Carol Mukhopadhyay Feminist Lecture Series
The SJSU Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies program is home to the biannual Carol Mukhopadhyay Feminist Lecture Series endowed in 2014 by Emeritus SJSU Anthropology Professor Carol Mukhopadhyay. Each year, these lectures bring to campus a prominent or emerging feminist scholar doing cross-cultural or transnational work with a feminist anthropological lens.
Recent lectures have featured:
| When | Speaker | Description | |
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Fall 2025 |
Kelly the Barber |
"The Significance of Gender Affirming Hair" |
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Spring 2025 |
Jess Whatcott |
"An Abolitionist Feminist History of California Eugenics & Disability Institutions" |
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Spring 2024 |
Mama Ganuush |
"Existence is an Act of Resistance" |
| Fall 2024 |
Dr. Grace Howard |
"Lessons from the Pregnancy Police" |
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Spring 2023 |
Dr. Anila Daulatzai and Dr. Najwa Mayer |
"The Possibilities and Limits of Transnational Feminist Critique in the Context of
Afghanistan" |
| Spring 2022 |
Irene Berrones-Kolb |
"Feminist Creativities: A chat with local artist Irene Berrones-Kolb" |
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Spring 2021 |
Maribel Martinez |
"A chat with Maribel Martinez" |
| Fall 2019 |
Dr. Maria Cotera, Osa Hidalgo de la Riva, Dr. Susana L. Gallardo, Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Anna Nieto Gomez, and Deanna Romero |
"Chicanas Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era" |
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| Spring 2019 |
Dr. Elizabeth Sweet |
"She’s a Dream Come True…’: Gender and Representations of Femininity in 20th Century Doll Advertisements" |
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| Spring 2019 |
Dr. Theodorea Berry |
"Black America Women's Experiences in China and Germany: Examining Intersectionality and Multidimensionality in Alternate Home Spaces" |
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| Fall 2019 |
Antonia Grace Glenn |
"The Ito Sisters" Documentary Screening |
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| Spring 2018 |
Karen Branan |
“Women and Lynching: Lessons for Today” |
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| Spring 2018 |
Dr. Gohar Shahnazaryan |
“Women’s Rights in Contemporary Armenian Society: Between Modernization and Traditions” |
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Fall 2017 |
Judy Juanita |
“Female Foot Soldiers and DeFacto Feminists: The Unseen Skeletons of Social Movements” |
| Spring 2017 |
Dr. Yvonne Y. Kwan |
“Queering Transgenerational Trauma: Depathologizing Pain and Navigating Narratives of Suffering” |
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| Spring 2017 |
Dr. Huma Ahmed-Gosh |
"Globalization and Muslim Women's Lives in Asia: Contesting Islamic Feminisms" |
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| Spring 2017 |
Dr. Mythri Jegathesan |
"Stately Discomforts: Labor, Reproductive Rights,and Sexuality Among Women Workers in Postwar Sri Lanka" | |
| Spring 2016 |
Dr. Amy Moff Hudec |
“Unsettled and Lost: The Consequences of Being Single in the Mormon - Church" |
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| Spring 2016 |
Dr. Kate Antosik-Parsons |
"Speaking About the Unspoken: Performance Art, Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. and Women's Reproductive Rights in Ireland" |
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| Spring 2016 |
Alisa Sanchez |
"Defining the Right to Choose Motherhood: Women's Organizing During the 1991 Colombian Constitutional Assembly" |
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| Fall 2015 |
Dr. Pat Wasielewski |
"Emotional Geography of Living Abroad" |
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| Spring 2015 |
Dr. Samantha Gottlieb |
"Marketing the HPV Vaccine and Women's Health" |
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| Spring 2015 |
Natalie Valdez |
"Food, Fat, Fetus, and the Future: An Ethnographic Examination of Two Clinical Trials" |
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Spring 2014 |
Dr. Kathleen Coll |
"What the Domestic Workers' Rights Movements is Teaching US About Citizenship |
