In 1967, female members of SUPA denounced their comrades’ sexism, arguing that it made the organization “like a civil rights organization with a leadership of southern racists.” In 1970 members of the Vancouver Women’s Caucus led an Abortion Caravan across Canada to protest the criminalization of abortion, drawing on powerful props such as coat hangers […]
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Issues of war have played a prominent role in Joss Whedon’s work across various media, from the progressively militarized later seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, to the later seasons in comic book format and its offshoot, Fray. This continues throughout the television and comic book iterations of Firefly and Serenity, in Dollhouse,
Michigan State University will host the fifth annual graduate student research conference on migration, welcoming papers on the theme Migration With(out) Boundaries. Migration Studies is a burgeoning and all-too-relevant area of academic attention, and the conference seeks to foster a cohort of scholars working on any thematic, conceptual, spatial, or temporal aspect of human migration from any disciplinary perspective. Submissions
Panel I: Politics and Immigration.Throughout immigration policy’s long history in Germany, most notably in the aftermath of WWII and German unification in 1990, it has been contested political, social, and cultural territory. This is no less the case now, with Germany taking in some 1.1 million refugees in 2015. What do past cultural, social, and
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This series addresses Christianity in Modern China since the end of the Opium War in 1842, after which China was opened to foreign countries, companies, missions and individuals, to the present. This series focuses on the history and development of Christianity on the regional and local basis; for example, the Northeast of China, the Fujian
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