Faculty Research: Dr. Randy Lewis on Surveillance and Emotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vSXl5xhP4A few years ago, Dr. Randy Lewis received a Humanities Research Award from the College of Liberal Arts in support of research for his upcoming book, currently titled Surveillance of the Heart: Fear and Loathing in Fortress America. In this video, Dr. Lewis describes the specific research that this award supported, from visits to Walden Pond to churches in Colorado. Take a look!
Announcement: Spring Pecha Kucha
We'd like to welcome everyone to our spring Pecha Kucha, which we're holding on Friday, 25th at 4 PM in Burdine 436A. The program, which features very short talks by AMS graduate students and faculty, is below; we hope to see you there!The Jaws AgeJanet Davis"The Eyes of the Lord Are in Every Place": Canonizing Drone Technology in the Post-9/11 WorldCarrie AndersenHow To Be Free: Lessons from a DissertationSusan QuesalThe Political Economy of Black FuturesShirley ThompsonColossal Vision: Seeing Race in Olmec Sculpture at LACMANatalie ZeltI Was Here: Presence, Movement, and TracesBrendan Gaughen
Announcement: Dr. Lauren Gutterman, “Will the Real Lesbian Please Stand Up?” The Moral Imperatives of Lesbian Feminism
Welcome back from Spring Break! To get back into the swing of the semester, why not attend a talk by AMS faculty member Dr. Lauren Gutterman? Dr. Gutterman's talk, entitled “Will the Real Lesbian Please Stand Up?” The Moral Imperatives of Lesbian Feminism, is a part of the Center for Women and Gender Studies Faculty Development Speaker series, and will be in CLA, Room 1.302E at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM on Wednesday, March 23rd. We've included a description of the talk below, and we hope to see you there.
Lesbian feminist writing in the 1970s helped to create a larger, more visible lesbian community than ever before. At the same time, however, this writing—including manifestos, memoirs, fiction and poetry—helped delimit the boundaries of that community and identify those who would not be a part of the “Lesbian Nation.” Among these exiles were wives who slept with women and were unwilling to divorce their husbands. Faced with fictional and non-fictional portraits of wives who desired women as self-hating, lacking in courage, and suffering from false-consciousness, wives who wanted to express the concerns and affective ties that kept them within marriage struggled to make their voices heard within lesbian (and) feminist publications. While a few women were able to tell more complicated or ambivalent stories about their marriages and same-sex desires, lesbian feminist activists and writers in the 1970s and early 1980s largely cast such women as vestiges of the past. Indeed, by making divorce an imperative for women who identified as lesbians and portraying those who remained married despite their same-sex desires as anachronisms, lesbian feminists pushed lesbian and married women’s worlds further apart.
Announcement: Dr. Jigna Desai, "Contesting Nueral Citizenship: Feminist Crip of Color Neurocultures"
Please join us for a talk, Contesting Nueral Citizenship: Feminist Crip of Color Neurocultures, by Dr. Jigna Desai on Monday, March 7, 2:00-3:30pm in CLA 3.210. The description is below.
"With the emergence and rise of neural knowledge and its mainstreaming in contemporary culture and society, new forms of knowledge are transforming how we identify, understand, and manage personhood and citizenship vis-a-vis conceptions of “normal” and “abnormal” brains. In short, we live in an era characterized by neurocentrism where the brain is seen as central to explaining who we are. Drawing on intersectional feminist, queer, and disability theories of biopolitics and citizenship, the presentation addresses contestations over our neural selves, imagining feminist crip of color possibilities."
Dr. Desai teaches at the University of Minnesota.