Past Events
May Day- Free University!
May 4, 2017
10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
May Day is a day of protest for accessible and affordable higher education.
10:00 a.m.
Classroom E
WGSS grad student Rachel Corbman and alumni Jxhn Martin
Class: Histories of SUNY and CUNY (WST 398), the excelsior scholarship
+ alternative visions of free education
11:30 a.m.
Classroom B
WGSS grad student Shruti Vaidya
Class: Disability Politics
11:30 a.m.
Classroom D
WGSS Prof. Liz Montegary
Class: Intro to Queer Studies (WST 111), class presentations
11:30 a.m.
Classroom E
WGSS grad student Yalda Hamidi
Class: Tailoring Feminism for Your Own Personal Life
1:00 p.m.
Classroom B
WGSS grad student Val Moyer
Class: Review session for Histories of Feminism (WST 301)
1:00 p.m.
Classroom E
WGSS Prof. Victoria Hesford
Class: Intro to Feminist Theory (WST 291), Narayan's "Contesting Cultures"
4:00 p.m.
Classroom B
WGSS grad student Stephanie Bonvissuto
Class: What's the Use of Gender? Queering Standpoints and Fluidity
4:00 p.m.
Classroom D
WGSS major Genie Ruzicka
Class: Saving Stony Brook's Theatre Department
URECA Conference
April 26, 2017
Poster presentations by WGSS
majors and minors Joshua Bravo,
Carinna Emilio, Jillian Ferretti,
Jenna Kalvig, Alyssa Meano,
Arani Nirmalan, Joe Seck, and
Alexander Kondakov
"Disability and Queer Sexuality in Russia: Exploring Queer Kindship Ties"
Tuesday, March 21
5:00-7:00 p.m.
The Poetry Center (Humanities 2001)
State of the Field
A Conference for Emerging Scholars in WGSS
Humanities Institute
April 7, 2017
Co-Sponsored by WGSS, QFT*, the Graduate School, GSO, Africana Studies, Hispanic
Languages and Literatures, History, and Sociology.
curated by Joy Schaefer and Sofia Varino
March 7-12
March 1, 2017
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Thursday, November 17 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Wang Center Chapel
A Symposium
Thursday, November 10
2:00-6:00 p.m.
HISB
This symposium will reflect on the interactions between bodies and time. Bodies in
time. Bodies out of and stretched across time. Recent work in Queer Studies has interrogated
corporeal orientations and assemblages, the circulation of desire and the possibilities
of the kinetic un/timeliness of the body. Likewise, Native Studies, Black Studies
and Critical Race Studies, have provided new ways to imagine material and conceptual
bodies, their long histories, short lives and enduring disruptiveness. This event
brings together scholars invested in the untimely and the out of place, insisting
on intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, the passing of time, its uneven
contours and asynchronicity.
Participants include:
Nerissa Balace, Asian and Asian American Studies (and Associated Professor of WGSS),
SBU
Tiiffany Joseph, Sociology, SBU
Tavia Nyong'o, NYU
Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
Joshua Whitehead, Poet
Tracey Walters, Africana Studies (and Associated Professor of WGSS), SBU
Post-Election Roundtable
Wednesday, November 9
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
Join us for a post-election discussion. Conversation pieces linked below. Light snacks
will be served!
On privilege and moving to Canada:
On gender, illness, and disability:
Etc. articles on the election:
CAS and the School of Journalism are partnering to host a series of panel discussions:
Faculty panelists:
Jeff Segal, Political Science
Steve Sterns, Economics
Nancy Tomes, History (and associated professor of WGSS)
Courtney Alexander is hosting another fundraiser brunch in memory of her mother and to raise money for
the Terry Alexander Award in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
The award is given annually to a graduating major in Women’s, Gender, and Studies,
who has completed the Gender, Sexuality, and Public Health track, and is interested
in a career in health care and/or health advocacy.
Event: 3rd Annual Flaunt Your Fitness Fundraiser Brunch In Memory of Terry Alexander
Date: Saturday, October 22nd
Time: 11:30am
Location: Eve's Lounge (769 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11238)
Price: $45
Click here to purchase your ticket. Can't make the brunch? You can still make a donation towards
the scholarship.
Click here to make a donation.
The Provost Lecture Series presents:
co-sponsored by WGSS and Art
Thursday, October 13, 4 p.m.
Wang Center Theater
Paper workshopping
Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2018
We will be workshopping Rachel Corbman's "Disability in the Lesbian Feminist Archive." Her paper revisits a 1981 special
issue of off our backs on "women with disabilities" in order to argue the usefulness of lesbian feminism to disability studies. Rather
than pre-circulating a paper, Rachel asks that you read selections from off our back's special issue, which is available on JSTOR. She specifically recommends "Making
Things Different: An Interview with Connie Panzarino" and the piece from the "NY
Lesbian Illness Support Group."
Every semester, WGSS will host a paper workshopping brown bag during campus lifetime.
This brown bag is designed as an opportunity for participants to share and receive
feedback on WGSS-related projects. Everyone is welcome to attend. And everyone whose
work aligns with WGSS is encouraged to workshop their papers or projects.
Please contact Allyse Knox-Russell orTara Holmes with any questions.
The University Libraries presents:
Tuesday, September 27, 1-2 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room, room E-2340 (second floor), Melville Library.
Mary Jo Bona “Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary” &
Adrienne Munich “Scramblers for Diamonds at the “Big Hole” in Kimberley, South Africa”
RSVP encouraged. See
website for more information.
CAS and the School of Journalism are partnering to host a series of panel discussions:
"Immigration and the Election"
Wednesday, September 14, 7-8:30 pm
Sydney Gelber Auditorium, Student Activity Center (SAC)
Faculty panelists:
Lori Flores, History
Gallya Lahav, Political Science
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Economics
Co-sponsored by WGSS
September 14th, 2:30 PM—3:50 PM
Poetry Center, Humanities Building
On June 12, 2015, the art installation “Thinking of You” displayed five thousand dresses
in the football stadium of Pristina, Kosovo, to honor the thousands of survivors of
wartime rape. Realized by artist Alketa Mripa-Xhafa, and sponsored by the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, the installation
was made possible by the survivors, activists and ordinary people who donated dresses
and broke the silence on this brutal crime for the first time since the end of the
1999 war. The documentary, The making of #MendojPërTy/#Thinking of You, produced by Anna Di Lellio and Fitim Shala, is a story of art and women activism
to change the culture of isolation, resignation and shame that surrounds sexual violence
in war.
Prof. Anna Di Lellio is a sociologist and policy analyst with a broad experience of nationalism, security,
transitional justice and state-building in the Balkans. Her research and publications
focus on Kosovo, where she worked for years, as political adviser to the Prime
Minister; Media Commissioner under the aegis of the Organization for the Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and research analyst and advisor on the Kosovo
Liberation Army program of reintegration for the International Organization for
Migration and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. She teaches at the Graduate
Program in International Relations, The New School for Public Engagement, and at
the International Relations Program of New York University. She is the author of several
articles, the editor of The Case for Kosova. Passage to Independence (Anthem, 2006),
and the author of The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic (I.B. Tauris, 2009).
She is the cofounder of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative. In 2015, she was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Merits by the President of the Republic of Kosovo.
