Archive: Lectures

  • BLM France: Black and Brown Women’s Fight for Racial Justice

    WATCH VIDEO | Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 – 5:00 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming Rokhaya Diallo, Maboula Soumahoro and Jean Beaman for a conversation on racial justice and police violence in France. The discussion will center the Black and Brown women leading the fight against systemic racism and violence.

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  • Bootyful: Screening and Discussion with Rokhaya Diallo

    WATCH VIDEO | Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 – 5 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming Rokhaya Diallo for a screening and discussion about one of her latest documentaries: Bootyful (2021). From France to the United States via Brazil, Bootyful reveals the history and body politics behind the global craze for a certain type of voluptuous “derriere”.

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  • The Legacy of Kathleen Collins and the Future of Black Women Filmmaking

    Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 – 5:00 PM ET – In-Person Event.
    Join us for a book talk with L.H. Stallings and Nina Lorez Collins about Kathleen Collins’s work and the future of Black women filmmaking.

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  • The Parisienne Uncovered, A Documentary by Rokhaya Diallo

    In-Person Event – Monday April 4, 2022  – 5 PM ET Join us for a screening and conversation about Rokhaya Diallo’s newest documentary, Parisian Uncovered (or La Parisienne Démystifiée), which seeks to expose the complex and pluralistic reality of Parisian women’s lives, identities, professions, and experiences.

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  • Sister Style: the Politics of Appearance for Black Women in Public Life

    Virtual Event – Friday March 25, 2022 – 12pm ET Join us in welcoming co-authors Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi for a discussion on their new book, entitled Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (2021). 

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  • The Hope of a Black Princess

    In-Person Event – Monday March 28, 2022 12 PM ET – Join us for a presentation and book signing with Aria Halliday and learn about her book Buy Black How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s.

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  • Is Depression a Feminist Issue?

    Virtual Event – Wednesday March 16, 2022 – 12:00 PM ET Dr. Jessica Coblentz, Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s College (Indiana) will offer a perspective from Feminist Theology. Copies of Dr. Coblentz’s recent book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression are available in the Women’s Center (Leavey 327) for all those interested in reading her book.

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  • Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project

    Virtual Event – Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 7 PM ET Dr. Sami Schalk’s (she/her) interdisciplinary research
    focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in
    contemporary American literature and culture, especially
    speculative fiction and Black literature. She has published
    on literature, film, and material culture in a variety of peerreviewed humanities journals.

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  • Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

    Virtual Event – Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 12 PM ET – Join us in welcoming Deborah Tuerkheimer, as she discusses her latest book, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers (2021). In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse—and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismiss accusers.

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  • Chemical Heroes

    In-Person Event – Wednesday Feb. 23, 2022 – 12 PM ET Join us in welcoming Andrew Bickford for a conversation on his book Chemical Heroes -Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (2021). Bickford analyzes the US military’s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological “supersoldiers” capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.

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