The Women’s and Gender Studies Program is pleased to announce its Spring 2016 Colloquium Series.
The series will begin on Friday, March 11 with “Pleasure and Danger: Sex, Violence, and Ethics in the Age of Digital Media,” a lecture by Dr. Meenakshi Gigi Durham, professor of journalism and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. Her work centers on media and the politics of the body, and her research emphasizes issues of gender, sexuality, race, youth cultures, and sexual violence. Dr. Durham is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It, and she recently appeared in the popular documentary, Miss Representation. The lecture will take place at 5pm in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, with a reception, hosted by the University of Nebraska Foundation, to follow. The lecture is sponsored in part by the UNL Faculty Senate Convocations Committee, the Research Council, the Pepsi Endowment Fund, and the University Program Council, and is also the final event of the No Limits Student Research Conference.
The series will conclude on Tuesday, April 5 with a lecture by Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky, Harold and Esther Edgerton Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In “Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946,” Jagodinsky focuses on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans. The lecture will take place at 3:30pm in the Colonial Rooms of the Nebraska Union, with a brief Q & A to follow.
