Women & Gender Studies Institute

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For the past 40 years, WGSI has trained students to think about the entanglements of gender, race and sexuality. Our teaching and research is distinctive for its transnational feminist approach, critically addressing how national borders, colonialisms, labour, and migration shape life, knowledge, and politics.

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    Postracial Europe? Minority Activism and the Queering of Ethnicity

    This talk draws from Professor El-Tayeb’s recent book, European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (Duke University Press, 2011). Date: February 27, 2012 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Room 108, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs The translocal strategies of resistance to the Europe-wide forms of racialization originate in a queer of color identity and [...]

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    WGS Research Seminar with Gada Mahrouse

    “I come to help” or “I help to become”?: Analyzing race, emotion and pedagogy in “alternative,” educational, and volunteer tourism Date: February 1, 2012 Time: 3-5 p.m. Speaker: Gada Mahrouse Location: Wilson Hall, Rm 2053 Click here for more information about the Women and Gender Studies Research Seminar.

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