Barnard Center for Research on Women episodes:

• September 23, 2011Activism and the Academy: Sonia Alvarez

  In her keynote lecture at Activism and the Academy:

  Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action, Alvarez

  discusses her latest intellectual and political project, the forthcoming

  co-edited anthology Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics

  of Translation in the Latin/a Americas. This lecture took place on the

  first day of Activism and the Academy, a two-day conference held

  September 23-24, 2011 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard

  Center for Research on Women.

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• September 23, 2011Activism and the Academy: Opening Remarks by Janet Jakobsen

  BCRW Director Janet Jakobsen delivers opening remarks at

  Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship

  and Action. This two-day conference was held September 23-24, 2011 in

  honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on

  Women.

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• April 12, 2011Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant

  The inaugural event in BCRW's Salon series, this

  engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential

  scholars whose work explores how affect and emotion influence public

  life. Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the

  personal and the political are linked, the study of 'public feelings'

  draws our attention to how and why feelings and emotion (assumed to be a

  private, personal experience) influence politics and notions of social

  belonging and intimacy. This conversation, moderated by BCRW

  Director and Professor of Women's Studies, Janet Jakobsen, focuses on

  how perceptions of citizenship and solidarity are often bound up in

  emotions - like optimism, rage, and disgust - and how feelings can govern

  policy and political debates. Panelists include Jose Munoz, Ann Pellegrini,

  Tavia Nyong'o, and Lauren Berlant.

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• April 06, 2011Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster

  In this year's Rennert Forum lecture, "Created in God's Image:

  Intersections of Judaism, Gender, and Human Rights," Rabbi Rachel

  Kahn-Troster '01 reflects on her work as a human rights activist,

  mobilizing the Jewish community on campaigns against US-sponsored

  torture and modern slavery. Rabbi Kahn-Troster has worked tirelessly to

  bring about change in US foreign and domestic policy and to educate the

  public about the reality of torture and detainee treatment as a moral

  issue. In organizing across lines of faith and politics, she explores

  questions of how Judaism reacts to extreme violations of human dignity,

  what it means to recognize the sacredness of the Other, and the

  imperative to remember the real faces lost behind headlines. Rabbi

  Rachel Kahn-Troster is Director of Education and Outreach for Rabbis for

  Human Rights-North America, where she directs campaigns against

  state-sponsored torture and modern slavery. She was ordained in 2008 as

  a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was a student

  activist and leader. She is a noted speaker, teacher, and writer on

  Judaism and human rights. Her writing has appeared in Sh'ma;

  Conservative Judaism; several anthologies, including the recent Jewish

  Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice, and on the web. Rabbi

  Kahn-Troster was also a 2009-2010 writing fellow for the American Jewish

  World Service. She serves on the boards of the National Religious

  Campaign Against Torture and Hazon, a Jewish environmental

  organization. Her lecture is introduced by Elizabeth Castelli.

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• March 28, 2011The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film

  During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the

  early decades of the twentieth, a range of iconic female forms emerged

  to dominate the global pictorial landscape. Female athletes and

  adventurers, chorine stars, flappers, garconnes, Modern Girls, neue

  Frauen, suffragettes, and trampky were all facets of the

  dazzling and urbane New Woman who came to epitomize modern femininity in

  photographs and on film. This construct existed as a set of abstract

  ideals, even as it varied when translated across national contexts and

  through a range of key historical moments including First Wave feminism,

  colonialism, the First and Second World Wars, political revolutions, and

  the rise of modernism. This panel, moderated by art historian Linda Nochlin, examines the

  nuances of visual representations of this transgressive and

  border-crossing figure from her inception in the later nineteenth

  century to her full development in the interwar period and beyond.

  Panelists include Elizabeth Otto, Clare Rogan, Vanessa Rocco, and Kristine Harris.

