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"