Latest Past Events

The Myth of the Superwoman Revisited

Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles

The history of modern Black Feminism is unimaginable without the courage, words, and insights of Michele Wallace.  From her 1978 memoir/manifesto, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, through her brilliant cultural criticism of the last quarter century, she has always written with extraordinary honesty, intelligence and beauty.  This event is a great chance […]

Precarious Lives: Gendered Engagement with Neoliberal Development and the Contemporary Academy –CANCELLED

352 Haines Hall

This talk is an engagement with the conditions of precarity that characterize the current moment. Linking my ethnographic research on offshore banking in the US-owned Virgin Islands to scholarship detailing the troubling neoliberal turn made by the American academy, this lecture is an engagement with neoliberalism and its effects. Building on black feminist scholarship, I […]

Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

Law School Room 1314

A book talk by Sherene Razack, Professor of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto What do inquests and inquiries reveal about how and why Indigenous people die in custody? What is said about a sixty-seven-year -old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large, visible, purple boot print on his chest, a mark […]