Annual Theme for 2009-10

Performing Gender

How do organizations and communities shape and reinforce models of gender identity? How do individuals negotiate their own identities within these socially constructed models?  How might we subvert gender stereotypes and open up the possibilities for creative expressions of gender?

These are some of the questions we will explore during the year with a series of lectures, films, dance performances, and art exhibits. Drawing on the resources of the university and the community, we offer an extended reflection on how, individually and socially, we express gender in all its multiple and frequently contradictory ways.