The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars and offers a multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women's history, gender and queer theory, sexuality studies, transgender studies, and the study of feminism, social movements, and contemporary social issues and policy in a transnational world.
Sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and the History Department with support from the Office of the Dean of Faculty and the Office of the Provost and additional academic units that differ annually.
Co-Directors of the Duke on Gender Colloquium
2015-2016 and 2016-2017: Elizabeth Grosz and Anna Krylova
2017-2021: Frances S. Hasso and Anna Krylova
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in Computing. Conversation with Mar Hicks
Friday, February 26, 2021
MODERATOR:
Anna Krylova, Duke History, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist
Studies
PRESENTER:
Mar Hicks, Lewis College of Science and Letters, Illinois Institute of Technology
Black Feminism Beyond the Human
Friday, January 29, 2021 VIDEO RECORDING
CHAIR:
Frances Hasso, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist
Studies, Sociology, History, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Department of English, University of Southern California
Aesthetic Architectures of the Flesh
Patrice Douglass, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Belle's Beloved: Hauntings, Feminized Slave Ships, and the (Im)possibility of Writing Black Women
Social Movements and Women's Agency in the 20th Century
Friday, October 16, 2020
CHAIR:
Anna Krylova, History Department, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Keisha N. Blain, History Department, University of Pittsburgh
"Friends of Japan": African American Women's Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Nicole Barnes, History Department, Duke University
When Patriarchy Unsettles Itself: Women in China's War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945