The Women’s and Gender Studies Program has announced its fall 2014 colloquium series.
Karma R. Chávez, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will begin the series at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 3 in the Nebraska Union. In “‘AIDS Knows No Borders’: Activist Rhetoric Against the U.S. Ban on HIV+ Immigration,” Chávez will examine the rhetoric used to challenge U.S. immigration law during the 1990 and 1992 International AIDS Conferences. Their strategies offer insight into the function of rhetoric in building transnational coalitions and also illustrate the uniqueness of AIDS activist rhetoric during a time when AIDS was, for most, a death sentence.
On Oct. 27, the series continues with “Women’s Studies at the University of Nebraska Lincoln: A Brief Digital History.” Danielle Rue, a UNL Women’s and Gender Studies major, will present her website and digital history project that explores the early years of the UNL’s Women’s Studies program in the 1960s and 1970s as well as UNL’s general attitude towards issues of race, gender and sexuality during that period. This lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
The series concludes on Nov. 10, with a lecture by Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History. In “If Everyone Cared: Transnational Indigenous Women’s Activism and Child Welfare, 1960-1980,” Jacobs follows the transnational trails of two Indigenous women activists from the United States and Australia as they uncovered the ubiquity and trauma of indigenous child removal in their nations and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. This lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Bailey Library, 229 Andrews Hall.
