Duke on Gender

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and the History Department are pleased to announce a new colloquium series, Duke on Gender.

People attending the Duke On Gender colloquium.

The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars and offers an multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women’s history, gender and queer theory, sexuality studies, transgender studies, and the study of feminism, social movements, and contemporary social issues and policy in a transnational world.

Upcoming Colloquia

There are no upcoming colloquia at this time.

Past Colloquia

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How and Why Some U.S. Billionaires Are Funding Anti-Feminism, Global Homophobia, and Other Attacks on Democracy
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Speaker(s): Lisa Graves and Nancy MacLean PRESENTERS: Lisa Graves (Executive Director of True North Research and President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy) Nancy MacLean (History Department, GSFS, Duke University) CHAIR: Anna Krylova (History Department, GSFS, Duke… read more »

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Trans Politics Now: A Seminar with Jules Gill-Peterson
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Speaker(s): Jules Gill-Peterson This is an in-person event. Mask are required. RSVP to gsfs@duke.edu What role does trans studies play in a moment of widespread anti-trans political attack, disinformation, and even conspiracy theory? What is the relation between trans political… read more »

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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in Computing
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Speaker(s): Mar Hicks This is the third event in this year's Duke on Gender Colloquium Series. Chair: Anna Krylova (History Department, Duke University) Presenters: Mar Hicks (History Department, Illinois Institute of Technology) Mar Hicks is a historian of technology, gender, and labor,… read more »

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Black Feminism Beyond the Human
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Speaker(s): Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Patrice Douglass Registration Required: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcOmqqTksGNEgwvHkKpIAPenAcDrWJ… Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (Department of English, University of Southern California) Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World… read more »

Transnationally Thinking Men and Masculinities
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The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars to offer a multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women's history, gender and queer theory, sexuality… read more »

Gender, Race and Labor in the Academy
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The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars to offer a multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women's history, gender and queer theory, sexuality… read more »

Black Muslims and the Black Arts Movement
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The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars to offer a multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women's history, gender and queer theory, sexuality… read more »

“Marxism, Socialism, Feminism: A Transnational Conversation”
“Marxism, Socialism, Feminism: A Transnational Conversation”
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Presenters: Lisa Disch / on France (Political Science, University of Michigan) Kristen Ghodsee / on Eastern Europe (Cultural Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) Rebecca Karl /on China (History Department, NYU) Kathi Weeks / on US (Duke GSFS) Anna Krylova / on Russia (Duke History Department) read more »

“Interventions on the Colonial and Postcolonial: The Case of Psychoanalysis”
“Interventions on the Colonial and Postcolonial: The Case of Psychoanalysis”
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Presenters: Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham College, Oxford University) Ranjana Khanna (Duke English Department, Program in Literature)   read more »

Feminist Visions and Activist Dilemmas of the US Black Lives Matter and SA Fees Must Fall Movements: A Transnational Conversation
Feminist Visions and Activist Dilemmas of the US Black Lives Matter and SA Fees Must Fall Movements: A Transnational Conversation
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Chair: Anne-Maria B. Makhulu (Duke Cultural Anthropology and AAAS) Presenters: Xhercis Méndez (Philosophy and African American and African Studies, Michigan State University) “Weaving Decolonial Feminist Visions and Methodologies: Women of Color Feminisms and the Creators of Black Lives… read more »

Regulating Intimacy and Constituting Community in Taiwan and China
Regulating Intimacy and Constituting Community in Taiwan and China
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Chair: Juliette Duara (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University) Presenters: Sara L. Friedman (Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University) Carlos Rojas (AMES, GSF, and AMI, Duke University) read more »

Colonial Sexualities
Colonial Sexualities
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Colonial Sexualities Chair: Rey Chow (Program in Literature, Duke University) Presenters: Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz) Pete Sigal (History Department, Duke University) Lunch to follow. read more »

Relations with Dead/Remains in an Era of Singlification (21st Century Japan)
Relations with Dead/Remains in an Era of Singlification (21st Century Japan)
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Friday, October 21 - 11:00 am - East Duke Parlors “Relations with Dead/Remains in an Era of Singlification (21st Century Japan)” Chair: Elizabeth Grosz (Women’s Studies and Literature, Duke University) Presenter: Anne Allison (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University) Discussant: Kathy Rudy (Women’s… read more »

The Politics of Clothing: Rethinking Narratives of Women, Identity, and the State
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Chair: Anne Allison (Duke Cultural Anthropology). Papers:“Women, Cloth, and the Hidden History of Property and the State in the Nineteenth-Century United States”  Laura Edwards (Duke History Department)           “‘I Want to Wear It’: The Color… read more »

The Transnational and the Local in 1970s-1980s Feminism
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Presenters Judith Walkowitz (History Department, Johns Hopkins University/NHC Fellow) Jolie Olcott (Duke History Department) For more information, contact series organizers: Elizabeth Grosz (Women’s Studies, Duke University), elizabeth.grosz@duke.edu Anna Krylova (History Department, Duke… read more »

Feminism, Femininity, and Queer Perspectives in Neoliberal Culture
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Presenters Kim Lamm (Duke Women’s Studies) Topic to be announced read more »

Minoo Moallem and Frances S. Hasso: Masculinities in the Making: Iranian and Egyptian Film
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Chair Guo-Juin Hong (Duke Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image). Papers “War Movies and Fractured Notions of Masculinity” Minoo Moallem (UC Berkeley Gender & Women’s Studies Department) “Masculinities, Ideology, and Revolutionary Traces in… read more »

Theorizing Gender: Thinking and Using Theory Differently
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Chair Priscilla Wald (Duke English Department and Women’s Studies) Papers “Concepts in Feminist Theory” Elizabeth Grosz (Duke Women’s Studies and Literature) “Turning Theory into a Historical Practice: A Case of Gender” Anna Krylova (Duke History Department and Women’s Studies) Panel Abstract The… read more »