Join the class of Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as they launch their magazine with the public! There will be food, music, and readings from the magazine. Come and celebrate all of their hard work and achievements! See the flyer here.
Join the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Northeastern Humanities Center for another lecture as part of their Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series! This talk, entitled “Cultures of Ability,” features Professor Moya Bailey (Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; WGSS), Professor Linda Blum (Sociology and Anthropology), and PhD candidate Bridget Keown (History). Lunch and beverages will be provided! Contact Gabrielle Fiorenza…
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Many interpretations of feminist research practice maintain that knowledge is situated and coproduced between researcher and subject, thus always already implicated in difference, and best addressed through reflexivity and positionality. In producing oppositional knowledge, and knowledge for social transformation, feminist ethnographers concern themselves with how researchers, storytellers, and narrators are positioned within the text. They…
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The 2018 Conference on Gender & International Affairs: Gender, Justice & Politics: Movement from the Margins will take place on November 16 & 17 at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. This year’s conference will host five panels, along with workshops, breakout sessions, and a discussion on Gender and the Midterms. The Conference is a completely student-run initiative, and is open to the…
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Thisconference will focus on the perspectives and concerns of queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, intersex, and asexual students in preparation for co-op, internships, and professional life beyond campus. Students will have the opportunity to hear from alumni and professionals in various industries about topics such as navigating microaggressions, corporate culture, gender presentation,…
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The Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Northeastern Humanities Center present Libby Adler’s talk, “Tracing the Progress of Gay Rights in Political Economy” as part of their Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series. Libby Adler is a professor at Northeastern’s School of Law and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Light refreshments…
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Please save the date for the screening of Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, a documentary directed by Tracy Heather Strain, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and Northeastern Professor of Media and Screen Studies. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director and Margaret A. Burnham, University Distinguished Professor and Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project moderated by Nicole N. Aloe, Director of African & African American Studies…
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In this talk, WGSS Visiting Scholar Anna Piela discusses themes arising from research she has conducted with 35 niqab-wearing women in the UK and US. Beyond the central question of the research – why do they wear the niqab? – she considers other issues that emerged as meaningful in their narratives, including how Islamophobia plays…
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When did the old maid become the single woman? And why does it matter? While the fact that single women outnumber married in the US seems strikingly modern, this contemporary demographic fact is rooted in the seemingly unremarkable nineteenth-century old maid. As Victorians worked out the roles appropriate to a large population of single women…
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On October 3rd at 5:30 pm in 250 Dockser, the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC) and the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) will co-sponsor a showing of the Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Film Traffic Stop. Producer and Northeastern University School of Law alum, David Heilbroner, will be present to discuss the making and…
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