This interdisciplinary series brought together scholars whose work reimagines race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment through critical textual engagement.
Featured Lectures:
- Feb 1 – The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century Speaker: Prof. Kyla Schuller Explores how scientific discourse shaped racial and sexual hierarchies in the 19th century.
- Feb 15 – Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States Speaker: Prof. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Co-sponsored with the American Studies Seminar at CCA. Examines colonial legacies and racial mapping across borders.
- Mar 1 – Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Speaker: Prof. Brittney Cooper Highlights the radical intellectual contributions of Black women to political and cultural thought.
- Apr 5 – The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Speaker: Prof. Jasbir Puar Investigates biopolitics, state violence, and disability through transnational frameworks.