Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Nov 9, 2023 | 7:30 - 9 p.m.

Caste, Gender, Diaspora

Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao

The transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and to work across demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on shared affinities and political solidarities. The resonances between caste and race have been an especially important site for rethinking […]

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caste, diaspora, gender

Online
Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00PM

The 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.

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feminism, gender, geopolitics, violence

Lynn Chu Classroom, LL002 Milstein Center
Sep 28, 2023 | 6:30PM

Gender Without Identity

Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.

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gender, psychoanalysis, trauma

Jan 21, 2021 | 5:30PM

Crafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion

Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada

Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.

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Catholicism, gender, judaism, religion

May 8, 2020 | 4:00PM

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration

Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.

Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm – 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be provided. Contact bcrw@barnard.edu with any questions. For centuries incarcerated people and others have painted a grim and gruesome picture of conditions inside prisons and jails. There have been countless reports, testimonies, […]

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activism, gender, health, history, prisons, violence

Mar 27, 2020 | 2:00PM

Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium

Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada

#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]

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arts, film, gender, photography, queer, transgender

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Sep 17, 2019 | 6:30PM

A Gendered Brain? Shattering Sexist Science

Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young

Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these misperceptions have persisted into the 21st century, and how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience dispel these fallacies.

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binary, gender, Gina Rippon, neuroscience, non-binary

African Diasporic Countervisualities

Panelists discuss the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region.

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Caribbean, gender, photography, representation, visual culture

Scholar and Feminist Online 15.1
Fall 2018

Women and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives

Laurie Postlewate, Lori J. Walters, and Christine McWebb

The latest issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, entitled "Women and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives," explores how we can broaden our study and understanding of the roles and identities women forged for themselves within social collectives.

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Early Modern Europe, gender, women

Invisible No More: Policing Girls

Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis (Trans Health Activist & Young Women's Initiative). Moderated by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity)

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criminalization, gender, Invisible No More, policing

Invisible No More: Policing Motherhood

Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University), and Dinah Ortiz (Parent Advocate Supervisor, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders). Moderated by Monifa Bandele (Vice-President, MomsRising)

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criminalization, gender, motherhood, policing

Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex

Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project)

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criminalization, gender, Invisible No More, sex