UAF Women, Gender & Sexuality Program

DEADLINE APPROACHING!! The CLA StoryWorks Field Intensive invites students to think critically about representation, voice and perspective while documenting real-world research in the field.

Spend a week in Tok, Alaska capturing stories with intention, awareness and care, while working alongside researchers in an active field environment.

📍 Fairbanks + Tok, Alaska
📅 June 7–13, 2026
👥 4 students selected
💰 All expenses covered + $1,000 compensation

🗓 Apply by May 1 at 5pm AKST
👉 https://forms.gle/VDqDPHtrPLDyNnBs9

This opportunity is made possible by Transformative Experience Funding.

Real research. Real fieldwork. Real stories. Whose stories are told—and how? The CLA StoryWorks Field Intensive invites students to document real-world research in Tok, Alaska while thinking critically about representation, voice, and perspective in storytelling.

📍 Location: Fairbanks + Tok, Alaska
📅 Dates: June 7–13, 2026
👥 Cohort Size: 4 students selected
💰 Cost: All expenses covered + $1,000 compensation

👉 Apply now: https://forms.gle/VDqDPHtrPLDyNnBs9
🗓 Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2026 at 5 PM AKST

This opportunity is made possible through UAF Transformative Experience Funding, supported by the Matriculation Fee.

🌈 WGSS End-of-the-Year Celebration!!! We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate our graduating WGSS minors and reflect on a year of thoughtful research, critical conversations, and community.

This event highlights the work our students are doing across disciplines, engaging deeply with issues of gender, power, and social change.

🎤 Student presentations include:
• Post Roe v. Wade and reproductive health care equity
• Online anti-feminist movements and collective action
• The life and legacy of Brenda Itta Lee
• Gender identity and cultural practice in Afghanistan

🍽 Food and drinks will be provided

📅 Wednesday, April 8, 2026
🕒 12:00 PM
📍 Gruening 503H
💻 Zoom: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/85471420236

RSVPs appreciated: [email protected]

We are proud of our students and excited to share their work with you. Please join us in celebrating their achievements.

We invite you to help shape the future of the UAF College of Liberal ArtsUAF College of Liberal Arts. Join us as finalists for the CLA dean position present their vision for the college. Attend in person or via livestream, ask questions, and share your feedback.

📅 Public Presentations (8:30–9:30 a.m.)
• Dr. MaryTheresa Seig — Monday, March 30
• Dr. Alvin Malesky — Tuesday, March 31
• Dr. Carrie Baker — Tuesday, April 7

📍 BP Design Theatre (in person + livestream available)

Additional opportunities to connect:
• Faculty & Staff Meet and Greet: 2–3 p.m.
• Student Meet and Greet: 3:30–4:30 p.m.

RSVP, livestream links, candidate info, question submission and feedback forms:
https://www.uaf.edu/provost/provost-units/cladean.php

❤️‍🩹 Today at 1 PM (online or in-person) | Listening Across Generations. Following the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, many local conversations about the genocide have been silenced or minimized. Dr. Christine Kindler, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UAF, will discuss Peace Conversation Circles, a project designed to foster intergenerational dialogue between older adults who experienced the genocide and Rwandan youth.

Working through a participatory action research framework, the project partnered closely with survivors including women who experienced sexual violence to ensure the dialogue process was safe, inclusive, and empowering.

The conversations created space for difficult stories to be shared, affirmed the voices of survivors, and helped build greater understanding across generations. Participants reported increased perspective-taking and a stronger willingness to engage in conversations that had long remained unspoken.

All are welcome to attend this engaging talk, followed by a brief program meeting. Pizza, brownies, and drinks will be provided.

❤️‍🩹 What: “Listening Across Generations: Gender and Healing in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
📅 Date: Wednesday, March 4
⏰ Time: 1:00–2:30 PM
📍 Location: Gruening 503H
💻 Zoom: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/85471420236

RSVPs encouraged but not required. Contact Dr. Carol Gray at [email protected]

TONIGHT! Based on a true story, Loving follows Richard and Mildred Loving, an ordinary couple whose marriage became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case that helped reshape civil rights in the United States. Set against the backdrop of 1960s America, the film blends an intimate love story with a powerful fight for justice, showing how one couple’s quiet courage challenged unjust laws and changed history. Join us for this moving and thought-provoking screening. All are welcome!

Questions? Contact Mary Ludwig at [email protected]

🐴 Event: “Loving” viewing with Phi Alpha Theta
📅 Date: Monday, February 16th, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:30-8:00pm
📍 Location: Gruening 401

📚 About the UAF Department of History:
The UAF History Department is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the past through research, education, and community engagement. Our faculty and students explore diverse historical perspectives, from Alaska and the Arctic to global civilizations.

🔱 About Phi Alpha Theta:
Phi Alpha Theta is an honor society for students and scholars of history. The UAF chapter provides opportunities for members to engage with history outside the classroom through lectures, discussions, and special events.

💙 Support History at UAF!
If you’re passionate about history and want to support future events, student scholarships, and research opportunities, consider making a donation! Every contribution helps us continue offering engaging programs and fostering a love of history.
https://engage.alaska.edu/donation-with-cart?fid=XtAAmrCMRh0%3d&fdesc=KEJflrCxhjm%2bjck7LHDuHaGyr5VHK924O46%2bCbNReT0%3d

🌈🍄 WGSS Talk Spotlight: Curious Lives. What happens when we take mushrooms seriously? In Curious Lives: Victorian Mushroom Hunters and Q***r Possibility, Dr. Samantha Botz (English & WGSS) uses fungi to explore how Victorian women quietly resisted rigid ideas about gender, science, and respectability.

The talk sparked a wide-ranging conversation about q***r ecologies, marginal knowledge, and how attention and care can become forms of resistance—then and now. It’s a powerful example of the interdisciplinary, curious, and community-driven conversations WGSS is built to foster.

🔗 Read the full CLA Gem:
https://www.uaf.edu/cla/news/2026/curious-lives.php

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🌺 Gender, Power, and Music—Past, Present, and Future. MUS/WGS 410: Women in Music History offers students the opportunity to explore how gender shapes music, culture, and power on a global scale. Offered asynchronously in Spring 2026 (CRN 35171), this interdisciplinary course examines women’s roles in music through historical, social, political, and economic lenses.

Students will investigate the biases and inequities that continue to impact women musicians worldwide, while also highlighting the work of composers and performers whose contributions have long been marginalized. Through student-driven research and analysis, the course invites participants to consider how music can be a site of resistance, storytelling, and social change.

Led by MaryCatherine Moroney, the course encourages students to find their own voice within a history that is still being written. Prerequisites can be waived, making the course accessible to students across disciplines.

Interested students can reach out to [email protected] for more information.