This conference provides career guidance and professional development growth to women attorneys and other professionals at all stages of their careers and brings together powerful decision-makers from Massachusetts, Alaska, Canada, California, Illinois, New York, Washington, DC, and beyond. The conference includes keynote speaker Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the CEO of Champion Women. There will be 3 panel…
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Come join the WGSS Program and the School of Law for the last Health Law Roundtable on the year. This event will feature Khiara Bridges, Professor of Law at Boston University on the topic of Poverty, Privacy Rights, and Race-Based Disadvantages. Lunch will be served.
Photographer Saskia Keeley shares the results of her photography workshops that allow Israeli and Palestinian women to discover interconnectivity, respect, and empathy through the use of cameras. The lecture is illustrated with both the photographs taken and the voices of the participants. For more information, contact: d.levisohn@northeastern.edu Saskia_Keeley_Flyer 1.11
This event will focus on issues in Women’s Health, Preventive Medicine, and Immigrant and Refugee Health. Throughout the day, students will have the opportunity to develop and apply skills in advocacy, community outreach, tech development, and entrepreneurship through a panel discussion, workshops, and hands-on project. Register to attend or volunteer! bit.ly/RegisterGHIS GHIS2019_Schedule
Please join Professor Wendy Simonds, Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University, to discuss her new book, Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization. The book analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday experiences, culture, and social life. In the book, Simonds documents her…
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Since the “Black Queer Studies in the Millennium” conference at UNC Chapel Hill in April 2000, and the Black Queer Studies anthology that followed, black queer and trans studies has grown into a dynamic and interdisciplinary discourse. The field is especially reflexive, continually drawing attention to its genealogies in black feminisms–feminisms emerging in the academy,…
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This 90-minute play highlights the life and achievements of Käthe Leichter (1895–1942) and Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), two Austrian pioneers in the 1920s and 1930s in researching and writing about unemployment, work and gender pay inequality. Both women were political activists who opposed the rise of fascism in Austria and the Nazis, and the play portrays…
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In her 1988 book A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde said, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” The concept of self-care, which arose through the activist practices specifically of marginalized groups, has been increasingly adopted and discussed by health care settings, non-profit organizations, commercial and…
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Outrage. Is it an affect? An agency? A meme? A vehicle for media manipulation? Should we relish it or regret it? Does it offer political instruction or is it mainly an instrument of democratic destruction? This talk works through these questions, less to quiet their urgency than to explore what it means to figure outrage…
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As a part of the Barrs Lecture series, Elizabeth Losh, Associate Professor of English and American Studies from the College of William and Mary will be giving a lecture titled “Bodies of Information”. This will be the last talk in the series and will focus on the material, embodied, affective, situated, and labor-intensive character of…
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