Recent News: Check Out Dr. Basarudin’s Recent Publication, “An Archive of Rage”
Check out the latest issue of S&F Online, The Scholar and Feminist online to read Dr. Basarudin’s latest publication, An Archive of Rage. Congrats to Dr. Basarudin on this important and timely scholarly article!
You can read Dr. Basarudin’s full publication through this link: “An Archive of Rage” by Dr. Azza Basarudin
Upcoming Event: A Hellscape of False Options: The Limits of Progressive Cultural Politics Virtual Talk by Dr. Anima Adjepong
On behalf of the Departments of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, the Global Middle East Studies Minor, CSUN’s Institute for Feminist Studies and Social Action and the Queer Studies Program, and USC’s Center for Feminist Research, you and your students are invited to a virtual talk by University of Cincinnati Associate Professor Dr. Anima Adjepong, titled: A Hellscape of False Options: The Limits of Progressive Cultural Politics on October 24th, 11:30am-12:45pm via Zoom.
What: A Hellscape of False Options: The Limits of Progressive Cultural Politics (a virtual talk by Dr. Anima Adjepong)
When: October 24, 2024 11:30am-12:45pm
Where: via Zoom, Meeting ID: 892 3240 2456, Passcode: 704211
Upcoming Event: Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Book Discussion with Dr. Sa’ed Atshan
On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, the Queer Studies Minor and the Global Middle East Studies Minor, you and your students are invited to a book discussion by Swarthmore College Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, titled: Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique on October 24th, 2:00-3:30pm via Zoom.
What: Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (a book discussion by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan)
When: Octotber 24, 2024 2:00-3:30pm
Where: via Zoom, Meeting ID: 777 004 5181, Passcode: 952826
Speaker Bio: Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology at Swarthmore College. whose research is focused on contemporary Palestinian society and politics, global LGBTQ social movements, and Christian minorities in the Middle East. His work is at the intersection of cultural anthropology, peace and conflict studies, the anthropology of policy, humanitarianism, critical development studies, gender and sexuality, human security, social movements, the Middle East and North Africa, modern Germany, religious studies, and Quaker studies.
Upcoming Event: Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia Book Talk
On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and History, you and your students are invited to a book talk by Assistant Professor of History Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, titled: Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia on 9/16 from 5-7pm @ Anatol Center (AS-119). There will be a discussion with Dr. Judge, University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Randeep Singh Hothi and American Studies Assistant Professor, Dr. Preeti Sharma. Light refreshments will be served.
What: Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia (a talk by Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, discussion by Dr. Randeep Singh Hothi and Dr. Preeti Sharma)
When: 9/16/2024 5-7pm
Where: Anatol Center (AS 119) / CSULB
Event Description: How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? In Prophetic Maharaja, Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost Khalsa Raj, in Punjab. Sikh sovereignty in what is today northern India and northeastern Pakistan came to an end in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the British annexed the Sikh kingdom and, eventually, exiled its child maharaja, Duleep Singh, to England. In the 1880s, Singh embarked on an abortive attempt to restore the lost Sikh kingdom. Rajbir explores not only Singh’s efforts but also the Sikh people’s responses—the dreams, fantasies, and hopes that became attached to the Khalsa Raj. Rajbir shows how a community engaged military, political, and psychological loss through theological debate, literary production, bodily discipline, and ethical practice in order to contest colonial politics. This book argues that Sikhs in the final decades of the nineteenth century were not simply looking to recuperate the past but to remake it—and to dwell within loss instead of transcending it—and in so doing opened new possibilities. Bringing together Sikh tradition, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial thought, Prophetic Maharaja provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history.
Check Out Our 2023-2024 Newsletter!
Take a look at all the work we’ve done for the 2023-2024 school year: https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/wgss/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WGSS-2023-2024-Newsletter.pdf
News Feature: Zines Document Legacy of Women’s Activism at CSULB
Many thanks to the CSULB Library for hosting the reproductive justice zine-making workshop this week and inviting Dr. Baralt to give a lecture on the history, present, and futures of reproductive justice. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the reproductive justice movement, zine-making, and our library’s archives and special collections.
Link to the article here: https://www.csulb.edu/news/article/zines-document-legacy-of-womens-activism-at-csulb
Upcoming Event: Reproductive Genocide in Gaza (a discussion by Rana A. Sharif in conversation with Dr. Lori Baralt, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, CSULB)
On behalf of the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Asian and Asian American Studies, and Global Middle East Studies Program, you and your students are invited to a talk by UC Riverside PhD Candidate Rana A. Sharif, titled: “Reproductive Genocide in Gaza” on March 12th, 11:00am-12:30pm @ AS-119.
What: Reproductive Genocide in Gaza (Rana A. Sharif in conversation with Dr. Lori Baralt, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, CSULB)
When: March 12th 11am-12:30pm
Where: Anatol Original Conference Room (AS-119)/ CSULB
Rana A. Sharif is currently completing her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Languages from the University of California, Riverside (UCI). She is a faculty member in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and a coordinating member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC). She hosts and produces SWANA Region Radio on KPFK (90.7 FM) and serves on the Board of the ACLU of Southern California.
Upcoming Event: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones ( a discussion by Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Tina Beyene)
On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Political Science, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literature, and the Global Middle East Studies Program invites you and your students are invited to a talk by Western Washington University Associate Professor Dr. Nada Elias and CSUN Assistant Professor Dr. Tina Beyene, titled: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones on March 20th, 11am-12:30pm @ AS-119.
What: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones (a talk by Dr. Nada Elias and Dr. Tina Beyene)
When: March 20th 11am-12:30pm
Where: AS-119/ CSULB
Dr. Nada Elia is a Visiting Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Western Washington University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A scholar activist, she served on the steering collectives of AWSA, RAWAN (Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network), INCITE! Feminists of Color Against Violence, and is currently on the Coordinating Committee of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Nada is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Pluto 2023) and is currently working on “Falastinuyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms,” forthcoming from Verso in 2025.
Dr. Tina Beyene is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of transnational feminism; gender and conflict zones; African feminist movements; and imperial foreign policy. She was a former publisher and editor at South End Press, a progressive publishing collective based on a participatory economics model, where she worked on topics such as the global water rights; advanced capitalism and inequality; the prison industrial complex.
WGSS Summer 2024 Courses
Summer 2024 is just around the corner. Here are the courses WGSS will be offering for Summer 2024! All courses are session 1 (05/28/24-07/05/24) and online asynchronous. To learn more about the courses, visit CSULB’s course catalogue. For more information, please contact the course instructor.
Upcoming Event: “Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S Pop Culture” Book Talk by Author Dr. Aria Halliday – LA4-120 – 3:30-5:00pm
You are invited to a book talk by author and University of Kentucky Associate Professor Dr. Aria Halliday, titled: Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S Pop Culture on February 22nd, 3:30-5:00pm @ LA4-120.
What: “Buy Black: How Black Women Have Transformed U.S Pop Culture” (a book talk by Author/Professor Dr. Aria Halliday)
When: February 22nd 3:30-5:00pm
Where: LA4-120
Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday specializes in the study of cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in girlhood, Black feminism, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Her research is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS. Her article, “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body” won the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award.
