Upcoming Events

March 6, 2025
when: 5:00pm
Join WSRC Scholar Aditi Malik, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, as she discusses her most recent work.
Note: This talk discusses sexual violence and contains details some attendees may find distressing.
In societies marked by high levels of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), how do we account for citizens’ varied responses to such incidents? Drawing on comparative case studies of five lethal rapes in India and South Africa, which generated strikingly different reactions from ordinary citizens, this talk will demonstrate how victims’ social locations—that is, their urbanity, class, caste, race, and/or religion—crucially shape the possibilities for one key response to such violence, namely anti-rape protests.
Combining original event data on demonstrations against rape in India with insights from over 80 original and in-depth interviews in the two countries, as well as ethnographic observations of anti-GBV forums in South Africa, the talk will highlight the conditioning impact of women’s intersectional identities on the mobilization of protests against rape.

March 11, 2025
when: 11:00am
where: the Women's Studies Research Center, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
In January 2025, Fannie Lou Hamer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Please join the Brandeis Department of African and African American Studies, as well the Women's Studies Research Center, in listening to researcher, scholar and author Kate Clifford Larson discuss Fannie Lou Hamer and the contributions Fanne made. Larson is the author of "Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer", published in 2021.
Located directly across from the MBTA station, ample parking is available in the front and back of the building.