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On Feminism and Palestine
Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University), Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University), Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College), Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College), moderated by Sarah Haley (Columbia University)
A Faculty Roundtable Discussion Presenters Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University, Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender) Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University, African American and African Diaspora Studies) Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender) Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College, History and BCRW) Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College, […]
Read MoreThe Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law
Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria
Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.
Read MoreVijay Prashad: What is the Meaning of the Left?
Vijay Prashad delivers the lecture, “What is the Meaning of the Left?” a keynote at the conference Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures held on September 22, 2018 at The People’s Forum in NYC. For more information about the conference, visit the event page.
Read MoreClare Hemmings: Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia
In the annual Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History, Clare Hemmings delivers a lecture titled “Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia: Feminism and Ambivalence.” Emma Goldman (anarchist activist and thinker) was a life-long believer in anarchist revolution and the importance of prefigurative engagement with utopian ways of living that such revolution would […]
Read MoreEmma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia: Feminism and Ambivalence
Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings will explore 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman conflicting views on gender, sexuality, race, and the means to bring about a political revolution. Hemmings shows that these are not contradictions but offerings for means of thinking through current dilemmas and power relations, and living through uncertainties.
Read MoreNina Ansary: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
Nina Ansary in conversation with Richard Bulliet and Debora Spar.
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Nina Ansary '89
ABOUT THE EVENT: BCRW and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University are proud to host author and Barnard/Columbia University alum Nina Ansary in a conversation with Richard Bulliet, Columbia Professor of History and Middle East Studies, on Ansary’s widely anticipated book Jewels of Allah. Based on her doctoral thesis on the women’s movement in […]
Read MoreHacking the Subject: Black Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of Critique
Denise Ferreira da Silva
ABOUT THE EVENT: BCRW’s newest working group, Practicing Refusal: Thinking Beyond Resistance, kicks off with a public lecture by distinguished ethicist and feminist theorist, Denise Ferreira da Silva. Her talk engages what she sees as the fundamental challenge posed by black feminism: the questioning of a feminist critical grammar that re-produces any ‘proper’ apprehension of […]
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