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Hurston@125: Engaging with the Work and Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston

Deborah Thomas, Tami Navarro & more

July 12, 2016

ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE REGISTER CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES   ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE Zora Neale Hurston, a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia…

A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth Stalked by Man

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

July 20, 2015

ABOUT THE EVENT To take seriously the concept of the Anthropocene—the idea that we have entered a new epoch defined by humans’ impact on…

What’s on Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze, and Paige West

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

Panel discussion featuring Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze and Paige West. Moderated by Elizabeth Castelli.

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

Mesoamerican Biodiversity, Green Imperialism, and Indigenous Women’s Leadership in Defense of Territory

October 19, 2011

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…

The Descent of Men

Nadia Abu El-Haj

October 29, 2008

How is race configured in the practices of genetic anthropology? What, more specifically, are the continuities and discontinuities between the practices of genetic anthropologists…

Ruth Behar: Impossible Homecomings

April 10, 2008

Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, reflects on the recent literature being produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers,…

Impossible Homecomings: Women Ethnographers and the Places They Left Behind

Ruth Behar

April 10, 2008

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…

Shifting the Terrain for Diaspora Studies: Democracy, the Rule of Law, and the ‘New’ Souls of Black Folk

Kamari M. Clarke

February 7, 2008

This lecture is part of the Virginia C. Gildersleeve lecture series Race, Gender, Community & Rights: Celebrating 15 Years of Africana Studies at Barnard.…

February 2, 2005

Contributors include Esinam Bediako, Valerie Boyd, Peter A. Campbell, Elvita Dominique, Ann duCille, Danielle Evans, Sheen Gordon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, David J. Johns, Carla…

February 2, 2003

Contributors include Mary Catherine Bateson, Elaine Charnov, Faye Ginsburg, Bridget Hayden, Nancy Lutkehaus, Michaela di Leonardo, Emily Martin, Marcyliena Morgan, Esther Newton, Rayna Rapp,…
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