In Remnants, tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory.

This talk will be about how South Asian Muslim women used food in their travel writings to distinguish between self and other, shedding light on the role of alimentary identities in shaping colonialism, postcoloniality, nationalism, and globalization.

Biannual McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series with Jennifer Rose Denetdale: “Building the Perfect Human to Invade: An Indigenous Feminist Queer Analysis of the Pandemic on the Navajo Nation”

Virtual event. RSVP for zoom link: tinyurl.com/denetdale

Against Fragmentation: Palestinian Women's Engagement Across the Green Line

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Women's mobility across the Green Line that divides Israel and the West Bank is shaped by both traditional forms of economic and cultural practices as well as by Israel's gendered policies of division and enclosure of different Palestinian populations.