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Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism

Gina Rippon and Rebecca Jordan-Young

April 30, 2026

For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as “masculine.” Drawing on her…

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…

An Energy Plan for the 21st Century

Sally Benson

July 20, 2015

ABOUT THE EVENT Global energy systems have undergone numerous transitions over human history—from wood to coal, from animals to automobiles, from candles to electric lighting.…

Gender: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities

Frances Champagne, Evelynn Hammonds, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Gloria Origgi, Rosalind Rosenberg, Banu Subramaniam

April 9, 2015

Ideas about gender have changed in complex ways in the 125 years since Barnard was founded. How have the natural sciences and humanities each…

Ebonie Smith: Learning STEM through Music Production and the Arts

February 28, 2015

Closing remarks at The Scholar & Feminist Conference XL - Action on Education.

Natural Product Synthesis : A Platform for Discovery in Chemistry and Biology

Sarah E. Reisman

August 28, 2014

The chemical synthesis of natural products provides an exciting platform from which to conduct fundamental research in chemistry and biology. Dr. Reisman’s laboratory has…

Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media

December 19, 2013

REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION Event Informaton Click here to register. This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community…

Strengthening Empirical Reasoning Across the Curriculum

Heather Van Volkinburg

December 18, 2013

Discussion about the need
 for stronger STEM (science, technology, engineering, 
and mathematics) education, especially for women and
 girls, abounds in the media, classrooms, and…

October 14, 2013

Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and race and postcolonial…

Mathematics and Beauty

Mina Teicher

August 13, 2013

Does beauty have a mathematical foundation? If so, can machines learn to identify it? Mina Teicher, professor of mathematics and neural computation at Bar-Ilan…

Utopia Morning Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Melanie Cervantes, Elandria Williams, Shaowen Bardzell, and Youngsuk Altieri.

Utopian Design? Feminism and Critical Design

March 2, 2013

Presentations by Shaowen Bardzell and Youngsuk Altieri.

Janice Haaken: Moving Images – Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers

October 23, 2012

Full-length video of Janice Haaken's lecture, "Moving Images: Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers."

Janice Haaken

October 23, 2012

Since visual images invoke the spectator's experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic images may…

Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

October 15, 2012

Full-length video of Dorothy Roberts' lecture, "Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen."

Dorothy Roberts

October 15, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

Moving Images: Psychoanalytically-Informed Methods in Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers

Janice Haaken

August 8, 2012

Many contemporary feminist projects attempt to subvert the male gaze by “bearing witness” to female trauma through visual representation. Yet these projects have tended…

Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Dorothy Roberts

June 20, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

Doubting Sex: How Bodies Changed and Selves Appeared in Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories

Geertje Mak

May 2, 2012

Anna Barbara Meier and Emma R. both grew up as females in Germany, and were in their adult lives both medically declared to be…

“Predictable Failures” in the Trayvon Martin Story: Excerpts from The Private Bodies, Public Texts Salon

March 21, 2012

Excerpts from Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway, featuring Alondra Nelson, Karla FC Holloway, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Tina…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

The second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series features Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson.…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson

March 21, 2012

For the second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series, we have assembled a group of scholars whose expertise lies at the cross-section of…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

Panel discussion featuring Karla FC Holloway, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson. Moderated by Tina Campt.

From the Front Line: Sustainability, Land Rights, Women’s Rights and Climate Change in Papua New Guinea

Rachel Sapery James

March 6, 2012

Rachel Sapery James is a marine scientist who is currently working as the Social and Environmental Management Systems Officer for the Bank of the…

Marion Nestle: What to Eat – Science vs. Politics

March 1, 2012

Full-length video of Marion Nestle's lecture "What to Eat: Science vs. Politics."

What to Eat: Science vs. Politics

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

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…
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