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Every year, the Women’s Studies Department organizes an exciting menu of events intended to be of interest to a diverse audience of students, faculty, and members of the community. In addition, we regularly co-sponsor events organized by other units and individuals. From public lectures to workshops with graduate students to art exhibits, we infuse the University with the vitality of feminist thought, scholarship, and art.

With the support of Ellen Agress, who endowed the annual Vivian R. Shaw Lecture in memory of her mother, who died of breast cancer at the age of 50 when Ellen was a junior at the University of Michigan, Women’s Studies collaborates each year with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) to bring distinguished visitors to campus for the Shaw Lecture. We invite speakers who will address a “real world” issue affecting women and/or gender. Past visitors include Angela Davis, Dr. Susan Love, M. Jacqui Alexander, Wendy Wasserstein, and Judy Norsigian.

We also collaborate with IRWG in organizing a lecture on gender and the media, underwritten by the support of Motorola. Past speakers and Motorola Award recipients include Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation; Laura Flanders, author of Bushwomen and The W Effect; and Liza Featherstone, author of Women and Walmart.

Every year, our doctoral students sponsor the visits of one or two scholars with which they are particularly eager to work. Past visitors include Ginetta Candelario, Aida Hurtado, Janice Madden, Gayatri Gopinath, and Judith Roofs.

Our co-sponsorships over the past two years have supported lectures on such topics as Islam and Social Justice, Chicana/o Indigenous Dialogues, Fat Activism, and Investing in Ability, as well as visits from Mark Doty, Deborah Tannen, Marilyn Wann, and Anne Fausto-Sterling.

Each year, Lane Hall is the site of two art exhibits, jointly sponsored by Women’s Studies and IRWG. Exhibits in the past few years have included Bollywood Satirized, Jake in Transition from Female to Male, Southern Saddlebags and Shotgun Houses, and Visualizing Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering.

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