FGSS & LGBT Studies Spring 2025 Commencement Celebration!
FGSS & LGBT Studies commencement information.
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The Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice.
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FGSS Events
Apr
25
Friday
08:00 AM
Black Left Feminist Praxis & African Diaspora Theorizing: The Scholarship of Carole Boyce Davies
Africana Studies and Research Center
AFC 120, Multi-Purpose Room
Apr
25
Friday
09:30 AM
Society for the Humanities: Spring Fellows' Conference on the theme of "Silence"
A. D. White House
Guerlac Room
Apr
25
Friday
04:30 PM
Apr
25
Friday
06:00 PM
Café con Leche
Anna Comstock Hall (Latino Living Center)
Apr
25
Friday
06:30 PM
Mosab Abu Toha: Reading and Author Conversation
Off-Site Location
Buffalo Street Books: 215 N. Cayuga Street, Dewitt Mall
May
02
Friday
06:00 PM
Café con Leche
Anna Comstock Hall (Latino Living Center)
FGSS News
In ‘Silence’ spring conference, Fellows ‘attend to what is not there’
On April 25, seven Society for the Humanities’ Fellows will present their projects in progress during the annual Spring Fellows’ conference, highlighting the various ways that the theme of silence has been explored –
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Jingya Guo
Jingya Guo, FGSS Graduate Assistant, is a doctoral candidate in history from Hangzhou, China. She earned her B.A. from Zhejiang Normal University and M.A. in history and museum studies from Tufts University and now studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between path...
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Cook-Gray Lecture will examine transformative labor movement
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15: “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century.”
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Emanuela Bianchi: Kinship and Truth in Ancient Greece
Looking closely at the archaic genealogy of gods and humans in Hesiod and approaching questions of genos through (post)structuralist conceptions of kinship, we will see how patriarchal kinship strives to determine the truth of genealogy and inheritance, while women’s relationship to truth is relentl...
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What is the Gender of Gender Abolition? Presented by Dr. Perry Zurn
Drawing on resources as disparate as abolition democracy, prison abolition, reproductive justice, Marxism, and transfeminism, gender abolitionists often grapple with (and are called to grapple with) competing conceptualizations of abolition—how it works, what it looks like, and by what means it is a...
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Eve Iulo ‘26, FGSS minor, publishes in the Princeton PRISMS undergraduate journal
Eve Iulo is a third-year student at Cornell University, pursuing an interdisciplinary major in Feminist Media Studies and Technologies with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. See Eve's article, "Policing Pleasure: Prevailing Feminist Tensions with Neoliberal Governance and Power as...
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Bohannon, Manne event focuses on female body image, evolution
"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.
Read moreLand Acknowledgement
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.
1969
Nation's first accredited women's studies course taught at Cornell University
1972
Cornell's women's studies program is established