HOOCHIE Project Seeks BU Feminist Students
HOOCHIE (feminist though from BU) began in 2007 as a collective editorial project; it was revived in 2010 as a blog; and revived again in 2016 as a reader. This year we want to expand HOOCHIE into a full blown project–reader, blog, and activist group. For this we need staff editors, staff writers and event organizers! The HOOCHIE team is looking […]
Food, Mother, & The Woman
This event will feature our Visiting Scholar, Diana Garvin, discussing her project focused on East African women’s domestic labor in Fascist-period Italy, “Black Milk: Colonial Foodways and Intimate Imperialism”; and Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow, Vrinda Varma, discussing her research on the “Construction of Women’s Identities and Food Narratives in Kerala, India.” Event is free and […]
Join us for an Evening with Douglas Crimp
Join us for an evening celebrating Before Pictures, a new memoir by art historian and AIDS activist Douglas Crimp. Where: Kenmore Classroom Building Room 101 When: Thursday, October 6th at 5pm This event is FREE and open to the public! Renowned for his work with artists of the “Pictures” generation, such as Cindy Sherman and […]
Reproductive Justice in the Era of Marriage Equality, a Lunch Discussion
Featuring Kimberly Mutcherson, Vice Dean and Professor at Rutgers Law School. Sept. 28, from 12:45 – 2:00 in Room 204 of the Law School. Professor Mutcherson will be discussing her new book project on reproductive justice. She has also sent us a short piece she wrote for Harvard Journal of Law and Gender to help launch a broader […]
“Strangers Before the Law: Contested Intimacies in Taiwan”
Feat. Sara L. Friedman Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University WHEN: Thursday March 5, 2014, 12:30- 2:00pm WHERE: Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Seminar Room 121 Bay State Road, Boston Sponsored by ROC Ministry of Education & Education Division – TECO Boston How does the power of law makes intimate […]
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” Film Screening
March 1st, 2015 Source: Coolidge.org She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. She’s Beautiful takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; […]
Disability Studies Across the Disciplines
Project CAREER: Development of an Interprofessional Demonstration to Support the Transition of Students with TBI from Postsecondary Education to Employment Project CAREER is an interprofessional demonstration designed to improve the employment success of undergraduate college and university students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The goal of this demonstration is to develop a technology-driven, long-term and […]
Allegories of Alterity in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Botany: Flora’s Children as the Four Continents
Friday, November 21st WGS Sitting Room 704 Commonwealth Avenue Suite 101 Featuring speaker Miranda Mollendorf This talk is about the British botanist Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1797-1812), a lavish publication described by its author as ‘a Universal Empire of Love’ that contains the ‘choicest flowers of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.’ The book […]
Facing the Skeletons
Trauma and Narrative for Turkish Women in Prison and American Women with HIV 12:00PM – 1:30PM Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism 775 Commonwealth Avenue Featuring Professors Roberta Micallef and Leslie Brody.
Japanese Noh and Global Theaters
November 2nd, 2014 2:00PM – 4:00PM Boston Playwrights’ Theater, 949 Commonwealth Avenue The traditional Japanese stage art of noh is famous for the austere beauty of its chant, dance, and ethereal instrumental accompaniment. One of the oldest continuously performed arts in the world, it has also inspired many modern Western artists with its aesthetic of […]