Brownbag Archives
- SPRING 2008
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May 16
Ramon Gutierrez, Professor of United States History, History Dept., University of Chicago
Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History in the History Department at the University of Chicago
May 2
"Miss L'Eurafricain" (Miss Euroafrican): Gendered Racial Identity in Post-1945 Colonial French Africa
April 25
Jennifer Scappettone, Assistant Professor in English at the University of Chicago
Women, Floods, Bodies, History, Revisited: Reflux as Form in Marinetti's Late Venetian Writings
April 18
Elissa Helms, Visiting Scholar. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Hierarchies of Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
- WINTER 2008
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March 7
Susan Larsen, Assistant Professor. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Invisible Girls and Imperial Institutions: Towards a Genealogy of Female Adolescence in Russia
Tara Zahra, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago
February 8
Lost Children: Gender, Family, and Human Rights in Postwar Europe
- AUTUMN 2007
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October 12
Michele Goodwin, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Rethinking Statutory Rape Laws
November 2
Dorith Geva, Harper Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Obligation to Family, Obligation to State: Fathers, Soldiers, and the World War I Draft
- SPRING 2007
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April 27
Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Harvard University
New Taboos/New Orthodoxies: Gender & Sexuality in the 21st Century -
May 11
Emi Koyama, Director, Intersex Initiative
Intersex at the Intersection of Queer Theory and Disability Theory
Co-sponsored with the Japan at Chicago Lecture Series: Celebrating Protest -
May 18
Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University
Recovering the Interwar Generation
- WINTER 2007
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January 19
Bozena Shallcross, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago
Negotiating the Gaze: Olga Boznanska as a Portraitist -
February 16
Amahl Bishara, Instructor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Local Hands, International News: Gender, Nationality, and the Production of U.S. News in the West Bank -
March 2
Criscillia Benford, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Women, Fashion, and Democratic Aesthetics in Eliot's Middlemarch
- AUTUMN 2006
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October 12
Simona Sharoni, Faculty, Masters in Teaching Program, Evergreen State College
De-Militarizing Masculinities in the Age of Empire -
November 10
Janine Stone, Chicago Activist and Poet
Art From Wreckage
Co-sponsored by Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention
- SPRING 2006
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April 14
Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Art History
Green Houses, Geisha, and the Bean Man: Problems in Teaching Japanese Erotic Art -
April 21
Kaethe Morris Hoffer, Attorney
Holding Perpetrators Accountable for Rape: Civil Remedies in Sexual Assault Cases
Co-sponsored by Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention in conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month. -
May 12
Jessica Cattelino, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
The Miss Seminole Pageant and Indigenous Overlapping Citizenship in the Casino Era - WINTER 2006
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January 13
Jennifer Cole, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Et Plus Sy Affinite: Internet Marriage and Changing Ideas of Love in Madagascar -
February 3
Judith Farquar, Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
Saving and Expenditure, Money and Sex: A Chinese Rural Romance -
February 10
Yamagami Chieko, Film Director
Dear Tari: A Performance Artist's Quest of Sexuality -
March 3
Gina Samuels, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Lessons from Multiracial Women on Adoption, Race and Identity - AUTUMN 2005
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October 14
Steve Collins, Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Gender and Modernity in Thai Buddhism -
October 28
Human Rights and Sexuality Panel: HIV & LGBTQ Discrimination Across the Globe
University of Chicago students discussed their experience interning with NGO's through the Human Rights Program's 2005 Summer Internship Program.
