The University of Kentucky's Gaines Center for the Humanities, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Working Group on War and Gender, an interdisciplinary group of scholars at UK, are teaming up to present a new program as part of the Gaines Center’s series on violence and the human condition.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Free and open to the public. No registration needed.
Session 3: 9:00 – 10:45
Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"Gendered Vulnerability and Forced Conscription in the War in Syria"
Moderator: Anahid Matossian, Department of Anthropology
Discussants: Diane King and Kristin Monroe, Department of Anthropology
Session 4: 11:00 – 12:30
Concluding Forum and Discussion
Moderator: Srimati Basu, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Session 1: 3:30 – 5:15
Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University
"The Capitalist-Rescue Narrative and the War on Terror"
Moderator: Amy Murrell Taylor, Department of History
Discussant, Francie Chassen-Lopez, Department of History
Session 2: 5:30- 7:15
Sue Grayzel, Professor of History and Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi
"All are Now in the Line of Fire:" Gender and the Defence of Civilian Bodies in the Interwar British Empire
Moderator: Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Department of Hispanic Studies
Discussant: Pearl James, Department of English
Come hear about GWS & AAAS course offerings for the fall semester. Snacks provided.
Susan Bordo, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and author of the feminist classic, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen, will moderate the presentations and discussion.
Presentations by three PhD students in Gender and Women’s Studies:
Analyzing the selfie: Exploring gender identity through nude photography, Darby Gieringer, M.A.
People love to see beautiful women get old or fat: Policing (Fat) Southern Femininity in Designing Women, Shawna Felkins, M.A.
You Are Not What You Eat: Eating and Weight in US Popular Culture, MaryAnn Kozlowski, M.A.
Reception to follow panel in the Alumni Gallery.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
