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From the Front Line: Sustainability, Land Rights, Women’s Rights and Climate Change in Papua New Guinea
Rachel Sapery James
Rachel Sapery James is a marine scientist who is currently working as the Social and Environmental Management Systems Officer for the Bank of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea. She will be in New York to give two presentations at the United Nations on behalf of the PNG National Council of Women. At Columbia […]
Read MoreVulnerability: The Human and the Humanities
GENERAL INFO PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS CALL FOR RESPONSES VIDEOS AND PODCASTS General Information This spring’s Scholar and Feminist Conference, “Vulnerability: The Human and the Humanities,” will explore the concept of vulnerability as a fundamental and universal characteristic of the human condition. We are vulnerable on many different levels—from our own embodiment; to our place within a […]
Read MoreBacktalk/Crosstalk: The Scholar-Activist in African Gender Studies
Gayatri Spivak, Jane Bennett, Amina Mama, and Yvette Christiansë
Backtalk/Crosstalk is a new series of dialogues initiated by the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College to set members of the Africana faculty in conversation with scholars, artists and activists. Backtalk/Crosstalk keeps in mind the gains of institutional recognition for Diaspora Studies, but asks what room remains for the impertinent, insolent and disruptive work that […]
Read MoreWhat to Eat: Science vs. Politics
Marion Nestle
Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice about what to eat affects the ability of food companies to sell products. The result is cacophony in the marketplace and unnecessary confusion about dietary matters. Will better science solve this […]
Read MoreReimagining Equality
Anita Hill
Registration for this event is overbooked, and no additional tickets will be released. If you have already registered for the event, you must arrive before 6:25 to claim your seat. Doors open at 6:00 PM. At 6:25, any unclaimed seats will be released! If you have not registered, or are on our waitlist, we cannot […]
Read MoreA Question of Methodology: Feminist Studies of Gender and the State in Contemporary Iran
Shirin Saeidi and Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi
Most feminist studies of post-1979 Iran focus on the legal setbacks that women encountered and their collective strategies for regaining the formal grounds they lost with the establishment of an Islamic Republic in Iran. Iranian women’s studies should not, however, only examine social movements and elite political action in its effort to decipher the post-revolutionary […]
Read MoreVoices of a Women’s Health Movement
Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01
Science journalist Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) spent the last forty years of her life on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Throughout her career, she was also a tireless supporter of other women’s voices. The recently published anthology Voices of a Women’s Health Movement, co-edited by Seaman and her long-time collaborator, Laura Eldridge, brings […]
Read MoreSeeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention
Séverine Autesserre
Why do international interventions so often fail to secure a sustainable peace? Why do others succeed? To answer these questions, we need to analyze how various cultures influence non-military peacebuilders on the ground, how the various actors and functions of peace interventions interact, and how shared understandings can promote peace intervention success. Based on qualitative […]
Read MoreWhat’s on Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food
Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze, and Paige West
How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment and economy. In recent years, scientists and activists have raised concerns about the sustainability and security of our food systems here in the US and around the world, but food has […]
Read MoreStates of Exception: Children’s Human Rights and the Humanities
Wendy S. Hesford
This year’s McIntyre lecturer, Wendy S. Hesford, integrates critical legal studies and feminist rhetorical criticism to examine the figure of the child as a limit condition to the liberal subject of human rights law. Through her analysis of contemporary representations of children living in varied states of political exception and social exclusion—stateless children, children born […]
Read MoreMesoamerican Biodiversity, Green Imperialism, and Indigenous Women’s Leadership in Defense of Territory
The overlap between bio-diverse and indigenous geographical areas of the world has led to a new wave of territorial dispossession. This conference will explore new forms of indigenous feminism and feminist agency being forged in the current round of struggles for the protection of territory and autonomy in Mexico and other parts of the world. […]
Read MoreInjured Cities, Urban Afterlives
What are the effects of catastrophe on cities, their inhabitants, and the larger world? How can we address the politics of terror with which states react to their vulnerability? This conference, convened ten years after September 11, 2001, aims to explore the effects of catastrophe and to imagine more life-affirming modes of redress and reinvention. […]
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