Activism and the Academy: Opening Remarks by Janet Jakobsen
BCRW Director Janet Jakobsen delivers opening remarks at Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action, a two-day conference held in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Jakobsen reflects on the importance of honoring the past by focusing on the present and future, when “feminist ideas and actions could not be more crucial.”
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More from this event:
- EVENT: Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action
- VIDEO: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- VIDEO: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
- VIDEO: Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn
- VIDEO: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
- VIDEO: Expanding Feminism: Collaborations for Social Justice
- VIDEO: Mamphela Ramphele (keynote address)
- VIDEO: Social Justice and Civic Engagement in the Classroom
- VIDEO: Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism
- VIDEO: Campus Activism
- VIDEO: Activist Research: Working in Communities
- VIDEO: Building and Rebuilding Societies in Africa
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Sonia Alvarez
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Living and Working in the Borderlands
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Women’s Literature and Feminist Learning
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Archives and Activism – The Contemporary Turn
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Expanding Feminism – Collaborations for Social Justice
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Mamphela Ramphele