Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. CSW|Streisand Center has been hosting Thinking Gender since 1991.
Thinking Gender 2024: “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias”
34th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias”
When: Friday, March 1, 2024 (In Person)
Where: James West Alumni Center
Thinking Gender 2024’s conference theme, “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias,” considers what it means to live in the cataclysmic wake of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and neoliberalism.
At the same time, the theme celebrates how feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholarship, activism, and art enact utopias by imagining alternatives to hegemonic structures.
Conference Program (PDF)
Past Thinking Gender Conferences
Below are programs from past Thinking Gender Conferences:
- 2023 33rd Annual Conference program – “Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility”
- 2022 32nd Annual Conference program – “Transgender Studies at the Intersections”
- 2021 31st Annual Conference program – “Care, Mutual Aid, and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis”
- 2020 30th Annual Conference program – “Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice”
- 2019 29th Annual Conference program – “Feminists Confronting the Carceral State”
- 2018 28th Annual Conference program – “Pre-Existing Conditions”
- 2017 27th Annual Conference program – “Imagining Reparations”
- 2016 26th Annual Conference program
- 2015 25th Annual Conference program
- 2014 24th Annual Conference program
- 2013 23rd Annual Conference program
- 2012 22nd Annual Conference program
- 2011 21st Annual Conference program
- 2010 20th Annual Conference program
- 2009 19th Annual Conference program
- 2008 18th Annual Conference program
- 2007 17th Annual Conference program
- 2006 16th Annual Conference program
- 2005 15th Annual Conference program
- 2004 14th Annual Conference program
- 2003 13th Annual Conference program
- 2002 12th Annual Conference program
- 2001 11th Annual Conference program
- 2000 10th Annual Conference program
- 1999 9th Annual Conference program
- 1998 8th Annual Conference program
- 1997 7th Annual Conference program
- 1996 6th Annual Conference program
- 1995 5th Annual Conference program
- 1994 4th Annual Conference program
- 1993 3rd Annual Conference program
- 1992 2nd Annual Conference program
- 1991 1st Annual Conference program