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Join ICS for our 2019–2020 events!
COVID-19 Updates: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person ICS events are postponed until restrictions on public gathering are lifted. Please stay tuned to our website or social media pages for updates on special podcast episodes as we release them.
ICS is continuously working to collaborate with multiple department and organizations to encourage campus-and community-wide conversations about issues of vital national importance.
Interested in any of these subjects? Learn more about them by clicking the link below!
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The Bicycle & The Ballot Box: How American Suffragists Pedaled Their Way to Power
Postponed due to COVID-19 Pandemic:
Saturday, March 28, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Wood County District Public Library
Dr. Lori Liggett's project, The Bicycle & The Ballot Box: How American Suffragists Pedaled Their Way to Power, marks the 100 year anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States. Dr. Liggett will explore the history of the bicycle, and more specifically, its impact on the women’s suffrage movement. The “bicycle craze” that swept America in the late 19th century created opportunities for women like never before, representing individualized, unchaperoned transportation and the necessity for much-needed rational attire. In the process, ladies-on-bicycles threatened notions of traditional womanhood and challenged societal gender norms. As women demanded justice in domestic, economic, legal issues, and the right to vote in national elections, the bicycle became a means, both symbolically and practically, to achieve equality. For women, it was a revolutionary mode of independence and free expression on the path toward progress. Dr. Liggett will discuss how the bicycle became a significant symbol of transformation in the lives of American women, intersecting with their political aspirations.
Dr. Lori Liggett is a teaching professor, faculty mentor, and internship coordinator in the School of Media & Communication. Her teaching and interdisciplinary research focus on gender issues within cultural history and visual culture. She recently taught a course entitled “Documenting Women’s Suffrage” resulting in a digital humanities gallery of primary source materials related to the suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. She is a family genealogist and that informs her deep, personal interest in women’s lives and experiences in American history. Currently, she is working on a series of projects central to the women’s suffrage movement and its depictions within popular culture and media.
Challenges of Collaborative Governance in the Opioid Crisis
Postponed due to COVID-19 Pandemic:
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. |Maumee Branch Library
Dr. Albert Dzur's project, entitled Challenges of Collaborative Governance in the Opioid Crisis, explores the benefits, limits, and difficulties of collaborative governance between those working on the front lines of the opioid crisis in innovative health care, public administration, social work, and community organizations. He is particularly interested in how public administrators, judges, and social workers incorporate former drug users as collaborative partners in the fight against opiate addiction. His public talk will consider the under-analyzed and critical role played by individuals from marginalized social groups in efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
Dr. Albert W. Dzur, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, studies citizen participation and power-sharing in criminal justice, health care, public administration, and education. His work on democratic professionalism focuses on innovators who welcome citizen agency in these domains, the barriers they face, and the resources available to link small-scale efforts to broad democratic renewal.
Dr. Dzur's research has been recognized by the McCourtney Institute of Democracy at Penn State University, which awarded it the 2017 Brown Democracy Medal for contributions to democratic theory, by the Ohio House of Representatives, which issued a special research commendation in 2018, and by the BGSU Board of Trustees, which designated him a Distinguished Research Professor in 2019.
He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Canberra, the University of Edinburgh, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Kettering Foundation, the University of Oslo, and the University of Tromsø. He writes regularly for the Boston Review and the National Civic Review, where he is a contributing editor. He is on the editorial board of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and on the editorial team of the International Journal of Restorative Justice.
