Lectures
The Center hosts lectures throughout the academic year. Please consult the calendar for details on fall public lectures by Robert Meister (Nov 1), Julie Rak and Anna Poletti (Nov 10-11), Catharine MacKinnon (Nov 14), Lynn Hunt (Nov 15), and Samuel Moyn (Nov 29).
Upcoming Presentations
Each winter CSGS hosts the Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture featuring University of Chicago faculty doing innovative interdisciplinary work.
Leora Auslander, Professor of European Social History and Founding Director of the Center for Gender Studies, will deliver this year's Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture on January 19, 2012.
PAST SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Cathy J. Cohen, Mary Anne Case, Lauren Berlant, Christine Stansell, Martha McClintock, Jean Comaroff, Amy Hollywood, George Chauncey, Wendy Doniger, Jacqueline Bhabha, and Saba Mahmood.
As part of its tenth anniversary celebration in 2006, the Center renamed this annual lecture to honor Iris Marion Young. Young was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center and the Human Rights program. She was a widely known and well-respected contemporary political and feminist social theorist, concerned with normative analysis of public policy. Her books include Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990), Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (1990), Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy (1997), Inclusion and Democracy (2000) and On Female Body Experience: 'Throwing Like a Girl' and Other Essays (2005).
Learn more about Iris Marion Young.