BWS/SJS/SOC: 265 - Critical Inquiry and Penny Lecture Series
(2 Credit Hours) - 2020 Theme: Gender, Empowerment and  Social Movements

All lectures in 007 Upham Hall, 6:00-7:40 pm. Open to the public.

"Introduction: Gender, Empowerment and Social Movements"

January 27

Rodney Coates (Global and Intercultural Studies, Sociology)

"From Guns to Glitter: A Visual History of Women Rising up against the State in Mexico"

February 3

Elena Jackson Albarrán (Global and Intercultural Studies/LAS, History)

"God is a Woman: Elza Soores, Sexual Politics and Social Movements"

February 10

Paula Gandara (Spanish and Portuguese/Lusophone Studies)

"Women's Rights, Orientalism and Civilizing Missions: Reflections on a Turkish Immigrant's Legacy to the Suffrage Movement"

February 17

Zeynep Aydogdu (Global and Intercultural Studies)

"Black Queer Womanhood Matters: Searching for the Queer Herstory of Black Lives Matter in Television Dramas"

February 24

Leland Spencer (Interdisciplinary and Communication Studies)

"Many Small Other Worlds: Politics and Feelings in the Music of The Ophelias"

March 2

Dan DiPiero (Global and Intercultural Studies)

"P'urhépecha Women & Rebellion at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century"

March 9

Yurida Ramirez (Global and Intercultural Studies)

"Politics, Gender, and the Black Power Divide: Shirley Chisolm and the Cleveland Stokes Brothers"

March 16

Nishani Frazier (History)

Spring Break

"Gendered Space, Identity, and Resistance"

March 30

Elizabeth Stigler (Global and Intercultural Studies)

"The Muses of Cannibalism"

April 6

Ricardo Averbach (Director of Orchestral Studies)

"Rome's On-going War against Hannibal's Matriarchal Empire"

April 13

Marsha Robinson (Humanities and Creative Arts)

"Black Woman Slaughter and Black Mattering: Reflections and Meditations on Remembering to #SayHerName"

April 20

Durell M. Callier (Educational Leadership)

"What's Power Got to Do With It?: The Role of Women in a Sex Negative Culture"

April 27

Richelle Frabotta (Family Science and Social Work)

"Conclusion: The Future of Gender, Empowerment and Social Movements"

May 4

Rodney Coates (Global and Intercultural Studies, Sociology)