Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Terje Anderson, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party, will speak about his work advocating for an eradication of AIDS. He will discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic, personal experience in advocacy with an aim to raise awareness among current college students in preparation for Claudio Medeiros’ production of The Baltimore Waltz.

Jennifer Nash, African American Studies & Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University

Jasbir Puar, Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

Miranda Joseph, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African-American Studies at Princeton University

Erin Durban, Dept of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota

J Finley, American Studies at Middlebury College,  Carly Thomsen, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College

“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” (Mark Jonathan Harris/2000/USA/122 mins.) is the 2000 Academy Award-winning Warner Bros. documentary feature film about the remarkable British rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to England. These children, or Kinder in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents.

Halloween canceled! Adulthood canceled! Democracy canceled! In the wake of the turmoil created by the ongoing pandemic and political unrest, at least young adults should be able to take solace in the holiday they’ve claimed for themselves: Halloween. Except this year, right when they need it most, even Halloween is closed off to them. Halloween has recently emerged as a the yearly ritual for performing and celebrating emerging adulthood, the night when emerging adults work out who they are and who they want to be (seen as).