Join us for the launch of The Right to Maim: Debility / Capacity / Disability by Prof. Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), a groundbreaking work interrogating biopolitics, state violence, and disability through transnational frameworks.
Panelists:
- Prof. Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University)
- Prof. Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara)
- Prof. Kehualani Kauanui (Wesleyan University)
- Prof. Paul Amar (UC Santa Barbara)
- Prof. Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University)
Sponsored by:
- Department of Women's and Gender Studies
- Henry Rutgers Term Chair in Transnational Race, Gender, and Sexuality
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It is inherent to the discipline of Women's Studies to deal with complex subjects through theoretical lenses, which question conventional knowledge production. This department, one of the most distinguished departments of WGS in the country, has a highly visible faculty of national and international reputation invited to speak in various fora on sometimes highly controversial subjects. Such faculty members, as scholars, have not only a right, but also an obligation to produce and disseminate knowledge within and beyond the academy. Moreover, as private citizens, our faculty continue to enjoy the same freedoms of speech and expression as any private citizen and in accordance with university policy the department supports their protection from institutional discipline in the exercise of these academic and free speech rights.
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