News By Sep 19, 2019 1:02 AM

"Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program officials are launching a new speaker series next month. 

Program leaders created the brown bag speaker series to give faculty members and students from departments and schools across GW a platform to share their research on issues like women and incarceration and the intersection between race and gender. Faculty said the seminars will foster communication between students and faculty about ongoing gender and sexuality research at the University. 

Kavita Daiya, the director of the program, said she got the idea to bring a speaker series to GW after observing departments at other institutions, like the University of Chicago, host similar monthly workshops. She said both faculty members and graduate students, within and outside of the program, can volunteer to showcase their research to members of the GW community.

“What’s going to connect all of the talks is that this is all cutting-edge research that has been happening at GW and has been shedding new light thinking about lived experience about gender and sexuality through an intersectional approach, both in the United States and internationally,” she said. "