The Domna Stanton Lecture Series is an annual event. Each year we invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines.

Upcoming events in the series:

"Still Loving in the (Still) War Years"--A reading of new works by Cherríe Moraga.
November 20, 2008 Collins Cinema 4:30-6:00pm

Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition, including a TCG Theatre Artist Residency Grant in 1996, the NEA's Theatre Playwrights' Fellowship in 1993, and two Fund for New American Plays Awards.  In 2007, she was awarded the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature, and in 2008, a Yaddo Artist Residency Fellowship.

She is the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986. She is the author of the now classic Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios (1983/2003) and The Last Generation (1993), published by South End Press of Cambridge, MA.  In 1997, she published a memoir on motherhood entitled Waiting in the Wings (Firebrand Books) and is completing a memoir on the subject of cultural memory in a Mexican Indian California entitled Send Them Flying Home:  A Geography of Remembrance.  This year Moraga also completed a new collection:  A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness:  Writings for a New Century (2000-2008).

Moraga has also published three volumes of drama through West End Press of Albuquerque, NM.  They include:  Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994), Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt (2002), and The Hungry Woman (2001).  A San Francisco Bay Area playwright, Moraga has premiered her work at Theatre Artaud, Theatre Rhinoceros, the Eureka Theatre, and Brava Theater Center.  Brava's  production of "Heroes and Saints" in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script, including the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her plays have been presented throughout the Southwest, as well as in Chicago, Seattle and New York.  In 1995, "Heart of the Earth," Moraga's adaptation of the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth, opened at the Public Theatre and INTAR Theatre in New York City.    

For over ten years, she has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Drama at Stanford University and currently also shares a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity.   She teaches Creative Writing, Chicano/Latino literature, Xicana-Indigenous Performance, Indigenous Identity in Diaspora in the Arts and Playwriting.  She is proud to be a founding member of La Red Xicana Indígena, a network of Xicanas organizing in the area of social change through international exchange, indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grass roots organizing.

Prior events in the series:

2008 Charlotte Bunch " Women's Rights and Human Rights"
Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University.
Taking Stock: Feminism and 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


2007 "Juanita/Svetlana/Geeta' "

Professor Carole Vance, MPh, PhD
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University of New York.

The talk examines important themes in the flood of documentary, journalism and policy about trafficking into forced prostitution, and the ways in which culturally resonant themes about gender, sexuality, innocence, globalization, and sensation structure narratives about trafficking,to great effect. While electrifying and mobilizing, these " stories of trafficking" motivate and support interventions that ignore - rather than support - human rights frameworks. What narrative conventions, genres, tactics, and subjectivities would inform
alternative ways of telling the story and formulating rights-enhancing
policies?

Preceded by
Discussion Panel ‘New Frontiers of Sexual Rights’
(With support from Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School)


2006 "Social Amnesia and the Civil Rights Movement"
Callie Crossley and Diane McWhorter. Crossley is an award- winning television
producer/media commentator best known for her ongoing appearance on WGBH's "Greater Boston" program and her role as a producer of the "Eyes on the Prize" video history of the civil rights movement. McWhorter, a New York-based writer, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her book Carry Me Home, on the history of the civil rights movement in Birmingham.


2005 “Women and Human Rights after 9/11”
          Catherine Powell, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University

2004 “Women, Work and Citizenship”
         Sharon Hayes, University of Virginia, Sociology department.

2003 “Feminism without Borders: The Politics of Transnational           Feminism”    Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Hamilton College

2002 “The Nanny Question in Feminism”
         Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College

2001 “Race, Gender and Medicine”
         Evelyn Hammond, PhD, MIT