WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

We are happy to announce that this year's WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor is Professor Grace Lavery of UC Berkeley. Her most recent book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton, 2023) examines the experience and representation of modern gender transition, drawing on examples from George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and many others. She will give three […]

WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

We are happy to announce that this year's WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor is Professor Grace Lavery of UC Berkeley. Her most recent book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton, 2023) examines the experience and representation of modern gender transition, drawing on examples from George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and many others. She will give three […]

Maia Sigua and Nana Sharikadze, “Crossroads and Crisis in Georgian Culture”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

@ Maia Sigua Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Nana Sharikadze Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire “Crossroads and Crisis in Georgian Culture: Decolonization and Resurgent Sovietism” Prof. Sigua will discuss the formation (and deformation) of collective and cultural memory in the Soviet era, using the example of Georgian opera theatre, and how […]

“Erotophobia”—WGS talk by Gila Ashtor (5:15pm)

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

WGS welcomes attendees to our next talk on "Erotophobia" by Dr. Gila Ashtor (Columbia), happening on Wednesday, October 11 at 5:15PM in Gilman 208.