Events

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