{"id":7459,"date":"2023-05-04T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/webid2-test-lsweb\/?page_id=7459"},"modified":"2024-10-10T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T13:39:12","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/now-accepting-submissions-applications\/\">Now Accepting Submissions\u200b &amp; Applications<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-02-04T09:36:46-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 4, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies \u200bPaper and Project Contest\u200b Undergraduate and Graduate Research papers and projects on women, gender, sexuality, feminism or feminist thinking which were completed for UWinteriM, Spring, Summer, or Fall 2024 courses at 51ÁÔÆæ are eligible for submission.\u200b Apply at&nbsp;https:\/\/uwm.academicworks.com\/opportunities\/18332\u200b Deadline for applications is February 17, 2025\u200b The Florence L. Healy Scholarship\u200b is &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/congrats-to-carolyn-eichner\/\">Congrats to Carolyn Eichner!<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-09-13T09:27:10-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 13, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Carolyn&nbsp;Eichner&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant&nbsp;for Jan 1 \u2013 Aug 31, 2025, in support of her research and writing a biography of 19th-century anarchist Louise Michel, orator, author, ethnographer, teacher, and leader in the Paris Commune. Eichner\u2019s proposal was among the 9% funded of the 283 proposals submitted this cycle. &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/womens-and-gender-studies-at-half-a-century-imagining-the-future-and-meeting-the-challenges\/\">Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at Half a Century: Imagining the Future and Meeting the Challenges<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-05-20T13:42:52-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 20, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">As part of our year-long 50th anniversary celebration, 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies department participated in the 2024 Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Consortium Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. We offer an undergraduate major and minor, a stand-alone MA and two coordinated MA degrees with library science and social work, and an interdisciplinary graduate certificate. For this &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/scholarship-submission-deadline\/\">Scholarship Submission Deadline<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-02-01T14:30:03-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 1, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Thursday, February 14, 2024\u00a0is the deadline for consideration for the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O\u2019Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award \u2013 get your\u00a0applications\u00a0in ASAP!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/celebrating-50-years-of-wgs\/\">Celebrating 50 Years of WGS!<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-02-01T14:29:19-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 1, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">This is What Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies Looks Like: Celebrating 50 Years of WGS! On&nbsp;Tuesday, April 30, 2024, Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies will celebrate our 50th&nbsp;anniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception. Mark your calendars and watch this space for details!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/save-the-date\/\">Save The Date!<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-01-31T14:43:19-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 31, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">This is What Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies Looks Like: Celebrating 50 Years of WGS!Tuesday, April 30, 2024Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies will celebrate our 50th\u00a0anniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception.\u00a0 Mark your calendars and watch this space for details! Vilas Lecture Series Speaker Kavita PanjabiFriday, April 05, 2024Kavita Panjabi continues the Vilas Lecture &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/congratulations-to-steinbeck-fellow-xueyou-wang\/\">Congratulations to Steinbeck Fellow Xueyou Wang!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-26T13:11:47-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 26, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Congratulations to Xueyou Wang, (@shayo.shay22) a recent WGS MA graduate at 51ÁÔÆæ, for being selected as one of the Steinbeck Fellows at SAN JOS\u00c9 STATE UNIVERSITY for 2023-2024! Xueyou Wang\u2019s work focuses on immigrant women&#039;s experiences and transnational, transcultural stories. She is particularly interested in the intersection between Asian diaspora and Latin American cultures. For &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/meet-jane-ward\/\">Meet Jane Ward!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-18T11:55:07-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 18, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Bagel Time with Jane Ward Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies is offering the opportunity for Graduate Students to get some time with this spring\u2019s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker Jane Ward, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, in advance of her talk being held on Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00 pm. Bagel refreshments will &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/wgs-feminist-lecture-speaker-jane-ward\/\">WGS Feminist Lecture Speaker:  Jane Ward<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-12T11:15:10-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 12, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies Feminist Lecture Series Presents The Tragedy of Heterosexuality in Global Context A Lecture by Jane Ward Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward critiques one of the basic premises of the mainstream LGBT rights movement\u2014that heterosexuality is easier than queerness\u2014by asking for whom, &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/congratulations-to-all-wgs-contest-winners\/\">Congratulations to all WGS Contest Winners!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-03-23T10:57:29-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 23, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">51ÁÔÆæ Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies 2023 Research Paper &amp; Project Contest\u00a0Winners and Casey O\u2019Brien Outstanding Activist Awardee and Florence L. Healy Scholarship On behalf of Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies Program, Anna Mansson McGinty, WGS Chair, would like to extend congratulations to this year&#039;s winners of the annual 51ÁÔÆæ Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies Student Research Paper &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/wgs-lunch-learn-series-returns-for-spring-2023\/\">WGS Lunch &amp; Learn Series Returns for Spring, 2023<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-03-01T15:24:04-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 1, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp; Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies Lunch &amp; Learn series returns for Spring, 2023. &nbsp; On Thursday, March 30, 2023 we kick off with a presentation of &quot;Women&#039;s Roles in Language Revitalization&quot; by Margaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean, Humanities and Cail\u00edn Nic an tSionnaigh, Fulbright FLTA &amp; Irish Language Instructor, Center for Celtic &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/womens-gender-studies\/26th-annual-festival-of-films-in-french\/\">26th Annual Festival of Films in French<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-02-14T07:43:01-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 14, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The 26th Annual Festival of Films in French runs from Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 26, 2023.\u00a0 Women&#039;s &amp; Gender Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event. 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