Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.

This small 2 credit course will be constructed around both GWS and non-GWS talks and events on our campus pertaining to the topic of decolonizing gender and sexuality in spring semester 2025. The course will include student active participation in organizing GWS’ transnational, transdisciplinary conference on “Decolonizing Gender and Sexualities: Epistemes, Subjects, Relationalities, Artivisms, Practices, Movements,” which will take place on Monday March 10, 2024 and Tuesday March 11, 2025. Your professor is the main organizer of this conference. Students will have a chance to learn from many different speakers throughout the semester, but also - for the GWS conference – to learn how an academic conference is organized, to participate in activities such as creating and spreading conference publicity, to welcome and spend time with conference participants, and to attend both days of presentations and related events.

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