Sem: Gender & Violence

Patriarchal societies are permeated with gendered violence. Across time and place, men and boys have perpetrated multiple forms of violence against women and girls, including  intimate partner violence, sexual assault and harassment, and reproductive coercion—usually without legal or social consequences. This course explores how women and girls fight back against male violence historically and today, using a wide range of strategies, including collective resistance, legal challenges, art, film, humor and, sometimes, physical violence.

Charlotte Kaiser

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Departmental Assistant
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Linguistics
Email Address:  
ckaiser@umass.edu

Vassiki Chauhan

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Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution:  
Amherst College
Department:  
Psychology
Email Address:  
vchauhan@amherst.edu

Elem Italian Conversation

Designed to support beginning Italian students and to help them improve their conversational skills. This course offers intensive practice in pronunciation, vocabulary, oral comprehension and conversation. It includes class discussions, role-playing and short oral presentations. Prerequisite: ITL 110Y or ITL 111 must be taken concurrently. Enrollment limited to 12.

Writing About Home

Home is where we live in every sense, but "home" is more than the physical structure we reside in: it is also the psychological, societal, emotional, and even the mythical. In this course, we will read a variety of fiction and non-fiction and explore the importance of space, be it physical or metaphysical, as well as the construction of home. We will consider how these terms (whether we accept them, shun them, or experience them via travel and immigration), dictate to us and others a sense of self and identity via our own writing.

Bo Li

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Research Fellow
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Food Science
Email Address:  
boli@umass.edu

Jen Bervin

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Visiting Scholar
Institution:  
Amherst College
Department:  
Music
Email Address:  
jbervin@amherst.edu
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