Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Join us tomorrow 2/10 for our event featuring N.K. Jemisin and Jayna Brown as they discuss utopias, dystopias, science fiction, and Afro-Futurism. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/yvtvetk9

Thanks again to our co-presenters: Columbia University Arts & Sciences Committee on Equity and Diversity; Division of the Humanities; Columbia University Faculty Advancement; Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL); Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University; African American and African Diaspora Studies Department; Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities

Applications are now open for the 2022 ISSG Undergraduate Essay Prizes! Current students at Columbia College, Columbia University School of General Studies, Columbia Engineering, and Barnard College are eligible to apply. More information and application materials are available on our website here: https://issg.columbia.edu/content/undergraduate-awards-prizes

TOMORROW: Join ISSG and the Reproductive Justice Interest Group at Columbia University School of Social Work for this fantastic panel discussing the recent Texas legislation regarding abortion access, SB 8, and its social, personal, health, and political implications.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-reproductive-justice-discussing-the-impact-of-texas-sb8-tickets-252061040357

ISSG is thrilled to host N.K. Jemisin and Jayna Brown (Pratt Institute) on Feb 10th for a reading and wide-ranging discussion on utopias, dystopias, science fiction, and Afro-Futurism​! RSVP for the Zoom link here: https://tinyurl.com/yvtvetk9

Thanks to our co-presenters: Columbia University Arts & Sciences Committee on Equity and Diversity; Division of the Humanities; Columbia University Faculty Advancement; Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL); Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University; African American and African Diaspora Studies Department; Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities

CfP: The 2022 ISSG Graduate Conference organizers are seeking papers from graduate students across disciplines for the 2022 ISSG Graduate Conference, entitled Labor, Sound, and the Body. Abstracts of no longer than 250 words should be submitted to [email protected] by February 20, 2022.

More information can be found in the attachment.

TOMORROW is our first Theory Salon of the semester, featuring poet and essayist Kay Gabriel, who will discuss her work "Gender as Accumulation Strategy." The event will take place at 4PM ET via Zoom.

RSVP to receive the pre-circulated materials and Zoom link at
bit.ly/ISSGTheorySalonGabriel

Join us next Thursday, 1/27 at 4PM ET for the first of our two ISSG Theory Salons! This event will feature Kay Gabriel discussing her essay "Gender as Accumulation Strategy"

RSVP to receive the pre-circulated materials and Zoom link: bit.ly/ISSGTheorySalonGabriel

TOMORROW: Join ISSG, CU Anthropology, and The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities for our co-presented event, "Heritability and the Ancestral Present: Still & Moving Images"! The event will be held over Zoom at 12PM ET. Register via Eventbrite here:

Heritability and the Ancestral Present: Still & Moving Images A conversation between Hillary Chute and Elizabeth A. Povinelli about Povinelli's new graphic memoir, "The Inheritance".

Join us on Wednesday, January 19th at 12pm ET for a conversation between Hillary Chute (Northeastern University) and Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University) about Povinelli's new graphic memoir, "The Inheritance".

RSVP at the following Eventbrite link to receive the Zoom information, which will be distributed the day prior to the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heritability-and-the-ancestral-present-still-moving-images-tickets-240076734977