We are excited to announce the Winter 2025 schedule for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop! Sessions will be held on alternate Tuesdays at 5:00PM – 6:20PM (central) in person at The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S University Ave, in room 103.
January 14
“Hope in the Shadow of Climate Displacement: Schopenhauer’s Compassionate Consolations”
Kat Myers, CSGS Dissertation Completion Fellow, PhD Candidate in Religious and Environmental Ethics, Divinity School
Discussant: Colin Marshall (University of Washington)
Kat Myers, CSGS Dissertation Completion Fellow, PhD Candidate in Religious and Environmental Ethics, Divinity School
Discussant: Colin Marshall (University of Washington)
January 28
“Proud (of your) Boys: Men without Mothers and the Masculine Womb”
Michael Stablein Jr., CSGS Residential Fellow, Joint-PhD Candidate in Theater and Performance Studies and English Language and Literature
Discussant: Casey Ryan Kelly (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
February 11
“Queer Education, Anti-Colonial Resistance, and the Threat of Generational Transformation in Contemporary Lebanon”
Omar Safadi, CSGS Dissertation Completion Fellow, PhD Candidate in Political Science
Discussant: TBD
February 25
“The Beijing Women’s Conference and the United Nations Gender Wars”
Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French, Columbia University
**Event co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Workshop on France and the Francophone World, the France Chicago Center, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, and the Department of Anthropology**
Note: This event will be held in the CSGS Community Room and there will be no pre-circulated paper.
Papers will be made available in advance via our website. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu/
If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to contact the workshop co-coordinators, Lizette Arellano and Fara Taddei at gssworkshop@gmail.com.