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• March 09, 2011Domestic Work, Migration and Gender

  This forum, organized by DAMAYAN Migrant Workers

  Association and co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on

  Women, Barnard Women's Studies, and the National Domestic Workers

  Alliance, engages scholars, policy advocates, activists, and allies

  about the situation of immigrant women domestic workers with the

  Philippines as a case study. The forum is moderated by Leah Obias, Catherine Sameh gives

  opening remarks, and the list of speakers and topics

  includes: Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at

  Barnard College, discussing globalization, migration and domestic work;

  Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community

  Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, discussing community

  participatory research and organizing work; Cecille Venzon, Member of

  the Board of Directors of DAMAYAN, giving a worker's testimonial; Terri

  Nilliasca, Activist and Student at CUNY Law Center, discussing power

  dynamics at the domestic workplace and the intersections of race, class,

  gender and immigration; and Linda Oalican, Program Coordinator of

  DAMAYAN, offering concluding remarks on building a comprehensive migrant

  domestic workers movement. Grace Chang, who participated in the forum

  via Skype, could not be included in this podcast due to sound quality

  issues.

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• February 26, 2011The Scholar and Feminist 2011: Simi Linton

  Simi Linton delivers opening remarks to the Heidi Latsky Dance Company's

  Performance of The GIMP Project at The Scholar and Feminist Conference

  2011, Movements: Politics, Performance, and Disability, on February 26.

  Simi describes dance as the place

  where disability rights, disability culture and disability studies come

  together. She is introduced by Janet Jakobsen.

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• February 26, 2011The Scholar and Feminist 2011 Panel Discussion: Aesthetics and Politics in Action

  This discussion on Aesthetics and Politics in Action was the morning panel

  at The Scholar and Feminist Conference 2011 - Movements:

  Poltics, Performance and Disability. This panel examines

  cultural, historical and transnational constructions of

  disability. Making connections between cultural production, performance,

  aesthetics, activism and scholarship, panelists explore the many

  contributions of disability activists to social justice. Following introductory remarks

  by Janet Jakobsen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson moderates the discussion which features

  Carrie Sandahl, Alice Sheppard, Susan Schweik, and Nirmala Ervelles.

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• February 01, 2011Carla Freccero

  In this lecture, Professor Carla Freccero argues for a

  queering of temporality that would undo our nationally circumscribed and

  periodized fields of literary study in order to work through figures

  that haunt texts across historical eras. Her case study involves

  cynanthropy, the merger of human man and dog; it takes as its starting

  point the Columbian New World encounter, from reports of dog-headed

  cannibals to accounts of the devouring dog as the ubiquitous weapon of

  Spanish colonizers; and concludes with the attack on Diane Whipple by

  two Presa Canarios in San Francisco in 2001. This figure of carnivorous

  virility condenses in itself a whole series of New and Old World

  meanings, from companion to cannibal, primitive savage to savagely

  civilizational. Professor Freccero identifies the usefulness of

  alternative temporalities for understanding the historical and affective

  work such figures do and for the necessity of imagining agency,

  subjectivity, and social collectivity differently to account for such

  trans-species becomings. Carla Freccero is professor of Literature,

  Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, where

  she has taught since 1991. Trained in continental Renaissance Studies,

  she is the author of Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure

  in Rabelais; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/ Modern,

  in addition to essays on early modern and postmodern literature and

  culture, feminist and queer theory and criticism, psychoanalysis and

  animal studies. She is coeditor, with Aranye Fradenburg, of Premodern

  Sexualities, and currently at work on a book about human and non-human

  animal being titled Animate Figures. Her lecture is introduced by Janet Jakobsen.

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• October 21, 2010Christianity and the Global Politics of Sexuality

  Focusing specifically on sexuality, the panelists

  discuss the ways in which transnational and non-governmental Christian

  organizations have an impact on legal and social policies in different

  areas where Christians may comprise a small minority or a larger

  percentage of the population. In addition, sexuality continues to rankle

  and even divide Christian churches themselves, as evidenced by the

  recent tensions in the Anglican Communion over LGBT clergy members. This

  panel explores debates about sexuality within Christian churches and

  the global reach of Christian claims about sexuality.

  Panelists include Jordan Alexander Stein, Ju Hui Judy Han, Eng-Beng Lim and Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and the panel

  is moderated by Elizabeth Castelli.

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