UB Gender Institute

04/13/2026

Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 3:30 - 5:00pm (ET) at 509 O'Brian or via Zoom for a new book discussion with Nicole M. Morris Johnson, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo Department of English.
Commentators:
1. Chanon Judson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at UB.
2. Rinaldo Walcott, Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at UB.

Book Title: "The Souths in Her: Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation"

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04/06/2026

Join us on Thursday April 9th | 3:30 - 5:00pm (ET) at The Landmark Room (SU 210) or via Zoom for Signature Lecture by Laura Mauldin, writer and an Associate Professor, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, University of Connecticut.
Talk is based on her book: "In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis"

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"*Co-sponsored by Communities of Care, UB

03/26/2026

Join us on April 1st, Wednesday |12:00 - 1:30pm (ET)
via Zoom for Assistant Professor of Africana and American Studies, Mopelolade O. Ogunbowale's talk.
Talk Titled: "‘I like to do Masculine Things’: Feminist Practices in Nigerian Reggae-Dancehall Music"
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03/23/2026

Join us on March 25th, Wednesday |12:00 - 1:30pm (ET)
via Zoom for Katja Praznik's, Associate Professor Arts Management Program and UB Department of Global Gender and S*xuality Studies, talk.
Talk Titled: "Centering Labor in the Arts: Social Reproduction, Unionizing, and Feminist Interventions into Invisible Work"
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03/05/2026

Join us on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 12:00–1:30 PM (ET) on Zoom for a discussion of "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of S*x, Reproduction, and Justice."
More about the event: https://www.buffalo.edu/genderin/events.html
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01/22/2026

Join us on February 5, 2026 (Thursday), 12:00 - 1:30pm (ET) via Zoom for a panel discussion between editors and authors who are published in the fall 2025 QSE special issue (SI), “Beyond Now: Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education.”
Know More: https://www.buffalo.edu/genderin/events.htm

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10/16/2025

Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, 3:30pm(ET) at 509 O'Brian Hall or via Zoom for Signature Lecture by Mary E. Fissell, J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.

Talk Titled - "S*x, Savin, and Scandal: Rethinking the History of Abortion in Early America"
Register Here: https://bit.ly/Fissell

09/26/2025

Join us on Thursday, October 2nd, 12 PM (ET) at SU 235
for Nadine Shaanta Murshid's, Associate Professor at the School of Social Work UB, book talk: Intimacies
of Violence: Reading Transnational Middle-Class Women in Bangladeshi America.
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Associate professor ,Department of Urban and Regional Planning will offer commentary.

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04/10/2025

Join us on Thursday, April 17th at 3:30PM (ET), in-person (509 O'Brian) or via Zoom for Signature Lecture by Banu Subramaniam, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
Talk titled - "Queering Global Flora: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire"
Register Here: bit.ly/43OUbx4

04/09/2025

Donations to the Gender Institute's general fund will be used where they are most needed to support the Institute's mission. This could include supporting student and faculty research, community and campus events, educational programming, and more. The Gender Institute supports faculty, staff, students, and communities interested in the intricate connections between gender and other social forces, such as sexuality, race, class, health, age, religion, and place. Your donations will directly impact the breadth of our reach and will have an immediate impact on campus and in communities through research and programming. Thank you for your support.

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03/27/2025

Join us at Noon Today!
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Join us on Thursday, March 27th at Noon via Zoom for our Feminist Research Alliance talk. Kevin Lujan Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at UB & Josh Campbell (they/them), Ph.D candidate in the Political Science Department at UCLA will give a talk titled "Cultivating the affects of place: Teaiwa’s canoe in the Oceanic classroom."
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03/24/2025

Join us on Thursday, March 27th at Noon via Zoom for our Feminist Research Alliance talk. Kevin Lujan Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at UB & Josh Campbell (they/them), Ph.D candidate in the Political Science Department at UCLA will give a talk titled "Cultivating the affects of place: Teaiwa’s canoe in the Oceanic classroom."
Register Here: https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/GQbH400xQOiUtHFyufMj1A #/registratio