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. Books can be found in our library collection.
• 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!
Getting Involved
Interested in coming to the Center? Drop in during our open hours to hang out or study. Follow our Facebook page or Instagram page to be regularly updated on IFC events.
O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor at IFC: Penny Green
O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor Penny Green is visiting IFC throughout April, made possible by the Scripps Dean of Faculty. Penny is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London School of Law. She has published extensively on state crime theory (including a monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, Turkish criminal justice and politics, “natural” disasters, genocide, mass forced evictions, and resistance to state violence. Her most recent book on the Rohingya genocide (with Thomas MacManus), Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold: Myanmar’s Annihilation of the Rohingya, will be published by Rutgers in October 2026. At QMUL, she founded and directs the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), which collates, analyzes and disseminates research-based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them, and she is editor of the journal State Crime. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and is working on a new monograph exploring the humanitarian camp as a site of genocidal reproduction.
While in Claremont, Penny is visiting classes and participating in several events at the Colleges, including the panel “People’s Tribunals: Fighting for the Recognition of Genocide in International Law,” co-sponsored by IFC and CMC’s Mgrublian Center for Human Rights (April 14); the Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium on her research, “Genocide, State Crime and Myanmar’s Genocide of the Rohingya” (noon, April 21); and the IFC-co-sponsored symposium, Connecting the Dots: Feminist Conversations about Militarism, War and Empire (April 24, 10:00 am -5:30 pm), speaking on “Theorizing the ‘Humanitarian Camp’ as a Stage in the Genocidal Process.”
2026 Student Lunch Flyer Final 5.1 with Penny Green
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