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Caribbean Feminisms on the Page III: In Paris
Maryse Condé and Fabienne Kanor
ABOUT THE EVENT Taking place during Barnard’s 2016 Global Symposium in Paris, this conversation will feature esteemed writer and former Columbia University faculty member Maryse Condé and renowned contemporary Franco-Martinican novelist and filmmaker Fabienne Kanor. Speaking on a rich tradition of artists and writers moving between the French-speaking Caribbean and France, these writers will discuss […]
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Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson
ABOUT THE EVENT This literary series pairs established writers with emerging novelists to discuss their work, their engagements with the Caribbean and its diaspora, and their experiences as women writing in and about the region. In this event, distinguished writer Gloria Joseph and debut novelist Naomi Jackson are in conversation, discussing their recent publications. Joseph […]
Read MoreScholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities
Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, […]
Read MoreNina Ansary: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
Nina Ansary in conversation with Richard Bulliet and Debora Spar.
Read MoreEdwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown: Caribbean Feminisms on the Page
Readings and conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown. Moderated by Kaiama L. Glover.
Read MoreEasy Money and Respectable Girls: Neoliberalism and Expectation in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro
ABOUT THE EVENT: In St. Croix, a disproportionate number of young women from middle and upper-middle class backgrounds are hired to work within the Economic Development Commission (EDC), an initiative that grants tax incentives to businesses based in the US Virgin Islands. In this lecture, BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro examines questions of gender, racial […]
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Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown
ABOUT THE EVENT Barnard alumna Edwidge Danticat and novelist Victoria Brown come together in the second event in the series, Caribbean Feminisms on the Page. This series places distinguished writers in conversation with emerging authors to discuss issues including feminism, diaspora, and method. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Edwidge Danticat is a 2009 MacArthur fellow and is […]
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