Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture

Previous Lectures

2018: “An Evening with Dolores Huerta” featuring Dolores Huerta, activist and labor leader who has dedicated her life to fighting discrimination and improving social and economic conditions for farm workers, immigrants and women. Watch Lecture.

2014: “Transforming Feminist Scholarship and Pedagogy Through Digital Media: The Chicana Por Mi Raza Digtial Archive Project” featuring Maria Cotera, Chicana por mi Raza National Director, Advisor, Michigan, and Linda Garcia Merchant, Chicana por mi Raza Technical Director, Advisor, Chicago/Wisconsin

2013: “Homo Oeconomicus, Homo Politicus, And Predicaments Of Contemporary Democracy” featuring Wendy Brown

2012: “Race and the New Biocitizen.” featuring Dorothy Roberts

2011: “Advancing a National Movement for Reproductive Justice” featuring Silvia Henriquez 

2010: “The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef: A yarn about the intersection of geometry, handicraft, global warming, community art practice and feminism” featuring Margaret Wertheim 

2009: “A Dialogue On Transgender Citizenship” featuring Eli Clare & Matt Richardson

2008: “Two Perspectives on Feminist Disability Studies” featuring Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Picturing People with Disabilities,’ and Nirmala Erevelles, “Embattled Bodies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third Wave Feminism.”

2007: “Intersectionality: A Women’s Studies Perspective on Race and Inequality” featuring Bonnie Thorton Dill

2006: “We Have Never Been Human” featuring Donna J. Haraway

2005: “No Cloak To Hide Behind: Jessie Daniel Ames, The Torture at Abu Ghraib, and You” featuring Minnie Bruce Pratt

2004: “Too Tall Blondes Do Sex, Death and Gender” featuring Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas

2003: “A Chicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness” featuring Cherríe Moraga

2002: “Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity” featuring Sut Jhally

2001: “Creating Beloved Community: “Ending Race, Sex and Class Domination” featuring bell hooks

2000: “Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and The Environment” featuring Sandra Steingraber

1999: “Beyond Fortress Europe: A Feminist Perspective on the ‘New’ European Union” featuring Rosi Braidotti

1998: “Feminism and Performance: Personal, Political, Professional Perspectives on Interventionist Practice” featuring Jill Dolan

1997: “Mapping the Color Line: Globalization and the Challenges for Anti-Racist, Comparative Feminist Practice” featuring Chandra Talpade Mohanty

1996: “The Fourth World Women’s Conference from a Latin American Feminist Perspective” featuring Marysa Navarro 

1995: “Workplace Climates In The 1990’s: “Women and Men Working Together” featuring Jerry Kendrick, Gage E. Paine, Deborah Wood, Albert Almanza, and Camille Campbell Harmon. 

1994: “Nos/Otras: Making Multi-Cultures and Alliances.” featuring Gloria E. Anzaldua

1993: “Men, Women, and Work: Times Are Changing” featuring Juliet B. Schor

1992: “Women and Scholarship / Women and Work” featuring Johnnella E. Butler and Mary Childers

1991-92: “Women In Their Own Words” featuring Carolyn See, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and student opera performance written under the direction of Dr. Nancy McClain.

1990: “Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices” written and performed by Dr. Janice McCullagh, Ms. Kathleen Juhl, and Ms. Mary Visser.