Derek Ciszek - Amnesty International, Australia
Justin Hill - Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles
James Sams - BONELA, Botswana
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. -
November 11
Francesca Royster, Professor, DePaul University, Dept. of English
Sounding Like a No-No: Reading and Recovering Grace Jones' Transgender Erotics - SPRING 2005
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April 15
Bernard Harcourt, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Academic Affairs, University of Chicago
You Are Forbidden To Read This Foreword: 'You are entering a gay and lesbian-free zone': On the Radical Dissent of Justic Scalia and Some Post-Queer (Rethinking Lawrence, Sex Wars, and the Penal Code) -
April 22
Mia Muhammad, Prevention and Education Specialist for Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
Dating Violence 102: Issues and Solutions
Co-sponsored by Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention. -
April 29
Chris Kilmartin, Psychologist, Comedian, Activst
The Psychology of Rape (Perpetrators' Issues) -
May 6
Masculine Wiles
A presentation of films and videos that investigate the many facets of masculinity in the past and present selected from the Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival. -
May 13
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Prophecy in Action: Green Sisters, Earth Ministry, and the Ecozoic Era as Lived Practice
Co-sponsored by the Religion and Environment Initiative at the University of Chicago and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
May 27
Daisy Delogu, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
Mother of Her People: Queenship, Maternity and Political Power in Late Medieval France - WINTER 2005
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February 4
Orit Bashkin, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Friends, Lovers, Soldiers - Images of Masculinity in Interwar Iraq -
February 11
Summerson Carr, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social Services Administration
The Lexicon of Lila's Love Life: Sex, Drugs and Language Ideology -
February 25
Body, Gaze and Transgender in Pasolini's Last Works - Panel Discussion on Italian Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
Armando Maggi, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Languages & Literatures, History of Culture
The Resurrection of the Body in Pasolini's "Porn-Theo-Colossal"
Michael Syrimis, Lecturer in Italian, Washington University, Film and Media Studies
Pasolini's Erotic Gaze, From "Medea" to "Salo"
Rebecca West, Director of the Center for Gender Studies, Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Languages & Literatures, Cinema & Media Studies
From 'Trans' to 'Transcendental': Shifting Gender Identity in Pasolini's Last Novel, "Petrolio" -
March 4
Joshua D. Pilzer, CGS Dissertation Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Music
My Heart, The Number One: Voices and Portraits of South Korean Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery - AUTUMN 2004
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October 8
Didier Eribon, French Philospher and Historian
Anti Oedipus: Untimely Meditations on Same-Sex Marriage -
October 15
Janet Johnson, Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Near Eastern Langauges & Civilizations, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
Sex, Marriage and Property Rights in Ancient Egypt -
October 22
Del LaGrace Volcano, Author, Photographer, Filmmaker
Queer in the 21st Century -
October 29
Alternative Sexualities Within the Context of Feminism: A Round Table Discussion on Bondage & Dominance/Sadism & Masochism (BD/SM) -
November 5
Bart Schultz, Fellow and Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division and Special Programs Coordinator at the Graham School of General Studies
Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe
November 12
Salamishah Tillet, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard
Kobe and Beyond: A Look at Sexual Assault, Race and the Media
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention, Women and Youth Supporting Each Other, Organization of Black Students, and Sista Friends
November 19
J. Mark Miller, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of English
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex and Agency in the Canterbury Tales - SPRING 2004
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April 2
Ayisha Knight, Poet, Actress, Activist
Deaf Survivors: Accessibility and Healing After Sexual Assualt
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention as part of Sexual Violence Prevention Month. -
April 9
Sunmi Park, Lecturer, Rithumeikan University, Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria, Canada
Korean Women Students in Japan Under Colonial Rule -
April 23
Homer King, Former Pimp from the West Side of Chicago
Demystifying Pimps and Hos: A View from the Inside
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention as part of Sexual Violence Prevention Month. -
April 30
Gretchen Soderlund, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Communication & Soceity
The Rhetoric of Revelation: Contemporary Feminism, Journalism, and the Traffic in Women -
May 7
Brett Stockdill, Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Dept. of Sociology
Homophobia in Higher Education: A Tangled Web of Pathology
May 14
Ronald Gregg, Lecturer and Director of Programming, Committee on Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago
Queering Brad Pitt: The Struggle Between Gay Fans and the Hollywood Machine to Control Star Discourse and Image on the Web - WINTER 2004
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January 16
Elizabeth Emens, Bigelow fellow and Lecturer, University of Chicago, School of Law
Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence -
January 23
Rochona Majumdar, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Assistant Professor, Social Science Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Father of the Bride: Debates on Dowry in Urban, Colonial Bengal -
