Elevating and Amplifying Women’s Voices at Smith and Beyond: A Smith faculty lecture by Ginetta Candelario ’90, Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino/a Studies
Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET
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In this discussion, Dr. Ginetta E.B. Candelario ‘90 will present on the history, mission, and ongoing impact of The Meridians Project at Smith. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism is a double-anonymized peer-reviewed intersectional feminist journal founded and housed at Smith since 2000, and published bi-annually by Duke University Press since 2018. The goal of Meridians is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for publishing the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in the U.S. and globally. Recognizing that feminism, race, transnationalism, and women of color are contested terms, Meridians engages the complexity of these debates in a dialogue across ethnic and national boundaries, as well as across traditional disciplinary boundaries in the academy. Founded at Smith in 2000 with an Editorial Advisory Board that has included many renowned transnational feminist scholars, artists and activists, the journal has a 24-year history as a nexus of global solidarity. Professor Candelario has been involved with the journal since its inception, which coincided with her joining the Smith faculty, and was appointed Editor in 2017.
Ginetta E.B. Candelario is a Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o Studies, and a faculty affiliate of the Study of Women and Gender Program, and the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration. She has won several teaching awards at Smith and the Five Colleges for her community-based learning and research classes. She was the founding Vice President of the National Latin@ Studies Association (LSA) inaugurated in 2016 and a founding executive committee member of the New England Consortium for Latina/o Studies (NECLS) inaugurated in 2011. She has also served on the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association, and on both the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) and the Finance Committee of the American Sociological Association. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic twice, in 2003 and 2016, and was the Wilbur Marvin Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2021. Professor Candelario's research interests include Dominican history and society, with a focus on national identity formation and women’s history; Blackness in the Americas; Latin American, Caribbean and Latina feminisms; Latina/o communities (particularly Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican); U.S. beauty culture; and museum studies. She has published several books and articles in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic in these fields, and is currently working on a history of feminists and feminism in the Dominican Republic.
You can access the current issue of Meridians here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/issue/23/2
Elevating and Amplifying Women’s Voices at Smith and Beyond: A Smith faculty lecture by Ginetta Candelario ’90
When: Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET | Tea and light refreshments will be served
Location: The Culture Center, 410 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10024
Cost: Free. All Smithies are welcome!
Attendance: Limited to 75 attendees.
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The Culture Center
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