STUDENT-INITIATED EVENT LUNCHTIME LECTURE NATALIE BOYMEL KAMPEN MEMORIAL LECTURE CARIBBEAN FEMINISMS THE BARNARD-COLUMBIA LOVE AND FLAMES IN FEMINIST CRITICISM AND HISTORY ON THE PAGE BLUES SYMPOSIUM Legacies of Black Queer and WITHOUT THE COVER OF LAW With Jamaica Kincaid, Tiphanie Prison Abolitionist Solidarity Writing the History of Enslaved Women Yanique, Kaiama Glover Friday, 02/13–Saturday, 02/14 with Palestinian Struggle By Annette Gordon-Reed Barnard Campus By Che Gossett Thursday, 04/16 6:30 PM Tuesday, 03/24 6:30 PM Event Oval, The Diana Center This weekend-long series of panel Wednesday, 02/11 12 PM Event Oval, The Diana Center discussions and listening sessions BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall Distinguished writer Jamaica engages with the musical Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Kincaid and debut novelist origins and cultural importance In this lecture, new BCRW luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed will discuss the way law Tiphanie Yanique come together of the great American art form: Community Archivist and influences the portrayal of enslaved women and their families. Annette with Barnard’s Kaiama Glover the blues. By grounding the Student Coordinator Che Gordon-Reed is the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe to discuss their experiences as conversation in the music and the Gossett examines the legacies Institute for Advanced Study, the Charles Warren Professor of American women of color writers from the experiences of those who made it, of Black queer solidarity with the Legal History at Harvard Law School, and a Professor of History at Harvard Caribbean and their thoughts this symposium seeks to question Palestinian struggle, excavating University. She received the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 on writing about the region, the role of race, class, capitalism, the archives of June Jordan, Pulitzer Prize in History for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American gender, and feminism. Kincaid is and gender in American creation BODY UNDONE James Baldwin, and George Family. She is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An the author of numerous books, of song, verse, and language. A Salon in Honor of Jackson to explore what they American Controversy, among other titles. Her honors include the National including most recently the novel WHY SEX? WHY GENDER? Christina Crosby reveal about Palestinian poetics, Humanities Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. See Now Then. Yanique’s debut Activist Research for Social This year’s lecture is in honor of Barnard Professor of History (and longtime All events are free, With Christina Crosby, Lisa Cohen, black radicalism, prison abolition, LUNCHTIME LECTURE novel, Land of Love and Drowning, Justice open to the public, and Leigh Gilmore, Laura Grappo, anti-pinkwashing movements, and A HISTORY OF THE UGLY BCRW Advisory Board member), Herbert Sloan, author of Principle and was released in 2014 to critical A symposium in honor of Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. wheelchair accessible. , Gayle Pemberton, the afterlife of slavery. By Rachel Eisendrath acclaim. Janet Jakobsen For all accessibility needs, THE SCHOLAR AND FEMINST XL Gayle Salamon please let BCRW know at your ACTION ON EDUCATION Thursday, 04/23 12 PM Friday, 05/01 10 AM–6:30 PM earliest convenience at A conference Tuesday, 03/10 6:30 PM BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall 212.854.2067 or [email protected]. Sulzberger Parlor Friday, 02/27–Saturday, 02/28 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Focusing on what Ben Jonson For the past 15 years, Janet R. For more information, go to Barnard Campus called “turdy-facy-nasty-paty- Jakobsen has led the Barnard bcrw.barnard.edu In her forthcoming memoir, lousy-fartical” characters in works Center for Research on Women in Barnard was founded 125 years ago with the feminist mission of providing education professor of medieval and Renaissance producing complex, multidisciplinary to those who were excluded from major avenues of education. In honor of this legacy Christina Crosby grapples with the literature, Assistant professor analyses that address the realities and the 40th anniversary of BCRW’s signature Scholar & Feminist Conference, this rawness of grief after a bicycle Rachel Eisendrath considers how of social change across a diverse year’s conference builds a feminist framework for understanding the institutional, accident left her quadriplegic at the highly ambivalent aesthetic range of issues. As the capstone to social, and pedagogical facets of teaching, learning, and schooling. Scholars, activists, age 50. Ultimately, she uncovers category of the ugly may serve Professor Jakobsen’s directorship BCRW educators, and artists explore the K-12 landscape and investigate who can attain the queer commitments that can of BCRW, this symposium will as a paradoxical means by which post-secondary education, under what circumstances, and at what cost. They create life-sustaining possibility in a literary text critiques or even further expand and transform discuss diverse feminist approaches to such topics as the Common Core standards, an undone body. At BCRW’s fifth protests against itself. frameworks for social justice SPRING 2015 educational alternatives, the school-to-prison pipeline, adjunct labor, sexual violence annual salon, participants reflect Photo used by permission of the Folger feminism, taking up gender, race, on campus, and continuing racial and economic segregation within educational on Crosby’s evocative story in the Shakespeare Library under a Creative sex, religion, freedom, economics, spaces. For list of participants visit bcrw.barnard.edu. context of poetry, memoir, disability Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 and the arts. International License. EVENTS