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Gender & Race Studies Fall Lecture Series 2019

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The Department of Gender & Race Studies will have several speakers coming in for Fall 2019. October 22nd from 3:00-5:00 pm, Deirdre Cooper Owens gave the “What Genealogies Reveal: Understanding Race, Slavery and the History of American Gynecology” lecture on campus in Lloyd Hall 324. October 23rd from 3:00-5:00 pm, Marlon Bailey lectured in Lloyd Hall 235. On November 6th, Robert Vitalis will give the “A Mongrel-American Social Science: International Relations” lecture in Lloyd Hall 222 from 3:00-5:00 pm. Laleh Khalili will give the “The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea” lecture November 12th from 3:00-5:00 pm in Lloyd Hall 222, and Alex Gourevitch will give the “Why It Is Up to the Oppressed to Emancipate Themselves” lecture November 14th from 3:00-5:00 pm in Lloyd Hall 222. Please join us!

GRS Lecture Schedule Fall 2019 Deirdre Cooper Owens Lecture Flyer Marlon Bailey Lecture Flyer Robert Vitalis Lecture Flyer Laleh Khalili Lecture Flyer Alex Gourevitch Lecture Flyer

Fall 2019 PDF Gender & Race Lectures

Below, please find the list of events:

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, award-winning
book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and
the Origins of American Gynecology (2017), traces
the relationship between slavery and women’s
professional medicine in early America.

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 Language
Association.

ROBERT VITALIS

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 tradition.

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 movement of technologies,
capital, people and cargo.

ALEX GOUREVITCH

Why It Is Up to the
Oppressed to
Emancipate
Themselves
November 14, 3-5 pm
Lloyd Hall 222

Dr. Gourevitch is Associate Professor of
Political Science at Brown University. He is
the author of From Slavery to the
Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and
Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
(2015) and a contributor to Jacobin
magazine.

FOR MORE INFO:
email: grs@as.ua.edu
twitter: @GenderRaceUA


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