Events

Kelly Watson's keynote lecture at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas (virtual event). 

"The Pied Piper of New Guinea: The Life and Crimes of D. Carleton Gajdusek." 

Synopsis: Carleton Gajdusek is best known for three things: 1) his 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine which he received for his field-defining research into “slow viruses” (now known as prion disorders), 2) his adoption of more than 35 children from Micronesia and Melanesia, and 3) his 1997 conviction for the sexual abuse of a minor. This talk will explore the life and works of D. Carlton Gajdusek, illuminating the ways that fame, colonialism, and science created a space for the exploitation of bodies. It will pose difficult questions about the complicity of Western science and (post)colonial institutions in the sexual abuse of children.

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Hosted by Women's and Gender Studies, Women's Resource center, Women Leadership Initiative. 

Location: Terra Café

Join us to learn about the available WGST Major and Minors! Pizza will be provided! 

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Topic to include: Inclusion/Exclusion and Women/Gender in Modern Vernacular. 

Speaker: Judith Stitzel 

WGST's Gloria Negrete-Lopez will be a discussant for the panel on "Invisible Labor: Legacies of bell hooks ." 

Location: TBD  

Kelly Watson will be discussing the MoMA Femfolio collection. 

Kelly's talk is entitled: "Between Two Worlds: Mary Kittamaquund Brent and English-Piscataway Relations in 17th Century Maryland” (in Maryland)." 

 

Location: Small Gold Ballroom, Mountainlair.