Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 28th Annual Symposium
Friday, April 25, 2025 , 9:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Student Research Symposium is a daylong celebration of student scholarship, creative work, and ideas that are underrepresented in Illinois State University’s traditional curriculum.
This year the keynote speaker will be Nada Elia who has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Purdue University, and chaired the Global Studies minor at Antioch University-Seattle, before joining Fairhaven College in 2017, where she now teaches Arab American Studies and the occasional Comparative Cultural Studies. She is a regular contributor to Mondoweiss and Middle East Eye, where she publishes editorials about Palestine, gender, activism, and transnational struggles. Elia is the author of Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and is currently completing a second book, Beyond Apartheid: Notes from the Global Intifada. She has co-edited the Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, as well as the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Alison Bailey (baileya@ilstu.edu) or Jamie Anderson (jlande4@ilstu.edu).
(309) 438-2947
wgstudies@IllinoisState.edu
