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Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

» ETW: Leading the Conversation, Fall 2024

Wilkinson College is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity, and justice.  As such, the college has undertaken semester-long examinations of key societal issues including the significance of race, environmental justice, ethnic studies, and health equity. These interdisciplinary, campus-wide conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflection; social tolerance; awareness and respect; peace and kindness. Our purpose for the 2024-25 ETW series is to promote informed, sustained, and enriching dialogues through an in-depth exploration of gender and sexuality.

What is Gender & Sexuality?

The study of gender and sexuality employs interdisciplinary approaches from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine how bodies, lived experiences, and subjectivities are shaped by the social constructs of gender and sexuality. Through dialogue and conversation, we will explore how culture, power, institutions, and social structures shape our understandings of gender and sexuality.   

The series will explore:

  • the evolution and impact of cultural, community, and legal conceptions subjectivities in terms of gender and sexuality. 
  • contemporary sociopolitical and historical structures that influence perspectives of gender and sexual norms.  
  • resistance and activism countering gender inequality, community exclusion, and sexual and gender-based violence.  
  • how gender and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, class, health, and religion.

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Fall 2024 Events

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Gender, Race, and Masculinity: A Discussion
4 p.m.
Argyros Forum, 209AB
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Join Takeo Rivera, Playwright and Assistant Professor of English at Boston University, and other panelists for a discussion about the intersectionality of gender, race, and masculinity.


Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Global Feminisms Panel

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Argyros Forum, 119AB
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Featuring scholars with expertise on Africa, Asia, Latin America, this panel explores historically and culturally specific forms of feminist praxis that people have employed to engage, confront, reconfigure and enact social and political change. We reflect on emerging hierarchies not only between the 'West" and "non-West," but also, relations and hierarchies of power within the non-West. What are some of the ways non-Western women re-imagine and build just and peaceful futures?


Monday, November 18, 2024
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu - Film Screening & Q&A
7:15 p.m.
Argyros Forum, 209ABC
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Kapaemahu: A film celebrating Waikiki’s Mahu legends and healing traditions, directed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. Features archival footage, animation, and a Q&A.


Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Tabula Poetica: The Queer Subject: Voice, Identity, and Memory in Poetry and Pose with poet Charles Jensen

1 p.m.
Argyros Forum, 201
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Charles Jensen wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, published in May 2024. His most recent collection of poetry is Instructions between Takeoff and Landing.


Thursday, December 5, 2024
Mama Has a Mustache – Film Screening and Q&A
7 p.m.
Folino Theater

A short animated documentary about identity and family outside of the traditional gender binary, as seen through children’s eyes.

All ETW Fall 2024 Events!


ETW One Sheet
To learn more about this program, contact Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa.

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