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
2021-2022: Anna Krylova and Gabriel Rosenberg
Trans Politics Now: Seminar with Jules Gill-Peterson
Friday, October 15, 2021 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Jules Gill-Peterson, History Department, John Hopkins University
MODERATOR:
Peter Sigal, Duke History, GSFS
How and Why Some U.S. Billionaires Are Funding Anti-Feminism, Global Homophobia, and Other Attacks on Democracy
Friday, November 5, 2021 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Lisa Graves, Executive Director of True North Research and President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy
Nancy MacLean, Duke History, GSFS
CHAIR: Anna Krylova, Duke History, GSFS
The Natures of Desire: A Conversation on Queerness and the Wild
Friday, January 28, 2022 – (VIDEO RECORDING) *coming soon*
PRESENTER:
Jack Halberstam, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York
Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke GSFS, History
Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine by Frances Hasso
A Conversation with Dr. Rhoda Kanaaneh
Friday, February 11, 2022 – (VIDEO RECORDING)
PRESENTER:
Frances Hasso, GSFS, Sociology, History Department, Duke University
Rhoda Kanaaneh, Research Scholar, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
CHAIR: Anna Krylova, Duke History, GSFS
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
Diasporic Legacies and Black Feminist Sonic Visualities
Monday, October 21, 2019
CHAIR:
Patrice Douglass, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Daphne Brooks, African American Studies, American Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Studies, Yale University
Black Girl Broken Records: Race, Gender, Sound & the Archive
Yona Harvey, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Pittsburgh
"The Fifth Dimension": Black Feminist Resistance and Visual Storytelling
Meta DuEwa Jones, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
From Soul to Soul through Soul on Soul: An Open Letter to the Diaspora's "Homegirls"
Concepts of Care
Friday, January 24, 2020
CHAIR:
Ingrid Meintjes, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Yolonda Y. Wilson, National Humanities Center Fellow
Race, Gender, Class, and Cargiving
Black Girl Broken Records: Race, Gender, Sound & the Archive
Jocelyn Olcott, Department of History, International Comparative Studies, and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
The Decoloniality of Care
Black Muslims and the Black Arts Movement
Friday, September 21, 2018
CHAIR:
Israel Durham, President's Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, University of Maryland
PRESENTERS:
Su`ad Abdul Khabeer, American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan
"Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States"
Ellen McLarney, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
"blk visions for blk lives': Sonia Sanchez's Muslim Poetry"
Gender, Race, and Labor in the Academy
Monday, October 22, 2018
CHAIR:
Frances S. Hasso, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History and Sociology, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Grace Kyungwon Hong, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, UCLA
"Bringing Out the Dead: Black Feminism's Impossible Politics"
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, African & African American Studies and Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
"The Side Part of Alienation"
Transnationally Thinking Men and Masculinities
Friday, January 25, 2019
CHAIR:
Frances S. Hasso, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Sociology, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Matthew Gutmann, Department of Anthropology, Brown University
"Out of Control: The Male Body as Biological Fetish"
Brendan Jamal Thornton, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Intimate Spirits: Men, Sex, and the Anthropology of Supernatural Seduction"
Interventions on the Colonial and Postcolonial:
The Case of Psychoanalysis
Friday, October 6, 2017
CHAIR:
Antonio Viego, Romance Studies, Program in Literature, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham College, Oxford University
"Psychomattering: The Analyst as Muse of History in Disaster Zones"
Ranjana Khanna, English Department, Program in Literature, Duke University
"Death Drives: International Psychoanalysis Again"
Marxism, Socialism, Feminism:
A Transnational Conversation
Monday, November 6, 2017
CHAIR:
Frances S. Hasso, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Sociology, and History Department, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Rebecca Karl, History Department, NYU
"Anarcho-feminism and Revolution in China's Early Twentieth Century"
Anna Krylova, History Department, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
"Bolshevik Feminism and Gender Trajectories of the Russian Revolution"
Kristen Ghodsee, Cultural Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
"Reverberations of the Revolution: Cold War Rivalries and Global Women's Rights"
Lisa Disch, Political Science, University of Michigan
"Christine Delphy's Overlooked 'French Feminism"'
Kathi Weeks, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University
"A Counter-Archive for the Future of U.S. Marxist Feminist Theory"
COLONIAL SEXUALITIES
Friday, November 18, 2016
CHAIR:
Rey Chow, Program in Literature, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Anjali Arondekar, Feminist Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Telling Tales: Sexuality's Historiography"
Pete Sigal, History Department, Duke University
"Aztecs and Hottentots: An International Romance"
Regulating Intimacy and Constituting Community in Taiwan and China
Friday, February 17, 2017
CHAIR:
Juliette Duara, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Sara L. Friedman, Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University
"Stranger Anxiety: Intimate Recognition in Taiwan"
Carlos Rojas, AMES, GSF, and AMI, Duke University
"Of Lice and Men: Configurations of Community in China"
Feminist Visions and Activist Dilemmas of the
US Black Lives Matter, and South Africa Fees Must Fall
Movements: A Transnational Conversation
Friday, April 14, 2017
CHAIR:
Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Cultural Anthropology and AAAS, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Xhercis Mendez, Philosophy and African American and African Studies, Michigan State University
"Weaving Decolonial Feminist Visions and Methodologies: Women of Color Feminisms and the Creators of Black Lives Matter"
Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Duke Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Duke University
Kathryn Mathers, International Comparative Studies, Duke University
Theorizing Gender: Thinking and Using Theory Differently
Friday, October 2, 2015
CHAIR:
Priscilla Wald, English Department and Women's Studies, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Elizabeth Grosz, Women's Studies and Program in Literature, Duke University
"Concepts in Feminist Theory"
Anna Krylova, History Department and Women's Studies, Duke University
"Turning Theory into a Historical Practice: A Case of Gender"
Masculinities in the Making: Iranian and Egyptian Film
Friday, October 23, 2015
CHAIR:
Guo-Juin Hong, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley Gender & Women's Studies Department
"War Movies and Fractured Notions of Masculinity"
Frances S. Hasso, Women's Studies and Sociology, Duke University
"Masculinities, Ideology, and Revolutionary Traces in Post-2011 Egyptian Film"
The Transnational and the Local in 1970s-1980s Feminism
Friday, February 19, 2016
CHAIR:
Anna Krylova, History Department and Women's Studies, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Judith Walkowitz, NHC Fellow, Johns Hopkins History Department
"Feminism, Urban Space, and the Politics of Prostitution in London in the 1980s"
Jocelyn Olcott, History Department and Women's Studies, Duke University
"Dissensus Feminism: The 1970s Roots of Decoloniality"