{"id":8736,"date":"2025-09-25T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=8736"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:54:38","slug":"the-scholar-and-feminist-fifty-years-of-meeting-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-scholar-and-feminist-fifty-years-of-meeting-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scholar and Feminist: Fifty Years of Meeting the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Featuring:<\/strong> Lila Abu-Lughod, Zahra Ali, Sa\u2019ed Atshan, Elizabeth Bernstein, Abigail Boggs, Judith Butler, Leslie Calman, Tina Campt, Elizabeth Castelli, Edwidge Danticat, Lisa Duggan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, Janet Jakobsen, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Temma Kaplan, Margot Kotler, Greta LaFleur, Sophie Lewis, Nick Mitchell, Manijeh Moradian, Amber Musser, Premilla Nadasen, Anupama Rao, Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, Catherine Sameh, Evren Savci, C. Riley Snorton, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Catharine R. Stimpson, Neferti Tadiar, Maya Wind, and Jacqueline Woodson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday, February 27, 2026, 10am \u2013 7pm<br>&amp; Saturday, February 28, 2026, 10am \u2013 6:30pm<\/strong><br><em>See detailed program information below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For half of a century, The Scholar and Feminist Conference has provided a mutually galvanizing space for scholars, activists, and artists to confront the most pressing issues at any given moment. Defining scholarship as for action from the very beginning, the conference has with unflagging regularity \u201cmet the moment\u201d with intersectional feminist knowledge to inspire and build a robust response to contemporary crises. In many ways, the conference has grown up alongside academic feminism itself, yet, rather than uncritically mirror this history, it has consistently pushed back against feminism\u2019s institutionalization. The conference highlights provocations, controversies, foundational gaps, and struggles that both cement its field-forming position and trouble a feminist progress narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference\u2019s history of meeting the moment with a vigorous feminist response provides a toolkit for understanding the present. This year, it asks: what are feminist responses to the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism, white Christian nationalism, ethnic cleansing and colonial violence, attacks on higher education and academic freedom, and assaults on queer and trans rights? Which practices of solidarity and feminist arts of transformation can mobilize resistance, provide sustenance, and produce social change? What can we learn from moments in our past, and how do they serve as a springboard for action today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miriamkleinstahl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miriam Klein Stahl<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For half of a century, The Scholar and Feminist Conference has provided a mutually activating space for scholars, activists, and artists to confront the most pressing issues at any given moment. Defining scholarship as for activism from the very beginning, the conference has with unflagging regularity \u201cmet the moment\u201d with intersectional feminist knowledge and action to inspire and build a robust response to contemporary crises. In many ways, the conference has grown up alongside academic feminism itself, yet, rather than uncritically mirror this history, it has consistently pushed back against feminism\u2019s institutionalization. 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