WGS Colloquium: ‘Tackling Goliath: How Students Won and Why I Archived It’

Friday, March 29 | 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Women’s Center (Bridges 154) This month, Women’s Center Coordinator Dana Bisignani will give a talk about her four-year long student activist campaign, which succeeded in establishing a rape crisis center at Purdue University, and why she archived materials from the campaign following its success. Before the campaign, Purdue had been the only Big 10 university not to have a crisis center. […]

‘Telling Truth to Power: Intersections of Feminism and Journalism’ – WGS Colloquium

Friday, Feb. 22 | 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Women’s Center (BR 154) Join the Women’s and Gender Studies Program for their February colloquium. Melissa Gonzalez, a WGS alumna currently studying multimedia journalism, presents several women in journalism throughout our nation’s history, and explores how feminism and journalism can blend and be used for anti-oppression work. On the last Friday of each month, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program holds […]

WGS Colloquium Series begins this Friday

Join Women’s and Gender Studies and the feminist community on campus for the first engaging colloquium talk of the WGS Colloquium Series: “Dangerous Possibilities: Femme of Color Histories and the Erotics of Home” presented by Natassja Gunasena, MSUM WGS & English alum and current Doctoral Student in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas Austin.