Lectures and Dialogues

The IWL engages innovative thinkers and accomplished leaders in conversations about their work for social change.

Fighting for Ocean Justice
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (opens in new tab)
Understanding Human Rights:
Reimagining the Universal and the Particular (opens in new tab)
1990's Brings New Analysis of
Sexual Violence and Power Relations (opens in new tab)
The 1990’s: Decade of Transformation
for Women’s Rights as Human Rights (opens in new tab)
Integrating Economic Policy and Human Rights (opens in new tab)
Finding Solidarity in the Global Women’s Movement (opens in new tab)
Post Roe:
Legal Challenges, Political Strategies, Activism for Justice (opens in new tab)
Unequal Treatment:
Confronting Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities (opens in new tab)
Easy Beauty
Reading and Conversation with Chloé Cooper Jones (opens in new tab)
Roxane Gay Reflects:
Why Media Needs to Do Better (opens in new tab)
Roxane Gay Reflects:
Managing Burnout (opens in new tab)
Roxane Gay Reflects:
Get Comfortable with Discomfort (opens in new tab)
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha:
Stories from the Frontlines of the Flint Water Crisis (opens in new tab)
Introducing Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Chair
in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies (opens in new tab)
Bold, Determined, Passionate:
Women Leaders Transform Health (opens in new tab)
Defining
Resilience (opens in new tab)
Valuing the Strengths of Refugee Women (opens in new tab)
Understanding and Supporting Human Rights Defenders (opens in new tab)
Displacement Threatens the Health
and Well-Being of Women and Girls
 (opens in new tab)
Growing Up as a Refugee:
Foni's Story
 (opens in new tab)
82 Million Displaced People in Search of
Safety, Security, and Opportunity
(opens in new tab)
Idealistic, Pragmatic, Bold:
Women Leaders Transform Higher Education
(opens in new tab)
IWL Consortium Symposium: Making Care Count:
Care Work, Gender, and Covid-19
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Susan & Michael J. Angelides Lecture:
Making Care Count
(opens in new tab)
Toward A Post-Covid Future:
Feminist Perspectives on Care
(opens in new tab)
Women’s Power and Resilience: Organizing for Care
from the Local to the National
 (opens in new tab)
Workers' Rights & the Gig Economy (opens in new tab)
How to Change Everything
Zephyr Teachout in Conversation with
Gloria Steinem Chair Naomi Klein
(opens in new tab)
The Most Important Work of Our Lives: A Conversation About Racial and Gender Justice (opens in new tab)
Migrant Justice is Climate Justice:
A Series on the Green New Deal
(opens in new tab)
"Period. End of Sentence." with Filmmaker
Rayka Zehtabchi
(opens in new tab)
The New Tech Resistance: A Forum
on Tech Worker Organizing
(opens in new tab)
Care Work is Climate Work:
A Series on the Green New Deal
(opens in new tab)
Leanne Simpson in Conversation with Naomi Klein (opens in new tab)
Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (opens in new tab)
Colonized by Data: Resisting Capitalism's
Emerging Social Order
(opens in new tab)
Women Confront Big Tech: A Conversation with Naomi Klein, Meredith Whittaker, and Jacinta Gonzalez (opens in new tab)
Cecile Richards:
Advocating for Justice in Women's Health
(opens in new tab)
Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture
and Feminist Studies Launch
 (opens in new tab)
Susan & Michael J. Angelides Lecture: "The New Normal?" with Michel Martin, Rebecca Traister, and Farai Chideya (opens in new tab)
Susan & Michael J. Angelides Lecture: A Conversation
with Filmmaker Ava DuVernay
 (opens in new tab)
Susan & Michael J. Angelides Lecture: Gloria Steinem "Media: More Real than Reality" (opens in new tab)
Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture
featuring Geena Davis
 (opens in new tab)
Dázon Dixon Diallo & Terry McGovern:
Dialogues with the IWL Director
 (opens in new tab)
Abigail Disney & Cora Weiss:
Dialogues with the IWL Director
 (opens in new tab)
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P: 848.932.1463

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