Join our panel discussion on what it is like to identify as LGBTQ+ while serving time in an American prison. Panelists include Michael Cox, Douglas Rogers, and Joli Sparkman Bayron, all formerly incarcerated individuals now doing advocacy work. They will discuss topics such as discrimination in prisons based on sexual orientation and policies that can […]
The stereotype of most science, technology, engineering, and math fields is that “STEM is for men.” Additionally, men are over-represented at almost every level of STEM participation, both inside and outside of academia. Together, this gender imbalance in scientific environments and the gendered nature of science stereotypes signal to women that STEM isn’t for them. Importantly, these issues may be exacerbated for women from racial groups that are under-represented in STEM fields. This talk will identify some of the specific psychological challenges facing women in STEM and explore different ways to manage them.
Last fall, Clark Alumnus, Ben Berman, spent six weeks traveling with an interfaith delegation and working on a farm in Palestine during the olive harvest season. Ben will share his experiences witnessing life for Palestinians under the Israeli military occupation, particularly regarding agriculture and environmental justice, and will conclude with how Americans can support the […]
Gender is complicated, and so is gender care. This talk will review the science of sexual development to demonstrate, objectively, that sex is more complicated than a simple binary and to look at the ways in which gender identity development appears to be affected by multiple biological processes. It will then examine how developing […]
Drawing on the cases of four senior foreign policy decision-makers appointed by US presidents since 1980 (Jeane Kirpatrick, Madeleine Albright, Condolezza Rice, and Hillary Rodham Clinton), Professor Sylvia Bashevkin addresses the following questions: What do we know about women's participation in political executive roles? How useful are theories concerning gender and leadership to research […]
Recent Bollywood films like Anarkali of Aarah (Avinash Das, 2017), Parched (Leena Yadav, 2015), and Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016) have raised the bar on feminist work coming out of the industry but have also simultaneously been met with resistance. Lipstick Under My Burkha, in particular, was banned by the Indian Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for sexual explicitness […]
In honor of Black History Month. Kate Rushin is an award-winning black queer feminist poet and was formerly on the faculty at Wesleyan University. Her work has been featured in “Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology,” “My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems,” and the ground- breaking feminist anthology “The Bridge Called […]
The History Department and the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies present a Black History Month Speakers Panel: “Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps” Amy Murrell Taylor, Ph.D., in conversation with Professors Ousmane Power-Greene and Janette Greenwood of Clark University. Amy Murrell Taylor, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor of […]
November 8, 12:00 p.m., Fireside Lounge, Dana Commons featuring Comparative Race and ethnic Studies (CRES) Syllabi Complexities of Urban Education, by Professor Eric DeMeulenaere The Psychology of Prejudice, Professor Andrew L. Stewart
October 25th, 2018 12:00-2:00 p.m. Tilton Hall This event marks the 75th anniversary of the first class of undergraduate women admitted to Clark in 1942. Learn about: Archival material that were used in the research into the decision to accept women What their time at Clark was like How women changed Clark’s culture over the […]
