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“Predictable Failures” in the Trayvon Martin Story: Excerpts from The Private...

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway gathered several scholars whose expertise lies at the cross-section of law, race, gender, and bioethics, to respond to Karla FC...

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Doubting Sex: How Bodies Changed and Selves Appeared in Nineteenth Century...

Anna Barbara Meier and Emma R. both grew up as females in Germany, and were in their adult lives both medically declared to be male. However, there was a time gap of more than one century between the...

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Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals’ unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 lecture,...

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Moving Images: Psychoanalytically-Informed Methods in Documenting the Lives...

Many contemporary feminist projects attempt to subvert the male gaze by “bearing witness” to female trauma through visual representation. Yet these projects have tended to be under-theorized. Since...

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Dorothy Roberts

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals’ unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 lecture,...

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Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals’ unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 lecture,...

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Janice Haaken

Since visual images invoke the spectator’s experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic images may readily reproduce forms of voyeurism. This...

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Janice Haaken: Moving Images – Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and...

Since visual images invoke the spectator’s experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic images may readily reproduce forms of voyeurism. This...

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Utopian Design? Feminism and Critical Design

The second morning keynote presentation at The Scholar & Feminist 2013: Utopia featured Shaowen Bardzell and artist Youngsuk Altieri of Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing....

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Utopia Morning Keynotes Questions and Answers

Melanie Cervantes, Elandria Williams, Shaowen Bardzell, and Youngsuk Altieri respond to audience comments and questions following their morning keynote presentations at The Scholar & Feminist 2013:...

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Mathematics and Beauty

Does beauty have a mathematical foundation? If so, can machines learn to identify it? Mina Teicher, professor of mathematics and neural computation at Bar-Ilan University, traces the mathematics...

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Life (Un)Ltd: Feminism, Bioscience, Race

Contributors include Laura Briggs, Rosemary Candelario, Melinda Cooper, Stephanie Hsu, Hannah Landecker, Rachel C. Lee, Kathleen McHugh, Michelle Murphy, Diane Nelson, Lisa A. Onaga, Catherine Sameh,...

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Strengthening Empirical Reasoning Across the Curriculum

Discussion about the need
 for stronger STEM (science, technology, engineering, 
and mathematics) education, especially for women and
 girls, abounds in the media, classrooms, and centers of policy...

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Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media

This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and 
early modern Europe. Featuring presentations based on texts and images...

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Natural Product Synthesis : A Platform for Discovery in Chemistry and Biology

The chemical synthesis of natural products provides an exciting platform from which to conduct fundamental research in chemistry and biology. Dr. Reisman’s laboratory has ongoing research programs...

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Ebonie Smith: Learning STEM through Music Production and the Arts

In her closing comments at The Scholar & Feminist Conference XL – Action on Education, music producer Ebonie Smith discusses music production and the arts as an alternative approach to STEM...

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Gender: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities

Ideas about gender have changed in complex ways in the 125 years since Barnard was founded. How have the natural sciences and humanities each contributed to these transformations? How have scientific...

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An Energy Plan for the 21st Century

ABOUT THE EVENT Global energy systems have undergone numerous transitions over human history—from wood to coal, from animals to automobiles, from candles to electric lighting. Catalysts for these...

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A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth Stalked by Man

ABOUT THE EVENT To take seriously the concept of the Anthropocene—the idea that we have entered a new epoch defined by humans’ impact on Earth’s ecosystems—requires engagement with global history....

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing – A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth...

To take seriously the concept of the Anthropocene—the idea that we have entered a new epoch defined by humans’ impact on Earth’s ecosystems—requires engagement with global history. Using feminist...

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