Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Tillie K. Lubin Symposium

Ryanne Olsen, Glynda C. Carr, Charlotte Golar Richie and Jill S. Greenlee, speakers at the 2018 Tillie K. Lubin Symposium

The Tillie K. Lubin Symposium focuses on a contemporary issue or event relevant to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

It was started in honor of Tillie Kulp, a native of Iowa, who married Charles Lubin in the late 1930s soon after he had purchased a chain of neighborhood bakeries in Chicago. After the birth of their daughter Sara Lee, the Lubins renamed their company the Kitchens of Sara Lee.

The company’s great success allowed the Lubins to engage in many philanthropic projects. Among their major gifts, they established the Charles Lubin Family Chair for Women in Science at Skidmore College and the Charles W. and Tillie K. Lubin Center for Plant Biotechnology and the Lubin Chair of Hormone Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Tillie Lubin also had a lifelong passion for the arts and a particular affinity for Spanish culture. Her daughter, Sara Lee Schupf, served on the Women's Studies Program Board in the 1990's and endowed the Lubin Symposium in her mother's honor.

Lubin Symposium 2020

Tillie K. Lubin Symposium 2020

March 18, 2020

Please join us at the annual Tillie K. Lubin Symposium featuring Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Professor Cohen's talk, "Rage, Race, and Vulnerability: Millennials and Political Participation in the Era of Trump," will be cover voting initatives and ballot access in a timely discussion during the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

This year's symposium is on March 18, 2020 from 2:00-3:30 PM in the International Lounge at the Usdan Center. Reception to follow Professor Cohen's talk.