Women's and Gender Studies (WGST)and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) announce the fifth event of an on-going collaboration, F2F: Faculty to Faculty Salons, on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:00 p.m. This event is one of the kick-off events for FLEFF, which opens on March 22.
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The fifth F2F salon features an interview with Dr. Nicole Horsley, Assistant Professor, Center for the Studies of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Dr. Carla Golden, Professor Emerita of Psychology, conducts the interview.
Dr. Nicole Horsley is a Black radical femme teacher and scholar of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She is Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Ithaca College. Her current project argues for a Black sexual liberation theory as a framework that works in the apertures between pleasure and political demands, between utopian longings and the everyday failures of anti-blackness. The project unapologetically advocates for a collective response to anti-Black violence and killings across the globe in order to imagine Black liberation.
Horsley's work focuses on the liberation of Black people globally, with a particular interest in Black women ontologies, bodies, queerness, and sexual liberation. She is an Africana, Visual Culture, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies scholar who brings an intersectional liberatory lens to Black women's bodies. Her research and teaching specialties span African American and African Diaspora Studies; Black Feminism; Black Queer Theory; Black Music Videos; Black Female Sexuality; Visual and Sonic Culture; Taste Culture; Film and Media Studies.
Dr. Carla Golden recently retired from the Psychology Department at Ithaca College after a thirty-seven-year-year career as a developmental feminist psychologist and forty-three-years as an academic. She taught at Smith College for the first six years of her career. At Ithaca, she was known for her Psychology of Women course, a senior seminar in Feminist Psychology, and an Honors Program course entitled Sex, Gender, and Desire.
She was instrumental in founding the Women’s Studies Program at Ithaca in 1995. In her last seven years at Ithaca College, she served as the Coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, growing it significantly as a thriving minor course of study. As her parting legacy to the College, she wrote the proposal to create a BA degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, currently under review by the New York State Department of Education. She has written scholarly articles on psychoanalytic feminism, women’s sexual identities, and gender identity development. She is the co-editor of a widely-used anthology Lectures in the Psychology of Women, currently in its 5th edition.
Employing the master class model, these engaging participatory salons feature senior faculty members interviewing early and mid-career WGST-affiliated faculty members about their research and their journeys to becoming scholars. Each semester will feature salons with different faculty interviewers and interviewees.
The purpose of the salons is to showcase our feminist, anti-racist, decolonialist faculty on the Ithaca College campus, with a focus on their scholarship. We are inviting students to enter into the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies by listening to the faculty discussing their work and current debates and controversies in their disciplines.
The 75-minute salons will employ a master class model of guided conversation and then engagement with questions from attendees. They will wrap up with takeaways from participants both live and in the chat.
During the pandemic, “F2F” has emerged as an acronym for face-to-face or embodied instruction or meetings. Our salons will expand “F2F” to unfold other meanings and possibilities, such as Feminist to Feminist, Field to Field, Festival to Festival, Friend to Friend.
For further information, contact Dr. Claire Gleitman, gleitman@ithaca.edu or Dr. Patricia Zimmermann, patty@ithaca.edu