Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies News
Prof. Rajani Bhatia Speaking at The Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications of Senate Bill 8 (Texas Abortion Law)
WGSS Associate Professor, Dr. Rajani Bhatia will be one of the featured speakers in a timely virtual panel on The Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications of Senate Bill 8 (Texas Abortion Law) on Monday, January 31 at 6 p.m. ET. Event hosted by Russell Sage College. The event is free, but advance registration is requested on the event website.
Call for Applications: Funding Opportunity for Prospective WGSS MA Students
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is seeking candidates for a 2-year funding award to help coordinate the department’s Teaching Collective. The application deadline is February 15. In the first year, the awardee “shadows” the coordinator of the Teaching Collective, including participating in meetings of the Teaching Collective, in order to become familiar with the workings of the Collective. In the second year, the awardee receives a full graduate assistantship to coordinate the Teaching Collective and mentors the new Schulz awardee.
Abortion and Reproductive Rights: Academic and Policy Issues Surrounding the Current National Conversation
Faculty experts will discuss academic and policy issues related to abortion and reproductive rights, changes to the current political climate brought on by the recent Texas abortion laws and subsequent court rulings, and offer transnational and comparative perspectives to inform the conversation.
WGSS Alumna Hamidi Receives Feminist Change Agent Award for 2021
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Alumna Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi (MA'2014) is the recent recipient of the Feminist Change Agent Award for 2021, given by the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). The award is given for her innovative work as an assistant professor of gender and women's studies at Minnesota State University at Mankato working with the university's women's center to facilitate an 'Islamic Feminism Book Club.' The WGSS department is proud of her achievements. In addition to earning her MA at the University at Albany, she also received her PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, SUNY.
Abortion and Democracy Book Launch Event, October 18
WGSS core faculty Barbara Sutton and her co-editor and visiting scholar Nayla Luz Vacarezza will give a presentation and book signing for their timely edited collection Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Routledge, 2021). The event takes place Monday, October 18, 12pm in LC 19 (Uptown Campus).
Women’s March in Albany
The Planned Parenthood rally, organized by WGSS alumna Brittni Gulotty, Public Affairs and Volunteer Coordinator of Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, joined nationwide protests championing reproductive rights, with a huge turnout on Saturday, October 2, at the West Capitol Park in Albany, including WGSS faculty, students, and alumni.
‘State of Grace’ Returns to Campus to Celebrate Women in Tech
The three-day conference, which is organized by CEHC Vice Dean Jennifer Goodall, celebrates women in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.
WGSS Professor, Chair Janell Hobson a featured writer at 4th Annual Albany Book Festival, Sept. 25
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor and Chair Janell Hobson will be a featured writer at the 4th Annual Albany Book Festival, on Saturday, September 25 at the University at Albany. She will be discussing her forthcoming book When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination.