2021-22 Events

After a pandemic hiatus, Noon Talks returned in January 2022. These scholarly talks span the interests of many departments in the areas of women and gender and are presented by recent recipients of our graduate student research grants:

Winter 2022

  • January 14:th - “The Myth of Whiteness as Cleanliness: A Settler Colonial, White Supremacist, and Patriarchal Construction,” Annalee Ring, Philosophy. Image from Annalee Ring's Noon Talk
  • January 27th - “Informal Labour Blues: Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond on Women Belonging to Backward Caste Communities in Hyderabad, India,” Malvya Chintakindi, Anthropology.
  • February 2nd - “‘There’s nobody with common sense that can look down on the domestic worker’: Dirt, Disease, and Hygiene in Alice Childress’s Like one of the Family,” Cassandra Galentine, English.
  • February 16th - “Creating a Non-gender Binary and Queer/Women-centered Sports Space: Strategies and Experience of Korean ‘Queer Women Games’,” Jinsun Yang, Sociology.
  • March 2nd - “Viral Bodies in Loco afán and the film Lemebel (2019): The Virality of Transfeminism in the Art of Pedro Lemebel,” Jon Jaramillo, Romance Languages, CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow.
  • March 30th - “Working Class Gay Dads: Queer Stories about Family and Work,” Nathan Mather, Counseling Psychology.

Spring 2022

  • April 12th - “A Feminist Approach to the Early Modern Literary Canon,” Cornesha Tweede, Romance Languages.
  • April 29th - “Helping Mom and Helping the Community: Immigrant Youth’s Perspectives of the Future,” Niki DeRosia, Education Studies.
  • May 11th - “More Than Binary: Gender Diversity in Computer Science Education and Employment,” Max Skorodinsky, Education Studies.
  • May 25th - “Otro Mundo Posible: Environmentalist Activism and Agroecology in El Salvador,” Annalise Gardella, Anthropology.