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Tails from the Trail: Making Herstory

DATE:  Wednesday, March 20, 2019. 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. LOCATION: Jefferson Hall, Room 218 Presented by: Heather Silber Mhamad, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Jessica Preece, Associate Professor of Political Science The "pink wave" is not just an idea, it's a reality. What is it like to run for local or state office […]

Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: Evaluating US National Security and Politics since 1980

DATE:  Thursday, March 14, 2019. 10:25 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. LOCATION:  Jonas Clark Hall, Room 001 Presented by: Sylvia Bashevkin Drawing on the cases of four senior foreign policy decision-makers appointed by US presidents since 1980 (Jeane Kirkpatrick, Madeleine Albright, Condolezza Rice, and Hillary Rodham Clinton), Professor Sylvia Bashevkin addresses the following questions: What do we […]

Technologies of Resistance and New Womanhood in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema

DATE:  Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Noon - 1:00 p.m. LOCATION:Dana Commons, Fireside Lounge Presented by: Professor Ghar Siddiqui 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 […]

Poetry for Black Lives Today: Reading by Kate Rushin

DATE:  Thursday, February 28, 2019. 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. LOCATION: Dana Commons, Fireside Lounge 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 Women: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems," and the […]

Decolonizing Queerness

DATE: Friday, April 19, 2019. 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. LOCATION: Dana Commons: Fishbowl