Duke on Gender Colloquium 2015-2016

Oct. 2, 2015 Duke on Gender

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"

Oct. 23, 2015 Duke on 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"

Feb. 2016 Duke on Gender

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"