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Upcoming Events

• September 12, 2024

  Fady Joudah in Conversation with Roger Reeves

  Prize-winning poet and physician Fady Joudah will read from his visionary sixth collection of poems, [...], and engage in conversation with UT professor and poet Roger Reeves.
• September 18, 2024

  Alicia Partnoy: “Solidarity as a Tool for Survival: Reflections of an Argentine Activist and Former Desaparecida”

  Poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy will discuss how solidarity transforms survival into testimony and justice.
• September 23, 2024

  Robyn Powell: “Forced to Bear, Denied to Rear: The Cruelty of Dobbs for Disabled People”

  Robyn Powell, Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law, will discuss how Dobbs creates a paradox for disabled people where they may be forced to bear children but subsequently denied the opportunity to rear them because of ongoing threats to their parental rights. Professor Powell’s talk will identify and respond to this paradox by providing and applying a disability reproductive justice framework. Julie Minich, Associate Professor in the Department of English, will respond.
• October 7, 2024

  Isabel Jaramillo Sierra: “The Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America: Old and New Feminisms in the Region”

  Isabel Jaramillo Sierra, Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, will discuss the decriminalization of abortion in Latin America and the need to bridge gaps between old and new feminisms to continue to work toward reproductive justice.
• October 21, 2024

  Amanda Heffernan: “‘Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol‘: Pregnant Migrant Women’s Encounter with Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico Border”

  Amanda Heffernan, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Seattle University, will argue that, based on her study of the impact of pregnancy-related immigration policies on the lived experiences of pregnant migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border from 2017-2022, pregnant women are negatively impacted under a wide range of, and even disparate, policy regimes.

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