Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Now: Urgent Questions and Compelling Conversations 

This program is co-sponsored by Friends in the City and the Philadelphia City Institute Library

Laura Levitt of Temple University will address central questions in contemporary feminist scholarship: the relationship between gender and sexuality in both activism and scholarship; the renewed and growing role of activism in public and academic work; and why the academic study of gender matters. And finally, given Professor Levitt’s expertise, the relationship between gender, sexuality and religion.

Laura S. Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender at Temple University where she has served as chair of the department of Religion and directed the Women’s Studies and the Jewish Studies Programs.

She is the author of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007) and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997). She is an editor of Judaism Since Gender (1997) and Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (2003). Her current project, “Evidence as Archive” builds on her prior work in feminist theory and Holocaust studies to consider the relationship between material objects held in police storage and artifacts housed in Holocaust collections. 

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