... Are Human Beings”: Mapping the u.s. Army’s “Human Terrain Systems” Program Rule Number One: Terrorists are human beings. They are human beings with emotions [that] can be channeled into lethal action and often bring inno...

...Ranjana Khanna This article discusses disposability in light of what psychoanalysis can offer to an analysis of that term, understood as a contemporary characteristic of the human and its liminal condition. The essay questions why a program of social change is demanded of psychoanalysis but also...

... consecutive summers in New York City: Simone Leigh’s The Waiting Room at the New Museum (2016), and the group exhibit We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum (2017). While both exhibitions promote the work of black women artists at the center of their institutional program-building initiatives, each...

... where more traditional or con- a strong English doctoral program servative scholars resisted work during a decade of economic disas- in these areas as trendy, superfi...

... that one demonstrate some technical expertise (usually in the form of program- ming languages) to speak authoritatively within the field. This is gener- ally characterized as the “hack/yack” divide, echoing the call for “more hack, less...

... students-as-consumers (material that will keep them “content,” in the sense of comfortable, via a program of easily digestible content). Yet for all the concern with trauma in the discourse on trigger warnings, there is often a surprising lack of engagement on the part of those calling...

...Braxton Soderman Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 braxton soderman is a third-year PhD candidate in the Modern Culture and Media program at Brown University. His most recent publication was entitled, “At the Crossroads of the Trivial...

...? How would you characterize the mission of women's studies at a black women's college? What are the barriers you've encountered in establishing your program? What are your successes? d fferences 33 BG-S: The first thing that I would say is that Spelman has been fairly unique in the commitment that it's...

... studies now? What are the boundaries that define it and differentiate it from other kinds of inquiry? These are not abstract questions, but ones that issue from the very real conundrums currently faced by those of us in women's studies. Consider the following examples from my own program, one...

... be? If you were heading the gender studies program at the University of Chicago, or if you had a voice in creating a new program, what would you do about the question of race? RH: I think you can't dismiss the fact that there are very different historical trajectories behind how African American studies got...

... to be "circulated." We wonder about the basis for a common language, a common content, a joint program. We wonder how the notion of "community" is being used in this context. The University-Based Vision of the European Community In this period of postmodern disorder (Lyotard) the distinction between "high" and "low...

... equitable and legal, both transparent and just, both sexy and safe. It is affirmative consent that can produce new kinds of campus climates that reject the toxicity of gender roles and that foreground open and pleasurable sexual communication. Sex Signals, a popular sexual assault prevention program...

... of national experiences and histories, including the resettlement program after the war and the impact of the immigration of Japanese war brides on the meaning of Japanese American citizenship. Japanese war brides were perhaps the most visible representatives of Japanese American life in the postwar period...

... Puertorriqueiia Pro Bienestar de la Familia was taken over by the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Department's Office ofEconomic Opportunity as part ofLyndon Johnson's Great Society anti-poverty program. (94) Mass ignored the fact that Puerto Rican feminist activists supported ProFamilia and its precursor...

..., without giving up the idea of penetrating all the other fi elds, to remain within a department would be a failure. On the other hand, if you give up the idea of a feminine studies program, then you will weaken the feminine cause. So...

... is or should "really" be "gender and women's studies" or, more simply, "gender studies." There has been concrete movement in this direction. At Indiana University, for example, the Women's Studies Program renamed itself Gender Studies in October 1997. At first glance, such a renaming appears reasonable. After...

... of Chinese sexuality and gender formations. I would like to thank Chengzhou He, codirector of the Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities, as well as other colleagues at Nanjing University who were essential to the success of the conference and to the early planning...

... and Carnegie Mellon University. david golumbia teaches in the English Department and the Media, Art, and Text PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of The Cultural Logic of Computation (Harvard University Press, 2009) and many articles on digital culture, language...

... as a lurid spectacle than she proves to be in an honest confrontation. 1 Afew weeks after this rousing affair, in December of1988, I delivered thefollowing essay as a talk in an MIA program that might be characterized d iff ere nee s: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2.3 (1990) d fferences 15...

... and sexuality. It is possible, in fact, that an unexpected positive side-effect ofthe University's refusal to create a women's studies program was to facilitate collaboration among faculty working in gay and lesbian studies, those working in a feminist framework, and those simply interested in gender...