Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit will deliver the Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture, followed by a question and answer period with the audience. ASL interpretation will be provided. Free and open to the public In her book “Hope in the Dark,” Rebecca Solnit has written about hope as not optimism, the belief that everything … 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
This one-day mini-conference will convene a group of interdisciplinary scholars who study historical and contemporary patterns of sterilization and are concerned about social and reproductive justice. The goal of the event is to discuss and compare practices and contexts for medical sterilization in the United States, from the 20th century to the present, exploring patterns … Read more
New in 2016 from Director Amy Oden and Back of the Room Productions, Exotic documents migrant labor practices in the adult entertainment industry in Guam. Using the island’s strip clubs and massage parlors as a lens through which to explore U.S. militarization, immigration, and race and discrimination, Exotic helps audiences understand the link between labor rights … Read more
Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project, Harvard University, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning journalist and author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America Matthew Desmond and Alex … Read more
Gender in analytic discourse is either taken as the sole purview of a niche—that of feminist scholars—or, in the late Sharmila Rage’s terms, simply “tacked on” as an afterthought. Through a conversation between artists, activists, and academics, we hope to understand the role of gender for both women and men in shaping, experiencing, negotiating, inhabiting, … Read more
An intense preoccupation with numbers is sweeping the worlds of international and domestic governance, based on the idea that political decisions must be made on the basis of objective quantitative data. The use of statistics in governance was fundamental to the emergence of the modern nation-state. With globalization, the scope of governance through quantification is … Read more
“Momentum – Portraits of Women In Motion” is a collection of musical portraits by jazz composer and pianist Ellen Rowe of women heroes of hers in the areas of music, sports, social justice, environmental advocacy and politics. Performers include Allison Miller, Tia Fuller, Ingrid Jensen, Virginia Mayhew, Marlene Rosenberg, Lisa Parrott, and Melissa Gardiner. There … Read more
Exhibition dates: AUGUST 26, 2017 – JANUARY 7, 2018 Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, Gloss: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the … Read more
David K. Johnson (Ph.D. Northwestern) is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of South Florida. His first book, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, (University of Chicago, 2004) won three awards, including the Herbert Hoover Book Award and the Randy Shilts Award … Read more
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers, responses from colleagues, and larger discussion, the symposium will provide a forum for thinking cross-disciplinarily and across traditional lines of periodization. The symposium will address how different premodern cultures sought to understand the makings of species, … Read more
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers, responses from colleagues, and larger discussion, the symposium will provide a forum for thinking cross-disciplinarily and across traditional lines of periodization. The symposium will address how different premodern cultures sought to understand the makings of species, … Read more