Queering Gender: The 25th Annual WGSS Student Research Symposium is a two-week long celebration of student scholarship and creative work designed to center scholarly texts, projects, and ideas that are underrepresented across Illinois State University’s traditional curriculum. Our theme “Queering Gender,” is inspired by recent scholarship and creative projects focusing on the lives of LGBTQAI+ people and their communities. The symposium runs from 1-14 April and will be accompanied by an curated WGSS Symposium Historical Retrospective Exhibit in Milner Library. All events are free and open to the public. Registration opens 26 March, 2022. Please join us.
For more information contact:
Alison Bailey (baileya@ilstu.edu) or Jamie Anderson (jlande4@ilstu.edu).
The WGSS Symposium is sponsored by:
MECCPAC: A Dean of Students Diversity Initiative
Harold K. Sage Foundation and Illinois State University Foundation Fund
Alice and Fannie Fell Trust
Philosophy Department
History Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Milner Library
Queer Coalition
Organizers:
Jamie Anderson
Alison Bailey
Ela Przybylo
Gavin Weiser
Courtney Ebersole
Dawn Beichner
Cassie Herbert
Bridget Sundin
Jenna Goldsmith
Kristin Carlson
Land Acknowledgement
Illinois State University was built on and has benefitted from the land stolen from multiple Indigenous Nations. These lands were the traditional birthright of Indigenous Peoples who were forcibly removed and dispossessed of their land by settlers. Normal, IL is on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskasia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe Nations. As settlers, we recognize that we have a responsibility to continue to learn, teach, and understand Indigenous histories and present-day realities as they pertain to these Nations as well as to confront the ongoing violence of settler colonialism.