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The 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.
Read MoreBreaking Down Barriers: Women and Their Experiences in the Sciences
Alison Williams, Nkechi Agwu, and Peggy Shepard
Despite the fact that enrollment of women studying in the sciences has risen to comparable numbers as that of white men in higher education, women of color are still grossly underrepresented in academic and other science professions. This panel will provide students the opportunity to hear from women who have not only beaten the odds, […]
Read MoreThe Biopolitics of Caste
Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Barnard, will speak about what she terms the “violence of recognition” through the reading of a recent “caste atrocity” that occurred in 2006, which involved the sexual brutalization and murder of a Dalit family in western India. Her lecture will address the symbology of caste violence […]
Read MoreFear of Flying: A Conference on the Work of Erica Jong
The Barnard Center for Research on Women is pleased to co-sponsor the next event in the Columbia Institute for Research on Women and Gender’s Feminist Classics Series. This spring, the Series explores the legacy of Barnard alum Erica Jong’s groundbreaking first novel Fear of Flying. An award-winning writer who has been integral in the creation […]
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