Things to do at Center for Women's Studies
Tuesday, September 8
Displaced Bodies, Remembered Homes: Exile in 20th-Century Spanish Literature
Tue, Sep 8, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
What does home mean to you? This interactive workshop invites participants to reflect on the meanings of home and the ideas and feelings we associate with it before exploring what happens when...
Tuesday, September 22
Brown Bag: Porque Estamos Aqui: Presencing Puerto Rican Feminisms
Tue, Sep 22, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
Puerto Ricans have been colonial “citizen” subjects of the US empire for 128 years—our sovereignty denied, our land stolen and sold, our histories maligned and/or absent, and our rights of...
Tuesday, September 29
Brown Bag: Black Sex Economies and Placemaking in a US Bordertown
Tue, Sep 29, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
Disreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how Black women use sex work and place-making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city intent on displacing and...
Tuesday, October 6
Embodied Liberations: Indigenous Epistemologies as Poetic Practice
Tue, Oct 6, 2026 11:30am
An apology entered into the record. A mascot retired. A monument dismantled. What if liberation is not something we seek outside ourselves, but a practice we carry in the body? Following the work...
Tuesday, December 1
Endometriosis, Psychiatric Gynecology, Reproductive Politics of Female Disorder
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
This talk examines the clinical machinery linking gynecology and psychiatry in the early- to mid-20th century, where chronic illness and reproductive pain were transformed into proof of female...
