Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Here is the Fall 2025 Event Schedule for all WGS events

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology We are pleased to announce two upcoming events with Sandra Laugier (Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). On October 11th, she will give a talk titled Ethics of Care. On October 13th, she will join Veena Das for a workshop on Wittgenstein and Feminism.

Co-sponsored by the Dept of Anthropology We are pleased to announce two upcoming events with Sandra Laugier (Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). On October 11th, she will give a talk titled Ethics of Care. On October 13th, she will join Veena Das for a workshop on Wittgenstein and Feminism. Join WGS at our […]

Co-sponsored by CAMS The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer – arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls […]

Co-sponsored by the German Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and CAMS (Center for Advanced Media Studies) This talk will theorize film adaptation as a form of failed passing in François Ozon’s frequent borrowings from Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder’s queer corpus—in particular, In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)—will be reexamined in light of […]