January 30
Elisabeth Clemens, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Securing Political Returns to Social Capital: Women's Associations in American Politics, 1880s-1920s -
February 6
Richard Strier, Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of English and the Committee on Visual Arts
Shakespeare and Misogyny -
February 13
Katherine Biers, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Assitant Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
The Photographic Message of Gertrude Stein - AUTUMN 2003
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October 10
Mary Zerkel, Co-Director, Praxis/Economic Justice Project of the American Friends Service Committee
The Gender Impact of Free Trade of the Americas Agreement
Co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Anti-Sweatshop Coalition. -
October 24
Julia Henly, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Child Care Strategies of Low-Income Mothers Employed in the Retail Sector -
November 7
Brenda Meyers, Former Prostitute and Chair of PART (Prostitution Alernatives Round Table)
Prostitution: Not a Profession
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention -
November 14
John D'Emilio, Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, Depts. of History and Gender & Women's Studies
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture -
November 21
Jesook Song, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Dept. of East Asian Studies
Dialectics of Activism and Academic Work, or, What Happened to an Academician Involved in Activism During Her Field Research? - SPRING 2003
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April 11
Sherizaan Minwalla, Staff Attorney, Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
Violence Against Women in Immigrant Communities
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention in conjunction with Sexual Violence Prevention Month. -
May 2
Elissa Weaver, Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago
Spiritual Fun: Convent Theater in Early Modern Italy -
May 9
Yau Ching, Film Director and Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic
Let's Love Hong Kong: Female Sexuality, Experimental Films, and the Future of Hong Kong -
May 23
Valerie Ritter, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Textual Women, Etymologies of Strength: A Study in Colonial-Era Hindi Literature - WINTER 2003
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January 17
Laura Ring, Gender Studies Preceptor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
Gender, Peacemaking and Emotional Labor: Sharing the Shade in Karachi -
January 30
Sandi Simcha Dubowski, Film Maker of Trembling Before G-d
Homosexuality and Judaism -
February 7
Rachel Fulton, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Medieval History
Monkish Prayer: Observations on the Sublime and the Grotesque -
February 14
Martha Roth, Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Ancient Mediterranean World and Jewish Studies
Marriage, Divorce and the Prostitute -
February 21
Armando Maggi, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, Committee on the History of Culture
Apocalypticism and Homosexuality in Pier Pasolini's Last Scripts
February 28
Dr. Stacy Lindau, University of Chicago, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sexuality and Sex Hormone Therapy: Perspectives on Older Women's Sexual Health and Well-Being - SPRING 2002
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April 5
Rebecca Zorach, Amy Bingaman, & Lise Shapiro Sanders, Authors and Center for Gender Studies Conference Organizers
Embodied Utopias Publication Party -
April 12
Charlotte Saenz, Women's International Information Project (WiiP), Street-Level Youth Media
Working With and Learning From the Women of FOMMA (Fortitude or Strength of the Mayan Woman) in Chiapas, Mexico -
April 19
Jonathan David Jackson, Temple University
The Social World of Voguing
April 26
Jaime Jimenez, Director of the Zero Tolerance Sexual Assault Prevention Project (Northwestern University), Co-Coordinator of Color of Violence II
Latinas and Sexual Assault: Cultural Considerations
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention as part of Sexual Violence Prevention Month.
May 10
Kyeong-Hee Choi, Professor, University of Chicago, East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Japanese Colonial Censorship and the Figure of Woman in Modern Korean Literature
Co-sponsored with the Gender and Sexualities in Asia Workshop.
May 17
Helen Deutsch, Associate Professor, UCLA, Dept. of English
'The Monster, the Body': Narratives of Illness, Histories of Presence
May 24
Diane Torr, Artist, Writer, Teacher, Director
Gender Behavior and Codification of Gesture
May 31
Beth Buggenhagen, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
Gendered and Generational Visions of Wealth, Grace and Value in a Senegalese Murid Trading Diaspora - WINTER 2002
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January 11
Dwight McBride, Associate Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago, Depts. of English and African-American Studies
African-American Studies and Baldwin's Prophetic Call for a Black Queer Studies
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. -
January 18
Debali Mookerjea, University of Chicago, Dept. of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Disenfranchised Bodies: Women After Partition
Co-sponsored with Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention. -
January 25
Tina Takemoto
If I Had a Hammer: The Spectacle of Pain in Performance Art -
February 1
Carrie Golus and Patrick Welch
Politics and Pictures: Comic Strips and Illustrated Journalism by Team Alternator
February 8
Dorian Warren
The American Labor Movement's 'Identity Politics': Contemporary Organizing Around Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Co-sponsored with the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.
February 22
Silvia Malagrino, Argentinean-born Filmmaker
Burnt Oranges
March 8
'What's Legibility Got to Do With It?': Volatile Obliquity, Queer-Feminist Photo-Practice, and Social Change