Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is a bi-campus multidisciplinary program with a profound social justice goal: to understand how gender and sexuality shape our culture, daily lives, social institutions, and interactions.
Our program brings together over 50 faculty from from 13 departments and programs across both campuses, professors whose research and teaching focus on women, gender, and/or sexuality. In addition to offering dozens of courses across the social sciences and humanities, the program serves as an intellectual center for faculty and students.
Women's suffragists demonstrate in February 1913 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-12483, No known restrictions on publication.)
Interactive Lecture
“Serious Play: Performative Processes for Imagining and Collaborating Across Difference”
Date: Feb 19, 2026
Time: 4 - 6 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
- Share the pleasure of imagining and collaborating together!
RSVP recommended. No audience participation required.