Tues, Oct 2, 5.30 pm — FSTSI Writing Group
(Meet at Amherst Brewing Company, 10 University Drive, Amherst, MA 01002)
Bring 4-5 copies of any writing project you are currently working on.
Fri, Oct 5 – Day long Intersex symposium October 5, 2012 10am-4:45pm
(Mount Holyoke College, Chapin Auditorium)
Tues, Oct 16, 5.30 pm – FSTSI Reading Group, Amherst Brewing Company, Amherst
(Reading: Joan Scott, The Fantasy of Feminist History (Chapters 1 & 2)
Tuesday, Sept 25, 5.30-7 pm – FSTSI Speaker Series, Five College Inc.
Speaker: Khary Polk, Department of Black Studies, Amherst College
“Easy to Get: Race, American Militarism, and the Black Venereal Body Abroad”
Immunity, contagion, communicability, and containment are broad themes that mark the movement of African
American soldiers across time and space. In this talk, I will examine three instances in which these themes punctuate
the discourse of 20th century African American military service abroad: in 1898 during the Spanish-American-Cuban War and related Philippine
War of Independence, in France during the First World War, and in the
global theater of World War II. In each of these moments, the bodies of African American soldiers have been the raw
material fueling U.S. imperial goals toward a global technological
supremacy, enabled through successive regimes of medical experimentation. I show how the medical apparatus of the U.S. military—a
vital arbiter of the overlapping taxonomies of race, class, gender, and citizenship in America—played a central role in the sexual, biological,
and political regulation of African American soldiers abroad.
FIVE COLLEGE
FEMINIST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES INITIATIVE
SPEAKER SERIES – FALL 2012
Tues, Sept 18 – Kiran Asher, , Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change, Clark University
Fri, Oct 5 – Day long Intersex symposium (at MHC, Room: TBA)
Tues, Oct 23- Khary Polk, Robert E. Keiter 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Black Studies, Amherst College
Tues, Nov 13 – Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Albany
Tues, Dec 4 – Jacquelyne Luce, Visiting Faculty, WGSS, UMass Amherst
All talks are from 5.30- 7 pm at Five College Inc, 97 Spring Street, Amherst, https://www.fivecolleges.edu
The day long symposium on Oct 5 will be held at Mount Holyoke College. Details forthcoming
