The Gender Institute promotes innovative research and teaching while also cultivating a vibrant sense of tradition through our signature programs. For more information about each program, click the accompanying photo.
Signature Lecture Series
Climate Change and Gender in the Global South
Sarah Besky, Professor, Anthropology of Work, Department of Global Labor & Work in the ILR School and Director, South Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University; Andrea Marston, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University; Li Zhang, Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology & Sociology and Environmental Studies, Amherst College
February 26, 2025
3:00 - 4:30pm (ET)
509 O'Brian Hall
New Books, New Feminist Directions
Mark Rifkin, Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo, with commentary by Charlene A. Carruthers (she/her), a writer, filmmaker, community organizer, and Black Studies PhD Candidate at Northwestern University
March 6, 2025
12:00 - 1:00pm (ET)
via Zoom
Feminist Research Alliance
Cultivating the affects of place: Teaiwa’s canoe in the Oceanic classroom
Kevin Lujan Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo and Josh Campbell, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, UCLA
March 27, 2025
12:00 - 1:00pm (ET)
via Zoom
Signature Lecture Series
Queering Global Flora: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire
Banu Subramaniam, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College
April 25, 2025
3:30 - 5:00pm (ET)
509 O'Brian & via Zoom