Gender and Women's Studies

  • Welcome back to Fall 2024 Semester!
  • Gender & Women's Studies
  • Ni Una Menos
  • Double Major with Gender and Women's Studies

Event Archives

Sustainable Fashion and Clean Tech: A Conversation with LACI

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sustainable fashion and Clean Tech: A conversation with LACI Flyer

In Fall 2021, the Institute for Sustainability and the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences will launch our "Sustainable Fashion Academy" Program. This initiative will feature the most important and innovative fashion companies in Los Angeles in an exploration into the intersection between sustainability and fashion. LACI will co-sponsor and generously support this pilot program.


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Gender, Race, and Germs in the U.S. National Security Imaginary: Constructing Threat, Making Empire - A Talk by Gwen Shuni D’Archangelis, PhD

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Gwen D'Archangelis

In the public imagination today, germs are primarily thought of as organisms that need to be controlled and eliminated. But germs have also been weaponized, with powerful nations like the United States justifying their disproportionate military power by pointing to imminent threat from international enemies from China, Iraq, and Russia to Iran and Yemen. Imperial germ politics have enabled the West to garner support for military actions from foreign invasions to domestic surveillance, and weapons buildup from drones to advanced missiles. Read more

Dr. Dianne Bartlow - Domestic Violence and Child Custody: Family Court Failings

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

WRRC Brown Bag Series - Dr. Dianne Bartlow

Domestic Violence and Child Custody: Family Court Failings In celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, join us at the Women's Center for the first in our Brown Bag Series, featuring Dr. Dianne Bartlow.

Dr. Bartlow is a Professor at CSUN in the Gender & Women's Studies Dept. She received her Ph.D. from UC San Diego in Communication with an emphasis on critical cultural/media studies, gender, race, & discourse, cognition & human interaction. Read more

Embodying Justice: Arts and Activism for the Comfort Women

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Embodying Justice: Art and Activism for the Comfort Women

SPEAKERS: Elizabeth Son, Northwestern University; Jeri Frederickson, Awakenings Gallery; Ji-Hye Kim, KAN-WIN: Empowering Women in the Asian American Community. The speakers will address their exhibit "Embodying Justice," and discuss the activism of the Comfort Women and the role of the arts in instigating social and political change. Read more

Intimate Histories: A Virtual Conversation with Rafia Zakaria

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 9:30am to 11:00am

Rafia Zakaria

Rafia Zakaria is an author, attorney, and human rights activist. She is the author of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, and Veil. She has written for Al Jazeera, The Nation, CNN, the New York Times Book Review, Guardian Books, The New Republic, The Baffler, Boston Review, and DAWN, Read more

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