Knowing Otherwise: Haunting, Conjuring, and Spectral Encounters
Each year, IRW's Distinguished Lecture Series presents a variety of talks showcasing interdisciplinary work on women, gender and sexuality by a variety of eminent speakers. The lecture series revolves around an annual theme that is also shared by our interdisciplinary seminar and undergraduate learning community. In 2024-2025 our annual theme is "Knowing Otherwise: Haunting, Conjuring, and Spectral Encounters."
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
"Deadly Spaces: Haunted Homes and Haunting Histories"
Tithi Bhattacharya (History, Purdue University)
Humanities Seminar Room, Academic Building 6051, College Avenue Campus
11 am - 12.30 pm
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
"Bodies, Knowledge, and Sovereignty"
Deborah Thomas (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
Humanities Seminar Room, Academic Building 6051, College Avenue Campus
11 am - 12.30 pm
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
"Radical Death Studies: Death Work as Anti-Racist Practice"
Sarah Chavez (Executive Director, The Order of the Good Death), Kami Fletcher (American & African American History, Albright College), and Mensah Adinkrah (Sociology and Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University)
A virtual event on Zoom
4.30 pm - 6 pm
  
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Kay Turner (Performance Studies, New York University) and Ann Cvetkovich (English, University of Texas-Austin)
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
4.30 pm - 6 pm
 
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Download the 2024-2025 IRW Distinguished Lecture Series Poster
