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CFR works in partnership with Gender and Sexuality Studies to create research opportunities for the study of race, gender, sexuality, coloniality, and feminism. Our seminars, workshops, conferences, and informal gatherings bring together scholars, students, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and members of the greater Los Angeles community who share interests and concerns about the operations of systemic oppression, managed depletion, and modalities of enclosure that structure, imbricate, and materialize bodies, neighborhoods, societies, and worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Spring 2026 Upcoming Events\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Book Talk: Engendering Blackness with Patrice D. Douglass<\/h3>\n \n \n
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February 12, 4:00 pm<\/p>\n

THH 420<\/p>\n

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In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrences as a question of ethics, sexual agency, and feminine orders of gendering. Rather, this book foregrounds Blackness as engendered by sexual violence, which forcefully (re)produces Blackness, corporeally and conceptually, as a condition that lacks the capacity to ontologically distinguish its suffering from what it means to be human. <\/p>\n

This event is hosted by USC\u2019s Center for Feminist Research, the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and Black Visual Cultures Collective (BVCC), which is co-founded by Naima Adams (American Studies), Corrine Collins (English), and Mlondolozi Zondi (Comparative Literature). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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CFR with Korean Studies \u201cTechnoscience, Gender, and Cultural Transformations in Korea,\u201d International Conference<\/h3>\n \n \n
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Rosen Family Screening Room (TCC 227), Tutor Campus Center, USC Parkside Campus<\/p>\n

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This international conference seeks to advance the growing interdisciplinary field of cultural studies of science and technology in Korea by examining the dynamic intersections of technoscience, gender, and culture. Notably, the number of South Korean women in STEM fields has more than tripled since the 1990s, a trend that underscores women\u2019s expanding roles beyond traditional STEM careers, spanning science fiction writing, science communication, and other technology-based cultural innovations. Hosted by the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, the conference will foster dialogue across disciplines and methodologies to deepen our insights into both the gendered impacts of contemporary technoscientific developments and the ways in which embodied perspectives inform technoscientific practices and cultural imaginaries. See the presenters\u2019 bios<\/a> and abstracts<\/a>. And here is the program.<\/a><\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; the Korea Foundation; USC Libraries; USC\u2019s Center for Feminist Research; the Center for International Studies; and the Office of the Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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CFR supports graduate student working and writing groups that further the mission of the Center each year. Groups receive funding and administrative support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

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CFR works in partnership with Gender and Sexuality Studies to create research opportunities for the study of race, gender, sexuality, coloniality, and feminism. Our seminars, workshops, conferences, and informal gatherings bring together scholars, students, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and members of the greater Los Angeles community who share interests and concerns about the operations of systemic oppression, managed depletion, and modalities of enclosure that structure, imbricate, and materialize bodies, neighborhoods, societies, and worlds.<\/p>\n

The support of alumni and friends allows the Center to continue its mission as one of the nation’s oldest university research centers dedicated to feminism.<\/p>\n

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