books

Book talk by stef m. shuster, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

Gender: New Works, New Questions book panel on Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance, by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.

Virtual celebration will feature editors Banu Subramaniam and Sushmita Chatterjee, with comments (live & pre-recorded) from contributors at 1:00 PM EASTERN TIME

Gender: New Works, New Questions discussion of Prof. Annette Joseph-Gabriel's recent book on Black women's roles in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century.

Panel discussion of Abigail Dumes's new book on Lyme disease, contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the U.S. 

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Diasporic Dialogues with E. Patrick Johnson (Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies, Northwestern University)

Panel discussion of Dr. William Lopez's recent book about a daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, and its rippling effects on families and communities.

Panel discussion of “Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650,” Edited by Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken. As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change. 

Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives.