Colloquium Series

Dr. Elizabeth Hoffmann – Thursday, February 23, 2023 @ 6:00pm  in the CRGW

Lactation at Work: How official rights (might?) create workplaces that support lactating employees.

Working and breastfeeding!  Many workers have the right to lactation accommodations at their jobs.  But how successful are those accommodations and how have working moms managed their need to pump?  Professor Hoffmann’s research explains how moms mobilized at work and how (some!) managers became allies in creating successful workplace milk expression accommodations.

Bio: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann is an Associate Professor in Purdue University’s Sociology Department.  She has written extensively in the area of workplace rights.  In particularly, she examines how new workplace laws, employees’ dispute resolution strategies, and the effect of workplace organizational structure on employees’ rights, legal consciousness, and workplace culture. 

Miss Angelica Ross – Tuesday, February 28, 2023, date & time TBD

The GSCC has invited the CRGW to co-sponsor (with current co-sponsors being WSB Multicultural Center, WUD DLS, Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and the Black Cultural Center) is hosting the extraordinary Angelica Ross as the featured guest speaker for their new Trailblazer Series.

Bio: Miss Ross is a Black Trans actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and self-taught computer programmer from Kenosha, WI. She was Candy Ferocity on Pose, starred in American Horror Story 1984 and is currently starring as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on Broadway. We’re thrilled that she’s joining us, especially during Black History Month.

Dr. Ramatou Ouedraogo – Tuesday, March 7, 11:00 am via Zoom

Title: TBD

Description: TBD

Bio: Ouedraogo is a cultural anthropologist of reproductive health, working currently at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi. She’s Burkinabe by nationality and has done most her ethnographic work in Burkina Faso abortion decision-making and abortion care in West Africa (see https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113154

Dr. erin Khuê Ninh & Dr. James Kyung-Jin Lee – Thursday, March 23, 6:00 pm in the CRGW

Care in the Case of the Model Minority

What if the model minority is not a myth? What if it is better conceptualized as a problem for Asian American wellbeing? These questions emerge out of the work of Professors erin Khuê Ninh and James Kyung-Jin Lee, and this dialogue between them will focus on what the figure of the model minority has to teach us about racialized ableism and the kinds of care that are needed within Asian American communities.

Bios: erin Khuê Ninh is Associate Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her first book, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (NYU Press) won the literary studies book award from the Association of Asian American Studies in 2013. Her second book, Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021) takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question “How does it feel to be model minority?”

James Kyung-Jin Lee is Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. He is the author of two books: Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority (Temple University Press, 2022), which explores what happens when those considered model minorities critically engage with illness and medicine whether as patients or physicians.