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THE OTHER RIGHT TO BEAR: Vigor, Miscarriages, and the Speciation of Palestine
The Other Right to Bear: Vigor, Miscarriages, and the Speciation of Palestine
While the question of demography is central to all political projects, reproduction management is how state power is manifested in individual bodies. This talk will focus on fertility research and treatments in Palestine*Israel in the 20th century, illustrating how dealing with reproduction entailed crossing the human/animal boundary. In this process, cowshed trouble became akin to birthing-room struggle, and the mobility of herds comparable to that of subversive people. As a hierarchy of more-than-human species was taking hold, some lives became more valued than others.
Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Kathi Weeks Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies | Duke University
KATHI WEEKS, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (Duke University) // Title of the talk: Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures
Abolitionist Archives presents a feminist political agenda focused on prison abolition, family abolition, and anti/post-work refusal together with a methodological defense of the kind of scaled-up feminist theories that can address those systemic structural phenomena. Focusing on a small archive of US Marxist feminist theory consisting of two texts, Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex and Donna Haraway’s “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” and one project, Angela Y. Davis’s prison abolitionist writing from 1971 to the present, the readings concentrate on the texts’ contributions to that political agenda and also to theorizing at the level of structured social relations and collective political activity that it requires.
Co-sponsors: the Department of Political Science, the Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies; and the Tanner Humanities Center.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Thanksgiving
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Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
Day After Thanksgiving
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Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 27, 2026.