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Did You Kiss the Dead Body? Visualizing Absence in the Archive of War
Rajkamal Kahlon
Rajkamal Kahlon, Artist-In-Residence at the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks about her ongoing project Did You Kiss the Dead Body? Kahlon works with U.S. military autopsy reports, death certificates and torture related government documents from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore the bureaucratization of death, as it intersects questions of empathy and the construction of memory. […]
Read MoreSpeak up! Establishing Online Voice through Blogging – for Barnard Students
Julie Zeilinger ’15 and Lulu Mickelson ’14
In conjunction with the launch of the BCRW Blog, this evening workshop will familiarize Barnard students with the medium of blogging–providing tools, rules, and examples to encourage participants to contribute their voices to the Blogosphere. It will cover the general guidelines of blog style and content by deconstructing the details of an effective post, discussing […]
Read MoreDigital Community Formation
Jon Beller, Brittney Cooper, Gail Drakes, Dana Goldstein, Courtney Martin, Renina Jarmon
Academics and writers alike have long worked within established processes for peer-review and editing. But both are now confronted with a rapidly shifting landscape in which online channels provide new opportunities for feedback, networking, and collaborative knowledge production. In this roundtable discussion, panelists will speak on how digital media changes their work by looking at […]
Read MoreA Way Out of the “Dead-End ” of Feminism vs. Islam : The Potential and Promise of Feminist Voices in Islam
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a growing confrontation between political Islam and feminism made links between theology, law, and politics transparent. The Islamist agenda of policing women’s presence and gender relations in public space has led to the emergence of forms of activism that have challenged patriarchal interpretations of the Shari’a […]
Read MoreA Global History of the Paternity Test
Nara Milanich
For millennia, Western legal tradition relied on the assumption “pater semper incertus est” (“the father is always uncertain”). But beginning in the early twentieth century, scientists began a concerted quest for a biological marker of paternity that could unambiguously link a child to his or her progenitor. Prior to the advent of DNA testing, scientists […]
Read MoreGirls Rock! at IRWAG
Martha Redbone, Still Saffire, Ajo, Olivia Harris, and Lady Bits
As part of their 25th anniversary, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) presents Girls Rock! – free outdoor concert featuring: Martha Redbone Still Saffire from the Willie Mae Rock Camp Ajo Olivia Harris Lady Bits For more information and related events, visit IRWAG25.com.
Read MoreA New Queer Agenda
Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow, Amber Hollibaugh, and Richard Kim
Join contributors to the recently launched issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, “A New Queer Agenda,” for an evening of politics, discussion, and celebration. A collaboration between BCRW and Queers for Economic Justice, “A New Queer Agenda” shows how activists, academics, and organizers can work together to build larger, more effective social justice movements […]
Read More40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk? Premiere
Lee Anne Bell
Director Markie Hancock’s film tells the story of the first African Americans to integrate the white high school in Batesville, Mississippi in 1967-69. In 2005, black alumni received an invitation to their class reunion—for the first time in 40 years. Featuring frank discussions between black and white alumni, the film provides a moving story of […]
Read MoreThe Invisible War
Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton, Helen Benedict, and Catherine Sameh
Registration is required. Please click here to reserve a ticket. Today a female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Invisible War explores this epidemic of rape in the U.S. military, looking at the impact not just on survivors of sexual […]
Read MoreViolence Against Disabled Women in Nepal
Neeti Khanal
Neeti Khanal, Lecturer at Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Tribhuvan University, Nepal and recipient of Australian Leadership Awards Scholarship, will give a presentation focused on her recent work, entitled, “Violence Against Disabled Women in Nepal” and interviewing disabled women survivors of violence. Her past work includes an examination of Maoist women’s experience in armed conflict […]
Read MoreFeminisms and Feminists Today: A Conversation Across the Decades
Kate Drabinski ’97, Katherine Franke ’81, Shilpa Guha ’12, Mila M. Jasey '72, and Courtney E. Martin ’02
The stock tale of American feminism is one produced through the narrative of waves: the first wave rises with the suffrage movement, the second wave with women’s consciousness-raising in the 1960s, and the third wave with the activism of riot grrrls, queers and young women of color. This narrative assumes vast periods of feminist abeyance, […]
Read MoreHands-On Video Intensive
COURSE OF STUDY WORKSHOP LEADERS The Barnard Center for Research on Women presents a one-week, fast-paced, hands-on production workshop for students interested in video storytelling and social activism. Students will work collaboratively to produce a short video documentary that will be developed in conjunction with a New York City based not-for-profit organization. Participants will learn […]
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