Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society
Each year, the Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society offers an occasion to raise awareness about the ways in which gender shapes and is shaped by our lived experiences. Each Cuninggim Lecturer empowers Vanderbilt community members to expand their activist reach and become more involved in transformative social change outside of the University.
Previous Lectures
2023
“More than a Moment: The Me Too Movement”
Tarana Burke
2022
“One to Watch Out For: An Afternoon with Alison Bechdel”
Alison Bechdel
2021
“Calling in the Calling-Out Culture”
Loretta J. Ross
2020 (presented in 2021)
“Eloquent Rage: The Power of the Angry Black Woman”
Brittney Cooper
2019
“5 (Dirty, Little) Secrets: The Mind-Blowing Science of Sexual Response”
Emily Nagoski
2018
“More Than Meets the Eye: Young Women, Mass Media, and Enacting Social Change”
Elaine Welteroth
2017
“Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools”
Monique Morris
2016
“Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”
Julia Serano
2015
“Girls Like Us: The Commercial and Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Girls in the U.S.”
Rachel Lloyd
2014
“Perfect Girls: A Generation of Young Women Were Told We Could Do Anything and Somehow Heard That We Had to Be Everything”
Courtney E. Martin
2013
“The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl”
Issa Rae
2012
“Grace and Grit: My Experience with Equal Pay for Equal Work”
Lilly Ledbetter
2011
“The Purity Myth”
Jessica Valenti
2010
“How Stories Shape Our Lives and What We Can Do About It”
Daisy Hernández
Questions? Please contact Rory Dicker at rory.dicker@vanderbilt.edu.