Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joy Saniyah
LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week 2020
We're kicking off Health and Wellness Week with a very special keynote speaker, Dr. Joy Saniyah! She will be presenting based on the...
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Jennifer Hirsch (Mailman School of Public Health; Columbia Population Research Center; Columbia University) and Shamus Khan (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)
with respondents:...
"Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men"
Héctor Carrillo, Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University
Professor Carrillo is the author of two books: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press,...
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
Amy Brainer (Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology, UM Dearborn); Erik Mueggler (Anthropology); Yun Zhou (Sociology, Chinese Studies); and Chelle Jones (PhD candidate, Sociology)
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer...
Ann Arbor Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a global campaign to improve representation of cis and transgender women, feminism, and the arts...
Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Peggy McCracken, Valerie Traub, Basil Duffalo, Yopie Prins
Peggy McCracken, Director, Institute for the Humanities; Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities; Professor of French, Women's...
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
William Lopez (National Center for Institutional Diversity, School of Public Health), Emily Fredericks (Pediatrics), Matthew Lassiter (History, Urban and Regional Planning)
William Lopez, Emily Fredericks, and Matthew Lassiter discuss Lopez's recent book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of...
LGQRI lecture by Andrea Bolivar
Andrea Bolivar, LSA Collegiate Fellow (Women's Studies)
Andrea Bolivar is a cultural anthropologist whose current project, “‘Somos una Fantasia’: Race, Violence, and Potentiality in...
Of Victims and Villains: The Targeting of Muslim Women | Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Rana Elmir (Deputy Director, ACLU of Michigan)
Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine...
The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field
Deirdre Cooper Owens (Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine & Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program...
Bio
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) stimulates and supports research and creative activities by U-M faculty members and graduate students who use the lens of women, gender and sexuality to further their work. Each year, we also sponsor a variety of speakers and events to foster intellectual exploration and social change.
Founded in 1995, IRWG is an interdisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan Office of Research.
