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Annual Lectures

Distinguished Alumnae/i Lectures

Each Spring, the CSGS welcomes a UChicago alumnae/i working in the field of gender and sexuality back to present their work.

Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Each year, CSGS hosts the Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture featuring University of Chicago faculty doing innovative interdisciplinary work. As part of its tenth anniversary celebration in 2006, the Center renamed this annual lecture to honor Iris Marion Young. Young was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center and the Human Rights program. She was a widely known and well-respected contemporary political and feminist social theorist, concerned with normative analysis of public policy. Learn more about Iris Marion Young.

Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture

To honor Prof. Lauren Berlant’s intellectual legacy, the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality propose a joint annual lecture series to start in Spring 2023. This annual lecture takes its form and inspiration from the Worlding, Writing project that Lauren ran for several years through 3CT and CSGS. The purpose of this project was, in Lauren’s words, “to explore new modes of writing and reading - not in an effort to affirm expertise but to imagine productive idioms for critical engagement and to assemble novel ways of attending to socio-political phenomena.” The invited speaker will be someone whose work draws on Lauren’s intellectual legacy, and/or who is pushing the boundaries of writing and reading in ways that resonate with the Worlding, Writing project. The speaker can be an academic, an artist, or an activist.

The OUTstanding Speaker Series

The OUTstanding Speakers Series is an annual distinguished lecture series and student recognition ceremony, established and endowed by UChicago Pride Alumni (formerly the UChicago LGBT Alumni Network) in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS). The series brings to campus scholars, professionals, and public figures who have made significant contributions to the LGBTQ community. Each year, the distinguished guest will deliver a public lecture and a seminar with UChicago students. Additionally, a student will be selected each year to receive the UChicago LGBTQ+ Community Engagement Award, to honor exceptional contributions that advance and support the interests of the LGBTQ+ community. At the public lecture, the awardee will speak about the significance of their work and introduce the invited distinguished speaker. The inaugural event was held in Fall 2022.

 

Other Speaker Series

20th Anniversary

Changing Women in a Changing Society @ 50

Classics in Feminist Theory

Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles

Contexts of Coalition

LGBTQ Speaker Series

 

Other Talks and Events