Join Us for Faculty Conversations

A collaborative series from the Center for Women's & Gender Studies Embrey Women's Human Rights Initiative, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. This series generates cross-disciplinary dialogues among different approaches to issues in African Diaspora Studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, and a broadly-imagined women's human rights framework as gender and racial justice.

 
I.  In conversation October 18, Tuesday

Matt Richardson, Department of English, African and African Diaspora Studies, Center for Women's & Gender Studies, on

“Erasing Desire: Precious and Queer Absence.”

and

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, on

"Understanding Victimization in Ciudad Juarez Today: From feminicidios to juvenicidios"


12:00-1:00pm, Gebauer 4th Floor Conference Room, to the left off the elevator or stairs (http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/geb.html)

 
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II.  In conversation November 9, Wednesday

Omi Osun Joni Jones, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, on

"Jazz Aesthetics:  The Blue Note in Black Theatre"

and

Tasha Philpot, Department of Government, on

“Constrained Conservatism: The Impact of Group Consciousness on Black Ideology”

 
12:00-1:00pm, Gebauer 3rd Floor Conference Room, to the right off the elevator or stairs (http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/geb.html)