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Feminisms Unbound
Multiple dates, multiple events

This Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) initiative, Feminisms Unbound, is an annual event series featuring debates that focus on feminist concerns, theories, and practices in this contemporary moment.  This series is intended to foster conversations and community among Boston-area feminist intellectuals and activists. The series, in its open configuration, endeavors to allow the greatest measure of engagement across multiple disciplinary trajectories, and a full array of feminist investments.  

The event organizers, who are also visiting scholars with the GCWS this year, are Kimberly Juanita Brown, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University, and Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, have programmed the four events in this series.

Feminisms Unbound 2016-2017 Events

Black Women and the Carceral State
Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: Building E51 Room 095, MIT

Sexual Collisions: Reflections on Empire, Terror, and Violence
Wednesday, October 26th: 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: Building E51 Room 095, MIT

Trans/Multi/Mediations
February 15, 2017: 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321, MIT Campus

Graduate Student Roundtable
Wednesday, April 12, 2017: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321, MIT Campus

 

 

 

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