Past Invited Speakers
| Year | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Elizabeth Castle | The Warrior Women Project Goes to Standing Rock: At the Intersection of Scholarship, Activism, and Filmmaking |
| 2018 | Dylan Miner | g'iiwekii//they return home to the Land: Indigenous Art and Activism in an Age of Ongoing Colonialism |
| 2017 | Brett Story | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes |
| 2017 | Baz Dreisinger | Incarceration Nations |
| 2017 | Jeanne Theoharis | Rosa Parks in the Age of Black Lives Matter |
| 2014 | Cary Wolfe | (Im)Mobilities |
| 2014 | Lisa Nakamura | Digilantes, Vulnerable Bodies, and Hyperbolic Violence on the Internet |
| 2012 | Gregory Siegworth | Mobile Affects, Open Secrets, and Global Illiquidity: Pockets, Pools, and Plasma |
| 2012 | Amy Erdman Farrell | Fat Shame: The Power of Fat Denigration in American History |
| 2012 | Maud Lavin | Femme Androgyny, Aggression, and the Korean T.V. Drama: The First Shop of Coffee Prince |
| 2010 | Jose Esteban Munoz | Becoming Otherwise: Mario Montez, Sonia Sotomayor, and the Affective Life of Brownness |
| 2010 | Anne Anlin Cheng | Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface: Josephine Baker, Adolf Loos, and the Modern |
| 2009 | Joanne Leonard | Being in Pictures: Intimacy, Photography, Memory |
| 2009 | Matthew Gutmann | Changing Men and Masculinities in Mexico: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS |
| 2009 | David Eng | Racial Reparation |
| 2008 | Paula Rabinowitz | Epidemics of Collapse: Notes on Documentary and the Post-Industrial Sublime |
| 2008 | W.J.J. Mitchell | Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib |
| 2008 | E. Patrick Johnson | Performance of Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales |
| 2007 | Diana Taylor | Double Blind: The Torture Case |
| 2007 | Gayatri Gopinath | Queer Regions: From Fire to the Journey |
| 2007 | T.J. Jackson Lears | American Empire |
| 2006 | Kamala Kempadoo | Transacting Sex in the Caribbean: Migration, Work, and Human Trafficking |
| 2006 | Francine Masiello | Reading for the People |
| 2006 | Marianne Hirsch | Strolling the Herrengasse: Street Photographs in Archival and Personal Memory |
| 2006 | Dwight McBride | Race, Faith, and Sexuality: Or a Snapshot Genealogy of the Grateful Negro |
| 2005 | Jill Dolan | Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre |
| 2005 | Kembrew McLeod | Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity |
| 2005 | Roderick Ferguson | The Stratifications of Nomativity: Race, Governmentality, and Minority Formations |
| 2005 | Aihwa Ong | Neoliberalism, or the Shifting Ground of Politics and Ethics |
| 2004 | Eric Lott | The First Boomer: Bill Clinton, George W., and Fictions of the State |
| 2004 | Judith/Jack Halberstam | Dude, Where's My Gender? |
| 2004 | Shannon Jackson | Racial Performativity and Anti-Racist Performance |
| 2004 | Phil Auslander | I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzie Quatro's Musical Androgyny |
| 2002 | Lydia Liu | Women and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century |
| 2002 | Janice Radway | Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation |
| 2002 | Martin Manalansan Iv | Migracy, Mobility, and Modernity: Traversing Queer Diasporic Intimacies |
| 2002 | Lee Edelman | Compassion's Compulsion: Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' |
| 2002 | William Julius Wilson | Welfare, Children, and Families: The Impact of Welfare in a Time of Recession |
| 2001 | Ann Anagnost | Is the Fatherland Really a Motherland? |
| 2001 | David Roman | Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Nassy Brown | From Global to Local and Back Again: Placing Black Identities in Liverpool, England |
| 2000 | David Roediger | The Art of Whiteness: Giuliani, the Brooklyn Museum, and Racial Politics |
| 2000 | Donna Guy | Women and Children Crossing the Border |
| 2000 | Rey Chow | When Whiteness Feminizes: The Rise of 'woman' in the Age of Multiculturalism |
| 2000 | Augusto Boal | Legislative Theater: Using Performance to Make Politics |
| 2000 | George Lipsitz | Citizenship, Democracy, and Public Policy in the 21st Century |
| 1999 | Pheng Cheah | Diaspora, Chinese Cosmopolitanism, and Postcolonial National Memory |
| 1999 | Robbie McCauley | Regenerating Cultural Presence: Tuning in Through Performance |
| 1999 | Lauren Berlant | Citizenship and Sentimentality: The Politics of True Feeling |
| 1997 | Coco Fusco | Performance and the Power of the Popular: Cultural Fusion in the Americas |
| 1997 | Barbara Harlow | Cultural Struggles in Narrative: Human Rights Reporting Truth and Commissions |
| 1997 | Michael Awkward | Identity and Cultural Criticism: The Role of the Black Public Intellectual |
ICS is continuously working to collaborate with multiple department and organizations to encourage campus-and community-wide conversations about issues of vital national importance.
