All Past Events

Violence against women is a pandemic within a pandemic, as COVID-19 has exacerbated the severity and frequency of all forms of gender-based violence, including femicide. Combating femicide requires more than keeping women out of harm’s way. Join Global Rights for Women and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy for a conversation with global and local activists who have led collective action to raise awareness and create change.

The Center on Global Health and Social Responsibility and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy co-present this free webinar, part of an International Women’s Day series on gender, human rights, and COVID-19. The event, featuring Dr. Senait Fisseha and Dr. Rahel Nardos, is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, the Women's Center, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, and Global Rights for Women.

Despite her outsize influence, pioneering civil rights figure Anna Arnold Hedgeman has not always received much historical attention—even here in Minnesota, where she grew up and was Hamline University’s first African-American graduate. Join the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy to explore Hedgeman’s remarkable life and hear from contemporary women leaders who carry on her legacy in gender and racial justice activism, faith-based organizing, and institutional policy change today. Co-sponsored by the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative.

With a historic presidential election looming, the mechanics of how America votes have become as hotly contested as any issue actually on the ballot. In their new book, Turnout: Making Minnesota the State That Votes, Joan Anderson Growe and Star Tribune columnist Lori Sturdevant look back at Growe’s influence in establishing clean, high-turnout elections in Minnesota during her 24-year tenure as Secretary of State.

As we celebrate 100 years of votes for women, join historians Cathleen Cahill and Bill Green for a conversation about the critical leadership roles women of color and Indigenous women played in the suffrage movement here in Minnesota and across the U.S. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota's History Department and American Indian Studies Department.

Feminists have long been on the front lines of environmental and climate justice activism. In honor of International Women’s Day, this interactive exploration of climate work centered feminism at the heart of the movement. The purpose of the event was to build connections, explore community, and engage with students, activists, scholars, and local climate leaders.