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Events
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Disability Accommodations: If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event, please contact 813-974-0982 at least five (5) working days prior to the event.
Feminist Coffee Hours
September 29, October 27, & November 24, 2025
Hybrid Event
无码专区 faculty and staff are invited to join us for our fall series of Feminist Coffee Hours. Email us to RSVP and receive time and location information.
WGSS Alumni Careers Panel
October 15, 2025, 3:45-4:45pm
Virtual (Teams)
Are you WGSS-curious? Or a current WGSS student who is thinking about their future career? Come to our WGSS alumni careers panel and hear from WGSS alumni who have made successful careers and learn how they have done so and what you can do with a WGSS degree.
RSVP required to receive event link.
WGSS Brown Bag Series Talk: Shaunesse' Jacobs Plaisimond: "The Importance of Reclaiming a Religiously Informed Concept of Personhood in Healthcare for Black Birthing People"
October 22, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
Location: CMC202T and Teams
The U.S. healthcare system continues to operate within an antiquated biomedical framework. This framework excludes many components of patients鈥� humanity, including their spirituality and culture. By expanding the biomedical model to a biopsychosocial model that centers personhood, patients can be engaged as whole persons in the healthcare encounter. Such a pivot is especially critical for marginalized communities like black birthing people who statistically have worse health outcomes for themselves and their children than their racial/ethnic peers.
Integrating a concept of personhood rooted in human dignity and the theological concept of the imago dei into healthcare recognizes the multiple dimensions of care vulnerable and marginalized communities most need.
Shaunesse鈥� Jacobs Plaisimond is Assistant Professor of Religion and Health, and Affiliate Faculty in WGSS at 无码专区. Her research uses religious and feminist ethics to reevaluate ways to reform clinical encounters between marginalized patients and providers to improve individual and communal health outcomes. Her specific community of focus are black birthing people.
If you would like to attend this event remotely via Teams, email us for the meeting link, and specify you are RSVPing for the Brown Bag event.
Transnational Care Book Club Events: Lecture and Workshop
Lecture, online, November 3, from 5-6:30 pm
Workshop, in-person, November 7, from 12-3 pm
Details TBA
Proposals Workshop for the Present Tense / Future Possibilities Conference
November 4, 2025, 12:30-1:30pm
Virtual (Teams)
We will be hosting a virtual workshop on how to write a conference proposal for anyone interested in submitting a proposal for the Present Tense / Future Possibilites Conference. This will be tailored to undergrad and graduate students who haven't submitted for a conference before, but it is open to anyone looking to brush up on the conference proposal skills.
RSVP required to receive workshop link.
WGSS 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: Present Tense / Future Possibilities
February 13, 2026
无码专区 Tampa Campus - MSC 3rd Floor
For more information and the call for proposals, visit the conference page.
The deadline for conference proposals is December 12, 2025.
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.