Women’s History and Empowerment Month

Events 

• February 24-26, 2026: Gender and Women's Studies Celebrates June Jordan

• February 26-27, 2026: Women on the Right in U.S. History: Intellectual, Economic, and Political Power 

• March 1, 2026 from 11am-1pm at Edwards Stadium: Go Girls, Go Bears, Go Play! Field Day for families and youth of all gender identities ages 6-13. Following the event, all registered youth participants will receive free admission to the Cal Women’s Basketball game; adult tickets are available at a discounted price of $8 per ticket. Try new sports and Interact with Cal student-athletes!

• March 1, 2026 at 2pm at Haas Pavillion: Cal Women's Basketball Game vs. SMU Tickets are free for students and we'd love to see faculty, staff and the community cheer on the women's team for the last home game of the season. Go Bears! Go Girls! Go Play! 

• March 2, 2026 from noon-2pm: Zoom Workshop: Gender, Sex and Sexism with Gender Equity Resource Center. 

• March 5, 2026 from 2:30-4:00pm: Sumud Behind Bars: Palestinian Women and the Politics of Everyday Resistance, Palestinian and Arab Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies.

• March 6, 2026 from 4-6pm at the Berkeley Student Union: Women’s History & Empowerment Month Tribute Market. Celebrate with performers, activities, giveaways and free food in partnership with the Student Union, Big C Student Fee and the Gender Equity Resource Center.

• March 6, 2026 at 8pm at Zellerbach Playhouse: Jazz singer and bandleader Julia Keefe headlines at Cal Performances leading the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band. Hear works from the ensemble’s Mildred Bailey Project that champions and pays homage to Native American jazz vocalist Mildred Bailey who, in the 1930s, was the first woman to sing in front of a big band. 8pm in Zellerbach Playhouse, half-price for UC Berkeley students.

• March 6, 2026:Women’s History Month Dinnerat all dining commons (Café 3, Clark Kerr, Crossroads, and Foothill).

• March 6, 2026 at 7:30pm: Music By Her Hands: A Tribute to Women Composers Chamber Music Concert. Featuring music of women composers across history from Hildegard von Bingen to Bay Area Grammy-balloted composer Wendy Loomis. Student discounts and 2-for-1 tickets available. 

• March 6, 2026 from 5-6:30pm via livestream: Madhumita Lahiri | Of Migrants and Murderers: Reading Tagore in Xenophobic Times (The Tagore Visiting Scholar Lecture for 2026). Event moderated by Atreyee Gupta, Associate Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art. Opening remarks by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies. 

• March 7- April 23, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics. Celebrated Iranian film director and screenwriter Rakhshan Banietemad presents two documentaries that focus on the environment and the power of women to change society. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Language and Cultures, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and Department of Film & Media, UC Berkeley.

• March 9-13, 2026: Join Cal Women’s Network (CWN) for International Women’s Week @ UC Berkeley guided by the theme Rise Together. Enjoy inspiring in-person workshops, including a Transferable Skills Workshop at CITRIS Auditorium, to help you recognize and confidently share the strengths you use every day, and Skills for Advancing as a Woman in Leadership, featuring a LinkedIn Learning Path with guided practice (plus pizza!). You’ll also get a live preview of the EmpowerHer Mentorship Matching Platform, take part in a fun 360 Glam Photo Experience, and receive a flower as a small token of appreciation. Connect with calwomxn@berkeley.edu or CWN LinkedIn Group for more information. 

• March 11, 2026 4-6pm at Gender Equity Resource Center: Nadeeka Karunaratne, Cal Alum, leading Dreaming Circle: visionary fiction as abolitionist practice. 

• March 12, 2026 at 7pm at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Compensation film screening followed by a Q&A with director Zeinabu irene Davis and writer Marc Arthur Chéry, moderated by Language Exchange Program Coordinator at the Student Learning Center Quinta Seward. Sponsored by African American Studies, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Student Learning Center, Gender and Women’s Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Disability Studies Minor.
• March 13, 2026 from 5:30-8:30pm at Andersen Auditorium: Standing Above the Clouds Screening and Panel, co-hosted with Gender Equity Resource Center, Pacific Islander Initiative, Center for Responsible Business, and Haas Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging (DEIJB).

• March 14, 2026 from 9am-5pm at Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union: Empowering Women of Color The Art of Furious Love.

• March 17, 2026: Carolina Ixta, Cal Alum, at YWCA Strong Women for These Times Speaker Series
• March 17, 2026 from 9-10:30am via Zoom: Songs, Courts, and Cultural Worlds: Performing Music in South Asia. Prof. Puninder Singh, Sabharwal Lecturer in Sikh Studies, will serve as discussant. Opening remarks by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies.

• March 18, 2026 from 3-4:30pm at Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall: Trans Studies, Now? a symposium for a world on fire.

• March 19 at 12pm via Zoom: Bancroft Roundtable - Consensus and Conflict in the Women’s Studies Movement Archive.
• April 9, 2026 at 5pm: Christen Smith | Black Feminist Constellations. 
• Attend more Gender & Women’s Studies Events throughout the year.