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Follow the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Facebook or Instagram for event postings. Virtual events will be held in Microsoft Teams, which is available for use in your web browser or can be downloaded as an app here. Past department events can be viewed on out Past Events page.
Disability Accommodations: If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event, please contact 813-974-0982 at least five (5) working days prior to the event.
Workshop for submissions for the Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
December 17, 12-1:30pm
Virtual Event - Email for Meeting Link
Get help with your Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference submission at our workshop on 12/17 at noon. The workshop will be held virtually in Teams and led by Dr. Jill McCracken.
Brown Bag Series: Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko: "Queer Intimacies: Audre Lorde's Livable Geographies and Indigenous Survival in the Eurasian Borderlands"
January 23, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
This talk explores Audre Lorde’s journey to Soviet Eurasia in 1976. Dr. Shchurko focuses on Lorde’s bond with Soviet Chukchee writer Antonina Kymytval’, highlighting moments of reciprocity and togetherness that transcend the traditional East/West binary. Rather than centering on state-driven diplomacy, Lorde’s reflections reveal a different realm of political alliance—one rooted in the shared struggles of marginalized communities impacted by imperial violence. The encounter between Lorde and Kymytval’ sparked transgressive forms of sociality and intimacy, challenging the rigid norms of Soviet and Western political economies and the logics of settler colonialism.
About Dr. Shchurko: My research is rooted in anti-colonial feminist theorizing, focusing on the complexities of multiple imperialisms within and between Europe, Eurasia, and the United States. In 2023, I was honored to receive an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to work on my book project. My current research project delves into the critical genealogies of transnational feminism, emphasizing the connections between U.S. Black women’s transnational activism and Eurasian knowledge production. My book project, in particular, explores Black feminist solidarities in Eurasia, examining how these interactions resonate with and contribute to contemporary anti-imperialist feminist movements.
Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
February 21, 2025
TECO Hall
For conference information, including the Call for Submissions, visit the conference page.
Brown Bag Series: Dr. Dana Ahern
March 6, 2024
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
Details TBA.
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.