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About Us

The Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement offers programs and support for students, faculty and staff interested in feminism and gender issues, as well as those active in women’s, gender and feminist studies at the Claremont Colleges. We sponsor and co-sponsor lectures, symposia, workshops, conferences, and community-building events. We offer:

• Teaching resources.

• A complete lending collection with books and films, as well as senior theses and magazines, open daily for browsing or studying.

• An events calendar of feminist/gender/women’s studies at the Claremont Colleges.

• A list of gender and women’s studies courses offered each semester, with detailed descriptions.

• A mailing list with information about events and other opportunities to get involved.

• An up-to-date list of conferences and calls for proposals and papers.

The IFC steering committee includes one or more faculty representatives from each of the undergraduate colleges and several student representatives.

The IFC offices and library are located in Vita Nova Hall at Scripps College.  Our hours are 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday.  Please drop by to visit!


Spotlight Event

Linda Perkins: “To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s” comes out April 9 at press.uillinois.edu/books. CGU hosts a free and public book launch event at 5:15 p.m. Monday, April 22 with the author at Albrecht Auditorium, 925 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont. RSVP at forms.office.com/r/XaxuxQns6Z.


Upcoming Conference
November 14-17, 2024
Detroit, Michigan
2024 National Women’s Studies Annual Conference: The Journey Not Only the Arrival, Critical Connections Not Only Critical Mass: (Re)Thinking Feminist Movements
The Portal for submissions is open till April 1.


Course Catalog

Spring 2024 GWS course descriptions here: Please reference the student portal for current updates to course times and days.


IFC News

Spring 2023 Newsletter
Fall 2023 Newsletter


Faculty News

Aimee Bahng, associate professor and coordinator of gender and women’s studies at Pomona College, co-lead editor of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, led a pre-conference workshop on “Oceanic Ecologies and Pacific Resurgence” at the joint conference of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) in Portland, Oregon, in July. Bahng also presented her research on abolitionist environmentalism on a panel titled “Ecocriticism and Ethnic Studies.”

Jih-Fei Cheng, associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College, gave a lecture on December 1 at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College for 7C World AIDS Day 2023.

Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology at Scripps College, has been appointed to the Laura Vausbinder Hockett ‘85 Endowed Professorship.

Ken Gonzalez-Day, professor of art; Fletcher Jones Chair in Art at Scrips College, Beginning on October 7, the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art will exhibit the work of Ken Gonzalez-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art. The exhibition, Face to Face, will feature two of Gonzalez-Day’s overlapping series, Pandemic Portraits and Profiled, and will run through January 21, 2024.
Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary
Ken Gonzales-Day, Queer-ish showcases historic vernacular photographs—snapshots of everyday life and subjects—highlighting moments of same-sex affection alongside contemporary photographs by LGBTQ+ artists.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies at Pomona College, presented at the roundtable “Unpacking Far Right Politics and the Anti-Feminist Backlash” at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Vancouver, Canada in May. Also in May, Hernández-Medina co-organized and co-moderated the seventh-anniversary celebration of Tertulia Feminista Magaly Pineda, the feminist group she co-founded and now coordinates, along with Rossy Matos and Angélica Rodríguez Bencosme, in the Dominican Republic. The event included a roundtable on women’s sexual and reproductive rights with oncological obstetrician Natalia Frías, birth doula and educator Leiko Hidaka, and public health expert Mirna Jiménez de la Rosa.  In July, she presented the paper “Institutional Catalysts and Citizen Participation: The Case of the Historic Center’s Fiduciary Fund in Mexico City (2001–12)” on the panel “Contesting Urban Governance: New Forms of Citizenship and the Power of Protest Across Institutional Contexts. Part II, at the XX World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Melbourne, Australia.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theater and Asian American studies at Pomona College, was a discussant on a July 8 Zoom panel titled “Toxic Workspaces, Self-Care, and Asianness: The Basics” with Quade French and Michael Sakamoto for the Gold Standard Arts Foundation.

Carla Macal, visiting instructor of Gender & Women’s Studies at Pomona College, completed her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Oregon, with her dissertation titled Cuerpo-Territorio: Embodied Transformative Memory and Cartographies of Healing among GuateMaya Feminist Groups. Additionally, she published her research with Kimberly Miranda on “Care Praxis in Los Angeles’s Antigentrification Movement: On-the-Ground Womxn of Color Geographies,” in The Professional Geographer in July.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Pomona College, shared her latest research on “The Chicana/o Movement and Activism in the San Gabriel Valley, the 1950s-1970s” with high school students in the Telluride Association at Cornell University in July.

Linda Perkins, professor and director of applied gender studies at Claremont Graduate University and author of “To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s.”

Sheila Pinkel, emerita professor of art at Pomona College, has an art piece on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5652

David K. Seitz, associate professor of Cultural Geography at Harvey Mudd College, has published his new book, A Different “Trek”: Radical Geographies of “Deep Space Nine” with the University of Nebraska Press. He will be reading from his book at Harvey Mudd College in winter 2024.

Julie Tannenbaum, associate professor of Philosophy at Pomona College and Joanne Nucho, associate professor and chair of Anthropology at Pomona College were awarded National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends for the summer of 2023. They each received a $6,000 stipend to support continuous, full-time work on their respective humanities projects for a period of two consecutive months.

 


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