Fall 2015 Events At IRWG
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Carnivale, Tourism, and the Black BodyDecember 11, 2015 - 6:30pm |
Featuring Lola Von Miramar and performance of a new piece developed during the symposium “Carnivale”. |
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Cuba and Martinque/Negritude and Revolutions December 10, 2015 - 6:30pm |
Featuring Silvia Pedraza “Sugar: Before and After the Revolution in Cuba”, Mbala Nkanga “Performative Reading of Aime Cesaire Writing”, and performance of a new piece developed during the symposium “Revolutions”. |
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The Feminization of Transgender Women in Prisons for Men: How An Alpha Male Total Institution Shapes GenderDecember 10, 2015 - 3:00pm |
Valerie Jenness (Social Ecology, Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, University of California-Irvine) speaks about her research on transgender prisoners. |
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Caribbean Identities and LanguagesDecember 9, 2015 - 6:30pm |
Featuring “Why Speak Your Language” Multi-Lingual Poetry Jam, and performance by Awilda Rodriguez Lora "La Mujer Maravilla: INDIA$ deluxe edition." |
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Rum, Alcoholism, and MachismoDecember 9, 2015 - 4:00pm |
Panel Discussion - Caribbean Identities and Languages / Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is Symposium |
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Negativity Rules (On the Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory)December 9, 2015 - 4:00pm |
LGQRI lecture by Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University. |
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Plantations and Indentured ServitudeDecember 8, 2015 - 6:30pm |
Featuring a film screening of Sugar Cane Alley led by Mbala Nkanga and a performance by Nadine George of “Annie Palmer” |
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Conjuring the Caribbean - How Sweet It IsDecember 7, 2015 - 4:00pm |
Symposium # Performance # Installation December 7 to December 11, 2015 |
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Sugar, Diabetes, and People of ColorDecember 7, 2015 - 4:00pm |
Panel Discussion + Lecture / Conjuring the Caribbean: How Sweet It Is Symposium |
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Feminism in Russia December 2, 2015 - 12:00pm |
Natalia Pushkareva, professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, will provide a broad overview of the history of the women’s movement and feminism in Russia |
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Written in SandDecember 1, 2015 - 5:00pm |
Penny Stamps Speaker Series lecture by New York-based performance artist Karen Finley. |
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Seeing, Sensing, Knowing: Sex Workers and the Production of Queer FeelingNovember 20, 2015 - 2:00pm |
Lecture by Juana María Rodriguez, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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The Political Economy of Homonationalism / IslamophobiaNovember 17, 2015 - 4:00pm |
Lecture by Peter Drucker, author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism (2015). |
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Child Abuse Evidence: New Perspectives from Law, Medicine, Psychology and StatisticsNovember 6, 2015 - 8:30am |
Daylong conference examining diverse research perspectives on clinical indications of child abuse. |
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Queering Reproductive Justice: Opportunities and Challenges in MichiganNovember 5, 2015 - 6:00pm |
A panel discussion on reproductive justice issues in the LGBTQ community. |
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"Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship"November 5, 2015 - 5:00pm |
A book talk and signing with U-M graduate, Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. In her book, Shapeshifters, Dr. Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. |
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Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural ExchangeNovember 2, 2015 - 3:00pm |
Gender: New Works, New Questions draws attention to new works that engage gender and sexuality, and are produced by U-M faculty members. |
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2015 Community of Scholars SymposiumOctober 30, 2015 - 9:00am |
Summer 2015 Community of Scholars fellows present their research. |
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Signe Baumane: "Sex, Madness and Dentists" October 29, 2015 - 5:00pm |
Penny Stamps lecture by Latvian animator and filmmaker Signe Baumane. |
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Vivian R. Shaw Lecture by Piper Kerman: "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison"October 13, 2015 - 5:00pm |
Based on the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on money laundering charges, Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black, explores the experie |
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Incarcerated Women: A Conversation about RealitiesOctober 12, 2015 - 3:30pm |
U-M scholars whose work centers on incarcerated women, will speak to current issues, major gaps in knowledge, common problems and the societal impact of women in prisons. |
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Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on FatOctober 9, 2015 - 12:00pm |
In Fat-Talk Nation, Susan Greenhalgh tells the story of today’s fight against excess pounds by giving young people, the campaign’s main target, an opportunity to speak about experiences that have long lain hidden in silence and shame. |
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Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom: "Fragility of Our Freedoms"October 8, 2015 - 4:00pm |
The 2015 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Symposium on Academic and Intellectual Freedom is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Chapter and Michigan Conference, University of Michigan: Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice-President for Government Relations, Law School, Medical School, Women's Studies, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and an Anonymous Donor. This lecture is free and open to the public. |
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Same-Sex Materials in Sex Museums: Cosmopolitanism and CommodificationOctober 6, 2015 - 3:00pm |
Drawing on fieldwork at twenty-two museums in Asia, Europe, and North America, Professor Katherine Sender considers the relationship among sexuality, consumer culture, and global flows of cultural and economic capital. |
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"ilANDING: approaches to interdisciplinary practice"October 2, 2015 - 2:30pm |
This talk is part of Monson and Maltby's QUEER ECOLOGIES: dance as interdisciplinary research method residency, September 27 - October 10. |
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Zanele Muholi: Bhatini? October 1, 2015 - 5:00pm |
A photographer and self-proclaimed visual activist, Zanele Muholi explores black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities and politics in contemporary South Africa. |
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Right & Left Contemporary Dance PerformanceSeptember 26, 2015 - 7:00pm |
Dance performance by Chinese choreographer Gu Jiani. |
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The Institutional Life of Intersectionality, or Notes on Feminist FatigueSeptember 24, 2015 - 4:00pm |
How and why did intersectionality come to institutional power in the early 2000's, and what institutional needs - in women's studies, and in the university more broadly - did intersectionality's emergence serve? |
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Moms and Newborns: Public Duties and Personal Concerns in Immunizations and Newborn ScreeningSeptember 21, 2015 - 3:00pm |
In this presentation across disciplines, sociologist of medicine and gender Jennifer Reich (Ph.D.) and pediatric researcher Beth Tarini (M.D.) will talk about vaccination policy and newborn screening for genetic conditions as moments of negotiation between mothering, government, and medicine. |
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Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against WomenSeptember 17, 2015 - 3:00pm |
Michael Messner speaks about his new book, Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women. |
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Carceral Visions: The Prison as Image/Object/Limit September 11, 2015 - 1:00pm |
This symposium will feature remarks by Prison Obscura curator Pete Brook, and a roundtable discussion with U-M faculty members. |