Past Events

AY2018-2019

Faculty Workshops

Anju Paul, “Privilege, Pressure, and Prejudice: Asian Women Scientists on the Move ”

Zachary Howlett, “Counterfeit Boyfriends and Ghost Brides: Education, Rural-to-Urban Migration, and Delayed Marriage in Contemporary China”

Cecelia Van Hollen, “The Curse of the Kali Yuga: Searching for Meaning and Care for Cancer in India”

Wannes Dupont, “Pink Perils and Post-War Blues: Homosexuality and Penal Policy in Western Europe’s International Forensic Community (1945-1965)”

Robin Zheng, “On Activists and Allies: Solidarity and Good Faith Across Disagreement and Difference”

Public Events

Kristie Dotson [Michigan State University], “Beyond the “Now”: Epistemic Oppression and “Common Sense” Mass Incarceration in the USA”

Meg Samuelson [University of Adelaide], “Reparative Aesthetics: Enduring Violence and the Practice of Care in Women’s Writing from Southern Africa”

 

AY2017-2018

Faculty Workshops

Anju Paul, “Am I Allowed To Get Pregnant?”: Awareness of Pregnancy Protection Laws Among Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong” (now available in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies)

Rochisha Narayan, “A Mughal Matriarch and the Politics of Colonial Motherhood in Early Colonial India”

Jessica Hanser, “The East India Company’s Slaves: Slavery in Britain’s Commercial Empire in Asia, 1600-1838”

Robin Zheng, “Contingent Labor in the Academy: Power, Precarity, and Ideology” (forthcoming in Hypatia as “Precarity is a Feminist Issue: Gender and Contingent Labor in the Academy”)

Christine Walker, “Jamaica Ladies: Gender, Authority and Atlantic Slavery”

Gabriele Koch, “Victims All”

Nozomi Naoi, “Beyond the Modern Beauty: Takehisa Yumeji and the New Mediascape of Early Twentieth-Century Japan”

Anju Paul, “Privilege, Pressure, and Prejudice: Asian Women Scientists on the Move”

Robin Zheng, “Contingent Labor in the Academy: Power, Precarity, and Ideology” (now available as “Precarity is a Feminist Issue: Gender and Contingent Labor in the Academy” in Hypatia)

Public Events

Marcia C. Inhorn [Yale University], “America’s Arab Refugees: Masculinity, Vulnerability and Health on the Margins”

Gender Research Cluster Student Mentoring Lunch: Meet the Professors