Fostering teaching, learning and discussion about gender and sexuality at the University of Chicago…
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The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and student self-organization. It now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies.
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NEWS
On Exhibit Now! Fevered Archives: 30 years of comics from the not-so-mixed-up files of Alison Bechdel.
Cassandra Pybus and AbdouMaliq Simone Keynote Symposium on Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities on April 19-20.
International Conference, "Engendering Rights in India: The Colonial Encounter and Beyond" on May 4 with Tanika Sarkar, Charu Gupta, Zoya Hasan, Martha Nussbaum, Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan, and Ruth Vanita.
CSGS has received a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for 2011–2012 to organize International Women's Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities.
The Center for Gender Studies has changed its name! We are now the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS). Our Mission »
Spring Quarter Event Highlights
- Alumni Event: Collective viewing of Angels in America at Court Theater and Dinner (April 28)
- Public Lectures: Sara Ahmed (March 29), Nivedita Menon (April 4), Mary Gray (April 13), Gayle Rubin (April 26), and Leila Ahmed (May 8)
- Art Opening! With Alison Bechdel on April 5
- Symposium on Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities on April 19–20
- Conferences: "Engendering Change: The Second Annual Chicago Area Graduate Gender/Sexualities Conference" (April 27-28) and "Engendering Rights in India: The Colonial Encounter and Beyond" (May 4)