The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has...
"Anonymous Autonomous" Work in Progress Community Demo
Katherine Behar, U-M Artist-in-Residence; Associate Professor of Art at Baruch College
Anonymous Autonomous is a robotic art installation being developed by Katherine Behar, Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan,...
Kibitz & Nosh: NYC’s Vanished Cafeterias
Marcia Bricker Halperin, Photographer
The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th...
Exhibit Opening & Reception: New York City’s Vanished Cafeterias
Marcia Bricker Halperin, Photographer
Remarks at 4:30pm by the artist and by Jennifer Friess, UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography....
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)
The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature...
LGQRI lecture by Héctor Carrillo
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, Erik Mueggler, Yun Zhou
Amy Brainer, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology, UM Dearborn; Erik Mueggler, Katherine Verdery Collegiate...
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, Emily Fredericks, Matthew Lassiter
William Lopez, Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Assistant Clinical Professor at...
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...
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.
