Fall 2025 Event Schedule

🍁 Open House This event has passed.

Thursday, September 11, 3:30–4:30pm

Baker Library, Room 206

All are invited to join WGSS for this fall's open house for new students.

 

🍁 Faculty Retreat This event has passed.

Mapping the Future of the Field

Sunday, September 14, 9:00-4:30pm

Lake Morey Resort

WGSS Faculty meet for a community-building retreat at Lake Morey.

 

🍁 Women and Gender Welcome Back This event has passed.

Wednesday, September 17, 2:00-4:00pm

Collis Front Porch

Stop by the WGSS table to meet WGSS faculty and staff.

 

🍁 Fall Reception & Book Party This event has passed.

Tuesday, September 23, 6:30-8:00pm

Baker Library, Room 206

All are invited to join WGSS in celebrating new books by Profs Mingwei Huang, Molly Giedel, and Mimi Thi Nguyen!

 

🍁 WGSS Faculty Lunchtime Salon

"What is Trans Philosophy?" with Prof Samia Hesni

Monday, September 29, 12:00-1:00pm

Baker Library, Room 206

Faculty are invited to join WGSS and Prof Samia Hesni (Philosophy) for a faculty lunchtime salon. Samia will lead an informal discussion about trans philosophy. Read Bettcher's What is Trans Philosophy? and enjoy sandwiches from The Works. First come, first served.

 

🍁 Lunch with Prof Sa'ed Atshan

Tuesday, September 30, 12:30-1:30pm

Baker Library, Room 206

All are invited to join WGSS and E. Wheelock House for lunch with Prof Sa'ed Atshan before his 5:30pm talk, Enduring Humanitatianism in the Palestinian Territories. Lunch from The Karibbean is first come, first served.

 

🍁 WGSS-Rocky Collaboratory: Faculty Excursion

Heightened Scrutiny

Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm screening

Loew Auditorium

Faculty are invited to join WGSS and Rocky for a screening of Heightened Scrutiny, followed by a panel discussion. Email Bevan Dunbar to reserve a free ticket.

 

🍁 WGSS-Rocky Collaboratory: LGBTQ Policymaking

Friday, October 3, breakfast, 9:00-10:00am

Baker Library, Room 206

All are invited to join WGSS and the Rockefeller Center for a breakfast with Haley Norris, a policy analyst for the LGBTQI+ Policy team at American Progress. Read Norris's Teaching like a Dyke. Breakfast from The Works is first come, first served.

 

🍁 WGSS Faculty Lunchtime Salon

Discussion on Pedagogy and GenAI with Prof Mingwei Huang

Monday, October 13, 12:00-1:00pm

Baker Library, Room 206

Faculty are invited to join WGSS and Prof Mingwei Huang for a lunchtime salon. Bring a syllabus policy to share or workshop, an assignment or classroom idea, or predicament/scenario. Lunch is first come, first served.

 

🍁 WGSS Collective Advising Lunch

Thursday, October 16, 12:30-1:30pm

Baker Library, Room 206

Interested in declaring or already a WGSS major or minor? Students are invited to join WGSS faculty for a collective advising session. Lunch is first come, first served.

 

🍁 Faculty Fresh Print Series: Mapping the Future of the Field I

Prof Mingwei Huang and Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism

Friday, October 31, time TBA

Baker Library, Room 206

This yearlong series features WGSS core faculty and their recent publications as they reflect on their writing in the context of the transforming field.