Interested in any of these subjects? Learn more about them by clicking the link below!
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Women Writing Black to the British Empire
Thursday, October 24, 2019 | 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Grounds For Thought
Dr. Nicole Jackson's project, Women Writing Black to the British Empire, has developed from her new work on the the British Caribbean Arts Movement of the late 1960s-1970s. This period produced an array of artists exploring the legacies of slavery, empire and postcolonial identity. A new generation of Black women writers explored what it meant to be Black, British, and a woman in the UK. In this public talk, Dr. Jackson considers Black women’s writing as productive of an alternative canon of British literature, in which the colonized observed, judged and redefined “home.”
Dr. Jackson is an historian of the modern African Diaspora, Black social movements, and community activism, with a current focus on contemporary Black Britain. She is interested in everyday Black people’s work to expand the boundaries of social and political citizenship. She is also interested in the intersection between historical reality and representation in popular culture. Beginning in September 2017, Dr. Jackson became a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society.
Disability, Race, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Bowling Green Center for the Performing Arts
Dr. Starr Keyes’s project, Disability, Race, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, considers how implicit and explicit forms of racism, ableism, and gender stereotyping contribute to deep inequities in disciplinary practices and help perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline. In this public talk, Dr. Keyes will share regional, state, and national disciplinary exclusion data and discuss a variety of strategies to combat this issue and improve student behavior and academic performance.
Over the last 12 years, Dr. Keyes has taught elementary school, middle school, and postsecondary students. She was a licensed Intervention Specialist for students with mild-moderate disabilities in K-12. Currently, she teaches a reading and writing assessment methods course with a specific emphasis on Response to Intervention (RTI) and curriculum-based measurement. She also teaches a consultation and collaboration class with a specific focus on partnering with parents. Dr. Keyes has attended numerous professional development trainings covering a broad range of topics in education, special education, and technology. She has co-authored manuscripts and presented research at state and national conferences. Dr. Keyes is currently working with a school in Toledo training teachers to implement computer-assisted instruction as part of the school’s RTI process.
Cultures in Conversation: Environments, Landscapes, and Ecologies
Saturday, February 15, 2020| 316 Bowen-Thompson Student Union|Bowling Green State University
This interdisciplinary symposium, Environments, Landscapes, and Ecologies will explore the multilayered meanings of the term “environment” using the broadest definition of the term as a common ground for meeting and commingling. Scholars will meet and explore the myriad ways in which multitudinous actors and interactions conspire to make meanings, spaces, places, and landscapes. All panel presentations and keynote addresses are open to the public.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Andrew Herscher. Dr. Herscher will be speaking about his experience as an academic and activist collaborating with communities fighting for environmental justice. Dr. Herscher is a trained architect and historian of architecture. He works on the spatial politics of violence, humanitarian and human rights issues, exile and migration, and contemporary art and architecture. His research, writing, and teaching is informed by his long-term participant observation in Kosovo’s post-conflict environment, including work with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project, a nongovernmental organization he co-founded and co-directed.
ICS is proudly co-sponsoring this symposium with Culture Club, a School of Cultural and Critical Studies graduate student-run organization.