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Harry Brod: “Asking For It: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent” – February 10, 2015

Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author of White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, Theorizing Masculinities, Hegel’s Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity and Modernity, A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, and The Making of Masculinities: The New Men’s Studies. The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems — and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod, a professor of philosophy and leader in the pro-feminist men’s movement, […]

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Robyn Henderson-Espinoza: New Folds of Borderlands: Tracing the Figure of the Nomad thru Difference & Becoming – February 15, 2017

Borderlands surround us, as Gloria Anzaldúa writes.  They are psychic, spiritual, physical, sexual, national, and so many more. The proliferation of Borderlands have created the figure of the Nomad, the content moving between the here and now.  What borderlands offer us is an opportunity to analyze difference and becoming from the interstitial space of becoming.  Difference, in relationship with becoming, elucidates nomadic movement and thus helps to create the figure of the nomad.  In conversation with Deleuze and Anzaldúa, this lecture seeks to trace the figure of the nomad thru difference and becoming.

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