The event listed below is open to the public at no charge. For more information, please contact Tara James, Associate Director of the Women's History Graduate Program, at 914-395-2405 or tjames@slc.edu. Directions to the campus are available here.

EVELYN LEONG

The State of Asian American Feminism Today: Who Speaks for Us?

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6 p.m. Slonim Livingroom

Evelyn Leong will address current issues in Asian American feminism in the 21st century and the context in which Asian American women participate in the domestic and international feminist framework. How is the Asian American feminist agenda developed and by whom? Who is represented, and who is further marginalized? Leong focuses her work on issues of gender, ethnicity, class, and representation. Appropriately, this talk will explore the various fields where Asian American feminism is active, including the visual arts, literature, and political activism. Currently Associate Dean of Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, Leong earned an M.A. in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in arts and culture from the Bard Graduate Center.

Past Lectures

LAYLI PHILLIPS

The Womanist Idea: A Spiritual Archaeology

Layli Phillips examines one distinguishing feature of womanist thought — spirituality. While many people assume that the Black church is the sole source of Black women’s spiritual knowledge, Black women are now and have historically been informed by a number of traditions. Indeed, the spirituality undergirding womanist thought is cross-cutting and global, and it serves as the basis for a new type of universal politics, which will be explored in Phillips presentation. Phillips teaches in the Women’s Studies Institute at Georgia State University, where she also serves as graduate director. She earned her doctorate at Temple University.

BENITA ROTH

The Emergence of Chicana Feminism

Benita Roth studies the interaction of gender, race/ ethnicity, and class in postwar social protest, particularly in feminisms. Her book, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave (Cambridge University Press), is in its fourth printing and won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association. She has also published on gender dynamics within the militant anti-AIDS movement, on racial/ethnic issues, and on class inequalities among working women, specifically domestic workers in the United States. Roth currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the State University of New York at Binghamton, earning a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. from Brandeis University.

ELSA BARKLEY BROWN

The Historian’s Process: How Do You Give Voice to the Voiceless?

Elsa Barkley Brown holds a joint appointment in History and Women’s Studies and is an affiliate faculty member in Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on African American political culture with an emphasis on gender. She is co-editor of the two-volume Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993), which received the Leticia Woods Brown Memorial Publication and Edited Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians and the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Black Women’s Studies. Barkley Brown earned her doctorate at Kent State University and her bachelor’s degree at DePauw University.