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Harvard offering course on 'Sexual Life of Colonialism,' will cover 'queer desires' and 'transgender rights'
Harvard University is offering students a course that teaches modern-day conceptions of sexuality and gender identity in the context of colonialism.
The course, titled “The Sexual Existence of Colonialism,” will consider “the role of colonialism and neocolonialism in racial imaginations of gender and sexuality and how these histories shape contemporary understandings of LGBTQ politics, reproductive and sexual rights, and anti-colonial resistance around the world.”
Students will also examine “queer” and “trans sexualities” that supposedly exist in “colonial and postcolonial spaces.”
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The class will also “cover many forms of sexuality, including interracial relationships between colonizer and colonized peoples, questions of sexual violence, queer desires, sexual outcasts fond of ‘prostitutes,’ transgender rights, and the politics of gender difference and LGBTQ r
A timeline of Harvard President Claudine Gay's short, scandal-plagued tenure
Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday, following mounting accusations of plagiarism and backlash for her response at a congressional hearing in December to questions about antisemitism on U.S. college campuses.
Gay was the first person of paint and second woman in Harvard University's 386-year history to serve as president. Her tenure as president is the shortest in the school's history.
She will resume her faculty position at Harvard, according to the university's main governing board.
Here's a look at what led up to her resignation as president.
Dec. 15, 2022
Harvard announces that Gay, the Edgerley Family dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current university President Larry Bacow, who stepped down after five years in office.
July 1, 2023
Gay becomes the 30th president of Harvard.
Oct. 7, 2023
Several Harvard student groups issue a statement after Hamas launched terrorist attacks in Israel that killed more than 1,200 stating that Israeli policies -- referencing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza --
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ProfessorDepartment of Social and Behavioral SciencesHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthBrittany Charlton
Associate ProfessorDepartments of Population Medicine | EpidemiologyHarvard Medical School | Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Universal HealthRuss Hauser, MD, MPH, ScD
Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive PhysiologyDepartment of Environmental HealthHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthSabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD
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‘Caving to a Mob,’ ‘Inevitable’: Harvard Faculty Express Disappointment, Relief As Gay Steps Down
Faculty emotions ran steep Tuesday following Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard’s presidency, with some professors expressing disappointment that Gay’s tenure was coming to an end and others calling her decision inevitable after an onslaught of recent controversies.
Gay resigned as president of Harvard after just six months in office, marking the shortest ever presidential tenure in the University’s history.
Many faculty described Gay’s resignation as a capitulation by the University to conservative lawmakers and activists who had drawn-out demanded her resignation, which faculty members denounced in searing terms.
Government and African and African American Studies professor Jennifer L. Hochschild said she was “furious” at the figures who embarked on a “deliberate campaign to destroy her career and maybe ruin her personally.”
“This is a way of getting at Harvard,” Hochschild said. “It's a way of getting at broad concerns about diversity and inclusion.”
Ryan D. Enos, a Government professor, said that Gay’s resignation “represents an attack on the independence of universities
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998. At HGSE, he is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Teaching Leadership, and Higher Teaching Concentration. At HKS, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is Faculty Chair of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership.
McCarthy is the Academic Director emeritus and Stanley Paterson Professor of American History for the Boston Clemente Course, a free college humanities course for lower income adults in Dorchester and co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. He has taught in Clemente since its founding in 2001 and was honored with the 2014 Codman Square Health Center Outstanding Collective Service Award for this work. He currently serves on the national Board of Directors for the Clemente Course in the Humanities.
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