WGS INTELLECTUAL FORUM
All meetings are from 12 noon to 1:30 pm. Lunch is served.
Recent Forums
The Changing Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: 1999 - 2019
Nancy Hopkins, Professor of Biology emerita
Chipman Room, 6-104
The Limits of Empowerment: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Iran’s Green Uprising
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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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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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Dr. Lorgia García-Peña WGS Intellectual Forum
“Intra-Colonial Migrations and Black Bodies in Contemporary Italy”
14E-304
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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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Sasha Costanza-Chock WGS Intellectual Forum on Wednesday March 7, 2018 in 14E-304.
#DesignJustice
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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
"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