Announcement: Dr. Heather A. Williams, "The Emotional Violence of Slavery"
We would love to draw your attention to a series of events transpiring on campus TODAY (Tuesday, March 29) at 4:00pm and tomorrow (Wednesday, March 30). Dr. Heather A. Williams (The University of Pennsylvania) will be delivering two Littlefield Lectures: today's is entitled "The Emotional Violence of Slavery" and tomorrow's is "Murder on the Plantation."The events will take place in the Glickman Conference Room in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Building, and they are sponsored by the UT History Department.For more information about Dr. Williams, see her faculty page here.
Grad Research: INGZ Collective curator Natalie Zelt produces "Sampling," March 31 - April 2
- 10-11:30 am: Tameka Norris Become Someone Else Workshop I (Location: GWB Multipurpose Room) Email info@ingzcollective.org to sign up.
- 5:30-6pm: Sampling Opening Reception (In Winship Building)
- 6-8pm: Screening of Free Jazz & Performance by Brontez Purnell and The Younger Lovers followed by a Movement Workshop open to the public (location: Lab Theatre)
- 2-3:30pm: Tameka Norris Become Someone Else Workshop II (Location: WIN 1.148) Emailinfo@ingzcollective.org to sign up
- 4-4:30pm: CHEEKY LaSHAE gives a paper at New Directions in Anthropology Conference (Location CLA 1.302B)
- 5:30pm-7pm: Meka Jean "Ivy League Ratchet" Happy Hour Performance (Location GWB Multipurpose Room)
- 9pm-11pm: MONTH os SUNDAYS--CHEEKY LaSHAE Singes BLACK SABBATH with Meka Jean encore performance of "Ivy League Ratchet" and a opening act by The Younger Lovers (Location: Museum of Human Achievement)
- 11am-12pm: Brunch Talk with Tameka Norris, Brontez Purnell and The Younger Lovers and Kenya (Robinson) (Location: CLA 1.302D)
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.