Fostering teaching, learning and discussion about gender and sexuality at the University of Chicago…
About the Center
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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Accessibility
Our building is wheelchair accessible via a ramp in front of the building on University Avenue. There are automatic doors with push pads at the front entrances of the building. The building is equipped with three gender-neutral restrooms; the first floor restroom is ADA accessible and equipped with an automatic door and push pad.
For any other questions about access accommodations, please email csgs@lists.uchicago.edu.
NEWS
Winter 2025 Programming Highlights
Please join us on Monday, February 10 at 4:30pm for the annual Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Larissa Brewer-García (Romance Languages and Literatures) will deliver the talk, “Gendered Exemplarity and Upward Mobility in the African Diaspora in Seventeenth-Century Peru.”
On Wednesday, February 5 at 4:30pm, the Center will host a visit by Peter Allen to discuss “A Boy Falling out of the Sky," from his upcoming book, Finding Love: Hacking through a Very Complicated Life to Find Love, Marriage, and a Family I Never Knew. Allen is a writer, executive coach, professor, and HR leader. He holds a master’s and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago and is a member of the University of Chicago's Humanities Advisory Council.
On February 21-22, the Center will host the conference, Gender and Sexuality in/and the Romance Languages. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the specificities of gender and sexuality as articulated in cultural and critical works produced in or engaging with Romance languages and in all the places and contexts where these are spoken and will bring together scholars, artists, and educators to discuss innovative approaches to inclusive language, translation practices, and performance in relation to gender and sexuality.
All of our Winter 2025 events can be found on our calendar.
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Autumn 2024 Program Highlights
If you would like to revisit a few of our Autumn 2024 events, video is now available for the following events:
Our 2024 OUTstanding Speaker Series Lecture featuring Imani Rupert-Gordon (President of the National Center for Lesbian Rights), “The State of the LGBTQ Movement: What is at Stake, and How We are Going to Win.”
Our 2024 Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture Kathleen Stewart Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin " The Sensation of Singular Life."
The Unfundable Fund for Gender & Sexuality Theory, Research, & Practice in honor of Prof. Lauren Berlant (1957-2021)
Last fall, the CSGS launched a campaign to garner immediate-use graduate student and postdoctoral research project funding, and eventually endow, The Unfundable Fund for Gender & Sexuality Research, Theory, and Practice. The name of this fund comes from Center co-founder Prof. Lauren Berlant (1957-2021), who was a tireless advocate for keeping space open for student research that presents “forms of queer we might not yet recognize.” In this spirit, the Unfundable Fund will prioritize humanistic areas of inquiry that are centered in gender and/or sexuality studies and are not easily fundable through existing mechanisms. Through this initiative, we seek to continue the crucial work of Prof. Lauren Berlant in making the Center an incubator of cutting-edge gender & sexuality research by emerging scholars.
Read a letter about the impact of Lauren’s research and teaching co-authored by Professors Debbie Nelson and Kristen Schilt.
Please consider making your gift today to help us reach our goal.
Did you know?
All UChicago college students have the opportunity to learn about the fundamental importance of gender and sexuality as analytic categories as part of their general education requirement teaching the introduction to the tools of inquiry used in every discipline. The CSGS offers several sections of a two-quarter civilization sequence taught by our faculty based in a variety of disciplines. Read more about Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations.
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VIDEO ARCHIVE
Visit our YouTube Channel for recordings of past events