Save the Date: Morgan Jerkins September 9th

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T he Women's and Gender Studies Program at Boston College is an interdisciplinary minor for undergraduate students that richly explores feminist and gender theories in relation to the political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces shaping our world. Through a global and transnational perspective, the program investigates the dynamic interplay between gender and other factors affecting our personal and communal identities, including race, class, culture, religion, sexuality, and location.

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Morgan Jerkins

Morgan Jerkins is an author, journalist, editor, and professor based in Manhattan. Her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Harper Perennial 2018), was a New York Times bestseller and for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

To learn more about Morgan, visit her website, here!

SEPTEMBER 9th, 2019

7:30 PM, MCGUINN HALL 121

PIZZA FOR THE FIRST 100!

BOSTON COLLEGE & THE COMMUNITY

Meet our new Graduate Assistants!

Hi folks! My name is Chandler (she/her pronouns) and I’m a first year student in the School of Social Work on a clinical track with a focus on Children, Youth, and Families. I graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2018 and my undergraduate career was really influenced by the gender studies discipline. I’m looking forward to working with the WGS program at BC so others can experience the amazing discussions and ideas that come about in this field through its interdisciplinary structure. Feel free to stop by the office to chat about your classes or just say hi!

Hello, my fellow feminists, female warriors, and allies! My name is Anna Burbano, and I’m a second-semester M.A.T.M. student at BC School of Theology and Ministry.

I am incredibly passionate about three things: my faith, my family (which now includes my newly-adopted Siamese mix kitten!), and #girlpower. As an undergrad, I loved working with female-led companies like Her Campus, CFashionista, and Marie Claire. Now, as a grad student, I can’t wait to share my enthusiasm for WGS and work to unite the BC community in a shared mission to lift up the voices of women and the marginalized in society.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Fall 2019 Speaker Series

& Consortium Seminar

Thursday, September 12, 2019

2:00–3:15 PM: Lecture plus Q & A

3:15–4:00 PM: Consortium Seminar

Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East:

Feminist Dilemmas in Islamophobic Times

Nadje Al-Ali

Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies,

Brown University

The talk charts Al-Ali's trajectories as a feminist activist/academic seeking to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East. More specifically she draws on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti-racist/anti-Islamophobic politics.

Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3550A, UMass Boston

Thursday, October 3, 2019

12:30–1:45 PM: Lecture plus Q & A

1:45–2:30 PM: Consortium Seminar

Women of Color

and the Global Security Challenges

of the 21st Century

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins

Founder and Executive Director of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) and Ambassador at the U.S. Department of State from 2009-17

Challenges today are global in nature and are best addressed through global responses with diverse voices engaged. However, those most vulnerable, people and particularly women of color, are not adequately represented at the policy tables where decisions are being made. This discussion will examine some of those challenges, particularly infectious disease, and the impact of those challenges on the most vulnerable communities.

Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3550C, UMass Boston

Monday, November 4, 2019

4:00-5:15 PM: Lecture plus Q & A

5:15-6:00 PM: Consortium Seminar

Gendered Local Voices in

Counterterrorism Policies

Anwar Mhajne

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Stonehill College

Currently, the discourse and actions around terrorism prevention and response are strongly infused with socially-constructed images of masculinity and femininity. Women are often ignored and instrumentalized in terrorism prevention and response approaches. Such approaches have a real and direct impact on women’s rights, with consequences for the right to participation, and freedom of association, among others. This talk will address the need for context-specific security measures through ongoing engagement with local women’s groups to ensure a more effective response that improves lives and access to rights for all.

Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Conference Room 3540, UMass Boston

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

4:00-5:15 PM: Lecture plus Q & A

5:15-6:00 PM: Consortium Seminar

Why We Need a Feminist Roadmap

for Sustainable Peace and a Sustainable Planet

Carol Cohn

Director, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights

Western peacebuilding models repeatedly fail to bring sustainable peace. And our dominant economic models, with their overwhelmingly extractive stance toward both people and the planet, have left us careening toward climate catastrophe. Major paradigm shifts are urgently needed; this talk will argue that feminist analysis can and must be a key to making those shifts.

Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Conference Room 3540, UMass Boston

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