Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Events

Current Events

Senior Showcase

Presented by Current Senior Majors in our WGSS Program

Date: May 1, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Location: Dealy 102

Join us to celebrate our seniors and their capstone projects!

This showcase will be a display of how our program's seniors have chosen to round out their major. Students could choose from a Senior Thesis, Senior Project, or Senior Internship. They will be presenting their work for other students, faculty, friends, family, and more.

This event is a great way to see all the variety the WGSS Interdisciplinary Program has to offer and to learn about potential options for your own capstone!

Food and refreshments will be served.

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Sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program 

Past Events

  • Theatre as Interdisciplinary Practice Series

    February 19, 2026 - Interactive Lecture

    “Serious Play: Performative Processes for Imagining and Collaborating Across Difference”

    Time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
    Location: Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge

    In this interactive lecture, Jan Cohen-Cruz will share performance tools accessible to people whether or not they identify as creative/artistic. Drawing from her experiences and from examples of the ways theater is being used across the US around issues of teen mental health, gender anxiety, the housing crisis, and civic disaffection, Jan Cohen-Cruz will explain how practices from theatre and performance can revitalize our efforts to: understand each other, build trust, find shared purpose, have meaningful conversations across difference, playfully explore polarizing subjects, and share the pleasure of imagining and collaborating together!

    February 26, 2026 - Workshop

    “Serious Play: A Hands-on Workshop”

    Time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
    Location: LC Law School, Room 7-119

    In this theatre workshop, Jan Cohen-Cruz will guide participants through hands-on theatre exercises accessible to people in any discipline to serve their work with groups they convene. Facilitating a self-inventory for people to assess creative tools they already possess, she will work with participants to build their inventory of imaginative and collaborative practices.

    April 23, 2026 - Workshop

    “Six Viewpoints: A Hands-on Workshop”

    Time: 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
    Location: LC Law School, Room 7-119

    In this three-hour improvisatory workshop, Susannah Wilson will guide participants through a condensed introduction to the Six Viewpoints, a philosophy and practice originated by dancer and choreographer Mary Overlie. In interrogating her artistic practice, Overlie discovered the medium of performance could be deconstructed into the following parts: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, and Story. By establishing these elements on a non-hierarchical, horizontal plane, one is able to approach them as “physical entities akin to natural landscapes that can be entered and traversed.” While Overlie developed this framework to describe the language of performance, the Six Viewpoints materials and practice has myriad applications. When we enter into conversation with the materials, we discover new ways to navigate the world, ourselves, and those around us.

    Community Craft Night

    March 24, 2026

    Needle Felting Craft Night

    Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
    Location: Dealy 105

    Learn to needle felt or make decorative bookmarks while chatting with students and faculty from interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies, Asian American Studies, Disability Studies, Fashion Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

    Sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Arts and Sciences Deans’ Challenge Grant

  • Community Craft Night

    November 13, 2025

    Tote Bag Decorating

    Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
    Location: McKeon Movie Lounge, LC campus

    Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is teaming up with American Studies and Fashion Studies to host a get-together for students interested in interdisciplinary learning at Fordham. Prof Aly Thomas from Visual Arts will be hosting a tote bag decorating activity! English, Art History, and Philosophy will also be represented. Come make stuff with us, and mingle with peers and profs in these programs.