GCWS Feminisms Unbound
With “The time of the border” we mean to invoke, of course, the terrible urgency of our current moment: the distinct but also overlapping historical, geographical, and other contexts that bear on the displacements of our time; border-crossings that claim our attention and others that remain invisible; conceptual frameworks that have meaningful explanatory power, but also do harm. Panelists draw on their current research sites and concepts, using temporality as a way of convening these ruminations. For example, how does a sense of crisis shape our sense of time (acting before time runs out; exhaustion in the wake of a sense that time has run out)? How do notions of indigeneity shape and justify national conceptions of the past, futurity, or extinction? What are the limits and possibilities of thinking through different kinds of migrancy side by side; intimate genealogies of border-crossing; migrants’ own conceptualization/theorization of the gains, losses and temporality of their situation?
Roundtable Participants:
- Dina Siddiqi, Clinical Assosciate Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University
- Emilie Diouf, Professor of Social Justice and International Studies in Education, Brandeis University
- Sony Coranez Bolton, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Amherst College
- Particia Ybarra, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Chair of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
- Moderator: Faith Smith, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English, Brandeis University
All are welcome! Please share this invitation with fellow faculty and graduate students.
Refreshments will be served.