![Portrait of Grace Lavery on a black background Portrait of Grace Lavery on a black background](/images/2023/20230126/3ce8bb2420b1a956c650291dba0fb861-CT-Grace L. headshot edited_20220829061400PM.jpg)
Gender Studies Now: "How to Change Sex: Against the Romance of Intractability
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, January 26, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Grace Lavery
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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite: The Accountants of Nineveh: Jews, Exile, and Capitalism from Herodotus to Werner Sombart
Monday, February 06, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
![Black background with boy creating a rainbow on white paper with his fingers Black background with boy creating a rainbow on white paper with his fingers](/images/2023/20230210/994d1a42cc3b31d3bc9105cedb81822f-CT-Boy with the rainbow_20230112062614PM.png)
Visual arts in and on Afghanistan: political violence, war and the question of futurity
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, February 10, 2023
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Mohsin Taasha, Shamayel Shalizi, Saadia Batool, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Anila Daulatzai
![Blond woman with a cigarette in her mouth bare shoulders Blond woman with a cigarette in her mouth bare shoulders](/images/2023/20230220/6f765e1eecfd44a52a77ffd77f376f62-CT-thumbnail_image001_20230131051518PM.png)
GSF Graduate Scholars Colloquium presents "Mater Obscura: Looking Through a Photographic Archive"
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, February 20, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hunter Augeri
![Black and white photo silo of a man's upper body unclothed amongst white sparks Black and white photo silo of a man's upper body unclothed amongst white sparks](/images/2023/20230302/5e58fad885974ca5fd847f7572be5dd6-CT-Jafari hi_res_cover edited_20220829060848PM.jpg)
Gender Studies Now: There's a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, March 02, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jafari Allen
![Duke GSF logo and light green background with leaf illustration Duke GSF logo and light green background with leaf illustration](/images/2023/20230911/d92ee0afd3219eaf40eb696e69e0a6e8-CT-Sep. GSF Colloquium - Embodied Planet. Green Calendar image_20230815034157PM.png)
The Embodied Planet: Sex and Gender in the Characters of Raoul Schrott
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, September 11, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Stephen Zaksewicz
![Blk background head shot of white man with Salt and pepper beard and book cover of his latest book Blk background head shot of white man with Salt and pepper beard and book cover of his latest book](/images/2023/20230927/a9b8dbc5eb631515ea81d752a7b028fa-CT-Photo for Duke Ev. Cal._20230622022503PM.jpg)
Book Talk and Q&A with Greggor Mattson
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Greggor Mattson
![Headshot of Man with dark hair small beard and mustache and glasses Headshot of Man with dark hair small beard and mustache and glasses](/images/2023/20231004/45fe0dc69f0130f66c3115d94fa7b2a2-CT-K.Amin headshot for Duke Ev. Cal._20230816013525PM.jpg)
The Respectability Politics of Gender Identity, A History
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Kadji Amin
![Shoes in a circle on a stone ground outside and a logo Shoes in a circle on a stone ground outside and a logo](/images/2023/20231009/3444253315228af4d560d9410cfb1f13-CT-Feminist Connections 2023 Duke Cal Image_20230911092429PM.jpg)
Feminist Connections - Undergraduate dinner with Faculty
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, October 09, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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GSF Graduate Scholars Colloquium presents Reading Women's Literature as a Feminist Speech Act
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, October 23, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Savannah Marciezyk
![Lynne Huffer headshot and exhibit photo on green background Lynne Huffer headshot and exhibit photo on green background](/images/2023/20231108/bbf3b624d66449d3add60ff8fc5443b2-CT-Queer Theory Lecture Ev. Cal. photo_20230929025931PM.jpg)
Annual Queer Theory Lecture presents keynote Lynne Huffer
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Lynne Huffer
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GSF Graduate Scholars Colloquium presents Entre Las Chicas: Care, Abandonment, and Insistence in Colombian Prison Worlds
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, November 13, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Joseph Hiller
![Several Feminist Book covers, one with a African American woman another with a white woman Several Feminist Book covers, one with a African American woman another with a white woman](/images/2023/20231129/24bb449880394cd0a8a7a614970a9abc-CT-bestsellers-banner-for calendar image_20231107055110PM.jpg)
Gender Studies Then presents Narrating A Field: How Gender Studies Came to Be
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Clare Hemmings, Robyn Wiegman
![Head shot of woman of brown skinned woman with classes with sky background Head shot of woman of brown skinned woman with classes with sky background](/images/2023/20231207/d41eb3bab13f547dce772c66f0fa5f14-CT-BordeauxClementine_photoby_TarynMarcelino_20231128074441PM.jpg)
grassesgrassesgrasses: Theorizing Indigenous Relationality
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, December 07, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Clementine Bordeaux
![White man with long wavy dark hair White man with long wavy dark hair](/images/2024/20240111/ca7e229c6143696e8da63081ca0333d7-CT-Zavier Nunn 2023-24_20231221045459PM.jpg)
Trans Liminality: Histories from Weimar and Nazi Germany
