Video and Audio of WGS Speakers

Stream video and audio of select Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium, No Limits, and other renowned guest speakers.

In her lecture, Katharine Donato discusses her book with Donna Gabbaci, Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age (2015). Their work suggests that the roles of women and men in human migrations require a substantial re-thinking and shift away from simple notions related to the feminization of migration. Women and men who migrate live in gendered social worlds, embedded in the contexts of families and communities. As a result, women and men have always been actors who migrate, and at times and in different places, women (men) are more likely than men (women) to migrate.

In her lecture, Tomi-Ann Roberts frames the #MeToo Movement within the feminist scholarly frame of the psychology of sexual objectification. In a book Roberts co-authored in 1997, she argues that objectification is sexism and is harmful to women and girls by treating them as mere collections of body parts. In this lecture Roberts will speak about the ways this objectification theory has influenced work in academics and public policy over the past two decades.

Lara Freidenfelds, “Perfect Pregnancies & Mourned Miscarriages: A History of Modern Childbearing” (April 9, 2019)

Freidenfelds offers a far-reaching look at the rise of our current childbearing culture from its earliest glimmers in the Revolutionary era to today. She concludes with suggestions for how we might set realistic and humane expectations for childbearing, and accept the inevitable imperfections of this most human of endeavors. Lara Freidenfelds is a historian of sex, reproduction, and women’s health in America, and the author of The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. She blogs with the historian’s perspective on childbearing, parenting, sex, and health. She holds a PhD in the history of science from Harvard. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Shireen Ghorbani, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, shares lessons learned from a pathway to politics that followed lines of academia and activism. Sponsored by the Women’s & Gender studies programs at UNL, UNO, UNK, and the Student Alliance for Gender Equality and Sexual Health.

Karma R. Chávez (Communication Arts Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison) Colloquium presentation, October 3, 2014.

Video of Lise Eliot (Neuroscientist and Professor at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science) delivering her talk, "Brain Sex: Truth, Tall Tales, and Time for a Developmental Perspective," presented as part of the WGS Colloquium Series on January 24, 2011.

Michael Kimmel, “Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men” (March 1, 2012)

Lesbian feminist author Dorothy Allison's reading and lecture at UNL on March 3, 2005. Allison talks about writing, her history in the feminist movement, her personal life, and intersections between sexuality, class, and politics.