Natalia Pushkareva will provide a broad overview of the history of the women’s movement and feminism in Russia from the epoch of the Catherine the Great (last half of the 18th century) to the beginning of the 21st century. The first steps of this movement in Russia were mostly confined to the aristocracy and linked … Read more
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Michigan Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan Supriya M. Nair, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth … Read more
Curators Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz will moderate a discussion among several of the featured artists. There will be time at the end for Q&A. Join us on Friday, September 16th from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Weiser Hall 1010 or on Zoom for the hybrid Artists’ Roundtable discussing the Lane Hall Gallery’s fall exhibit … 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