Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies GSFS

GSFS Reception to welcome new faculty

The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies invites you to join us for a reception to welcome new faculty. This will be a good opportunity to catch up with colleagues before the semester rush takes over. We will be serving refreshments. Please RSVP to Karin Hanta at x5937 or khanta@middlebury.edu. All are welcome to attend.

(Private)

Closed to the Public

Hungry Hungry Feminists: A Feminist and Queer Studies Game Night

Do you like board games? Are you interested in Feminist and Queer Studies? Are you committed to social justice?

Join us for a Feminist and Queer Studies GAME NIGHT!

Students in Professor Carly Thomsen’s Queer Critique and Politics of Reproduction classes created board games that translate the arguments of complicated academic texts into a format that can circulate beyond the classroom. Join us to play our fun games—and learn more about feminist and queer studies in the process! 

Chateau Grand Salon

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium-2018 Screening

Join us for the screening of the movie “Out in the Night” (Blair Doroshwalther, USA, 2014, 75 minutes) to start the dialogue for the Gensler Family Symposium 2018: “Resist! Feminists Respond to Racism.”

Popcorn will be served. For more information and a full schedule for the symposium go to: go/gensler2018.

Sponsored by: GSFS Program; Chellis House-Women’s Resource Center; Feminists Action at Middlebury; SOAN Department; and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Gifford Annex Classroom 156

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium-2018 Screening

Join us for the screening of the movie “Whose Streets” (Sabaah Folayan/Damon Davis, USA, 2017, 90 minutes) to start the dialogue for the Gensler Family Symposium 2018: “Resist! Feminists Respond to Racism.”

Popcorn will be served. For more information and a full schedule for the symposium go to: go/gensler2018.

Sponsored by: GSFS Program; Chellis House-Women’s Resource Center; Feminists Action at Middlebury; SOAN Department; and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

Gifford Annex Classroom 156

Open to the Public

Gensler Symposium-2018 Keynote Speakers

Join us for the two keynote speakers, Rosemary Hennessy and Tithi Bhattacharya, for the Gensler Family Symposium 2018: “Resist! Feminists Respond to Racism.”

Prof. Hennessy (Rice University) will be speaking on “Collaborating with the Dead on the Erotic Life of Racism: The example of Muriel Rukeyser.” Prof. Bhattacharya (Purdue University) will talk about “Social Reproduction of Life and the Emancipatory Totalities of Dalit History.”

For more information and a full schedule for the symposium go to: go/gensler2018.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Feminist Translation and Its role in the Formation of Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Dr. Ergun investigates the political potential of translation to facilitate cross-border travels of feminist theories and how they enable local feminist interventions into heteropatriarchal regimes of truth, thus connecting feminist activists across differences in their work against violence against women.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Feminist Science Art Show

Come check out a gallery of creative works that incorporate both feminism and science! There is no fee to enter and snacks will be provided during midday. Some of the pieces will be displayed on a semi-permanent basis in Ross Commons.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall

Open to the Public