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Our Adrenée Glover Freeman and Dr. Mary Baskin Waters lectures take a deeper dive into issues that affect our community.
Upcoming Events
The Department of Women's and Gender Studies in the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina is pleased to welcome Dr. Shannon C. Eaves for the 2025 Adrenée Glover Freeman lecture. You can register here: bit.ly/2025Freeman
Shannon C. Eaves is an Associate Professor of African American History at the College of Charleston. She specializes in slavery and gender in the antebellum American South. Eaves is the author of Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South and has held postdoctoral research fellowships from Rutgers University and the American Association of University Women.
The lecture, “Sexual Violence and American Slavery: a Local Examination of the South’s Rape Culture" will be held at 1705 College Street, Columbia, SC in the Close-Hipp Eastview Room (8th floor) on Tuesday, October 7th from 6-7:30 PM.
Drawing from her recently published book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, Eaves will explore how South Carolina exemplified the South’s rape culture and its profound impact on enslaved communities. Through the stories of enslaved women, she examines how they understood their vulnerability, resisted sexual exploitation, and negotiated for survival. By centering sexual violence in the history of slavery, the lecture underscores how its legacies shaped the afterlives of slavery well into the twentieth century.
This lecture is free and open to the public. A reception with light refreshments will follow the event.
The Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture in African American Women’s Studies was established in 1993 in memory of Adrenée Glover Freeman, a Columbia attorney who was active in civic affairs and served on the Community Advisory Board of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Each year the lecture is given by a prominent African American woman.
Please contact taj17@mailbox.sc.edu with any questions.
Past lecturers include:
2024 Shaneen Dials-Corujo [pdf]
2023 Daphne A. Brooks
2022 Aisha Durham [pdf]
2020 Sandra Rattley (view the lecture)
2019 Valerie Smith [pdf]
2018 Ijeoma Oluo (view a clip)
2017 Courtney Bryan [pdf]
2016 Anita F. Hill [pdf]
Annual Lectures
Previous Events
- 2024 Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Dr. Shaneen Dials-Corujo Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 13-23, 2024: "How Can Arts Foster Community Healing, Solidarity, and Social Change?"- A Women's Well Being Initiative Exhibition Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 14, 2024: Gay Sign Language Crash Course & Comedy Night with Hayden Kristal
Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 20, 2024: "Stating the Obvious: Lessons from Epic Failures" with Dr. Monica McLemore Event Flyer [pdf]
- April 7, 2024: “Practicing Health Equity: The History of Early African American Women Physicians”- 7th Annual Dr. Mary Baskin Waters Lecture with Dr. Vanessa Gamble Event Flyer [pdf]
- April 11, 2024: Poetry Slam at Finnley Center Event Flyer [pdf]
- April 12, 2024: WGST Award Ceremony Event Flyer [pdf]
- May 19-23, 2024: South Carolina Women's and Gender Studies Undergraduate Summer Institute Event Flyer [pdf]
- September 8-9, 2023: WGST at 50: From the Past Into the Future Event Flyer [pd-f]
- September 27, 2023: Transwomanhood's History with Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson Event flyer [pdf]
- October 9, 2023: Adrenée Glover Freeman lecture with Dr. Daphne A. Brooks Event flyer [pdf]
- November 8, 2023: Cancer Alley and Eco-activism with Dr. Rosalind Hinton Event flyer [pdf]
- January 18,2023: Post-Roe in the US: Lessons Learned Globally to Inform Local Action with Dr. Deborah Billings Event Flyer [pdf]
- January 18-22, 2023: Girls Speak - Women's Well-Being Initiative Exhibition Event Flyer [pdf]
- January 30, 2023 “Getting Zucked:” Examining Digital Violence and Injustice Online and IRL with Dr. Kishonna Gray. Part of the Violence (In)Justice Press Play Lecture Series.
- February 6, 2023 Teaching Social Justice Seminar Event flyer
- March 23rd: Troubling the Public During Troubling Times with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 24th: Stigma, Sensitivity, and Surveys: Measuring Abortion Post-Dobbs with Dr. Laura Lindberg Event Flyer [pdf]
- Violence (In)Justice Lecture Series
- August 25-September 29, 2022: Socially Engaged Ceramics (learn more on the SVAD website)
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October 6, 2022: Travelling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance with Mia Bay Event Flyer [pdf] -
October 6-27, 2022: Feminist Horror Film Series: Family Trouble: Parenthood, Gender, and the Monstrous-Feminine (learn more on the Honors College website) -
October 12-26, 2022: Fall Literary Festival (learn more on the University Library website) -
October 17, 2022: Adrenée Glover Freeman lecture with Dr. Aisha Durham Event Flyer [pdf]
- February 10-13, 2022: The 2022 Comparative Literature Conference: Truth in the Late Foucault (learn more on the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures website)
- February 11, 2022 at 2PM: Writing workshop with Briallen Hopper Event Flyer [pdf]
- February 12, 2022 at 4:30PM: Odd Birds Books reading with Briallen Hopper – Easy to Love: An alternative Valentine’s Day event celebrating friendship, queerness, spinsterhood, and family Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 2, 2022 at 4:30PM: Programs of Life with Dr. Patrick R. Grzanka Event Flyer [pdf]
- March 31, 2022 at 6PM: Dr. Mary Baskin Waters Lecture with Dr. Ruha Benjamin Event flyer [pdf]
- April 4, 2022 at 4:30PM: Kashmir: The Personal is Political Event flyer [pdf]
- Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Transgressed: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives Event Information
- University Libraries' Fall Literary Festival event with Jacqueline Woodson, children's author Event Information
- Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Intersectionality and Youth Violence Event Information
- Climates Theme Semester Violence (In)justice Lecture Series: Racialized State Violence and the Paradox of Mothers’ (In)visibility Event Information
- Religion, Sexuality and Freedom: a Talk with Dr. Emily Kazyak and Dr. Kelsy Burke Event Flyer [pdf]
- A Talk with Irish Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin Event Flyer [pdf]
- TC Tolbert, editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Event Flyer [pdf]
- Claudia Smith Brinson discusses Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina Event Flyer [pdf]
- Matias Viegener joins Dr. Ed Madden's "Queer Times, Queer Lives" Event Flyer [pdf]
- Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus discuss their work The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature Event Flyer [pdf]
- WGST 298 welcomes Cooper Lee Bombardier to discuss Pass with Care Event Flyer [pdf]
- 27th Annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Sandra Rattley #UNLADYLIKE 2020
- CAS Justice Theme Semester guest speaker Lewis Raven Wallace
- The Challenges and Rewards of Social Justice Guided Teaching and Research and Activism with Dr. Lynn Weber
- Rethinking Recognition: Overcoming Displacement and Reification in Cultural Politics with Georgia Warnke
- Southern Truth Award Lecture with Dorothy Allison, part of the Deckle Edge Literary
Festival
- 26th Annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Valerie Smith
- Meet my Major event
- 25th Annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture with Ijeoma Oluo UofSC article Free Times article
- Medusa's Gaze: The Monstrous Feminine Daily Gamecock article on series
- Yours in Sisterhood Screening and Filmmaker Talkback
- Women as Agents of Change in Rule of Law with Dr. Mamphela Ramphele Event Spotlight
- Alumni Panel: What Can You Do with a Degree in Women's & Gender Studies? Event flyer [pdf]
- Preserving Personal Archives: Remembering South Carolina Women's History Sophia Institute article