Join us for GWS' annual awards day where we will recognize the achievements of GWS students and faculty. 

We are excited to announce the 5th KYGWS Conference!  

This year’s theme is “Justice on Trial.” As left-wing politicians and activists across the globe work for human rights and protections, right-wing parties have meanwhile paved the way for conservative laws that harm the bodily autonomy of women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities. Anti-abortion laws, anti-trans laws, and encroachment on academic freedom are just a few examples of the injustices people are facing at this juncture.

With this landscape in mind, this year’s conference will address the theme of justice, considering issues faced worldwide, such as (but not limited to) human rights, accessibility, inclusivity, and autonomy. 

The call for papers is now open for the conference and we welcome submissions of individual research papers and panel proposals exploring the myriad meanings of justice within and outside of what we may today call the “justice system.”  All submissions must be made by May 1, 2024 at 5pm EST.  Please submit your abstract on the conference's website at this link: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/cfp

The full conference schedule will be posted here and on the KYGWS conference website once finalized. 

In this series we celebrate and discuss the ways that scholars around campus teach complex gender and women's studies concepts like feminisms, gender, sex, and intersectionality among others.  A 30-45 minute discussion/presentation of pedagogies, challenges and controversies by the scholar(s) is followed by a Q&A with the audience.  

This session's these is "Teaching Intersectionality: Highlighting the Strategies and Stories of International Graduate Instructors"

In this series we celebrate and discuss the ways that scholars around campus teach complex gender and women’s studies concepts like feminisms, gender, sex, and intersectionality among others. A 30-45 minute discussion/presentation of pedagogies, challenges and controversies by the scholar is followed by a Q&A with the audience. After which we will celebrate with light refreshments.

Dr. Mel Stein is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar specializing in race, gender, and sexuality in science and medicine. She is the author of Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), an intersectional analysis of scientific racism in nineteenth and early twentieth century America that interrogates biomedical constructions of citizenship, investigates the relationship between racial and sexual sciences, and examines scientists’ attempts to offer medical solutions to the nation’s “race problems.” Her teaching and research interests include health and health disparities, racial thought, the cultural constructions of the body, the history of sexuality, African-American and gender history, feminist science studies, race and policing, and the politics of memory. 

Discussant- Dr. Anastasia Todd, is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at UK.  She is the author of Cripping Girlhood (Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press). She teaches classes on feminist theory, affect theory, the body, and disability. 

Sponsored by the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies