Holly Hughes Eileen Myles Lisa Kron WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE Eileen Myles is an award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as “one of the savviest and most restless intellects … Read more
This lecture examines rabbinic tales of the destruction of Jerusalem through the lens of scarred and wounded flesh. Rabbinic accounts of Roman conquest are saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, and the brutal corporeal cost of imperial ambition. Bringing disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist materialist theory to bear on rabbinic narrative, this lecture … Read more
The Center for the Education of Women and IRWG invite you to join us for a poetry reading by Susan Eisenberg with a reception immediately following. CEW’s Visiting Social Activist Susan Eisenberg will share selected poems and photographs from her new book Perpetual Care. Eisenberg helps us think differently about the embodied relations of health and affliction, particularly in … Read more
Women entered the union construction industry with a burst in 1978, when President Carter issued regulations opening jobs & apprenticeships to women. Those regulations should have led to women holding roughly 25% of these good “middle-class” skilled trades jobs. But despite women’s demonstrated enthusiasm and ability — and four decades of organizing, sometimes at great personal cost … Read more
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood, examines, analyzes, and critiques the portrayal of Latinos in Hollywood over the course of a century. Released in 2002, the documentary traces the different stereotypes evoked by Hollywood throughout the mid 19th and 20th century. Stay for a Q&A with Latina filmmaker Nancy de los Santos. … Read more
Commencing on the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution,” this conference will set the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the larger context of their global reverberations. Presentations and discussions will focus on the early Soviet experience, revolutionary insurgencies elsewhere in the world (and the reactions they encountered), and the historical … Read more
Commencing on the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution,” this conference will set the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the larger context of their global reverberations. Presentations and discussions will focus on the early Soviet experience, revolutionary insurgencies elsewhere in the world (and the reactions they encountered), and the historical … Read more
Robin D.G. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles) S. A. Smith (Oxford University) Elizabeth A. Wood (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Commencing on the 100th anniversary of the inception of Russia’s “February Revolution,” this conference will set the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the larger context of their global reverberations. Presentations and discussions will … Read more
Harriet Ritvo (Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT) will speak about her current research, which concerns historical notions of wildness and domestication. Professor Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism (Chicago … Read more
Altering the string figures held by Donna Haraway—most notably from her essay “A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies” where she opens with the line: “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule” (59)—I want to … Read more
Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, and performer of the Mvskoke Creek nation. Her work has won many awards including the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, among many others. Harjo has written eight books of poetry, … Read more
Concurrent food, energy, water, and climate crises, and a global rise in obesity amidst widespread hunger and undernutrition, have re-focused public attention on the deficiencies and complexities of the global food system. Yet, a diversity of ‘alternative’ food systems demonstrates that food systems can be nutrition sensitive, socially just, and conserve natural resources. Transforming food … Read more