Spring 2017: “Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality” ( Curated by Susan Burns, History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
April 4th: “Human Rights, Biological Citizenship, and Reproductive Policy in Japan’s Leprosy Sanitaria,” Susan Burns, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
April 18th: “How to Write On Kinky Hair: Choice, Cultural Inscription and Embodied Black Femininity,” Shatema Threadcraft, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
May 2nd: “Aesthetic Surgery for the Masses: Beauty and Kulturnost of the Body,” Michaela Appeltova, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
May 16th: “Veiled Voyagers: Translating Muslim Women’s Travel Writing from Asia and the Middle East.” Daniel Majchrowicz, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture, Northwestern University
May 17th: “Brides and Bachelors and the Making of Japanese America,” Sonia C. Gomez, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
May 30th: “Change Without Protest: Discursive Strategies of LGBT Groups in Mainland China,” Caterina Fugazzola, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Winter 2017: Sex and Gender and the City (Forrest Stuart, Sociology)
January 10th, 2017:“Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities.” Forrest Stuart, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
January 24th, 2017: “Neoliberal Amman: Mapping the Middle Class as Reputational Community.” Lindsey Conklin, PhD Candidate in Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
February 7th, 2017: “Exile in Guyville, or The Stroller and the Damage Done: Women in Public, Gentrification, and the Politics of Blame,” Jeffrey Parker, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Chicago
February 21st, 2017: “Brown and Gay in LA: Race, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Immigrant City.” Anthony Ocampo, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal Poly Pomona
March 7th, 2017: “‘Brothel of the Pacific’: Laikini Wahine, Syphilis, and the Urban Regulation of Sex in Honolulu,” Christopher Kindell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Fall 2016: Mobility, Membership, and Gender (Demetra Kasimis, Political Science)
October 4th, 2016: “‘Are You a Man?’: The Role of Buddhist Monasticism in Shaping the Moral Contours of Thai Masculinity,” Michael Chladek, PhD Candidate in Comparative Human Development
October 18, 2016: “Euripedes’ Hecuba: A Political Interpretation,” Ageliki Tzanetou, Associate Professor of Classics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 1, 2016: “Nondiscrimination Policies and the US Transgender Health Landscape: A Multilevel Analysis of Self-Rated Health in 27 States,” Danya Lagos, Graduate Student in Sociology
November 15, 2016: “Gender, Ethnic Nationalisms, and Ethno-Racial Identity Among Caribbean Indians in the US,” Anjanette M. Chan Tack, PhD Candidate in Sociology
November 30, 2016: “The Founding Fiction of Athenian Citizenship Belongs to an Immigrant Woman: Reflections on Ventriloquy in Plato’s Menexenus,” Demetra Kasimis, Assistant Professor of Political Science