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Celebrate 50 Years of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Pitt!
 

Featured Speakers:
 

9:00am - 10:00 am - “Something Out of Nothing: The Work of Creating Women's Studies at Pitt"

This panel focuses on the role of the student activists who worked with the administration to help push through the creation of one of the first Women's Studies Programs in the country. Come hear their story of what students made happen.

  • Gail Hornstein

  • Roberta Salper

  • Linda Pritchard

  • S. Jay Kleinberg

     

10:00am - 11:00 am - "Reimagining Knowledge: Creating the Curriculum"

What did it mean to reconsider who and what counted as worthy of study in light of social movements in the 1960s. Early Program Directors reflect on the changes that launched the Program. 

  • Mary Briscoe

  • Maurine Greenwald

  • Irene Frieze

  • Marcia Landy

     

11:15am - 12:15pm -  "Changing Everything: Continuing Challenges"

From calls to recognize racial, ethnic and sexual diversity within the field to controversies like the shutting down of the Pitt Women's Center, and the curtailing of Reproductive Rights' access in Pennsylvania's own Planned Parenthood v. Casey, scholars discuss what it meant to be in the midst of change. 

  • Marianne Novy

  • Kathleen Blee

  • Carol Stabile

     

12:15 - 1:30pm: "Thematized Intergenerational Conversations: What Can We Learn Together?"

Come join us for cross-generational dialogue and lunch. Pick a table with topic/problem/lesson or professional discussion that appeals to you. 


 

2:45pm - 3:45pm - "From WOMEN's Studies to Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies:  What's in a name?"

Learn about the dynamic and sometimes fraught history of how we became GSWS. 

  • Todd Reeser

  • Nancy Glazener

  • Laura Lovett

     

About the Program

GSWS is an interdisciplinary academic program focusing on excellence in teaching and research relating to gender, sexuality, and women. The program is committed to anti-racist pedagogy and scholarship and actively supports campus efforts to make Pitt's curriculum and research activity more inclusive and diverse.  GSWS brings together faculty, students, and community members for collaboration and intellectual exchange.

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Iris Marion Young Award Winners Will Be Honored Nov. 17
Public History Talks Prepare for the 50th Anniversary of GSWS
LGBTQIA+ Research and Endowed Fund Seeks Applications
The 5th Annual CLST & GSWS GSO Symposium - Program
Call for Papers: Women in Politics Symposium Apr. 1, 2022
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