WGS to host 12th Annual Student Research Symposium
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Wake Forest University will host the 12th Annual Student Research Symposium, “Transnational, Globalization, and Gender in the Global South.”
This year’s symposium will be held virtually on Monday, March 25. The keynote speaker will be Andrea Baldwin, a professor of cultural & social transformation at the University of Utah. Registration is now open.
We live in urgent times. As issues of ongoing health emergencies, multiple climate crises, poverty, violence and displacement unfold across the globe, the Global Majority/ Global South bear the disproportionate burdens of these crises. Even more salient is that women from the Global Majority/South are most vulnerable to the effects of these exacerbated inequalities and have been leading the efforts for global transformation.
The Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University extends an invitation to its 12th symposium that examines how globalization, transnationalism and gender intersect in the crucible of current crises gripping the Global Majority/Global South. This symposium aims to provide a platform for scholars, researchers, students, activists, artists and community workers to engage in critical discussions and share insights on the gendered dynamics of transnationalism and globalization and its effects on and within the Global Majority/Global South.
Importantly, this symposium serves as a crucial place to analyze, and collectively discuss solutions to the pressing issues confronting women/LGBTQ persons in the Global Majority/Global South. We center a feminist analytical approach to deconstructing the complexities that emerge from consistent global disasters in all forms and work in solidarity towards a gender-just world. As people concerned with these challenges in the Global Majority/South, we want to engage in an imaginative praxis that asks what a new world should look like, with gender and difference at the core of its construction.
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Wake Forest University will host the 12th Annual Student Research Symposium, “Transnational, Globalization, and Gender in the Global South.”