April 25 :: STANDING ROCK & THE SEVENTH GENERATION: An Economics for Us All

Standing Rock & the Seventh Generation: An Economics for Us All an Albert Gallatin Lecture with Winona LaDuke April 25, Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm Please register here! Winona LaDuke, rural development economist and author “The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one third of the world’s resources is unsustainable. …

Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism: March 11

The American History Workshop @ NYU presents… William P. Jones University of Wisconsin “Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism” Friday, March 11th at 10 a.m. NYU King Juan Carlos I, Room 428 53 Washington Square South NYC Lunch will be served! **The paper is pre-circulated—email khary.polk(at)gmail.com to …

Who Cares About Family? Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Monday, November 16th 6:30 PM The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at the CUNY Center for the Humanities Despite radical changes in family formations, domestic labor still remains raced, gendered, and otherwise devalued. This panel brings together experts from various fields to examine not only who cares about the family, but who does …

The Woman with Worn-out Shoes: Gender and Homelessness in the Great Depression

A lecture by ELAINE ABELSON Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College; Senior Lecturer in History Studies, NSSR November 11, Wednesday 4 to 6 PM Presented by The New School Gender Studies Program Fall 2009 Lecture Series 80 Fifth Avenue at 14th St., Room 802 This event is free and open to …