Thursday, February 22, 5 pm, HGS 119
Symposium: Bye Bye Binary: Writing Histories of Non-Normative Gender
Sarah Haley, UCLA
Elizabeth Reis, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
Susan Stryker, University of Arizona
Thursday, October 12, 5 pm, HGS 204
“Run with the Race”: SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. Inc. and Ambivalent Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993
Jennifer D. Jones – University of Michigan
The conference “Racism, Antisemitism, and the Radical Right,” taking place at Yale Sept. 10-11, coincides with the national conversation about white supremacist groups in the United States, while also exploring the international dimensions of a phenomenon that has been gaining momentum over the past decade.
There is a history of Muslim women fighting for their rights within Muslim law. Justice Kurian Joseph’s judgment recognises this female interpretative authority, allowing Muslim women in India to enjoy both their right to equality and their right to faith under the Indian Constitution.
In this piece for Dissent Magazine, Denise Y. Ho—assistant professor of twentieth-century China—writes about the recent imprisonment of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy student activists. She argues that the Hong Kong government’s pursuit of prison terms, with the attendant inability to stand for office for five years, has disenfranchised them—the loss of political rights the very issue that sparked the Umbrella Movement street protests of 2014.
Professors Ivano Dal Prete and Paola Bertucci gathered on the grounds of the Yale Leitner Family Observatory in New Haven on Monday, August 21st to view the partial solar eclipse through a replica of Galileo’s telescope.
Read the full article about the crowd of eclipse watchers that gathered at Leitner on the New Haven Independent.