Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Tuesday, March 8, 2011 ~ Public Lecture: “Fire Eaters: An Argument about Widow Burning in Colonial Times,” 4:00 - 6 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Tuesday, March 8, 2011 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Janice Boddy, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Friday, November 5, 2010 Public Lecture: “‘We have always eaten chicken’: On Memory, Marriage, and Meaning among ‘Hofriyati’ in Northern Sudan,” 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Friday, November 5, 2010 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Sunaina Maira, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis Friday, October 29, 2010 Public Lecture: “Missing: Youth and Empire in the War on Terror,” 4:00 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Friday, October 29, 2010 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Linda Gordon, Professor of History and OAH Distinguished Lecturer, New York University Thursday, March 11, 2010 Women's History Month Public Lecture: “Visual Democracy: Documentary Photographer Dorothea Lange” Friday, March 12, 2010 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Steve Epstein, John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University Thursday, February 4, 2010 ~ Public Lecture: “Discussing the Undiscussable: HPV Vaccination, the Politics of Non-Knowledge, and the Limits of Queer Biocitizenship,” 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. ~ James A. Baker III Hall, Kelly International Conference Facility Friday, Feburary 5, 2010 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Friday, November 13, 2009 ~ Public Lecture: “The Part that has no Part: Sexuality, Autology, Genealogy, and the End of Recognition in Contemporary Australia,” 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Saturday, November 14, 2009 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Chandan Reddy, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington Friday, February 13, 2009 ~ Public Lecture: “From Marriage to Milk: Race and the Political Economy of Sexuality,” 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Saturday, February 14, 2009 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Lisa Duggan, Professor of American Studies, New York University Friday, November 14, 2008 ~ Public Lecture: “Feeling Neoliberal: Homonormative Desires, Imperial Dreams,” 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Saturday, November 15, 2008 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS Graduate Students only) Lara Deeb, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine Friday, April 11, 2008 ~ Public Lecture: "Sanctioned Pleasures: Negotiating Authority, Leisure, and Sexuality in Shi'i Lebanon," 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Saturday, April 12, 2008 ~ Graduate Colloquium/Seminar (open to CSWGS graduate students only) Vicki Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, University of California, Irvine Friday, March 14, 2008 ~ Women's History Month Public Lecture: "Comrades, Cowgirls, and Curanderas: Spanish/Mexican Women in the Southwest, 1540-1900," 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building, Room 117 Saturday, March 15, 2008 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS graduate students only) Roderick Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota Friday, November 9, 2007 ~ Public Lecture: "When a Universe Closes: Zadie Smith's On Beauty and the Itineraries of Power/Knowledge in the Post-Civil Rights American Academy," 4:00 5:30 p.m. ~ Humanities Building Room 117 Saturday, November 10, 2007 ~ Graduate Colloquium (open to CSWGS graduate students only)