WGSX Colloquium 2022: The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic

Wed, Mar 30 2022, 4pm - Thu, Mar 31 2022, 9:45pm

Add to Calendar 2022-03-30 16:00:00 2022-03-31 21:45:00 WGSX Colloquium 2022: The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic About the Series The first annual Women Studies colloquium was held March 22-24, 2000. With the support of the Alice McLellan Birney Women Studies Fund, the cross-disciplinary study area in Women, Gender, & Sexuality presents a colloquium each spring in connection with Women’s History Month. Since 2000, the WGSX Colloquium has become an established tradition at St. Mary’s College. This very successful annual program has regularly drawn large audiences to events that have offered powerful interdisciplinary combinations of scholarly discourse and artistic expression (including film screenings, theatrical performances, and exhibitions) to discuss a topic critical to the lives of women. THIS YEAR’S THEME – THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC The societal impact of the pandemic has been an uneven one and this year’s WGSX Colloquium focuses on the effects of COVID-19 upon those already marginalized by a fractured and indifferent healthcare system. Colloquium sessions include distinguished guest speakers, discussions, and workshops centering transgender and immigrant communities and the unique challenges they face, both locally and nationwide, as well as how the art world has been disrupted in unpredictable ways. We invite you to join our speakers who will share their expertise and passion as we focus on what is needed to build a more equitable response to the pandemic, and contemplate the role art, activism, and scholarship can play in bringing about healing and progress towards a more inclusive and just future. SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022 “Becoming the Vessel: Adapting Performance for Covid Times” by Jana Harper Cole Cinema, Campus Center, 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. *Masks are strongly encouraged https://inside.smcm.edu/events/2022-03-30/22nd-women-gender-and-sexuality-studies-colloquium “Neither Health Nor Care: The Impact of COVID-19 on Trans and Non-Binary People.” by Simone Kolysh Cole Cinema, Campus Center, 8:00 - 9:45 p.m. *Masks are strongly encouraged https://inside.smcm.edu/events/2022-03-30/22nd-women-gender-and-sexuality-studies-colloquium-0 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2022 "Translating an Equitable Pandemic Response: How COVID-19 is Impacting DC's Immigrant Communities" by Sapna Pandya. Cole Cinema, Campus Center, 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. *Masks are strongly encouraged https://inside.smcm.edu/events/2022-03-31/22nd-women-gender-and-sexuality-studies-colloquium-0 Round Table: Students Talkback Join SMCM´s students Camilla Barillas, Calvin Ryan, Sydney Lipsman, and the guest speakers. Cole Cinema, Campus Center, 8:00 -9:45 p.m. *Masks are strongly encouraged https://inside.smcm.edu/events/2022-03-31/22nd-women-gender-and-sexuality-studies-colloquium Campus Center WGSX Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado America/New_York public

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About the Series

The first annual Women Studies colloquium was held March 22-24, 2000. With the support of the Alice McLellan Birney Women Studies Fund, the cross-disciplinary study area in Women, Gender, & Sexuality presents a colloquium each spring in connection with Women’s History Month. Since 2000, the WGSX Colloquium has become an established tradition at St. Mary’s College. This very successful annual program has regularly drawn large audiences to events that have offered powerful interdisciplinary combinations of scholarly discourse and artistic expression (including film screenings, theatrical performances, and exhibitions) to discuss a topic critical to the lives of women.

THIS YEAR’S THEME – THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC

The societal impact of the pandemic has been an uneven one and this year’s WGSX Colloquium focuses on the effects of COVID-19 upon those already marginalized by a fractured and indifferent healthcare system. Colloquium sessions include distinguished guest speakers, discussions, and workshops centering transgender and immigrant communities and the unique challenges they face, both locally and nationwide, as well as how the art world has been disrupted in unpredictable ways. We invite you to join our speakers who will share their expertise and passion as we focus on what is needed to build a more equitable response to the pandemic, and contemplate the role art, activism, and scholarship can play in bringing about healing and progress towards a more inclusive and just future.