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Magalí Rabasa Honored with 2026 Kristi Williams Staff & Faculty Award

For the second time in four years, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Magalí Rabasa has been recognized for her unwavering commitment to student advocacy and social justice.

45th Annual Gender Studies Symposium: March 11-13, 2026
“RESIST NOW!”
Call for Art submission deadline is February 2, 2026

Are you interested in designing the sticker for this year’s Gender Studies Symposium?

Well, you’re in luck! We are looking for current L&C students (CAS, GSEC, and Law) to design a sticker that captures this year’s theme of RESIST NOW! The winning design will also be shared on our social media and other print/digital publicity for the symposium.

Apply through the Google form by Sunday, February 1, 2026. We look forward to seeing your creative designs!

Contact the symposium co-chairs at gendsymp@lclark.edu

Please save the dates, spread the word, and join us in welcoming these six fine writers to our 2025-26 Visiting Writing Series. Author bios below.

The September 24th Artist-in-Residence event with Anis Mojgani will be held in Miller 105 Auditorium at 7pm and is sponsored by the Art Department.

All other events will be held in Armstrong Lounge in the Manor House at 6pm.

You are invited to submit proposals for presentation at the 45th Annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, March 11–13, 2026, exploring dimensions of resistance, activism, and solidarity in relation to gender and sexuality. Please review the guidelines in our Call for Proposals.

Congratulations to Reiko Hillyer whose book A WALL IS JUST A WALL: THE PERMEABILITY OF THE PRISON IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES (Duke University Press, 2024) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of General Nonfiction.

Students in the course “Gender and Aesthetic Expression” share their takes on visual culture, 50+ years after the publication of John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing.

This year’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, held November 13-15, is titled On the Border. It will examine the different borders we experience, the role of borders in our lives, and the relationship between borders and ideas of race and ethnicity.

This year’s Gender Studies Symposium will examine the ways in which digital technology, internet platforms, and online spaces have shaped and been shaped by understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality. The symposium runs from March 6 to 8.