The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars and offers a multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women's history, gender and queer theory, sexuality studies, transgender studies, and the study of feminism, social movements, and contemporary social issues and policy in a transnational world.
Sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and the History Department with support from the Office of the Dean of Faculty and the Office of the Provost and additional academic units that differ annually.
Co-Directors of the Duke on Gender Colloquium
2015-2016 and 2016-2017: Elizabeth Grosz and Anna Krylova
2017-2021: Frances S. Hasso and Anna Krylova
2021-Present: Anna Krylova and Gabriel Rosenberg
Trans Politics Now: Seminar with Jules Gill-Peterson
Friday, October 15, 2021 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Jules Gill-Peterson, History Department, John Hopkins University
MODERATOR:
Peter Sigal, Duke History, GSFS
How and Why Some U.S. Billionaires Are Funding Anti-Feminism, Global Homophobia, and Other Attacks on Democracy
Friday, November 5, 2021 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Lisa Graves, Executive Director of True North Research and President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy
Nancy MacLean, Duke History, GSFS
CHAIR: Anna Krylova, Duke History, GSFS
The Natures of Desire: A Conversation on Queerness and the Wild
Friday, January 28, 2022 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Jack Halberstam, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York
Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke GSFS, History
Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine by Frances Hasso
A Conversation with Dr. Rhoda Kanaaneh
Friday, February 11, 2022 – (VIDEO RECORDING)
PRESENTER:
Frances Hasso, GSFS, Sociology, History Department, Duke University
Rhoda Kanaaneh, Research Scholar, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
CHAIR: Anna Krylova, Duke History, GSFS