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The City and the University: A Symposium
Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton
REGISTER The University in/and Crisis Working Group invites you to attend a symposium featuring research and activism by students at Barnard College, Teachers College, and Columbia University. Students will present work that adopts methods drawn from the field of “critical university studies,” and that draws on archives and repositories held on campus and across the […]
Read MoreWho Gets to Travel? Race and the Politics of Student Travel in an Era of Global Crisis
Neriko Musha Doerr, Devin Walker, Abosede George, and Tamara J. Walker
REGISTER Coming on the heels of the MMUF Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Christopher Loperena, join Neriko Doerr and Devin Walker for a lunchtime conversation on the politics, challenges, and best practices associated with crafting ethical student travel experiences for the 21st century. This event is hosted by BCRW’s Africana Routes, Africana Migrations faculty working group […]
Read MoreThe Scholar and Feminist: Fifty Years of Meeting the Moment
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 “met the moment” 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’s institutionalization. The conference highlights provocations, controversies, foundational gaps, and struggles that both cement its field-forming position and trouble a feminist progress narrative.
Read MoreNavigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse
This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are constituted and contested. Emerging out of a 2009 meeting at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting convened by Munshi and Willse and drawing on the theoretical and historical models articulated by INCITE! Women, Gender Non-conforming, and Trans People of Color Against Violence, the collection asks: What are the possibilities for transformative politics given the capacity of neoliberal capital to incorporate, absorb and/or neutralize demands for social justice?
Read MorePolicing the Crises: Thinking It Forward – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference
Panel featuring Ben Carrington, Karla FC Holloway, Barnor Hesse, and chair Tina Campt from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."
Read MoreReconstructing the Popular Round Table at Stuart Hall Conference
Discussion featuring featuring Jane Gaines, Rob King, Bruce Robbins, and chair E. Ann Kaplan from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."
Read MoreThe Worlds of Ntozake Shange
Kim F. Hall, Monica L. Miller, and Yvette Christiansë
“The Worlds of Ntozake Shange” highlights Shange’s centrality to black feminism and the continuing impact of her work both within and outside the academy. In addition to working as a poet, novelist, and choreographer, Shange created the choreopoem, a form that links the physicality of dancing and music to the written word. The contributors in this issue examine Shange’s continuing impact on literature, theatre, popular culture, feminist, afrodiasporic and queer movements, with many pointing to her linguistic innovations (for instance, her fluid movement across languages, prominent use of both slashes and lowercase letters) as tools that have proven vital to feminist practice. The “Worlds of Ntozake Shange” draws necessary attention to the fact that this artist has long been a creative force, providing new language and possibilities for both intellectual and artistic productions.
Read MoreGender: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities
Frances Champagne, Evelynn Hammonds, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Gloria Origgi, Rosalind Rosenberg, Banu Subramaniam
Ideas about gender have changed in complex ways in the 125 years since Barnard was founded. How have the natural sciences and humanities each contributed to these transformations? How have scientific and humanistic ways of thinking interacted to produce innovative, critical, and potentially transformative knowledge about the nature and meaning of human difference? What does […]
Read MoreEbonie Smith: Learning STEM through Music Production and the Arts
Closing remarks at The Scholar & Feminist Conference XL - Action on Education.
Read MoreFeminism, Gender Justice, and Trans-Inclusion
Supporting trans-inclusive admissions at Barnard.
Read MoreWhy Sex? Why Gender?: Activist Research for Social Justice
A Symposium in Honor of Janet Jakobsen
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM Description Click here to register. At BCRW’s “Activism and the Academy” conference in 2011, Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, pointed out that if those who are dedicated to human rights and social justice continue to organize their efforts in silos “we will never have the power… to […]
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