Colloquium and Lecture Series
SPRING 2022
*All events will take place in person and on Zoom @ 4:14pm EST unless otherwise noted
To receive the Zoom link and/or event location, please email [email protected] to be put on the WGS listserve
Feb 2 Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University School of Law: “Grounded: On Loss and the Elements of Gravity” **This event is Zoom only**
Feb 9 Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University School of Law: “The Risk I Pose: On the Exhaustion of Embodied Probabilities” **This event is Zoom only**
Feb 16 Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University School of Law: “Making Happy: On the Aesthetics of Resilience” **This event is Zoom only**
Feb 23 Sophie Lewis, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research: Abolish which Family?: Beyond Expanded Kinship”
Mar 2 Jo Giardini, English, Johns Hopkins University, “’This and That-Less and Free:’ The One, The Many, and Toni Cade Bambara’s Revolution Discourse”
Mar 9 WGS Summer Fellows, Ella Gonzalez, History of Art; Nafisa Haaque, Islamic Studies; Joyce Ker, Writing Seminars; Yuna Kim anthropology; Pyar Seth, AGHI
Mar 16 Undergraduate WGS Scholars Colloquium, Karnika Mehrotra, Molecular & Cellular Biology; Mariama Morray, Spanish and MSH; Robab Variz, Philosophy and Political Science
Mar 30 Emily Parker, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Towson University: “The Body Figures the Denial of Matter of the Polis”
Apr 6 Gina Kim, Theater, Film & Television, UCLA: “Sexual Violence and the Military Camptowns in South Korea.” Q&A with the director of Bloodless (2017) and Tearless (2021)
Apr 13 Astrida Neimanis, English and Cultural Studies, University of British Columbia: “Water in Common: Hydrofeminist Solidarity and the Question of ‘We’”
Apr 20 Dawn Teele, Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University: “Geography, The Gender Gap, and the Dual Earner Welfare State”