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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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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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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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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,...
View ArticleDorothy 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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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...
View ArticleJanice 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...
View ArticleUtopian 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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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:...
View ArticleMathematics 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...
View ArticleLife (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,...
View ArticleStrengthening 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...
View ArticleWomen 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...
View ArticleNatural 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...
View ArticleEbonie 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...
View ArticleGender: 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleA 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....
View ArticleAnna 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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