Image courtesy of Pete Railand, justseeds.org studies, and queer theory. BCRW WELCOME TAMI AND CHE! STAFF DIRECTOR’S Janet R. Jakobsen, Ph.D. This fall, we welcomed Tami Navarro as our new Associate Director and Director CALENDAR Che Gossett as our Community Archivist and Student Coordinator. Tami Tina Campt, Ph.D. NOTE holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University and worked at Director the Women’s Coalition of St. Croix, a direct service organization founded by Tami Navarro, Ph.D. I cannot express all my gratitude in this small space. But I can say that the past fifteen HOURS OF OPERATION For more information, go to bcrw.barnard.edu Audre Lorde, prior to joining BCRW. She is working on a manuscript entitled Associate Director years serving as Director of BCRW have been the best of my working life. So much Virgin Capital: Financial Services as Development in the US Virgin Islands. Monday–Friday Che Gossett has happened in these years. Not only has the (now) forty year history of the Center Che is a Black genderqueer independent scholar and activist. Their projects 10am–5pm Community Archivist & Student informed my sense of what it meant to take up this job in the year 2000, but this new Wednesday, 02/11 Friday, 02/13– Friday, 02/27– focus on queer of color AIDS activist and trans archives, and on legacies of Coordinator century has also been dramatic—including times of violence and war, financial meltdown, MAILING ADDRESS LOVE AND Saturday, 02/14 Saturday, 02/28 queer Black solidarity with Palestinian struggle. They hold an MA from the Anne Jonas and climate change, along with the continuation of many traditional battles in the politics FLAMES BARNARD- ACTION ON University of Pennsylvania and an MA in education from . Program Manager of gender and sexuality (and some new ones). Leading BCRW during this time has Black Queer COLUMBIA EDUCATION 101 Barnard Hall Pam Phillips given me great hope in the capacity of feminist movements for social justice to construct 02/ Barnard Campus 3009 Broadway and Prison BLUES Administrative Assistant alternatives. When June Jordan spoke in 2001 at our 30th anniversary conference, Abolitionist SYMPOSIUM New York, NY 10027 Hope Dector or when Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams spoke about everyday practices of Solidarity Barnard Campus New Media Manager preventing violence, they helped to demonstrate that, “There is another way.” When I 12 PM Telephone 212.854.2067 Nicci Yin '14 step down from this job at the end of this semester, I will do so with a heightened sense BCRW THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST ONLINE ISSUE 12.1–12.2 Fax 212.854.8294 Post-Baccalaureate Fellow that we can create a world in which “all women can live in dignity, autonomy and equality.” 101 Barnard Hall Web address bcrw.barnard.edu I owe that sense to all of you. Web Journal sfonline.barnard.edu Tuesday, 03/10 Tuesday, 03/24 BCRW is thrilled to present “Activism and the Academy,” a double issue of RESEARCH ASSISTANTS So, what remains for me is to say thanks: thanks to all of you who have supported and Blog bcrw.barnard.edu/blog/ BODY UNDONE WITHOUT THE our peer-reviewed, open-access webjournal. Edited by Janet Jakobsen and Priyanka Bhatt ’18 participated in the Center. And, thanks to all the students, staff, faculty, administrators, E-mail [email protected] A Salon in Honor COVER OF LAW Catherine Sameh, this collection of responses to BCRW’s 40 years of feminist Michelle Chen ’15 alumnae, Advisory Board members and activist collaborators with whom I have had the Twitter @bcrwtweets 03/ of Christina Writing the 04/ social justice work within and, importantly, across academic and activist Carly Crane ’15 pleasure to work in these years. I owe special appreciation to Elizabeth Castelli and Crosby History of communities includes “Lessons from Anti-Violence Movements,” original videos Sarah DeYoung ’15 Neferti Tadiar for stepping in as Acting Directors at crucial points and to Tally Kampen 6:30 PM Enslaved Women produced by Hope Dector and Dean Spade. Authors in this issue include Robin Dania Lewis ’17 and Liz Boylan as extraordinary mentors. There are too many students who have Sulzberger Parlor 6:30 PM Weigman, Rod Ferguson, Sandra Soto, Stephanie Luce, Tavia Nyong’o, and Jessica Lempit ’15 worked here as RAs to name them personally, but I would be more than remiss if I didn’t 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Event Oval many more. Available free online at sfonline.barnard.edu. Salma Nakhlawi ’17 name the staff members who made the work of the Center possible and also made it The Diana Center Emily Shepard ’16 pleasurable: David Hopson, Liz Budnitz, Hope Dector, E. Grace Glenny, Gisela Fosado, Ruth Uruchima ’15 Lucy Trainor ‘07, Pamela Phillips, Catherine Sameh, Anne Jonas, Tami Navarro, Che Justina Walker ’15 Gossett, and Nicci Yin, ‘14. Finally, thanks to Christina for her patience and generosity. Thursday, 04/16 Thursday, 04/23 Friday, 05/01 I am delighted to be handing the baton to my brilliant colleague, Tina Campt, CARIBBEAN A HISTORY WHY SEX? who will take the Center in new and exciting directions while sustaining the critical FEMINISMS ON OF U G LY WHY GENDER? space we have built thus far. I look forward to continuing my relationship with BCRW THE PAGE 12 P M A Symposium in as a Research Fellow. And, please do take a look at our stunning slate of Spring 6:30 PM BCRW 05/ Honor of Janet Performers at Alumnae Fellow Ali Rosa-Salas’ Event, No Such Thing as Neutrual Event Oval 101 Barnard Hall Jakobsen programming, with speakers including Pulitzer-prize-winning historian Annette Gordon- The Diana Center 10 AM–6:30 PM Reed, disability writer Christina Crosby, and renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid. James Room 4th Floor Barnard Hall Thank you, CENTERNEWS SPRING 2015

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