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Get Trained with Safe Zone!

By on October 5, 2020 in Events

SafeZone Flyer (text reprinted below image)

  • GET SAFE ZONE TRAINING! – CofC’s Safe Zone is offering three Safe Zone 101 training dates in October! “Safe Zone trainings are opportunities to learn about LGBTQ+ identities, gender and sexuality, and examine prejudice, assumptions, and privilege.” You can join Safe Zone to learn more yourself or contact Lynda Keller (kellerlj1@cofc.edu) to discuss scheduling a training for your organization! (flyer attached) 
  • TRAINING DATES:
    Tuesday, October 6 from 12-2pm
    Wednesday, October 14 from 1-3pm
    Monday, October 28 from 6-8pm 

Call for Proposals: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Journal Special Issue on “All Black Lives Matter”

By on September 28, 2020 in

Call For Proposals: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Journal Special Issue on the theme All Black Lives Matter – 

This interdisciplinary journal is looking for proposals for a special issue to be published in 2021 around the theme All Black Lives Matter. Open to ALL sorts of submissions from anyone, not just academic scholars! “Students (youth and adult), activists, scholars, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit scholarship, personal reflections, creative pieces, and action-oriented curricular ideas that speak to lived experiences and critically constructed perceptions of All Black Lives. This special issue intends to address the diversity of those who identify as Black and honor additional lived experiences and social identities.” 

  • Works must be submitted by November 1, 2020. For further details, see the attached document or visit the submission website, www.wpcjournal.com  

This Thursday: A Conversation with Dr. Simone Browne about her book, “Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness”

By on September 28, 2020 in Events

Flyer for "A Conversation with Simone Browne"

THURSDAY, October 1 @ 3:05 pm – A Conversation with Dr. Simone Browne about her book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness –

Join FYE and German and Russian Studies for this conversation with Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and Research Director of Critical Surveillance Inquiry with Good Systems. (flyer attached) 

  • To register for this virtual event, please email Dr. Sarah Koellner (koellnersk@cofc.edu) in the Department of German & Russian Studies at CofC 

READ NOW! The Virtual Fall 2020 Newsletter is HERE!

By on September 25, 2020 in Uncategorized

It’s HERE! Read the virtual Fall 2020 WGS Newsletter, WGS Connect, using the banner or button below!

Banner in purple and white that reads "READ NOW: Fall 2020 Newsletter"

THURSDAY! RBG Documentary Screening with WGS

By on September 22, 2020 in Events

RBG screening flyer

RBG Film Screening – THURSDAY, September 24 from 4:00-6:00pm

This Thursday! Join WGS for a screening of RBG (2018) in celebration of the life of feminist icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With opening remarks from Dr. Claire Wofford (Political Science). Moderated by Dr. Claire Curtis (Political Science).

COMING UP! T.E.A. with WGS: “Interrupting Racism in the Classroom” with Dr. Charissa Owens

By on September 21, 2020 in Events

TEA flyer

Coming up soon!

T.E.A. with WGS: “Interrupting Racism in the Classroom” with Dr. Charissa Owens
TUESDAY, September 29 @ 3:00pm

Join WGS for our first fall 2020 T.E.A. with WGS (T.E.A. = Teaching to Engage and Activate). Please join us for an interactive conversation with Dr. Charissa Owens, from our Office of Institutional Diversity, on Tuesday, September 29th, 3pm (tea time!). We will learn more about “Interrupting Racism in the Classroom,” including strategies for self-reflection, engaging students, and addressing racism and practicing anti-racism in our classrooms (or zoomrooms). 

  • We are asking that you RSVP for this T.E.A., after which you will receive a zoom link to join the session. Furthermore, our T.E.A. sessions this year will be open to all faculty across all schools, not only WGS affiliated faculty as is usually the case. Please share this information with your colleagues and encourage them to attend. 

Saturday, September 26 @ NOON – “Art & Agriculture: Black Farming and Foodways” – Gibbes Museum of Art (virtual event)

By on September 21, 2020 in Community Events, Events

Farming and Foodways Eventbrite Screenshot

Art and Agriculture: Black Farming and Foodways – September 26 @ 12:00pm – part of the Gibbes Museum of Art “For Which It Stands: Virtual Town Hall” series –

What defines the American experience? What makes a community? Inspired by the exhibition Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman, this three part series invites participants to a town hall-style Zoom with local artists and community stakeholders where we’ll address these and other questions as we grapple with the effects of a global pandemic and a renewed reckoning with racial injustice.  

FRIDAY, September 18 – EPIC’s International Equal Pay Day!: Building Back a Better Future of Work by Ensuring Pay Equity

By on September 14, 2020 in Community Events, Events

Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC)

FRIDAY, September 18 – Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC)’s International Equal Pay Day!: Building Back a Better Future of Work by Ensuring Pay Equity –

On the occasion of the first International Equal Pay Day, and in the midst of the fallout from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) is hosting a virtual global Call to Action encouraging all labor market actors to take the necessary steps to ensure that equal pay is at the heart of recovery efforts worldwide. Panelists for this virtual event include Thorsteinn Viglundsoon (former minister of social affairs and equality, Iceland), Megan Rapinoe (Captain of the US National Women’s Soccer team), Samira Ahmed (BBC journalist), Kristen Skogen Lund (CEO of Schibsted ASA Norway), Iris Bohnet (academic), and Nadia Soubat (Executive Bureau Member from CDT Morocco). Moderated by Nozipho Tshabalala. This virtual event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, and International Sign language.  

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