Public Lecture "Traveling Intersectionality"
Three decades after the term intersectionality was coined, it has become the most prominent feminist intervention, traveling across disciplines and national boundaries, and across the oft-described theory/practice boundary. This is a talk that attempts to trace and assess that travel, to think about the meanings of intersectionality in a moment when the word is used by scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners on all sides of political conversations for myriad reasons. More than anything, I aspire to think about how this unprecedent travel makes us – feminists who feel an attachment to intersectionality – feel, and what those feelings might teach us about political desire.
19.10.2023, 6.15pm–7.45pm
Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, F 021
Prof. Dr. Jennifer C. Nash
Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She earned her PhD in African American Studies at Harvard University and her JD at Harvard Law School. She is the author of three books: The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association); Black Feminism Reimagined (awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association); Birthing Black Mothers (awarded an Honorable Mention for the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association). Her fourth book, How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory, is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2024. She is the editor of Gender: Love (Macmillan, 2016), and a co-editor (with Samantha Pinto) of The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities (Routledge, 2023). She also co-edits (with Samantha Pinto) the Black Feminism on the Edge book series on Duke University Press. Her research has been supported by the ACLS/Burkhardt Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship.
Colloquium
20.10.2023, 10.15am – 5.00pm
Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36,
F -123
Moderation
Prof. Dr. Malika Maskarinec / Prof. Dr. Melanie Rohner (Modern German Literature, Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Bern)
ECTS
1.5 ECTS Lecture & ColloquiumA (Pflicht- oder Wahlpflichtbereich ICS / Wahlpflicht- bereich GS, SLS, SINTA)
Language
English
Registration
from now on to michael.toggweiler@unibe.ch and via KSL (log in with UniBe-Account, search with title)
