March « 2017 « Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Wilton Martinez Colloquium: “No final solutions: current trends in ethnographic film” – March 2, 2017

In the “age of the image,” when convergence culture and the imperium of visualism have voided social life, bodies, and experiences from reference to the real, when designer images perform their own presence above and apart from the phenomenal world, what is the place for visual anthropology and ethnographic film, disciplines born together with film technology and guided by the goal of studying and using images to explore human nature? In this presentation I trace the tropological development of ethnographic film and discuss current trends that purport to solve the conundrum by either embracing designer images or searching for the […]

Jocelyne Scott: “Grappling with Anti-Femininity in Popular Culture Stereotypes of Sorority Women” – October 13, 2016

Archetypal representations of sorority women are abundant in popular culture. Visible in films and television shows, these representations also inundate social media networks and sites. Despite the wide range of different platforms in which these archetypal representations appear, the representations themselves remain strikingly consistent across time and space and are deeply rooted in anti-femininity and sexist rhetorics. This talk interrogates these pejorative popular culture portrayals while focusing on the lived effects of these demeaning characterizations articulated by sorority women.

Robert Whitaker: “Mad in America” – March 26, 2014

During the past 25 years, when our societal use of psychiatric drugs has dramatically increased, the burden of mental illness in our society has soared. Do we, as a society, need to rethink our use of these drugs?

Dr. Joseph Michael Valente: “How Deaf Children learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States” – October 29, 2013

Prof. Valente will discuss and present anthropological film footage from his cross-cultural, comparative ethnographic study of deaf kindergartens. The central research question is how bilingual kindergartens in schools for the deaf function as sites of acculturation into both Deaf culture and national culture and the role that teachers play in this process.

Scott St. Pierre: “Cuck: Meninists, Aardvarks, and Other Peculiarities in 21st Century Anti-Feminist Discourse” – March 23, 2017

This talk analyzes 21st century representations of anti-feminist discourse. I argue that such discourse among men in our current moment takes an even more radicalized and potentially toxic form under the sign of anti-African American racism and anti-queer expression. I examine representations of anti-feminist speech and text as a way of locating a juncture between the recent explosion of online anti-feminist speech and its connections to alt-right racist hate speech as metaphorized and embodied in the anti-queer and anti-black figure of the “cuck.” In doing so, I explore symptoms of toxic, wounded white masculinity that strike out at feminism via […]

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Archive for March, 2017

Wilton Martinez Colloquium: “No final solutions: current trends in ethnographic film” – March 2, 2017

Jocelyne Scott: “Grappling with Anti-Femininity in Popular Culture Stereotypes of Sorority Women” – October 13, 2016

Robert Whitaker: “Mad in America” – March 26, 2014

Dr. Joseph Michael Valente: “How Deaf Children learn to be Deaf: Bilingual Kindergartens in France, Japan, and the United States” – October 29, 2013

Scott St. Pierre: “Cuck: Meninists, Aardvarks, and Other Peculiarities in 21st Century Anti-Feminist Discourse” – March 23, 2017

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