Signature Lecture Series
The Gender Institute hosts cutting edge scholars on gender and sexuality from across the U.S. and the globe. Often organized as thematic series, these lectures provide a rich opportunity for learning and discussion.
Fall 2024
The Beyond Binaries Signature Lecture Series is co-sponsored by Office of Inclusive Excellence.
Multivariate models of animal sex: Breaking binaries in biology
with Sara Lipshutz, Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke University
Thursday, October 10, 2024
The Landmark Room, 210 Student Union & via Zoom
12:00 - 1:30pm (ET)
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
Cultural biases shape our predictions for how and why animals behave the way they do, and female animals have historically been neglected in biological research. We study female competition across diverse avian species, from underlying mechanisms to evolutionary consequences. Rather than emphasizing the binary of female vs. male phenotypes, we position our research in a framework of sex diversity and variation.
Dr. Sara Lipshutz is an Assistant Professor in Biology at Duke University. Her research group focuses on the evolution of behavior across weird and wonderfully diverse species of birds. This work bridges “muddy boots” experimental fieldwork with a variety of molecular and computational approaches in genetics, genomics, neuroscience, and endocrinology.
Spring 2024 Events
The Spring 2024 Signature Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Sociology, Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Documentary Screening / Author Q&A
with Annelise Orleck, Professor, Department of History, Dartmouth College
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Center for the Arts Screening Room
4:00 - 6:00pm (EDT)
Free and open to the public.
Based on the groundbreaking book by Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, the documentary spotlights an unsung leader and movement, whose stand for America’s principles of justice, inclusion, and opportunity for all continues to shape the calls for economic justice that ring today.
“Storming Caesars Palace” chronicles the extraordinary story of Ruby Duncan who went from a boisterous protestor to a strategic organizer to a White House advisor. As she led a grassroots movement that fought for basic income guarantee for families, challenging presidents, and the Las Vegas mob, everyday Americans had to rethink their notions of the “welfare queen”—a derogatory stereotype of women who allegedly misuse or collect excess public assistance through fraud or manipulation.
"We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages"
with Annelise Orleck, Professor, Department of History, Dartmouth College
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
509 O'Brian & via Zoom
12:00 - 1:30pm (EDT)
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
Annelise Orleck is Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of five books - among them We Are All Fast Food Workers Now; Storming Caesars' Palace; How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Common Sense and a Little Fire and Rethinking American Women's Activism. She has an article in the current issue of Labor entitled: We Are Beautiful, We are Formidable, We're Hiding: The Filipina Labor Diaspora and Visions of Global Unionism. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, Mother Jones; Jacobin and the LA Review of Books among other places.