Event Types
Location
Teaching Contemporary Media
Kelly Askew | Colin Gunckel | Tung-Hui Hu | Valentina Montero-Roman | Melanie Yergeau | Anna Watkins-Fisher (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our first panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Jennifer Hirsch (Mailman School of Public Health; Columbia Population Research Center; Columbia University) and Shamus Khan (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)
with respondents:...
Teaching Contemporary Narratives of Migration
Sigrid Anderson | Hadji Bakara | Kristin Dickinson | Amal Hassan Fadlalla | Aliyah Khan | Supriya Nair | Joshua Miller (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our second panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
FellowSpeak: "Eco Soma: Speculative Performance Experiments"
Petra Kuppers, Hunting Family Faculty Fellow, professor, English language and literature, women’s studies, art and design, and theater and drama
In her talk, Petra Kuppers will present ecopoetic disability culture work that engages contact zones between human and non-human others. She...
"Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men"
Héctor Carrillo, Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University
Professor Carrillo is the author of two books: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press,...
Teaching 21st-Century Literature
Sumita Chakraborty | Walter Cohen | Peter Ho Davies | Laura Finch | Kyle Frisina | Ben Mangrum (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our final panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Of Victims and Villains: The Targeting of Muslim Women | Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Rana Elmir (Deputy Director, ACLU of Michigan)
Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine...
The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field
Deirdre Cooper Owens (Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine & Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program...
FellowSpeak: "Syrian Women's Labor and the Early Arab American Peddling Economy"
Charlotte Albrecht, Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow, assistant professor, American culture and women’s studies
The little-known Syrian American peddling economy (1870-1955) is an unexpected site for parsing how American perceptions of Arabs have long...
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer and Indigenous Studies Approaches to South African History and Beyond
T.J. Tallie, University of San Diego
How can critical indigenous and queer theoretical approaches transform the way we think about colonial history in South Africa (and beyond)?...
