Institute for Research on Women
Disability aesthetics always already exist in a number of non-Western social formations but are currently subject to emergent accommodative conditions in the most of the Global North and West; this lecture will address a variety of existing and emergent conditions for disability aesthetics, specifically addressing shamanic, healing, and communal practices that recognize embodied variation. I will also focus in particular on historical instances of aesthetic irony, in the case of disability-related aesthetics under a previously prevailing Moral Model of Disability. Several instances of contemporary and emergent modes of disability aesthetics will then address both means of artistic production and resultant innovative business models, as well as sample practices in a variety of disability-related literary, visual and performing arts.
Please join The Institute for Research on Women on Thursday October 15, as we host Professor Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (Communication, Cornell University) for our first Book Talk of the academic year! She will discuss her newest book," Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana.” Light lunch will be served.
From Turkey and Sri Lanka to the United States, anti-gender discourses are helping to undermine democracies and shore up authoritarian rule. In this panel, three scholars will discuss how anti-gender discourse travels globally and manifests in specific cultural and political contexts.
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s Annual Dean’s Lecture and the fourth event in IRW’s 2025-2026 IRW Distinguished Lecture Series on Feminism, Academic Freedom, and Democracy with Professor Eva Illouz
According to its critics, “gender ideology” has driven the push for a broad range of sexual and reproductive rights, from the legalization of abortion, access to contraception, same-sex marriage, sexual education in schools, non-discrimination bills, access to new reproductive technologies, trans rights, and much more. This event will offer an
Academic freedom is not the same as freedom of speech, but does it hold potential for imagining a more radical democracy? Although claimed in contradictory ways by partisans along the political spectrum, academic freedom can be renewed and reformulated by those defending the constitutional rights of expression and assembly, but
Based on a recently published co-edited volume entitled Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024), this talk will highlight anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries. Providing empirical examples and case studies from both Europe and
Please join us for an IRW Distinguished Lecture Series event with Kay Turner (Performance Studies, New York University) and Ann Cvetkovich (English, University of Texas-Austin). Location: Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library
Knowing Otherwise Conference Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library March 6, 2025 To connect with ancestors, spirits, and ghosts entails intergenerational remembering that transcends individual memories and experiences and disrupts the space-time continuum. It involves tending to both the dead and the living, presence and absence, matter and trace, and
Please join IRW for “Writing Books for General Audiences,” a Rutgers Public Engagement Project Workshop with Arlene Stein on Monday, February 27, 2025, from 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm. Lunch will be served. Please note that this is an in-person workshop. The event will not be streamed or recorded. Seats
Please join us for "Radical Death Studies: Death Work as Anti-Racist Practice," an IRW Distinguished Lecture Series panel discussion with Sarah Chavez (Executive Director, The Order of the Good Death), Kami Fletcher (American & African American History, Goucher College), and Mensah Adinkrah ( Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University).
Please join the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) for the second distinguished lecture of the academic year with Professor Deborah Thomas (University of Pennsylvania) on Thursday, December 5, in the Humanities Seminar Room, Academic Building 6051, College Avenue Campus from 11 am - 12.30 pm, followed by lunch for
Join us for "Deadly Spaces: Haunted Homes and Haunting Histories," an IRW Distinguished Lecture with Tithi Bhattacharya (History, Purdue University). Professor Bhattacharya’s talk will explore why modern Bengali ghost stories tend to be set outside Calcutta in places with older histories, while British ghosts frequent Calcutta mansions giving the city
