Queen's Global Summer presents the Sustainable Freedom Lecture Series.

The Sustainable Freedom lecture series brings together scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Science to shed light on intractable global problems and offer pathways for solutions and options on issues of global significance. All lectures are open to the Queen’s community and the public to attend.

Title: Gender/Sex and Sexual Diversity: New Frameworks for Equitable Futures  

Speaker: Dr. Sari van Anders, Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, & Gender/Sex; Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, & Neuroscience; Queen’s University 

Description: This interactive and participatory event involves presentation, workshop, and Q&A elements with the following objectives:

1. For people to understand gender/sex/uality as fluid and dynamic, and beyond the binary;

2. To demonstrate how theories and models of gender/sex/uality can be built with insights from, reflect, and make meaningful space for lived experiences, especially those whose existences are marginalized on the basis of gender/sex/uality;

3. To help people consider the impacts and significance of scientific theories about gender/sex/uality for human rights and gender/sex/uality equity.