Poetics of FragilityFilm Screening and Discussion with DirectorLata ManiWednesday, October 19, 2016 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Reception 7:00 to 9:00 PM - Screening and Discussion Charles E. Young Research Library - Main Conference Room The Poetics of Fragility explores the texture, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical […]
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THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES PRESENTSUnveiling the Veiled in Marjane Satrapi's Two-Volume Graphic Memoir Persepolis and Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh: a Revolutionary Perspective Dr. Engy Ashour TorkyAssistant Professor of English Literature, Sadat Academy of Management Sciences, EgyptFulbright Visiting Scholar, UC BerkeleyTuesday, February 7th, 2017 3-4:30 pm2125 Rolfe Hall This talk will unveil and highlight the different […]
The Departments of Gender Studies and English present Joshua Javier GuzmánAssistant Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder Latinidad and Form Wednesday, February 15th2:30-4:00pmCharles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room 11348 The late Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres is most noted for his minimal and conceptual installation pieces responding, however subtly, to the AIDS crisis. His work withheld normative visual […]
The Department of Gender Studies presents Juliann AnesiUC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Gender and Women’s Studies Department Reframing Tautua: Disabled Women, Service, and Education in Samoa Monday, March 6th2:30-4:00pm2125 Rolfe Hall In the 1970s, allies, educators, parents and women with disabilities established Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai, two schools for students with intellectual and physical disabilities in the […]
