Student applications for the 2023 WGSS Graduate & Undergraduate Awards are open now until April 20, 2023. Learn more about guidelines, eligibility, and more on our Awards page. Students may apply for multiple awards.
Upcoming UConn Reads Events
Join UConn Reads for two weeks of wonderful events in honor of the 2022-2023 selection, Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.
Resilience: A Workshop for Women Doing Philosophy (May 2023)
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The workshop serves as a key project of Women Doing Philosophy (WDP), a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers created in June 2020. The mission of WDP is to create and claim spaces that promote the scholarly, professional, and personal flourishing of Filipino women philosophers. The organization hopes to help diversify and transform the philosophical landscape—a landscape where women of color from the Global South today remain excluded and underprivileged—through the scholarly and activist contributions of its members.
This four-day workshop will be held from May 27 to 30, 2023 at the University of the Philippines Los-Baños Philosophy Division. Scroll through the compilation of posters to learn more about the conference, including the call for commentators!
TONIGHT! 2/21 Night at the Museum Faculty Dialogue
Phyllis Young: Defending Native American Rights
Phyllis Young: Defending Native American Rights and the Importance of Making Kin
Don’t miss this virtual public talk featuring legendary activist Phyllis Young moderated by filmmaker Shannon Kring.
Phyllis Young is a citizen of the Dakota and Lakota nations. She is a founding member of Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and is widely known for her work against the Dakota Access Pipeline (#NODAPL). In 1975, she established the 1st International Indian Treaty Council Office at the UN Plaza and in 1977, she secured the Council’s credentials as an NGO with Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, making it the first Indigenous NGO. Young was one of the authors of the precursor document that became the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Shannon Kring is award-winning filmmaker and the director of the documentary, End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021).
Register to attend the Zoom event on Monday, November 28th from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm EST here!
Feminist Film Festival: Come Support WGSS Students!
Feminist Film Festival
On Tuesday, November 29th, WGSS 2250 students will be hosting a public screening of short documentaries they have produced for class.
Come support the students and all of their hard work in Austin 108 at 6:00 pm!
Upcoming Virtual Panel: Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Rainbow Center, UConn WGSS, and the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition are hosting a virtual panel discussion in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on WebEx on Friday, November 18 at 1:oo pm EST. The distinguished panelists are:
- Sybastian K. Smith, Organizing Director, National Center for Transgender Equality & NCTE Action Fund
- Shanna Kattari Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work and in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department (by courtesy), and Director of the [Sexuality|Relationships|Gender] Research Collective, University of Michigan
- Christine Rodriguez, DNP, APRN, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Interim Co-Chair, Graduate Entry Pre-specialty in Nursing (GEPN), Yale University
- Rhea Debussy Ph.D., Director of External Affairs, Equitas Health (and WGSS alumna!)
Don’t miss out! Please sign up here to be emailed information on how to join this virtual event!
#ThisIsAmerica: Sexual Violence
#ThisIsAmerica is a series that brings together UConn faculty, alumni, and students to discuss and unpack systematic racism, social justice, and human rights issues. It spotlights the individuals, organizations and movements fighting for justice and equity, and against oppression and white supremacy.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three women and one in six men have experienced sexual violence. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center reports that almost half of all transgender people have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. Sexual violence is common, and happens at higher rates for some communities based on factors such as race, sexual orientation, gender identity, economic status, disability status, ad immigration status.
Join us for an engaging discussion on the root causes of sexual violence, an overview of UConn student, staff, and faculty anti-violence efforts that bring us to this contemporary moment of evolution, how to interrupt and prevent sexual violence on college campuses, and much more.
Meet the Panel:
Le’Asia T. Gaskin, CLAS ’21
Ayanna De’Vante Spencer, Ph.D.
Rachel Stewart, CLAS ’14
Andrew Stewart, Ph.D. CLAS ’11, CLAS ’15
When?
Tuesday, November 15, 7:00-9:00pm ET
Where?
Doris & Simon Konover Auditorium or Virtual Livestream
Register here!
Landfall Documentary Screening and Q&A
Thursday, October 13th
UConn’s Journalism Departments presents a screening of Landfall, a documentary examining everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While the devastation of María attracted media coverage, the world has paid far less attention to the storm that preceded it: a 72-billion-dollar debt crisis crippling Puerto Rico well before the winds and waters hit.
Landfall examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic—juxtaposing competing utopian visions of recovery. The documentary reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world falls apart, who do we become?
Attend the documentary screening, then participate in a Q&A with Director Cecilia Aldarondo and Collaborator/Associate Producer Lale Namerrow Pastor. Register to attend here!
Where? Gant North, Room 020 When? 12:30pm-2:00pm (Screening), 2:00-3:00pm (Filmmaker Q&A)
Guest Lecture: Is Giving Birth Comparable to Writing Books?
Is Giving Birth Comparable to Writing Books?
Join Dr. Noelle Leslie dela Cruz’s guest lecture on Thursday, October 13th from 2:00-2:50pm in Austin 108. The lecture will also be livestreamed here.
Noelle Leslie dela Cruz is Full Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University (Manila). Her recent publications are Philosophy of the Human Person: Giving Meaning to Life (Oxford, 2020) and Sisyphus on the Penrose Stairs: Meta-Reveries (Vagabond Press, 2017). Leslie’s poetry collection won First Prize in Poetry (English) at the 67th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the most prestigious national literary award in the Philippines. Her research and teaching areas include existential phenomenology, philosophy of literature, and feminist philosophy.