Diane Weiss '80 Memorial Lectures

Date

Title

Speaker
2024

The Mark of the Wench 

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
2023

To Have and To Hoard: Xandra Ibarra's Object Lessons 

Leticia Alvarado
2022

Colonial Domesticity and Social Reproduction

Lisa Lowe 
2021

Because of Sex Trans Identity and the Law 

Gayle Salamon

 

2020

Unsettling Citizenship: Naturalization, Indigenous Dispossession, Queer Reading

Siobhan Sommerville

 

2019

This Grey Gulf: James Baldwin and the Making of American Celebrity

Robert Reid-Pharr

 

2018

Bare and Spare: The Charisma of the Skeleton

Sumatho Ramaswamy

 

2017

Chemical Exposures and Decolonial Futures

Michelle Murphy

 

2016

Archival Turns and Queer Affective Methods

Ann Cvetkovich

 

2015

Bitter Melancholy: Feminism and the Politics of Biology and Aggression

Elizabeth Wilson

 

2013

Sex, Gender and Public Life

Janet Jakobsen

 

2012

Plasticity and the Gendered Brain: Trading Essence for Potential

Rebecca Jordan-Young

 

2011

The Queer Art of Failure

J. Jack Halberstam

 

2010

Four Lives - Feminism, Nationalism and Communism in India

Ania Loomba

 

2009

Ending 'Jane Crow': How Women's Workplace Activism in the 1970's Changed the Country

Nancy MacLean

 

2008

Feminism: Why Now More Than Ever?

Chris Cuomo

 

2007

The Harmonious Play of Sexuate Freedom: Kantian Beings to the Legacy of Critical Theory

Drucilla Cornell

 

2006

Between the Boudoir & the Global Market: Shen Shou (1874-1921), Embroidery, and Modernity in East Asia

Dorothy Ko

 

2005

Theorizing Agency, with Particular Attention to Gender Relations

Sherry B. Ortner

 

2004

Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Representation and the Perils of Translation

Gayatri Gopinath

 

2003

The Politics of Literary Reputation

Joan D. Hendrick

 

2002

Are All Human Beings by Nature Bisexual

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

 

2001

Inhuman Forces. Pleasure and Power in Feminist Theory

Elizabeth Grosz

 

2000

The Logic of Difference: Race, Gender and 19th Century American Medicine

Evelynn M. Hammonds

 

1999

Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together

Rey Chow

 

1997

The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Turn-of-the-Century London

Judith R. Walkowitz

 

1996

Romancing the Stone: The Sexual Politics of Idealization

Barbara Johnson

 

1995

Do Sex Hormones Really Exist?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

 

1994

Rethinking Access and Social Change: Feminism and the Law

Michelle Fine

 

1993

Soul Murder and Slavery

Nell Irvin Painter

 

1992

Eleanor Roosevelt: Women and Power

Blanche Wiesen Cook

 

1991

Bath Time: French Representation of the Bathe in the Latter 19th Century

Linda Nochlin

 

1990

How Did Feminist Theory Get This Way?

Catherine R. Stimpson

 

1989

Teaching Shakespeare's Sister

Carol Gilligan

 

1988

Gender Ideology in Historical Reconstruction

Alice Kessler-Harris

 

1987

Women and Community Activism: The Feminist Frontier

Nancy Hewitt