C. Riley Snorton.

The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) will hold its LGBTQ speaker series through May. All events will take place at 5733 S. University Ave.

On Monday, Feb. 19, at 4:30 p.m., Cornell University Associate Professor of Africana Studies C. Riley Snorton will speak on “Fleshy Encounters: Black Feminism and the Mutability of Gender.”

The series continues Wed., April 25, at 4:30 p.m., with a talk featuring Princeton University Professor of History & Gender and Sexuality Studies Regina Kunzel, who is also the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality.

The series concludes Thursday, May 17, at 5 p.m. The speaker will be University of Maryland Associate Professor of American Studies Christina Hanhardt, who has written Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence.

See gendersexuality.uchicago.edu/.