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Symposium on Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Technologies

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Fri, Mar 27, 2026

8:30 AM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Women, Gender, Sexuality & Technologies
An RIT One-Day Symposium

March 27, 2026
8:30 a.m.—6:00 p.m.

In conjunction with Women’s History Month, the RIT CLA Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program is proud to host the 2026 WGSS Symposium, which features original and creative work and research by the RIT community on topics pertinent to the symposium theme. The symposium is open to all individuals within the RIT community.

THEME
General theme of this year’s symposium is the intersection of women, gender, and sexuality with technologies—whether in terms of the place, representation, and contributions of women, gender, and sexuality within technologies or in terms of the ways in which various technologies affect women, gender, and sexuality. Within this context, we conceive of “technologies” as a broad notion encompassing many aspects of the science, technology, engineering, health, and mathematics (STEHM) fields, including biotechnology, personalized medicine, and biomedical and healthcare techniques; physical tools, software, and systems; environmental, sustainable, and green technologies; artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; robotics, computing and information technologies, and virtual and augmented reality technologies. But we also understand “technologies” as sites of systemic social and/or political organization, control, and surveillance; as techniques of production of the self, of social being(s), of creative representations in science fiction, the arts, and media; and as tools of transformation of embodied subjectivities.

The symposium program is available here: https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/2025-symposium-on-women-gender-sexuality-and-technologies

ORGANIZERS, SPONSORS, and SUPPORT
Organized by: WGSS Program, College of Liberal Arts
Sponsored by: Dean’s Office, College of Liberal Arts
With support from: AdvanceRIT; College of Science Access & Belonging Initiatives; RIT Title IX Office; Women in Science (WISe)/College of Science; Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resource Center; Women in Computing (WiC); Women in Engineering (WE@RIT); Women in Technology (WIT)

Contact
Silvia Benso, WGSS Program Director
silvia.benso@rit.edu

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