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Karen Hammer (Assistant Director and Senior Lecturer, WGS), “Relinquishing the Sacred Quest for Thin: The Historical Reverberations of Roxane Gay’s Hunger,” Monday, October 30, 2017, 12pm, Kisaam Multipurpose Room
Sep. 19, 2017—Using Gay’s recent memoir Hunger as a starting point, you will be invited to explore with Hammer the deeply troubled relationship that Western cultures have had to fatness, which has resulted in a fat phobia so blatant and yet so insidious that it often goes unnoticed. The repulsion toward fat women in particular, across the media landscape,...
Lonneke Geerlings (Free University of Amsterdam) speaks about Rosey E. Pool, Tuesday, October 3, 12-1:30pm, BCC Auditorium
Sep. 19, 2017—Join us for a lecture by Lonneke Geerlings from the Free University of Amsterdam as she speaks about Rosey E. Pool, the woman who was Anne Frank’s teacher and W.E.B. Du Bois’ confidant. Lunch provided. Dr. Rosey E. Pool was a Dutch Jewish educator, translator and political activist. In her remarkable life, she taught Anne Frank,...