Past Event Category: Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture
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Feb 16Roundtable Discussion: “Metic, Methods, and Modernism”
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
2018 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Event: Madelyn Detloff English and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University Please join us for a roundtable discussion with Madelyn Detloff about her recently published article “Metic, Methods, and Modernism.” Coffee and light snacks will be provided. All are welcome. Room is accessible. The article can be obtained …
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Feb 15Biopower in the Long 20th Century: A Crip/Queer Exegesis of the Persistence of Fascism
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
2018 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Madelyn Detloff English and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University In her study of the formation and spread of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt analyzed the political structures of both Nazi Germany and Stalinist USSR. Perhaps because of her exhaustive critique of Nazi totalitarianism, fascism is often associated in …
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Mar 30Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Changed American IQ, and Why We Don’t Know It
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
2017 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Susan Schweik UC Berkeley, English “Dull Babies Made Normal By Feeble-Minded Girls’ Care: Increase of as Much as 40 Points in IQ Reported,” a science magazine headline trumpeted in 1939, describing an experiment led by psychologist Harold Skeels in which orphanage toddlers were transferred to the State …
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Nov 5The Work of Sex in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly’s Kisses
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
2015 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture: Elizabeth Freeman English, University of California, Davis The lecture analyzes how Tino Sehgal’s museum installation “Kiss” establishes the normative temporal scheme of contemporary heterosexual sex, and how a series of performances by Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly (who work as Gerard & Kelly) comment upon and transform …