Past Events
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Oct 29October 2025 CRGW Fall Colloquium Lecture with Dr. Kate Phelps
Dr. Kate Phelps
3401 Sterling Hall
Playing it Safe: Tween Girls on Parents, Privacy, and “Appropriate Behavior” Online Dr. Kate Phelps, Teaching Faculty, Alumni Engagement Coordinator, UW–Madison Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 1:30 pm CST in 3401 Sterling and on Zoom (check back for the link!) Tween girls mainly interact on social media with people and peer networks they already know in physical space. …
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Oct 24Gender & Women’s Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration
Keynote Speaker: Brittney Cooper
Friday's activities will be held at Sterling Hall & Saturday's to be held at the The Monona Terrace Celebration Webpage
Join us for dancing, dining, and dialogue! It is time to celebrate the accomplishments of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at UW–Madison throughout its 50 years of rich and powerful history! The 2025 golden anniversary celebration, “Forward Together!” is an important event that brings people together from within and beyond UW–Madison to a setting …
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Sep 24September 2025 CRGW Fall Colloquium Lecture with Professor Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Professor Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
3401 Sterling Hall
Please join us Wednesday, September 24th for Professor Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué’s lecture titled “Esther Dreams: African Women’s Lives Across Borders.” This exciting talk is part of our Center for Research on Gender and Women’s 2025-26 Colloquium Series. Place: This lecture will be hybrid— in person (3401 Sterling Hall) or Zoom (ID: 918 3654 6732; Passcode: 761288). Time: 1:30pm CST This research talk highlights one chapter of …
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Apr 24April 2024 CRGW Colloquium
Dr. Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez
Transfeminist Puerto Rico Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 1:30 pm in 3401 Sterling Hall and virtually via Zoom. This presentation documents and analyzes the contemporary history of transfeminism in Puerto Rico as a radical politics that centers trans liberation and upholds an anti-racist, decolonial, pro-migrant, anti-capitalist, pro-sex worker, and environmentalist stance. It …
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Mar 21The Traumatic Repercussions of Obstetric Racism
Dr. Dána-Ain Davis
The Traumatic Repercussions of Obstetric Racism Dána-Ain Davis Thursday March 21, 2024, 1:30 pm CST at the UW South Madison Partnership (2238 S. Park St.) and virtually via Zoom. The UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity and the Center for Research on Gender and Women present a free talk, open to all, by Dána-Ain Davis. There will be in-person …
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Mar 14March 2024 CRGW Colloquium
Dr. Sara Warner
Madison’s Queer Militant History: Lorraine Hansberry’s “Flowers for the General” Sara Warner Thursday, March 14, 2024, 1:30 pm in 3401 Sterling Hall and virtually via Zoom. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, best known as the author of A Raisin in the Sun, attended UW–Madison in the late 1940s, leaving before she completed her degree. A member of the campus’ Young …
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Feb 21February 2024 CRGW Colloquium
Dr. Christopher Hommerding
Stone Houses, Stone City, and Stone Walls: Queer Pasts of the Upper Midwest and the Potential of (Counter) Public Queer History Christopher Hommerding Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 1:30 pm in 3401 Sterling Hall and virtually via Zoom The field of queer history is usually a bicoastal venture, with the flyover country of the Upper Midwest often overlooked. …