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Recent events in the Gender and Sexuality Network

Recent events in the Gender and Sexuality Network

  • Lecture by Astou Gueye: "Selling Eroticism: Senegalese Urban Sexualities and the Economy of Jongé," Jan. 2023.
  • Lecture by Joseph-Masséna, 'Eziliphonics: Afro-sonic Feminism in Haitian Women’s Fiction', April 22, 2022
  • Lecture by Kaliane Ung (University of Pittsburgh), "The First Days of Maternity in Contemporary French Literature," January 26, 2021
  • "From Abdication to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love as Emancipatory Analysis," with Manon Garcia (Harvard), Feb. 13, 2020 
  • “Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in East European Migration to Italy,” lecture by Martina Cvajner, Jan. 22, 2020.       
  • "What is a Woman?: Beauvoir’s Understanding of Sex as Situation," with Manon Garcia, Feb. 13, 2020 (lecture for undergrads)
  • “Gender and Sexuality in the L2 Classroom: A Round Table for Faculty and Grad Students,"  moderated by Todd Reeser. Wednesday, November 20, 2019
  • "Bucolic Movements: 'Transing' the Pastoral," with Cole Cridlin (PhD student), Jan. 15, 2020
  • "Debauchery and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France," with Lisa Jane Graham (Haverford). Hosted by the Early Modern Worlds Initiative, in conjunction with FRIT, Oct. 31, 2019                                                                               
  • "Violette Leduc Wounded at Birth: The Bastard, the Insult, the Writer," with Kaliane Ung, Oct. 9, 2019
  • "Religion, Saints & Sex: A Symposium in Honor of Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski," Sept. 20, 2019
  • Lecture by Fabio Parasecoli (NYU), "Food, Gender, and Media in Italy," September 2018
  • "Queer Maghrebi French," with Denis Provencher (U Arizona), Sept 13, 2017
  • "Depathologizing Diversity: Critiques of Normative Thinking about the Body," with Kathleen Perry Long (Cornell U), Nov 14, 2017
  • Workshop on Transgender/Non-binary approaches to language teaching, with Kris Knisely (U South Dakota), Oct 20, 2017
  • Campus Visit of LGBT Moroccan Writer Abdellah Taia, Sept 28, 2015
  • Lecture by Giuseppina Pellegrino, Professor of Sociology and Communication at the U of Calabria and Pitt Distinguished Italian Fulbright Lecturer, “Engendering Italy: Gaps, Contradictions, and Paradoxes of Gender on the EU Background,” February 2013