{"id":762,"date":"2016-11-14T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/honoringeve\/?page_id=762"},"modified":"2016-12-03T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T01:57:40","slug":"cohen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/honoringeve\/cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seventh Annual Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Seventh Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture\u00a0in Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/h3>\n

with<\/h3>\n

Cathy Cohen<\/h2>\n

University of Chicago<\/h3>\n

was held on<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 25th, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a video of the lecture and discussion click\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

In a history of black queer politics from the Combahee Collective to the contemporary Black Lives movement, Cohen identifies a new form of activism supported by a network of groups, many of which are led by young black women who identify as queer. Rather than organizing around a single charismatic leader and immediate policy changes, the new leaderful\u00a0<\/i>movement seeks expansive cultural transformation on behalf of marginalized communities.<\/p>\n

Cathy Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science and chair of political science at the University of Chicago.\u00a0She is the author of\u00a0<\/span>Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics<\/i><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics<\/i><\/a><\/span>, as well as the coeditor, with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto, of\u00a0<\/span>Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader<\/i><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 In addition to her transformative scholarship on race, gender, and politics,\u00a0Cohen is the principal investigator of two major social change projects:\u00a0<\/span>The Black Youth Project<\/i><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span>Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project<\/i><\/a><\/span>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsored by: The Boston University Center for the Humanities, Department of World Languages and Literature, The Program in Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American and New England Studies Program, Department of English, Department of Psychological and Brain Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Religion, and The School of Theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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