Center for Feminist Research

February 12, 4:00 pm

THH 420

RSVP

In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrences as a question of ethics, sexual agency, and feminine orders of gendering. Rather, this book foregrounds Blackness as engendered by sexual violence, which forcefully (re)produces Blackness, corporeally and conceptually, as a condition that lacks the capacity to ontologically distinguish its suffering from what it means to be human. 

This event is hosted by USC’s Center for Feminist Research, the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and Black Visual Cultures Collective (BVCC), which is co-founded by Naima Adams (American Studies), Corrine Collins (English), and Mlondolozi Zondi (Comparative Literature). 

February 13-14

Rosen Family Screening Room (TCC 227), Tutor Campus Center, USC Parkside Campus

RSVP | KSI Homepage

This international conference seeks to advance the growing interdisciplinary field of cultural studies of science and technology in Korea by examining the dynamic intersections of technoscience, gender, and culture. Notably, the number of South Korean women in STEM fields has more than tripled since the 1990s, a trend that underscores women’s expanding roles beyond traditional STEM careers, spanning science fiction writing, science communication, and other technology-based cultural innovations. Hosted by the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, the conference will foster dialogue across disciplines and methodologies to deepen our insights into both the gendered impacts of contemporary technoscientific developments and the ways in which embodied perspectives inform technoscientific practices and cultural imaginaries. See the presenters’ bios and abstracts. And here is the program.

Co-sponsored by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; the Korea Foundation; USC Libraries; USC’s Center for Feminist Research; the Center for International Studies; and the Office of the Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.