Women's Studies Research Center

Upcoming Events

WSRC Scholar Aditi Malik
"Social Location and Protest Politics: The Logics of Anti-Rape Mobilization in India and South Africa" WSRC Scholar Talk with Aditi Malik

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.

Registration Requested - Please click Here to attend Aditi Malik's Talk.

Picture of Kate Clifford Larson, author and speaker
Falling Forward in the Fight for Freedom: Lessons From Fannie Lou Hamer

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.  

Please Register Here for the Kate Clifford Larson Talk