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Gender, Labor, Healing: Irish Immigrant Experiences in 19th Century NYC
Meredith Linn
Meredith Linn, assistant professor of urban studies, shares her research into the experiences of illness, injury, and healing among 19th-century Irish immigrants in New York City. In particular, Linn explores the different kinds of injuries (and sometimes permanent scars and disabilities) that male and female Irish immigrants suffered in New York as a result of […]
Read MoreFor the Public Good Conference
Ana Amuchástegui, Lee Anne Bell, Elizabeth Bernstein, Sealing Cheng, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gail Cooper, Nico Fonseca, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, Mario Pecheny, and more
DESCRIPTION PROGRAM VIDEOS Description Register online. Special pre-conference panel on Thursday, March 27: Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City. Education. Healthcare. Policing. The environment. The primary facets of public life are often segmented into separate issues. While powerful social movements have developed around each of these topics, many structural forces cut across such […]
Read MoreGender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City: A Special Pre-Conference Panel
Kate D'Adamo, Reina Gossett, Amber Hollibaugh, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sydnie Mosley, and Penelope Saunders
How do contemporary social conditions affect activism on behalf of gender and sexual justice in New York City? Have economic shifts since the financial crisis of 2008 changed possibilities for activist undertakings? How can we support efforts for social justice under these new conditions? What kind of new work is being undertaken? In Fall 2013, […]
Read MoreAfrican Women’s Rights and Resilience
Leymah Gbowee and others
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM Description In celebration of International Women’s Day, Barnard College hosts a daylong symposium with Barnard Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice Leymah Gbowee. Leading academics and activists discuss women’s rights movements in Africa and explore the successes achieved, and challenges still facing, women and men involved in African women’s social justice movements. In […]
Read MoreWomen and Religion
Joan Wallach Scott
By looking at historical material from 19th century France, Joan Scott shows that secularization was not synonymous with women’s emancipation, but with the articulation of new justifications for their exclusion from male public worlds. This is an important point to make these days because the word secularism is bandied about loosely in public debate, with […]
Read MoreLocations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices
REGISTER DESCRIPTION SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS PROGRAM VIDEOS & MORE Tweets about “#sflocations” Description REGISTER for Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices. Keynote address by Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. Speakers include Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Attiya Ahmad, Toby Beauchamp, Abigail Boggs, Tina Campt, Chris Cynn, Nadia Fadil, Abosede George, Harjant Gill, Magdalena Grabowska, Laura Hale, Maja Horn, […]
Read MoreStrengthening Empirical Reasoning Across the Curriculum
Heather Van Volkinburg
Discussion about the need for stronger STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, especially for women and girls, abounds in the media, classrooms, and centers of policy across America. In a society focused on big data, how can women’s colleges ensure that students have the skills they will need in an evolving landscape that increasingly […]
Read MoreRemembering José Esteban Muñoz
Please join Tisch School of the Arts and the NYU Department of Performance Studies in remembering the life and work of José Esteban Muñoz. Memorial begins at 11 am. Reception to follow from 1 pm – 2 pm in Kimmel Center Rooms 405 and 406. Please RSVP on the Facebook event page. Co-sponsored by the […]
Read MoreNo One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition
Tourmaline and Dean Spade '97
REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS QUESTIONS RESOURCES Event Informaton In a series of four short online videos produced by BCRW, activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade discuss prison abolition as a political framework, exploring why this is a top issue for those committed to supporting trans and gender-nonconforming people. These videos look at how to build societies […]
Read MoreAt the Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion
As part of a broader research project, “Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Study of Religion and Gender: Postcolonial, Post-Secular and Queer Perspectives,” hosted by Utrecht University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Barnard Department of Religion present a discussion on the intersections of queer and religious studies. How has queer studies in religion […]
Read MoreMathematics and Beauty
Mina Teicher
Does beauty have a mathematical foundation? If so, can machines learn to identify it? Mina Teicher, professor of mathematics and neural computation at Bar-Ilan University, traces the mathematics behind beauty from the Golden Age in Spain to the 21st century, from the essence of visual experience to machine “vision,” in order to explore what beauty […]
Read MoreSexual Difference in a Time of Terror
Ellen Mortensen
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and wounded many others in a bombing and mass shooting in Norway motivated by his extreme right-wing ideology. In his manifesto, “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” Breivik identified cultural Marxism, Islam, and feminism as the main causes of Europe’s decay. Arguing for the superiority […]
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