Barnard Center for Research on Women episodes:

• January 30, 2013Young Feminists Take on Activism and Organizing

  In this panel, young feminist activists discuss their

  areas of interest, what they see as the major challenges for feminist

  movements, how organizing today compares to that by previous

  generations, intersections between feminism and other approaches to

  social justice, and how to build coalitions that can enact structural

  change. Panelists include Dior Vargas, Sydnie Mosley '07, and Julie

  Zeilinger '15. The discussion also included Jessica Danforth, who is not

  included in the recording at her request. Dina Tyson '13 moderated the

  panel.

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• December 06, 2012Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

  Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the

  Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for

  Dominicans of Haitian descent. As the director of Movimiento de Mujeres

  Dominico-Haitiana (MUDHA), she used legal challenges in domestic and

  international courts to defend the citizenship rights of first and

  second generation children born on Dominican soil. This panel highlights

  the activism of young women who are moving forward with Sonia Pierre's

  work on behalf of Dominicans of Haitian descent, and addresses the

  question of how international pressure impacts efforts by marginalized

  groups to demand recognition. Panelists include Manuela (Solange) Pierre, Sonia Pierre’s oldest

  daughter, and the founder and coordinator of the Dominican Network of

  Young African Descendants (Red Dominicana de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes);

  Ninaj Raoul, the Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian

  Refugees; Monisha Bajaj, Associate Professor of International and

  Comparative Education at Teachers College; Minerva Leticia Solange,

  daughter of Sonia Pierre; and Miriam Neptune (moderator), video producer

  and director of Birthright Crisis, an award-winning documentary

  depicting the cycle of deportation and violence faced by Dominicans of

  Haitian descent.

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• November 07, 2012Ntozake Shange on Stage and Screen

  The 2012-13 Africana Distinguished Alumna Series honors

  one of Barnard’s most distinguished African American alumnae: Ntozake

  Shange '70. A playwright, poet, and novelist of startling originality,

  Shange is best known for her 1975 Obie Award-winning play, For Colored

  Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Following

  the screening of Tyler Perry’s acclaimed 2010 film version of the play,

  Ms. Shange speaks candidly with Soyica Diggs Colbert, assistant

  professor of English at Dartmouth College, and Monica Miller, associate

  professor of English at Barnard, about her groundbreaking work and its

  controversial adaptation to the screen.

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• October 23, 2012Janice Haaken

  Since visual images invoke the spectator's experience of

  unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power

  of photographic images may readily reproduce forms of voyeurism. This

  under-theorizing becomes particularly problematic in projects that

  document the lives of migratory and marginalized women. Drawing on

  several decades of prior field research and documentary film projects,

  Professor Haaken presents a study carried out with women refugee and

  asylum-seekers in the UK. In discussing photographic images from the

  study, Haaken provides a framework for working through a series of

  ethical, political, and methodological dilemmas. She draws on

  psychoanalytic feminist theory, critical psychology, and participatory

  action research methods to argue for the importance of an approach to

  the visual that includes the dynamics of spectatorship as well as the

  dynamics of the research setting itself as an affectively rich and

  conflicted site of knowledge production.

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• October 18, 2012Staking Our Claim: Trans Women's Literature in the 21st Century

  Celebrating the release of The Collection: Short Fiction

  from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press, 2012), four of the

  volume's contributors, Ryka Aoki, Imogen Binnie, Red Durkin, and Donna

  Ostrowsky come together to read from their work. Following the readings,

  the writers discuss future of literature, the complex

  ways that literary trans narratives will evolve in years to come, and

  their own stories of characters navigating relationships, gender,

  family, work, race, and more. This panel, co-sponsored by Barnard

  Library, Topside Press, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women, is

  moderated by Reina Gossett.

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• October 15, 2012Dorothy Roberts

  Some writers have celebrated a new biological

  citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage

  their health at the molecular level. In this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre

  '48 lecture, Dorothy Roberts examines the role of race and gender in the

  construction of this new biocitizen in light of the current expansion of

  race-based, reproductive, and genetic biotechnologies along with

  neoliberal reliance on private resources for people's welfare. Roberts

  argues that science, big business, and politics are converging to

  support a molecularized understanding of race, health, and citizenship

  that ultimately helps to preserve inequities. An internationally

  recognized scholar, public intellectual, and social justice advocate,

  Dorothy Roberts has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender,

  race, and class in legal issues and has been a leader in transforming

  public thinking and policy on reproductive health, child welfare, and

  bioethics. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge/George A. Weiss

  University Professor, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell

  Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Sociology at

  University of Pennsylvania.

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• October 09, 2012Feminist Knowledge Production in Digital Communities

  Feminist writers discuss what the new digital landscape

  means for them - how to deal with a constant barrage of critiques and

  suggestions, how race and gender impact the ways communities form

  online, the ethics of live-tweeting academic conferences, and more. From

  #twittergate to the necessary limitations of identity in digital

  networks, these academics and journalists take a fresh look at the

  complicated practice of performing feminist labor online. Panelists include

  Brittney Cooper, Gail Drakes, Dana Goldstein, Courtney Martin,

  and Renina Jarmon in this discussion moderated by Jonathan Beller.

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• October 04, 2012Ziba Mir-Hosseini

  Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist

  specializing in Islamic law, gender, and development. She is currently

  Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Middle Eastern and

  Islamic Law, University of London. In this lecture, Dr. Mir-Hosseini

  explores the Islamic feminist movement's potential for changing the

  terms of debates over Islam and gender, arguing that the real battle is

  between patriarchy and despotism on the one hand, and gender equality

  and democracy on the other.

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• March 21, 2012Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

  The second event in BCRW's newly inaugurated Salon

  Series features Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya

  Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson. These scholars, whose

  expertise lies at the cross-section of law, race, gender, and bioethics,

  respond to Karla FC Holloway’s new book, Private Bodies, Public Texts:

  Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics, an important and groundbreaking

  work that examines instances where medical issues and information that

  would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the

  public sphere, calling for a new cultural bioethics that attends to the

  complex histories of race, gender, and class in the US.

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• March 03, 2012The Scholar and Feminist 2012: Theorizing Vulnerability Studies

  How does a shift from focusing on the 'autonomous and independent subject'

  to a framework of shared vulnerability transform intellectual, legal, and activist

  terrains? This interdisciplinary panel explores how our ideas of personhood, the

  state, politics, organizing, religion, consciousness, arts, and ethics change when

  vulnerability becomes the lens through which we examine them, focusing particularly on

  relationships of interdependence and structural inequality. Panelists include Martha

  Albertson Fineman, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Colin Dayan, and Ilaria Vanni. This discussion,

  moderated by Elizabeth Castelli, took place at The Scholar and Feminist Conference 2012,

  Vulnerability: The Human and the Humanities.

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