• Read Catherine Sameh’s original proposal for the Transnational Feminisms Initiative

• Meet the Gender Justice & Neoliberal Transformations Transnational Working Group

• Student Seminars: Gender, Knowledge, and Global Connections

• African Women’s Rights and Resilience: A Collaboration with Leymah Gbowee

The Transnational Feminisms Initiative draws upon BCRW’s longstanding practice of joining scholarship and activism to connect the work of Barnard faculty and students with feminist scholars and activists around the world. The project builds on faculty research in sites around the world, develops innovative curricula and methodologies in an age of global learning, and generates new scholar-activist collaborations.

Research & Projects

BCRW has a number of ongoing projects that allow us to deepen collaborations with our partners – academic and activist, international and domestic.

Events

We offer, and co-sponsor, a broad range of programming—including conferences, lectures, performances, workshops, and conversations—at Barnard College and beyond.

Student Seminars

Through our partnerships with Barnard faculty, we are able to draw on vast academic networks and offer Barnard students the opportunity to participate in intensive seminars.

Links & Partnerships

With its grounding in feminist social justice, BCRW is committed to partnering with and supporting the work of academics and activists around the globe.

Featured Projects

Theater and Sex Work: VAMP’s Performance as Resistance

A film collaboration between VAMP (Sangli) and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (New York). This video is edited and produced by Pulkit Datta.

Birthright Crisis

Miriam Neptune highlights the work of activists organizing around discriminatory citizenship laws in the Dominican Republic, documenting cycles of violence against Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices

Building on Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan's foundational text, this project brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists who are producing the field of transnational feminisms.

Student Seminars

A global seminar series to build more extensive intellectual and organizational connections between the Global Symposium host cities, sites of faculty research, and Barnard College.

Recent Event Videos

How Does it Feel to Be Stateless

Labor Migration and the Transnational Demand for Domestic Labor

Intergenerational Organizing

African Men and Feminisms