Upcoming Events
Professor Wendy Hesford, English Department, Ohio State University
Feminisms, Transnationalism & Human Rights in Sex Work
12:30- 2:30pm
509 O'Brian
Professor Hesford will speak on the intersections of sex work and the human rights of women and children. Drawing from the rhetorical convergences of humanitarian, cosmopolitan, nationalist, and feminist discourses, she will examine representations of sex work in the 21st century, interrogating the tensions between women and children as nationalistic markers and the efficacy of human rights discourse. Hesford will examine representations of children growing up in the sex industry and child labor in the "global south," and the degree to which these texts retreat from or advance a notion of global citizenship and agency.
Talk and graduate workshops by Internationally Acclaimed Feminist Scholars M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty, October 23 and 24.
Friday, October 23, 3pm, 120 Clemens Hall: "Envisioning A Radical Transnational Feminist Praxis," an interactive workshop with Professors Mohanty and Alexander on the trajectory of their work. The workshop will entail a reading list with background essays the participants are asked to read ahead of time (RSVP cmardoro@buffalo.edu)