{"id":157,"date":"2023-06-27T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/women-in-theory\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:18:19","slug":"symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/women-in-theory\/symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-cta \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-cta\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Women in Theory symposium, March 19-20, 2021\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>In this special two-day event, we propose an experiment: what would happen if \u201cwomen\u201d who work in \u201ctheory\u201d (in the broadest, wildest sense of both terms) were to thematize and discuss the problem of \u201cwomen in theory\u201d? Scholars whose work emerges from distinct areas of critical theory and philosophy\u2014deconstruction, Black studies, Marxism, psychoanalysis, classical philosophy, political theory, media theory\u2014in short, areas of \u201ctheory\u201d in which women are comparatively scarce, come together to engage with the problem of gender in philosophy and critical theory from and through their methodological and conceptual areas of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n    \n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Day 1: March 19th<\/h3>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdBPG4--fpY?si=6xzoK5-9_cECJCJY\" title=\"Women In Theory Symposium (2021) - Day 1 Part A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/787VmEipcak?si=b36rgzYqdEidHS0I\" title=\"Women In Theory Symposium (2021) - Day 1 Part B\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Day 2: March 20th<\/h3>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFSExqCnFzY?si=D6XUU5ZFZ7kICPi5\" title=\"Women In Theory Symposium (2021) - Day 2\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n                        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--photo-wall \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--photo-wall\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"heading-container\">\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Women in Theory Symposium Program \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"photos-container\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"grid-sizer\"><\/div>\n    <div class=\"gutter-sizer\"><\/div>\n\n      \n                                                \n                <div class=\"photo\">\n\n            \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/women-in-theory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-10.35.10-PM-540x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                      <\/div>\n                <div class=\"photo\">\n\n            \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/women-in-theory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2023\/06\/WIT-Program_Page_2-540x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                      <\/div>\n                <div class=\"photo\">\n\n            \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/women-in-theory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2023\/06\/WIT-Program_Page_3-540x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                      <\/div>\n      \n      <\/div>\n\n                    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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