Explore Feminism. Embrace Intersections. Embody Change.
Women’s and Gender Studies sponsors an annual lecture that features local and national scholars and activists who present their work on cutting edge themes in women, gender, and sexuality.
In addition, we cooperate with other UNL departments, programs, and centers to co-sponsor speakers, workshops, films, panel discussions, and other creative work. These events are free and open to students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.
Our Next Event
Jae Puckett, PhD
Transforming Narratives of Resilience Through Centering Transgender and Nonbinary People’s Lives
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 p.m.
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room
Free and open to the public
Puckett (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University who leads Trans-ilience, a community-engaged research team focused on minority stress and resilience in transgender and nonbinary communities. Their work has focused on identifying novel forms of minority stress experienced by trans and nonbinary people, the impacts on health and wellbeing, and contextualizing these experiences in the broader sociopolitical contexts that influence the lives of trans and gender diverse people, as well as advancing understanding of the unique ways resilience is embodied in these communities.
Sponsors
College of Arts and Sciences; University Libraries; Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Gender and Sexual Identities; Gender and Sexuality Center; Center for Digital Research in the Humanities; Center for Transformative Teaching; Center for Plant Science Innovation; Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education; Center for Great Plains Studies; Schools of Biological Sciences, Global Integrative Studies, and Natural Resources; Institute for Ethnic Studies; Departments of Chemistry, Classics and Religious Studies, Communication Studies, Educational Psychology, English, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Political Science, and Sociology; Environmental and Sustainability Studies; Forsythe Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Humanities in Medicine; and Law-Psychology Program.
Past Speakers
Kamilah Willingham
Katharine Donato
Jeannette Jones
Zakiya Luna
Tomi-Ann Roberts
Lara Freidenfelds
Shireen Ghorbani
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Roxane Gay
Jaclyn Friedman
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Sarah Deer
Karma R. Chávez
Janet Kourany
Londa Schiebinger
Lise Eliot
Sarah Schulman
Obioma Nnaemeka
tatiana de la tierra
Patricia Hill Collins
Janice Gould
Jean Fagin Yellen
Mahnaz Afkhami
Toi Derricotte
Darlene Clark Hine
Beth Brant
Manjira Datta
Gloria Steinem
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Nomy Lamm
Leslie Feinberg
Barbara Smith
bell hooks
Guerrilla Girls