Sites/Sights/Cites of Resistance, the Gender and Women’s Studies 2019 Graduate Symposium, is taking place this Friday and Saturday, March 29-30, 2019, Sterling Hall, UW-Madison. All talks listed below are free and open to the public, and held in Sterling 1310. CART services provided. For more information contact gwsconference19@gmail.com or call 608-263-3312. Kemper Knapp Keynote Friday, …
Myra Marx Ferree, Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, November 29, 2018, 3:45pm, 3401 Sterling Hall In this talk, I argue that the masculine basis of the social contract theories at the heart of liberalism has become fragile, and gender insecurity among men contributes importantly to contemporary illiberalism.
Reproduction Reconceived: Emergency Pregnancy Services and State Neglect in the United States Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 4:00pm, 3401 Sterling Hall Sara Matthiesen, Assistant Professor of both History and Gender and Women’s Studies at George Washington University. PhD in American Studies from Brown. “I research the changing relationship between inequality and reproductive life in the twentieth-century …
What’s Best for Baby: Co-Sleeping and the Politics of Inequality Monday, November 19, 2018, Noon, 3401 Sterling Hall Laura Harrison, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University. “My research interests focus on race and health disparities, reproductive justice, and how both cultural and …
Patricia Morris Adjunct Professorial Lecturer School of International Service, American University Wednesday, October 24 @ 3:30 pm 1313 Sterling Hall Reception to follow In this talk, Dr. Morris will provide advice on how students who are interested in a career as a gender specialist in international relief and development work should prepare. She will begin …
Julie Avril Minich, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin September 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm This talk engages with disability theory in order to examine engagements with diabetes in works by contemporary Latinx writers and artists. Diabetic Latinx art responds to an urgent health crisis affecting Latinx communities throughout the …