Events
If you have a gender or women’s studies-related event that you would like to add to the IFC calendar please email ifc@scrippscollege.edu.
Upcoming Events
Faculty Book Signing, Holiday Reception, and Open House
Join us in celebrating gender and women’s studies faculty authors from the Claremont Colleges at our Book Signing, Holiday Reception, and Open House.
📚 Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
🕓 Time: 4:15 p.m.
📍 Location: Mary Wig Johnson Court, Scripps College
Come learn about our resources and connect with our fabulous students, staff, faculty, and friends! Refreshments will be served.
Past Events
Book Talk: To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s – Book talk with Dr. Linda Perkins, CGU University Professor, Director of Applied Gender Studies – April 9, 2025
Book Talk: AfroSwedish Places of Belonging with Nana Osei-Kofi, March 6, 2025
Birthing Justice panel, Thursday, April 11 , Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Routledge, 2023).
Film Screening, Beyond Bars, March 28, 2024
Student Activist Networking Luncheon, March 26, 2024
CWR + IFC Zine Making Workshop
“Still Working 9 to 5” A Feature-Length Documentary
Trailer: https://youtu.be/fhegtCL26yI?si=V4HFrWMRjnKwHQBk
Film screening, Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women in America
Conversations on Reproductive Justice: Economies of Motherhood: Reproductive Justice in a Globalizing World
Co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Center
“Reproductive Justice and the Prison Industrial Complex”
Lynn Paltrow, J.D., Executive Director, Pregnancy Justice
Co-sponsored with the 5C Prison Abolition Collective
CWR + IFC Zine Making Workshop
Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition Conference
Detailed conference information here. Speaker Bios here.
Dionne Bensonsmith; Co-founder/Co-director, Mothers on the Frontline Talk: Beyond Parity: Why Children’s Mental Health is a Justice Issue
Localizing the Global: Cities and International Women’s Rights with Heidi Nichols Haddad
Grace Berry Award Recipients; with guest speaker: Michelle Téllez: Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona; Grace Berry Award recipient, 2003: Ph.D., CGU, 2005; Beyond the Wall: Fronteriza Imaginaries in the Everyday; Thinking beyond geopolitical demarcations at the US/Mexico border and imagining the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building.
Collaborative Gender Thesis Chat & Collaborative Gender Thesis Meet & Greet
“Almost President: A Post Election Look At Women and The Highest Glass Ceiling”; Speaker: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Sponsored
A Panel Discussion on Gender, Policing and Public Health
Panelist: Danielle M. Dupuy and Jade Rivera
Talk with Rachel Teukolsky – George Eliot and Hannah Arendt: Philosophies of the Pariah
Andrea J. Ritchie, “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color”
