by Lesley Jo Weaver, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, and Mackenzie VanLaar, PhD, Department of Anthropology
by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
CSWS turns 50 in AY 2023-24! We invite you to a thrilling year of events themed “Feminist Futures” that look to the future while commemorating the past. We will celebrate the cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on gender and intersectionality that the Center has sponsored and disseminated for five decades, and showcase feminist collaborations across the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology that imagine feminist futures to negotiate the challenges of the next fifty.
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
By Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor Department of English
by Rosa M. O’Connor Acevedo, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
by Annie Ring, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
J.L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words demonstrates that language is not just descriptive but in some cases is performative. That is, Austin’s speech act theory argues that language itself performs, changes, or does things in the world. Speech act theory classically considered institutions like marriage, where a pronouncement weds people into a legally binding relation, or boat christening, where naming and blessing a boat before the maiden voyage protects its passengers (Austin).
by W. Jamie Yang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
by Min Young Park, PhD Candidate, Department of English
by Anu Sugathan, PhD Student, Department of English
