Established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines, The Institute fosters research on gender and women, and is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, class, nation, religion, post-coloniality and transnational feminisms.
IGSR Advisory Committee
- Roshanak Kheshti, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
- Patrice D. Douglass, Gender & Women's Studies
- Natalia Brizuela, Spanish and Portuguese
Recent IGSR Scholar News
- Lisa E. Bloom: “Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age of accelerated climate change: The Arctic artworks of Katja Aglert and Isaac Julien.” Moving Image Review and Art Journal Volume 12, Number 1, 2023, 9-21.
- Lisa E. Bloom: “Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene." A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. Eds. Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson, eds., London: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 227-238. For a preview see: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Companion_to_Contemporary_Art_in_a_Glo/Ci3bEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
- Lisa E. Bloom: "A View from the Future: Activist Artists, Writers, and Filmmakers Turn to Science Fiction to Address the Climate Crisis." It is in an anthology edited by Lesley Shipley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi titledThe Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century(2023).
- Upcoming talks by Lisa E. Bloom: Book talk at the Royal College of Art in London (Oct 17); Keynote speaker at the Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights & Justice conference at the University of Wollongong's Sydney Campus in Australia (Nov 29 to Dec 1)