Calendar of Events

Turn Your Education into a Career with Passion and Purpose

The WGSS program invites its faculty and staff, current and alumni majors and minors, and everyone in the UR community who cares about the program to gather for an evening and a day to consider what “careful worldmaking” means in the fields of women, gender, and sexuality studies, and specifically what it means, or might mean, at the University of Richmond. The symposium invites us to...

A book talk and film screening of Dear Corky (2022) with Curtis Chin, followed by Q&A and a book signing reception.A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profit’s first executive director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his...

Careful Worldmaking: A WGSS Symposium Please join us for an AFTERPARTY to celebrate the pre-publication of Humanities Coordinator Nathan Snaza’s Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (officially published February 16). There will be a brief reading from the book followed by Q&A, plus food, drinks, and esoteric arts.

Chris Martin writes in May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodivergent Future (HarperOne, 2022): “I believe autistic attention is a form of love… What if we let our poetic, autistic resistance to neurotypical ‘minding’ serve as an opening toward the loving, liberatory worlds we deserve?” Taking up this axiom (autistic attention is love) and this...

A keynote lecture by Professor Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa Cruz

This symposium seeks to trace historically how Asian Americans enter the Hollywood imagination and how they are (mis/under)represented. As Asian Americans develop a voice and visual presence in Hollywood, how do they imagine, represent, and perform themselves as Asian Americans on or off-screen, speaking to Hollywood and its global audience?

A keynote lecture by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University

A book talk with Shannon Lee, followed by Q&A and a book-signing reception