Past Events
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Sep 30CRGW Event: What is the University For? Explorations of Transformative Learning, Critical Inquiry, and Liberatory PotentialDr. Kristian Contreras, Executive Director of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
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Sep 30CRGW Open House5188 Levy Hall CRGW Open House
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Apr 22De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series with Afra Smith “Building Beyond Barries: Wealth, Leadership, and Liberation”
Afra Smith
3401 Sterling Hall
Students! Join us as founder and CEO of The Melanin Project, Afra Smith discusses her mission to eradicate wealth disparities through financial education for women of the Black and African diaspora, and gives insights for student leaders engaging in social justice and advocacy work. Smith will be giving a student talk, “Building Beyond Barriers: Wealth, …
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Apr 15De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series with Desiré Vincent Levy “Advocacy as a Leadership Tool”
Desiré Vincent Levy
3401 Sterling Hall
Students! Join us for a film showing and talk with Desiré Vincent Levy, executive producer and impact producer of the James Beard Award-winning film, Coldwater Kitchen, and head of partnerships and external affairs at Down North Pizza, an award-winning restaurant which exclusively hires community members returning home from incarceration. Levy will be giving a student …
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Mar 25De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series with Alexandra Kralick on “Failure and Resilience”
3401 Sterling Hall
The Center for Research on Gender and Women in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is excited to invite students to the 2025-26 De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series! Alexandra Kralick, Wittig Postdoctoral Research Fellow, will be giving the talk “Failure and Resilience” generating discussion about gender, leadership, and student development within varying notions of defeat and success. …
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Mar 13UN Commission on the Status of Women Parallel Virtual Event: “Missing and Murdered: Seeking Justice and Healing for Women and Relatives”
Please save the date Friday, March 13, 2026, 9:00am-12:10pm CST for a Parallel Virtual Event at the UN CSW 70 Forum! “Missing and Murdered: Seeking Justice and Healing for Women and Relatives” is an interdisciplinary discussion on the disappearance or murder of Indigenous and marginalized women and girls through a lens of situating justice and healing as interconnected imperatives. The …
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Feb 18GWS Student Leadership Collective: FLOW (Feminist Leaders for Opportunity and Wellness)
Bakke Wellbeing Center, Serenity Studio, Level 2, 1976 Observatory Drive
The Center for Research on Gender and Women in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is excited to invite students to the first event by the GWS Student Leadership Collective: FLOW Feminist Leaders for Opportunity and Wellness within the 2025-2026 De Cleene Leadership Forum! Jamie Priti Gratrix, Department Administrator for Gender and Women’s Studies at UW–Madison, will be leading …
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Feb 11De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series: Women In Elected Office in Wisconsin
3401 Sterling Hall
The Center for Research on Gender and Women in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is excited to invite students to the first Spring talk in its 2025-26 De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series! Jeanne Duffy, the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Women’s Council, will be giving the talk “Women In Elected Office in Wisconsin” that presents findings based …
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Jan 28Guest Speaker Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons: “I Am Going Home!”: Abolitionist and Freedom-Making Practices in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes
Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons
3401 Sterling Hall
Join us for Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons’ talk on Wednesday, January 28th from 1:00-2:30 in 3401 Sterling Hall! The title of her talk is: “I Am Going Home!”: Abolitionist and Freedom-Making Practices in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes. Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Director of the Eclectic Scholars Honors Program at Hiram College. …
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Nov 182025-2026 De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series: Leadership and Values with Jeanne DuffyLeadership and Values Jeanne Duffy, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Women’s Council Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 11:00am CST in 3401 Sterling The Center for Research on Gender and Women in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is excited to invite you to the inaugural talk in its 2025-26 De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series! Jeanne Duffy, …