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Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives

October 15, 2011

What are the effects of catastrophe on cities, their inhabitants, and the larger world? How can we address the politics of terror with which…

Public Feelings Salon

Lauren Berlant, Lisa Duggan, José Muñoz, Tavia Nyong'o, and Ann Pellegrini

April 12, 2011

The inaugural event in BCRW's new Salon series, this engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential scholars whose work explores how affect and…

Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant

April 12, 2011

Conversation featuring Lauren Berlant, José Muñoz, Ann Pellegrini and Tavia Nyong'o. Moderated by Janet Jakobsen.

Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant

April 12, 2011

The inaugural event in BCRW's Salon series, this engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential scholars whose work explores how affect and emotion…

Current Cravings, Strange Desires, and Frightening Things: The Effect of the Frontal Lobe and Amygdala on Affect and Actions

Elisabeth A. Murray

November 10, 2010

Dr. Elisabeth Murray's laboratory studies the neural basis of learning, memory, emotion and action. One topic of particular interest is the neural bases of…

The Arts of Healing: The Work of Quilts in Grief

Lisa Collins

November 9, 2010

This visual presentation explores possible parallels between the process of grieving and the practice of quilt-making by focusing on a 1942 quilt from Gee's…

After the Good Life, an Impasse: Notes on the Cinema of Precarity

Lauren Berlant

April 8, 2010

"After the Good Life" works with two films of Laurent Cantet [Ressources humaines/Human Resources (1999) and L'Emploi du Temps/Time Out (2001)] to engage the…

Erotohistoriography

Elizabeth Freeman

February 23, 2010

Elizabeth Freeman is associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies, and her articles…

Postcards from Tora Bora

Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak

October 15, 2008

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…

Sex-Typed Interests: Do Early Hormones Create “Empathizers” and “Systemizers”?

Rebecca Jordan-Young

September 24, 2008

There is currently widespread scientific endorsement of the idea that early hormones channel our fundamental interests in masculine or feminine directions. Even before the…

May 2, 2006

Contributors include Leila Ahmed, Mary Ann Caws, Ann Douglas, Joan Ferrante, Susan Gubar, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Shirley Geok-Iin Lim, Deborah E. McDowell, Nancy…

July 2, 2003

Contributors include Nieves Ayress, Jean Carlomusto, Mary Marshall Clark, Anne Cubilié, Ann Cvetkovich, Judith Halberstam, Roger Hallas, Alyssa Harad, Marianne Hirsch, Sharon Holland, Jonathan…
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