Wednesday, November 19th
2:00 – 3:30 P.M.
African American Cultural Center,
Student Union 403
Light Refreshments Served
How do different theories shape our understandings of women’s experience and inform feminist practice? What is the significance of language in describing theories: radical, materialist, and so on? What does this language reveal or hide? How about national or ethnic labels: French, American, Hispanic and so on? Do feminist theories developed in one context travel well to others? What gets lost in translation?
This talk will explore these questions with relation to the ideas of ‘French feminism’, ‘materialist feminism’ and ‘radical feminism’.
Dr. Bronwyn Winter is based in the Dept of French Studies at the University of Sydney. She teaches in four programs including International and Global Studies and European Studies, and is currently the coordinator of the Indigenous Australian Studies program.
Her research focuses is on gender and sexual orientation in relation to religion, ethnicity, the state, violence, international rights frameworks and transnational social movements.
She has published on these issues as they present in France, Australia, the Philippines, Turkey, North Africa, Argentina, the Middle East, Afghanistan and transnational.
This event is cosponsored by the UCONN African American Cultural Center.
For more information, contact: Coleen Spurlock at coleen.spurlock@uconn.edu