Events
ICS sponsored events 2018–2019
ICS is continuously working to collaborate with multiple department and organizations to encourage campus- and community-wide conversations about issues of vital national importance.
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Friday, September 14, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Bowen-Thompson Student Union
The Ohio Consortium for Men and Masculinities in Higher Education Conference
*Keynote Address by Dr. Derrick Brooms | 11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | 308 BTSU
Join the Violence Prevention Center and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society for a conference that takes a campus/community approach to addressing men's issues and features keynote speaker Dr. Derrick Brooms. Dr. Brooms is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. His keynote lecture is entitled "Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences." Students, faculty, staff, and community partners are all welcome! Snacks and lunch will be provided.
Registration is free, but space is limited. Guests may choose to attend only the keynote by sending an e-mail to cwge@bgsu.edu.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | 9:15 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. | Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Change the Story: Opioid Crisis Teach-in
We invite the campus community and our northwest Ohio communities to join us for a day of learning to Change the Story on the opioid crisis. The event is open to all students, staff and faculty as well as community members from northwest Ohio interested in or affected by the opioid crisis.
The purpose of the teach-in is to raise awareness about the crisis, make connections to existing resources, research and data and to apply BGSU expertise to help individuals gain practical skills to help the community. Are You in?
Activities and events are organized during the day and evening to provide a forum to learn, discuss, debate, and share ideas organized to impact the opioid emergency.
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 |
Thursday, October 25, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. | 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Shattering the Silence on Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss
Despite its prevalence, pregnancy loss remains taboo in the United States.
Dr. Lisa K. Hanasono, an associate professor from Bowling Green State University’s School of Media and Communication, will highlight the findings from two research projects to reveal how culture, gender, media, and interpersonal communication factors work in concert to stigmatize and silence discussions about pregnancy loss—and what we can do collectively to shatter that silence.
Thursday, November 15, 2018 | 6:30 p.m. | Wood County District Public Library Meeting Room
Community Organizations' Role in Combating Sex Trafficking and Sex Tourism
Dr. Lara Martin Lengel's project addresses faith-based organizations’ (FBOs) role in combating sex trafficking of women and children in Costa Rica. It analyzes how the decriminalization of sex work in Costa Rica affects FBOs’ advocacy and support efforts. The proiect builds on Dr. Lengel’s 25-year research program on transnational feminism and critical intercultural communication studies, which has been published in, among other journals, Feminist Media Studies, Gender & History, International Journal of Women’s Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction.