This student-led speaker series confronts the present moment as a crisis of autonomy. It highlights contemporary social movements, amplifies voices outside of the academy, and realizes spaces for action.
About Autonomies
Cries for self-determination and self-governance have never been as vocal as today. At the same time, infringements on political, legal, and bodily autonomy seem to form the persistent backdrop for a culture of curated individualism and the search for collective forms. Autonomies proposes that autonomy exists in the plural; autonomy not as individualism but as community care, as collective resistance against discrimination and marginalization. The series highlights contemporary social movements, amplifies voices outside of the academy, and realizes spaces for action.
Reproductive Justice
The first annual theme of Autonomies is “Reproductive Justice.” If violence today is, as Jacqueline Rose argues, “a form of entitlement” and willful “blindness” to inequality, can a rethinking of autonomy offer a counter model?
Reproductive Justice
The first annual theme of Autonomies is “Reproductive Justice.” It seeks to offer a forum for thinking through agency in the present, after the rollback of abortion rights and other policies that marginalize people for the fact of their bodies and choices. It asks: "What would justice look and feel like in the reproductive field?" And if violence today is, as Jacqueline Rose argues, “a form of entitlement” and willful “blindness” to inequality can a rethinking of autonomy offer a counter model?
Students at Bard choose and invite the speakers, craft the events, and shape our programming. Learn more about the Arendt Center student fellows at the link. Meet the Fellows
In December 2022 we inaugurate the series! Don't miss the first talk on Dec. 2nd with Holly Melgard: "Repositioning Fetal Poetics: Choices Lost to a Post-Roe America." Then on December 8th we host Oliver Hall on "Reproductive Justice for Trans Communities: Barriers and Opportunities." Read more here
About AutonomiesThis student-led speaker series confronts the present moment as a crisis of autonomy. It highlights contemporary social movements, amplifies voices outside of the academy, and realizes spaces for action.
Reproductive JusticeThe first annual theme of Autonomies is “Reproductive Justice.” If violence today is, as Jacqueline Rose argues, “a form of entitlement” and willful “blindness” to inequality, can a rethinking of autonomy offer a counter model?
Students at Bard choose and invite the speakers, craft the events, and shape our programming. Learn more about the Arendt Center student fellows at the link.
In December 2022 we inaugurate the series! Don't miss the first talk on Dec. 2nd with Holly Melgard: "Repositioning Fetal Poetics: Choices Lost to a Post-Roe America." Then on December 8th we host Oliver Hall on "Reproductive Justice for Trans Communities: Barriers and Opportunities." Read more here
