Benjamin Meiches Public Lecture, “A Small Charge of Genocide: Racial Amnesia and Segregative Humanitarianism” ten Hoor Hall room 30

The Department of Gender & Race Studies at The University of Alabama is pleased to host UA Guest Speaker Benjamin Meiches, who will speak to UA Faculty, Students, and the Public from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30 on Thursday, October 11th, 2018. Please join us! Benjamin Meiches is an assistant professor of security studies and conflict resolution at the University of Washington-Tacoma. He is the author of The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of [...]

Terri Givens, “The Politics of Race and Religion in Europe and the U.S.” Public Lecture 10/18/2018

The Department of Gender & Race Studies is pleased to host UA Guest Speaker Terri Givens, who will speak to UA faculty, students, and the public October 18th, 2018, from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30. Please join us! Terri Givens is the author/editor of many books and articles on immigration policy, European politics and security, including Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, Immigration Policy and Security and Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation in Western [...]

Deirdre Cooper Owens Lecture

Lloyd Hall 324

The Department of Gender & Race Studies welcomes Deirdre Cooper Owens October 22nd, 2019. More information is below: Cooper Owens Deirdre 10-21-23-2019 Flyer DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS What Genealogies Reveal: Understanding Race, Slavery and the History of American Gynecology October 22, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 324 Dr. Cooper Owens is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her first, awardwinning book, Medical Bondage: Race, [...]

Marlon Bailey Lecture

Lloyd Hall 235

The Department of Gender and Race Studies welcomes Marlon Bailey October 23rd, 2019. More information is below: Bailey, Marlon, 10-22-23-2019 Flyer MARLON BAILEY October 23, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 235 Dr. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His first book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (2013), a performance ethnography of ballroom culture, won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern [...]

Robert Vitalis Lecture

Lloyd Hall 222

The Department of Gender & Race Studies will welcome Robert Vitalis to campus November 6th, 2019. More information is available below: Vitalis, Bob, 11-5-8-2019 Lecture Flyer A Mongrel-American Social Science: International Relations November 6, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 222 Dr. Vitalis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, White World Order, Black Power Politics: the Birth of American International Relations (2015), explores the unwritten history of disciplinary international relations, recovering the African-American internationalist [...]

Laleh Khalili Lecture

Lloyd Hall 222

The Department of Gender & Race Studies will welcome Laleh Khalili to campus November 12th, 2019. More information is available below: Khalili, Laleh, 11-9-13-2019 Flyer LALEH KHALILI The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea November 12, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 222 Dr. Khalili is Professor of International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Her forthcoming book, Sinews of War and Trade (2020), examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of [...]