Upper School Intersession 2025

What is gender affirming care? What are hormones and how do they work? How do doctors customize medical care for transgender and nonbinary patients to achieve their individual gender transition goals and optimize safe health outcomes?

This session will introduce hormonal pathways of the endocrine system, hormone medications commonly prescribed for gender affirming care and their effects on the human body. We will discuss how gender affirming hormone therapy induces physical and emotional changes that help transgender and gender diverse people feel more aligned with their identities. We will review current guidelines and best practices regarding informed consent, medical monitoring, and the importance of multidisciplinary health care.

No prerequisite skills or knowledge are required. We will review definitions and terminology at the beginning of the session to ensure we are using consistent, inclusive and respectful language.

Do you know your kylixes from your kraters? Have any idea what the boule is? Want to know where we get the word ceramic? In this session, Nueva alum Callisto and her dad, an Oxford-trained archaeologist, will take you on a whirlwind tour of the ancient Athenian agora, or town square: we'll cover all the different civic and market buildings, and through it learn about what day-to-day life was like for the people of the largest city-state in the ancient Greek world. This talk was previously presented at the Nueva Humanities Fair, where it enjoyed the seal of approval from none other than legendary Nueva humanities teacher, Cynthia Kosut! Come on down and discover just how exciting archaeology can be!