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, January 11, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Zavier Nunn
![white man with dark brown hair and silver rimmed glasses , dark t-shirt, head shot white man with dark brown hair and silver rimmed glasses , dark t-shirt, head shot](/images/2024/20240201/debb75e3391d22e421b3152ac0eae004-CT-Velocci headshot2021_20231226074608PM.png)
The Normal Woman: On the Irrelevance of the Body to Sex in Early Twentieth Century Gynecology
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, February 01, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Beans Velocci
![Headshot of Michelle T. King; descriptive text (event title, date, time, location, series info); background image of vegetables being stir-fried in a wok Headshot of Michelle T. King; descriptive text (event title, date, time, location, series info); background image of vegetables being stir-fried in a wok](/images/2024/20240212/2af40a11ab3ad0a10b6f5e466b58c944-CT-240212_King_20240206050957PM.png)
Chop, Fry, Watch, Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, February 12, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Michelle T. King (History, UNC–Chapel Hill)
![Two women wearing white shirts and earrings. Two women wearing white shirts and earrings.](/images/2024/20240219/32c492edf6b98ac59d4671f83c4f4986-CT-Kitchen Table7 Calendar_20240212080622PM.jpg)
SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE - AGAIN: Reflection On Fieldnotes From Women Of Color In Anthropology
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, February 19, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Tami Navarro and Bianca Williams
![Untitled 2022 by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza. Untitled 2022 by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.](/images/2024/20240228/0cbd354a1948d965e7417fb510f18238-CT-Painting photo lg. for Ev. Cal._20240130051501PM.jpg)
Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine - An in-person & Livestreamed Conference
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Literature
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
11:30 am - 6:00 pm
Walaa Alqaisiya, Jennifer Kelly, Robert Filippello, Ronak K. Kapadia, Shahd Abusalama,
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Feminist Connections - Undergraduate dinner with Faculty
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, March 04, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Glissant's Medusa: Sovereign Cosmopoiesis and Unworldly Abjection
Sponsor(s):
Literature, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Romance Studies
Friday, March 29, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
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Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations
Sponsor(s):
Literature
Thursday, April 04, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
David Eng and Yogita Goyal
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Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations
Sponsor(s):
Literature
Friday, April 05, 2024
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Iyko Day and Rocío Zambrana
![book image for the color black, Duke university press book image for the color black, Duke university press](/images/2024/20240426/0f63818a22e06efe08085061eef56242-CT-the color black image_20240201083454PM.png)
Book Launch: "The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran"
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Duke University Press, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and History
Friday, April 26, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Princeton University), Khwezi Mkhize (Duke University) & Paniz Musawi Natanzi (Duke University
![Jennifer Doyle, White skinned, Dark brown short hair and her book cover Jennifer Doyle, White skinned, Dark brown short hair and her book cover](/images/2024/20240910/2890cafe263438233ae23d94b0bdd3e7-CT-Doyle Ev. Cal. photo_20240816065614PM.png)
Jennifer Doyle Book Talk: "Shadow of My Shadow"
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
![Jenna Tang Jenna Tang](/images/2024/20240920/9da325dfc0b570fe6ecf3b861c7784f7-CT-Jenna Tang Landscape photo_20240904031031PM.jpg)
JENNA TANG, TRANSLATOR OF LIN YI-HAN’S NOVEL, FANG SI-CHI’S FIRST LOVE PARADISE
Friday, September 20, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jenna Tang
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Graduate Scholars Colloquium Presenter Alex Brandli
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, September 23, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Alex Brandli, PhD Candidate in History and Certificate in Feminist Studies
![Five speaker panel headshot montage Five speaker panel headshot montage](/images/2024/20240926/cd83c561a01216ab4d93a9190bc91e43-CT-Duke Event Cal Image_20240827022644PM.png)
Literary Gaza (Hybrid)
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and History
Thursday, September 26, 2024
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Basman Alderawi, Esmat Elhalaby, Samah Fadil
![Head shot of white person in grey tee shirt, Beans Velocci Head shot of white person in grey tee shirt, Beans Velocci](/images/2024/20241008/ff0a0f456e3ee221ae6b6b6cad0c7fdc-CT-Velocci headshot2021_20240722024012PM.png)
The Normal Woman: On the Irrelevance of the Body to Sex in Early Twentieth Century Gynecology
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Beans Velocci
![Marlon Ross Headshot, African American man against book case Marlon Ross Headshot, African American man against book case](/images/2024/20241024/65e6d95e8180fb28ef1bae4236f1dbf9-CT-Ross photo_ (002) edited_20240716044021PM.png)
The Annual Queer Theory Lecture - In Honnor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, October 24, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Marlon B. Ross