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WSRC's Spring 2021 Lecures, Events and Exhibitions are going virtual. Please click on the "Register Here for Virtual Event" links below to receive an invitation to our virtual events on Zoom. Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center's top priority is to keep our community healthy and safe amid coronavirus concerns. For information and updates on social distancing at Brandeis University please go to Covid-19 Response: What's Now, What's Next. For health updates, please go to the Brandeis University Health Center
Spring 2021 Virtual Lectures, Events & Exhibitions
November 16, 2020-March 19, 2021: Online Exhibition Open
November 16, 2020-May 28, 2021: Installation on View*
The Kniznick Gallery presents "Hellbent," a solo exhibition by Ariel Basson Freiberg. "Hellbent" explores the structure of spectatorship through paintings that fluctuate between the divide of spectacle and concealment. Drawing from narratives and representations of Salome, the young woman who lasciviously danced in exchange for the head of John the Baptist, Freiberg beckons us to consider the nature of the infamous performance in relation to desire, gender, sexuality, and power. Through the sensuous and energetic handling of her medium, Freiberg operates alongside her protagonist, and her painterly gestures multitask as form and narration.
*WSRC and the Kniznick Gallery will open to the Brandeis campus community on Nov. 16. We are closed to the general public, but those outside the Brandeis community are welcome to attend our virtual Spring 2021 programs.
February 2, 2021
12-1:30 p.m. EST
Since the lockdown in March 2020, grandparents are inventing new methods of connection with family and community. Nemzoff and Raphael share insights gleaned from discussions with 200 grandparents.
February 9, 2021
5-6:30 p.m. EST
Boston-based artist Ariel Basson Freiberg will give a virtual lecture on her work, studio practice, and exhibition "Hellbent" at the Kniznick Gallery.
February 18, 2021
5-6:30 p.m. EST
Volunteer Lawyer Voter Protection Team member, activist coordinator, and narrative research scholar, Ballard, and SSP student Jackson, examine the role that narrative, engaged citizenry, and vertical and horizontal connectivity played in Biden/Harris campaign and support organizations in 2020.
March 2, 2021
5-6:30 p.m. EST
Swing will read selected chapters from her creative non-fiction manuscript about her suffragist grandmother, Betty Gram Swing, and lead a discussion about issues involved in portraying her life through a fictionalized but historically accurate account.
March 4, 2021
5-6:30 p.m. EST
The story of pre-revolutionary Russian feminist activism has been largely obscured in histories of Russia and the Soviet Union. Rutchild discusses Russia's pioneering role in achieving women's suffrage and in the early history of International Women's Day.
(Please note the new 5pm starting time, this lecture was previously scheduled for 12pm.)
March 11, 2021
6-7:30 p.m. EST
Heidi Shreck's timely play addresses themes such as women's rights, immigration, domestic abuse, and the history of the United States. Please view "What the Constitution Means to Me" before attending the WSRC Film Forum discussion. The discussion will be facilitated by WSRC Scholar Lora Brody, Judge Nancy Gertner and Brandeis Professor Daniel Breen.
(Please note the new 6pm starting time, this lecture was previously scheduled for 12pm.)
March 18, 2021
5-6:30 p.m. EST
Historically white, male, father/son building trade unions are making serious efforts to attract those previously excluded or marginalized due to their gender and/or race. What larger lessons can be drawn about solidarity for a country wrestling with the aspirations and shortcomings of its democracy?
April 8, 2021
11 a.m.-1:45 p.m. EST
Echoes of the Holocaust exist in the politics and culture of today. Diverse perspectives on past
and present are offered by a filmmaker, fine art photographer, public memory artist, memoirist,
poet, sociologist, journalist and public health professor.
Co-sponsored by Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
April 20, 2021
12-1:30 p.m. EST
Speaking up, speaking out and taking action can present unique challenges for young women. Recent interviews with undergraduate organization leaders provided the foundation for structuring activities to promote these initiatives. The presenters examine the impact of group and individual interventions on strengthening initiative, a crucial component of young women's leadership capacity.
April 27, 2021
5-6:30 p.m.
Penrose, Jr. discusses the ethnic variations which allowed women to be fighters from ancient Scythia
and China to modern Dahomey and India. Dodson discusses these influences on her new translation
of Albrecht Durer’s "The Four Horsemen" from the Apocalypse Series, into sculpted “Amazon” women warriors.
April 29, 2021
12-1:30 p.m. EST
The 2012 Delhi Rape case, and the subsequent protests, were followed all over the world, thanks to
the mass proliferation of online news media. Singh charts a brief history of women's involvement in
the public sphere and discusses the complexity of protests and social movements in the context of
the world's largest middle class.
May 1, 2021
2-3:30 p.m. EST
Boston-based artist Destiny Palmer will discuss her public art and studio-based practice that function as places to create dialogue and make space for investigation.
A Kniznick Gallery / Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts Event.