science is gendered

The annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium starts this week on Wednesday!

This year the symposium explores an unusual and often ignored theme in the realms of gender studies: the science of gender and sex. Join us for three days of over 25 panels, presentations, workshops, and performances centered on topics ranging from the biological basis of gender identity to Darwinian feminism to the medicalization of sexuality to how Portland sex workers reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

This student-steered symposium brings together local community members as well as experts and attendees from across the nation. Every year, a cohort of LC students work with faculty advisors to begin planning this symposium nearly a year in advance. If nothing else, please attend a panel or two to support all the work that has gone into making this symposium rock.

The full program can be found online here. All events are free and open to the public, in case you needed more incentive. Also, there will be buttons. Drop by the info table outside Council Chambers to get free buttons and printed programs.