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Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Events

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Email us  at wgst@sc.edu or call 803-777-5695. 

Upcoming Events

8th Annual Dr. Mary Baskin-Waters Lecture with Elizabeth Dale on Tuesday, March 25th at 6PM in the Lumpkin Auditorium (Close-Hipp 8th Floor). See lecture flyer here.

  • The lecture is titled Portraits of Women's Philanthropy: Understanding Giving Through a Gender Lens.
  • Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, will discuss the history of women as philanthropic actors through a series of portraits including Jane Addams, Madam C.J. Walker, Oseola McCarthy, and Mackenzie Scott, among others. Through the stories of individual women and women’s groups, she will uncover broader themes and issues, such as activism and advocacy, occupational segregation by sex, and the potential for women’s philanthropy in the future.
  • This lecture is free and open to the public, and we request that you register here. A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture. 

WGST Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 18th, from 2-3:30PM. 

 

Annual Lectures

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Learn more about WGST's annual lectures

Our Adrenée Glover Freeman and Dr. Mary Baskin Waters lectures take a deeper dive into issues that affect our community.

 

Previous Events

  • 2024 Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Dr. Shaneen Dials-Corujo Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 13-23, 2024: "How Can Arts Foster Community Healing, Solidarity, and Social Change?"- A Women's Well Being Initiative Exhibition Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 14, 2024: Gay Sign Language Crash Course & Comedy Night  with Hayden Kristal Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 20, 2024: "Stating the Obvious: Lessons from Epic Failures" with Dr. Monica McLemore Event Flyer [pdf]
  • April 7, 2024: “Practicing Health Equity: The History of Early African American Women Physicians”- 7th Annual Dr. Mary Baskin Waters Lecture with Dr. Vanessa Gamble Event Flyer [pdf]
  • April 11, 2024: Poetry Slam at Finnley Center Event Flyer [pdf]
  • April 12, 2024: WGST Award Ceremony Event Flyer [pdf]
  • May 19-23, 2024: South Carolina Women's and Gender Studies Undergraduate Summer Institute Event Flyer [pdf]
  • September 8-9, 2023: WGST at 50: From the Past Into the Future Event Flyer [pd-f]
  • September 27, 2023: Transwomanhood's History with Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson Event flyer [pdf]
  • October 9, 2023: Adrenée Glover Freeman lecture with Dr. Daphne A. Brooks Event flyer [pdf]
  • November 8, 2023: Cancer Alley and Eco-activism with Dr. Rosalind Hinton Event flyer [pdf]
  • January 18,2023: Post-Roe in the US: Lessons Learned Globally to Inform Local Action with Dr. Deborah Billings Event Flyer [pdf]
  • January 18-22, 2023: Girls Speak - Women's Well-Being Initiative Exhibition Event Flyer [pdf]
  • January 30, 2023 “Getting Zucked:” Examining Digital Violence and Injustice Online and IRL with Dr. Kishonna Gray. Part of the Violence (In)Justice Press Play Lecture Series.
  • February 6, 2023 Teaching Social Justice Seminar Event flyer 
  • March 23rd: Troubling the Public During Troubling Times with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 24th: Stigma, Sensitivity, and Surveys: Measuring Abortion Post-Dobbs with Dr. Laura Lindberg Event Flyer [pdf]
  • Violence (In)Justice Lecture Series
  • August 25-September 29, 2022: Socially Engaged Ceramics (learn more on the SVAD website)
  • October 6, 2022: Travelling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance with Mia Bay Event Flyer [pdf]
  • October 6-27, 2022: Feminist Horror Film Series: Family Trouble: Parenthood, Gender, and the Monstrous-Feminine (learn more on the Honors College website)
  • October 12-26, 2022: Fall Literary Festival (learn more on the University Library website)
  • October 17, 2022: Adrenée Glover Freeman lecture with Dr. Aisha Durham Event Flyer [pdf]
  • February 10-13, 2022: The 2022 Comparative Literature Conference: Truth in the Late Foucault (learn more on the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures website)
  • February 11, 2022 at 2PM: Writing workshop with Briallen Hopper Event Flyer [pdf]
  • February 12, 2022 at 4:30PM: Odd Birds Books reading with Briallen Hopper – Easy to Love: An alternative Valentine’s Day event celebrating friendship, queerness, spinsterhood, and family Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 2, 2022 at 4:30PM: Programs of Life with Dr. Patrick R. Grzanka Event Flyer [pdf]
  • March 31, 2022 at 6PM: Dr. Mary Baskin Waters Lecture with Dr. Ruha Benjamin Event flyer [pdf]
  • April 4, 2022 at 4:30PM: Kashmir: The Personal is Political Event flyer [pdf]
  • Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Transgressed: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives Event Information
  • University Libraries' Fall Literary Festival event with Jacqueline Woodson, children's author Event Information
  • Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Intersectionality and Youth Violence Event Information
  • Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Racialized State Violence and the Paradox of Mothers’ (In)visibility Event Information
  • Religion, Sexuality and Freedom: a Talk with Dr. Emily Kazyak and Dr. Kelsy Burke  Event Flyer [pdf]
  • A Talk with Irish Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin Event Flyer [pdf]
  • TC Tolbert, editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry  Event Flyer [pdf]
  • Claudia Smith Brinson discusses Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina  Event Flyer [pdf]
  • Matias Viegener joins Dr. Ed Madden's "Queer Times, Queer Lives" Event Flyer [pdf]
  • Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus discuss their work The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature  Event Flyer [pdf]
  •  WGST 298 welcomes Cooper Lee Bombardier to discuss Pass with Care  Event Flyer [pdf]
  • 27th Annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Sandra Rattley #UNLADYLIKE 2020
  • CAS Justice Theme Semester guest speaker Lewis Raven Wallace
  • The Challenges and Rewards of Social Justice Guided Teaching and Research and Activism with Dr. Lynn Weber
  • Rethinking Recognition: Overcoming Displacement and Reification in Cultural Politics with Georgia Warnke
  • Southern Truth Award Lecture with Dorothy Allison, part of the Deckle Edge Literary Festival
  • 26th Annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Valerie Smith
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