Diane Weiss '80 Memorial Lectures

Date

Title

Speaker
2022

Colonial Domesticity and Social Reproduction

Lisa Lowe 
2021

Because of Sex Trans Identity and the Law 

Gayle Salamon

2020

Unsettling Citizenship: Naturalization, Indigenous Dispossession, Queer Reading

Siobhan Sommerville

2019

This Grey Gulf: James Baldwin and the Making of American Celebrity

Robert Reid-Pharr

2018

Bare and Spare: The Charisma of the Skeleton

Sumatho Ramaswamy

2017

Chemical Exposures and Decolonial Futures

Michelle Murphy

2016

Archival Turns and Queer Affective Methods

Ann Cvetkovich

2015

Bitter Melancholy: Feminism and the Politics of Biology and Aggression

Elizabeth Wilson

2013

Sex, Gender and Public Life

Janet Jakobsen

2012

Plasticity and the Gendered Brain: Trading Essence for Potential

Rebecca Jordan-Young

2011

The Queer Art of Failure

J. Jack Halberstam

2010

Four Lives - Feminism, Nationalism and Communism in India

Ania Loomba

2009

Ending 'Jane Crow': How Women's Workplace Activism in the 1970's Changed the Country

Nancy MacLean

2008

Feminism: Why Now More Than Ever?

Chris Cuomo

2007

The Harmonious Play of Sexuate Freedom: Kantian Beings to the Legacy of Critical Theory

Drucilla Cornell

2006

Between the Boudoir & the Global Market: Shen Shou (1874-1921), Embroidery, and Modernity in East Asia

Dorothy Ko

2005

Theorizing Agency, with Particular Attention to Gender Relations

Sherry B. Ortner

2004

Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Representation and the Perils of Translation

Gayatri Gopinath

2003

The Politics of Literary Reputation

Joan D. Hendrick

2002

Are All Human Beings by Nature Bisexual

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

2001

Inhuman Forces. Pleasure and Power in Feminist Theory

Elizabeth Grosz

2000

The Logic of Difference: Race, Gender and 19th Century American Medicine

Evelynn M. Hammonds

1999

Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together

Rey Chow

1997

The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Turn-of-the-Century London

Judith R. Walkowitz

1996

Romancing the Stone: The Sexual Politics of Idealization

Barbara Johnson

1995

Do Sex Hormones Really Exist?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

1994

Rethinking Access and Social Change: Feminism and the Law

Michelle Fine

1993

Soul Murder and Slavery

Nell Irvin Painter

1992

Eleanor Roosevelt: Women and Power

Blanche Wiesen Cook

1991

Bath Time: French Representation of the Bathe in the Latter 19th Century

Linda Nochlin

1990

How Did Feminist Theory Get This Way?

Catherine R. Stimpson

1989

Teaching Shakespeare's Sister

Carol Gilligan

1988

Gender Ideology in Historical Reconstruction

Alice Kessler-Harris

1987

Women and Community Activism: The Feminist Frontier

Nancy Hewitt