The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) co-sponsors events organized by Northwestern University faculty, staff, and students. Decisions about co-sponsorship funding will be based on the event’s relevance to our mission of promoting research and education on sexuality in social context. We review such requests on a rolling basis. The application process can be found here.
Previous Co-Sponsorships By Year: 2023-24 | 2022-23 | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 | 2014-15 | 2013-14
Fefu and Her Friends (WAVE Productions)
Jewish Theatre Ensemble: Falsettos Production (Jewish Theatre Ensemble)
Desire and Intimacy in the Study of Religion Grad Student Conference (Religious Studies’ Graduate Student Association)
The Argentinean Archive of Trans Memory: Nuestros Códigos/Our Codes (Spanish & Portuguese)
The Second International Trans Studies Conference (Center for Applied Transgender Studies)
State of the Black Union (For Members Only)
Feminist and Queer Feelings (Black Studies)
Queering the Holocaust: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman (Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern)
Applied Trans Studies Technology Studies Symposium (Center for Applied Transgender Studies)
Care: As Keyword and Praxis (Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED))
In Covnersation with Akkai Padmashali (The Subcontinent Project)
No Ordinary Man with Chase Joynt (Block Museum of Art)
Andrew Solomon (RTVF)
Imagining Transgender Cultural Production as Revolt: A Conversation (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Sense and Sensibilities (Lovers and Madmen)
Queertopia 2021: Queer Justice, Queer Transformation, Queer Futures (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Law in Motion with Professor Dean Space (Legal Studies)
Families in Transition (Block Museum of Art)
Lipstick Theatre Presents: Burlesque (Lipstick Theatre)
Sex Week: Sky Cubacub (Northwestern College Feminists)
Queeroptia (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Showcase: Hoe Aesthetics (Living in Color)
A Celebration of Patricia J. Williams’ The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (Asian American Studies)
Queertopia (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Chicago Ethnography Conference
Lipstick Theatre Presents: Burlesque (Lipstick Theatre)
Barbara Hammer: Mediated Sensuality & Declarations of Identity (Block Museum of Art)
Dirty Looks LA: Eight Years On (Block Museum of Art)
Backward Glances (Screen Cultures)
Black Queer Utopia Fest (Rainbow Alliance)
“Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana” by Kwame Otu (African Gender and Expressive Arts Working Group)
Current Issues in LGBTQ Health featuring Dr. Kirsten Simonton — “LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Coming Out of the Margins” (Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing)
Book Event: Pathways of Desire: Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men by Héctor Carrillo (Sociology)
Current Issues in LGBTQ Health featuring Dr. Jennifer Brier — “How to Have History in an Epidemic: Can History Make You Healthy?” (Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing)
Queertopia! (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders (Performance Studies)
Rage is Sustainable Only When Shared (Performance Studies)
Afro-Latinidades: Blackness, Identity, and Space (Latinx Studies)
Current Issues in LGBTQ Health featuring Dr. E. Patrick Johnson — “The Beekeeper: Performing Black Southern Women Who Love Women” (Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing)
Sexualities, Race, and Empire: Resistance in an Uncertain Time (American Sociological Association’s Sexualities Preconference in Philadelphia, PA)
We Have to Talk About AIDS: Art, AIDS, Activism (Department of Performance Studies)
Mayday Mini-Ball Initiative
Queertopia! (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Paul Deslandes: The Pleasures and Perils of the Male Body in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Long Nineteenth-Century Colloquium)
LGBT Health and Wellness Conference (IMPACT)
Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision (Political Theory Symposium)
Kutluğ Ataman: Turkish Cinema at the Margins (Middle East and North African Studies)
Black Feminist Futures Symposium
LGBT Health and Wellness Conference (IMPACT)
Gender and Vulnerabilities: An Interdisciplinary Faculty-Graduate Workshop (The Critical Theory Cluster)
Lee Edelman: On Freedom and the Unbearable (The Critical Theory Cluster)
“Sexuality Politics in Egypt in the Aftermath of June 30th” by Dalia Abd Al-Hameed (Middle East and North African Studies)
Queertopia! (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
A Celebration in Honor of Alex Owen (Department of History; Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Before You Know It (RTVF / Screen Cultures)
LGBT Health and Wellness Conference (IMPACT)
Sexual Reputation Conference (Department of Sociology)
Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. (Paul of Tarsus Interdisciplinary Work Group)
Queertopia! (Queer Pride Graduate Student Association)
Queer Nightlife: A Symposium (Department of Performance Studies)