Resistance Is Fertile honors the founding moment of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, while speaking to the present. The institute was established because faculty members believed that research on women, gender, and sexuality required an institutional commitment to thrive. That belief was itself a form of resistance—to disciplinary silos, to marginalization, to … Read more
Micah Griggs, Vice President of U-M Central Student Government Simone Lightfoot, Trustee, Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education Rashida Tlaib, former Michigan State Representative Rebekah Warren, Michigan State Senator, 18th District Katherine E. White, U-M Board of Regents Moderator: Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science; Associate Director, … Read more
Jesse Beal (they/them/theirs), Associate Director of the Spectrum Center, U-M; PhD student in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University Andrea Bolivar (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; Faculty Associate of Latina/o Studies Program, U-M Alex C. Lange (they/them/theirs), Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Colorado State University Moderator: Alexus Roane (she/they), IRWG Graduate Fellow for Research, PhD student … Read more
Emek Ergun, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies, UNC Charlotte Seda Saluk, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan Kumru Toktamış, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Pratt Institute Suna Parlak, Independent Domestic Violence Advocate and Educator, Asian Women’s Resource Center Hazal Hürman, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Princeton University … Read more
Please join the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies (GS2) Collective for a lunchtime talk by Professor Raevin Jimenez from the Department of History at U-M. Professor Jimenez’s talk is titled “Gendered Mutualism in Southeast Africa: Personhood and Society in Deep-Time Historical Perspective.” Gendered Mutualism in Southeast Africa: Personhood and Society in Deep-Time Historical Perspective: This talk tells the … Read more
This talk offers a glimpse into the vast intellectual history of Third World feminisms in the decolonizing world in the 1970s and 1980s. I critically engage the possibilities and limits of the feminist epistemological revolution that emerged in the dark shadow of an earlier era of utopian internationalism, globalism, and non-alignment of the 1950s and … Read more
Abstract: What does it mean to be independent and “lead a life of one’s own,” when the state holds considerable power over individuals? Drawing on the deep theoretical tradition that connects large-scale demographic changes and the “pursuit of individualism,” I approach this question by examining individuals’ fertility ideations and behavior in contemporary China. Marshaling a … Read more
Please save the date for Prof. Evren Savcı’s lunchtime book talk “Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam.” Lunch will be provided so please RSVP at this link by the end of day Wednesday, January 17, and let us know if you have any dietary restrictions. Please note that while the event will be held in person, a Zoom link can be … Read more
Currently featured in the exhibit space of Lane Hall is My Gender States, a visual art presentation conceived and brought to life by Professor Rogério M. Pinto (Social Work). The exhibit comprises photographs of assemblage sculptures from The Realm of the Dead, a site-specific installation performance by Pinto, with text from his related one-person play, Marília. These … Read more