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Gender: New Works, New Questions event Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi Andre
Naomi André, Abigail Stewart, Gabriela Cruz
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Telling Stories About Male Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Cherry Smiley, Nlaka'pamux and Diné Nations, PhD Candidate, Communication Studies, Concordia University
Grounded in feminist and Indigenous ways of knowing and focusing on film and images, this presentation will examine historical and...
Gender: New Works, New Questions- Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship by Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Amal Hassan Fadlalla; Sandra Gunning; Victor Mendoza
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Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Trevor Hoppe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized...
Bio
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) stimulates and supports research and creative activities by U-M faculty members and graduate students who use the lens of women, gender and sexuality to further their work. Each year, we also sponsor a variety of speakers and events to foster intellectual exploration and social change.
Founded in 1995, IRWG is an interdisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan Office of Research.
