Archive
2008
Gender on Ice
Conference kick-off True North Isaac Julien Film screening and discussion: Thursday, 11/20, 7:00 PM 202 Altschul Hall The conference opens Thursday, November 20 with a presentation by award-winning filmmaker Isaac Julien of his short film True North, based on the story of Matthew Henson, the first African-American to explore the Arctic with Robert Peary in […]
Read More‘To recross the Atlantic’: Diasporic Art History and the Dialogic Imagination
Kobena Mercer
Drawing on fresh analytical approaches to diaspora studies, Kobena Mercer, the British theorist and historian, proposes a model that identifies cross-culturality as one of the basic conditions of modernity. Discussing the nineteenth-century landscapes of Robert Scott Duncanson, this inquiry into ‘race,’ representation and visuality foregrounds unexplored aspects of the hermeneutics of the Black Atlantic. Kobena […]
Read MoreAbolition Democracy and Global Politics
Angela Davis
Since well before the publication of the feminist classic, Women, Race, and Class in 1981, this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 lecturer Angela Y. Davis has been concerned about the interconnections among issues, as well as about connections among peoples around the world. In “Abolition Democracy and Global Politics,” Davis will present a new and […]
Read MoreThe Descent of Men
Nadia Abu El-Haj
How is race configured in the practices of genetic anthropology? What, more specifically, are the continuities and discontinuities between the practices of genetic anthropologists today and those of race scientists of old? Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj will analyze the evidentiary logic of research into male-Jewish origins within the broader context of genetic anthropological research into […]
Read MorePostcards from Tora Bora
Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak
In the summer of 2004, filmmakers Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak set out to make an independent film that explored whether Afghan women’s lives had actually improved as a result of the US military campaign. The documentary that came out of this question, Postcards from Tora Bora, became far more than an exploration of women’s […]
Read MoreWomen for Afghan Women: Two Models for Successful Grassroots Work in Afghanistan
Fahima Vorgetts, Manizha Naderi and Mary Lu Christie '67
Women for Afghan Women (WAW), founded in April 2001, is a grassroots civil society organization with offices in New York City and Kabul, dedicated to securing the rights of Afghan women. WAW works both in New York and internationally to promote the agency of Afghan women through the creation of safe forums where Afghan women […]
Read MoreSex-Typed Interests: Do Early Hormones Create “Empathizers” and “Systemizers”?
Rebecca Jordan-Young
There is currently widespread scientific endorsement of the idea that early hormones channel our fundamental interests in masculine or feminine directions. Even before the research leaves the pages of scientific journals, this idea is directly linked to career choices and chances, education, the division of labor in families, and the “drive” to be a leader […]
Read MoreNational Domestic Workers Alliance Conference
This June, BCRW joins Domestic Workers United in their educational efforts on fair labor standards for domestic workers in New York, including a living wage, basic benefits and health care. The first National Domestic Workers Alliance conference brings organizations from across the country together to discuss how best to protect the 200,000 domestic workers in […]
Read MoreLooking to the Future: A Panel Discussion in Honor of Judith Shapiro
Alison Bernstein, Anna Quindlen and Diana Chapman Walsh
Since the beginning of her time as President of Barnard College Judith Shapiro has made her mark on a number of issues with wide ranging implications: women’s education, to be sure, but also academic integrity and freedom, and women’s leadership. She herself has embodied the best qualities of leadership in her guidance of the College […]
Read MoreRethinking Gender in African Universities
Amina Mama
This lecture is part of the Virginia C. Gildersleeve lecture series Race, Gender, Community & Rights: Celebrating 15 Years of Africana Studies at Barnard. Amina Mama is Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor at Mills College. Before founding the first Gender Studies Program in Africa at the University of Cape Town, Professor Mama taught social studies and […]
Read MoreImpossible Homecomings: Women Ethnographers and the Places They Left Behind
Ruth Behar
In this year’s Rennert Forum on Women in Judaism, Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, will reflect on the recent literature being produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the work of Latin American and Caribbean women, […]
Read MoreAfricana Studies 15th Anniversary Banquet
This event is part of the Virginia C. Gildersleeve lecture series Race, Gender, Community & Rights: Celebrating 15 Years of Africana Studies at Barnard.
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