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Feminist Scholarship @ SU
Women’s Studies Speaker Series – 2007/2008
All talks will be in the Peter C. Graham Commons in E.S. Bird Library, 4:00-6:00pm.
October 3, 2007 – JANET DODD
Title: Police Responses to Rape: A Feminist Analysis
Force only rape, obsessive/sadistic rape, battering rape; marital rape, stranger rape, acquaintance rape, date rape; hate rape, command rape, border rape, war rape. When is rape legal? When is sex considered a crime? If you are raped by your partner but not hit, can you expect the police to make an arrest? Laws regulating sexual coercion, and the police activities organized to enforce them, are embedded in extended sets of social relations far removed from the everyday world of policing. Without reconceptualizing how we think about knowledge, knowers, and knowing, these relations are not visible to them (or to us) and they are all the more powerful and significant for that reason. In this talk I will share some of the discoveries I have made by thinking differently about how I participate in social justice work organized to empower those who are targets of physical and sexual violence.
Janet Dodd is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Science and Assistant Director of the Women’s Studies Program. Her main areas of interest include feminist epistemologies, race and racism, and public policy focused on family issues.
October 24 – JENNIFER HYNDMAN
Title: War, Feminism, and Geopolitics: Where do we go from here?
What do feminism and geopolitics have in common? How do feminist politics intersect and protest the ‘war on terror’? This talk will address these questions, present a feminist geopolitics, and probe the ways in which feminist theory and practice might be mobilized to change our representations and realities of war.
Jennifer Hyndman is Professor of Geography at SU, author of Managing Displacement: Refugees and Politics of Humanitarianism (University of Minnesota Press), and co-editor of Sites of Violence: Gender in Conflict Zones (University of California Press). Her research merges feminist thought with political and cultural geographies of violence, particularly in war zones and among people displaced by conflict.
November 14 – VINCENT STEPHENS, Faculty Fellow in the Humanities
Title: Adult Dissonance: Radical ‘mothering’ on television
This talk will focus on unique depictions of motherhood featured in the CBS sitcom, “Kate & Allie” (1984-89), and the 2005 HBO adaptation of Rudolph Santiago Hudson, Jr’s play, “Lackawanna Blues”. The ways these programs challenge traditional televisual depictions of female household roles and unmoor kinship from the primacy of blood relations are among the critical themes the presentation will explore.
Vincent Stephens completed his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. He has published essays and reviews in All About Jazz online, Common Culture, Popular Music, Popular Music & Society, and most recently the anthology, Culture and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War. Currently, he is working on essays and presentations in preparation for a new book length study, Adult Dissonance: Alternative Kinships in Popular Culture.
November 28 – MICKAELLA PERINA, Future Minority Studies Fellow
Title: Constructions of identities: experience, knowledge, and justice
Starting from the case of the French Caribbean experience, I will examine processes of constructing identities and question the use of categories such as “universal” and “particular”. I will argue that instead of establishing necessary relativism identity claims can be regarded as opportunities to enrich the “universal”, and rights-claims based on group identities can be regarded as tools to achieve social justice.
Mickaella Perina is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program of Study in Philosophy and Law, University of Massachusetts, Boston. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Toulouse, II in 1996 after completing her undergraduate and graduate studies in Paris at the Sorbonne. She was a recipient of the Franco-American Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-99, and is the author of, “Citoyennete et Sujetion, Post Esclavage et Aspiration Democratique dans la Caraibe Francophone (Citizenship and Subjection, Post-Slavery and Democratic Demand in the Francophone Caribbean, Paris, 1997. He research focuses on constructions of identity, group rights, human rights, and the rule of law in liberal democracies.
January 30 – Romita Ray, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts
Title: Marble Beauty, Lost Dreams: Framing the Taj Mahal
This lecture will focus on Marianne North’s renderings of the Taj Mahal from her visit to the famous tomb in the 1870s. I examine these images within the larger context of travel narratives and the production of art by British Victorian women who traveled to the subcontinent. Specifically, I examine the Victorian garden in India as a site of aesthetic pleasure, nostalgia, and imperial novelty.
Romita Ray joined the SU faculty in Fall 2006. Her main area of interest is the art and architecture of the British Raj. She also works on South Asian art and architecture, post-colonial theory and theories of Orientalism.
February 20 – Angela Ixkic Duarte Bastian, Future Minority Studies Fellow
Title: From the Organized South: Indigenous Women of Latin America Building Politics
In the last 15 years, Latin America has seen the consolidation of a new political identity. The Indigenous Women Movement now is an independent movement, independent from the Women Movement as well as from the Indigenous Movement. Their demands are a critical epistemological approach, conjugating the collective claims of their communities with reflections about gender. In this presentation, I will talk about the political genealogy of the Indigenous Woman demands, exploring the dialogues that have built their trajectory, especially the dialogue with the feminist movement.
Ixkic Duarte is a Mexican-Guatemalan anthropologist. During the last seven years, she has been doing research about gender and ethnicity, feminism and culture. She has also worked with some indigenous organizations in Mexico and in Guatemala.
March 5 – Myrna Garcia-Calderon
Title: Geographies of Memory: Cuban Women Rethink Space and Place
Myrna Garcia-Calderon is Assistant Professor, Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.
April 2 - ChandraTalpade Mohanty, Professor of Women’s Studies, & Minnie Bruce Pratt, Professor of Women’s Studies and The Writing Program
Title: “At Home in the Struggle”
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