Upcoming Events
WGS Intellectual Forum: Nancy Hopkins
The Changing Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: 1999 - 2019
Nancy Hopkins, Professor of Biology emerita
Chipman Room, 6-104
WGS Intellectual Forum: Pouya Alimagham
The Limits of Empowerment: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Iran’s Green Uprising
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Professor Amah Edoh
GSL Prof. Amah Edoh will present "Our grandmothers' cloth: West African agency and labor in the makings of Dutch Wax cloth”
Room 14E-304.
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Rachel Gross
Re-membering the Clitoris: A Story of Cultural Amnesia WGS Intellectual Forum with Knight Science Journalism Fellow Rachel Gross
14E-304
Lunch provided.
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Lorgia García-Peña
Dr. Lorgia García-Peña WGS Intellectual Forum
“Intra-Colonial Migrations and Black Bodies in Contemporary Italy”
14E-304
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Nneka Dennie & Kera Street
WGS MLK pre-doctoral fellow Nneka Dennie presents "From Abolition to Suffrage: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Black Feminist Nationalism".
Anthropology MLK pre-doctoral fellow Kera Street presents “Everyday Purity: Black Evangelical Women and Living Right in a Digital Age"
E51-275
Wednesday, April 4th 2018
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock WGS Intellectual Forum on Wednesday March 7, 2018 in 14E-304.
#DesignJustice
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WGS Intellectual Forum: Joaquin Terrones
Joaquin Terrones WGS Intellectual Forum on Wednesday February 7th, 2018 at noon in E51-275. Joaquin will read from his novel Orison.
Lunch provided, please RSVP to wgs@mit.edu
WGS Intellectual Forum: Kimberly Juanita Brown
"Plantation Weddings and the Arc of Antebellum Desire"
Plantations wedding venues, particularly in the US South, spatially reconstruct antebellum slave mansions as serene sites of joy. This talk will examine the politics of race, gender, and patriarchy that center on the unfreedom of others.
E51-095
Lunch provided, please RSVP to wgs@mit.edu
WGS Intellectual Forum: Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort will present Gender and Computational Poetry. Location E51-095
WGS Intellectual Forum: Justin Steil and Aditi Mehta
Justin Steil and Aditi Mehta will present Locked out: Criminal convictions, housing, and gender. Location 14E-304
WGS Intellectual Forum: Channon Miller & Elizabeth Rule
Elizabeth will present "Marry Out, Move Out: The Indian Act and Mohawk Girls." Channon will present "State Violence and Black Motherlines of Resistance Conceived from Disparate Roots." Location 14E-304
WGS Intellectual Forum: Minoo Emami
Fine artist Minoo Emami will present her current work "Art as Manifesto" Location 14E-304
WGS Intellectual Forum: Kishonna Gray
Kishonna Gray, MLK Visiting Scholar in Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing will present Black Masculinity in Contemporary Gaming Culture. Location. 14E-304
WGS Intellectual Forum: Heather Hendershot
Heather Hendershot (CMS/W, WGS) will present Chivalrous Pugilism: How William F. Buckley Tried to K.O. Feminism.. Location: 14E-304.
WGS Intellectual Forum: Leigh Gilmore
Feminist theorist Leigh Gilmore will present Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives.
WGS Intellectual Forum: Karin Rosenthal
Fine art photographer Karin Rosenthal will present (TBD). Location: E51-095
Bettina Stoetzer
Bettina Stoetzer (MIT, GSL) presents Un/Homely Europe: Tracing the Longue Durée of a Crisis.
Regine Michelle Jean-Charles
Boston College professor of Romance Languages & Literature Regine Michelle Jean-Charles presents From the Image to the Text: Visual Culture, Rape Representation and the Rwandan Genocide.