professor Michael Bronski's essay, "Fictions about Pulp: Gay Pulp in the Years before Stonewall," has been published in the collection Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 (PM Press, 2019, ed...

Welcome Reception for Mel Y. Chen, 2020 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality

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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...