Using the case of DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) and Nafissatou Diallo, Miriam Ticktin will examine the relationship between different forms of sexual violence, and how some become more visible than others. More specifically, it will explore the role of humanitarianism in rendering certain kinds of sexual violence invisible, and it will address the new feminist movements that attempt to counter this tendency.

The lecture is part of IRWG's Transitions and Ruptures series.

Miriam Ticktin is associate professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She works at the intersections of the anthropology of medicine and science, law, and transnational and postcolonial feminist theory. Professor Ticktin received her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and an MA in English Literature from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Before coming to the New School, Miriam was an Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and also held a postdoctoral position in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University.