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Grad School Femtoring: Inclusive Grad School Stories, Personal Development, and Productivity Tips for First-Gen BIPOCs248: Writing and Publishing Academic Articles with Dr. Miroslava Chávez-GarcíaToday’s episode features my guest, Dr. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia who discusses the topic of writing and publishing academic articles. Dr. Miroslava is Professor of History and Faculty Director of the McNair Scholars Program at UCSB.
She’s published three books, including her most recent work, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, a slice in the life of her family history. She is currently working on a new project, “The ‘Architects of Hate’: Eugenics, Population Control, and Environmentalism in the Fight for Immigration Restriction in the Late Twentieth Century.”
She...2024-03-291h 00
Tomorrow Never Knows#27: Foreign Policy (Part II)FOOTNOTESForeign Policy Part I is episode #24 - listen to that here;Sarah Crook & Charlie Jeffries' book, in which Charlotte has a chapter, is called Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s. It was published by SUNY Press in 2022. Charlotte's chapter is called "Spiritualists, ideologues, pragmatists, feminists, and women of all descriptions": The British Women's Liberation Movement, the UN Decade for Women, and Feminist Transnationalism in Spare Rib. Read more about Sarah here and Charlie here, and the book here;Joceyln Olcott’s bo...2023-10-051h 01
Korpus21Surfeando la Nueva Ola: Año internacional de la mujer y geopolítica del feminismo mexicano de Jocelyn OlcottArtículo académico de la revista Korpus21, vol. 2, núm. 4, enero-abril de 2022.2022-02-2001 min
International HorizonsThe UN at 75: Examining its History Through a Woman’s Lens w/ Prof. Chesler and Prof. OlcottFor Episode Seven, we host Ellen Chesler, Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History at Duke University, who talk about the UN’s legacy tackling women’s issues around the world and discuss the approaches that advanced that agenda.2020-05-151h 00
Give and TakeEpisode 68: Sexual Harassment & Sexual Desire, with Jocelyn OlcottIn the wake of so many sexual harassment and sexual misconduct allegations, we here concerns of "sex panic" and McCarthyism from some cultural critics. Many of them are actual on the cultural left. Jocelyn Olcott and I talk about this and a host of related issues in this episode of Give and Take.
Jocelyn Olcott is Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Mexico. Her first book, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, explores questions of gender and citizenship in the 1930s. Her second book, International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Ev...2017-12-041h 05
Women's Media Center Live with Robin MorganWMC Live #227: Jocelyn Olcott, Shazia Rafi. (Original Airdate 11/5/2017)Robin on the NYC Hallowe'en terror attack, Mueller trumping Manafort, and why we really need to break up Big Tech. Guests: Jocelyn Olcott on the greatest consciousness raising event ever; Shazia Rafi reports from South West Asia. Surrealism Corner.2017-11-0556 min
Women’s WatchProfessor Jocelyn OlcottWBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with history professor Jocelyn Olcott who takes a look back at 1975's International Women's Year Conference.2017-10-3001 min
DO NOT UPLOADWBZ 1030 NewsRadio UpdatesProfessor Jocelyn OlcottWBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with history professor Jocelyn Olcott who takes a look back at 1975's International Women's Year Conference.2017-10-3001 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesJocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)Jocelyn Olcott is an associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her book International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the genesis of the UN’s 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) and the two-week conference of NGOs and government officials held in Mexico City. From the planning to the gathering itself there were conflicts regarding what were the significant women’s issues among the worlds geopolitical divides. Cold War competition colored how delegates, often from the same nation, differed in their expectations. Women from third-world nations expressi...2017-08-251h 00
In Conversation: An OUP PodcastJocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)Jocelyn Olcott is an associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her book International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the genesis of the UN’s 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) and the two-week conference of NGOs and government officials held in Mexico City. From the planning to the gathering itself there were conflicts regarding what were the significant women’s issues among the worlds geopolitical divides. Cold War competition colored how delegates, often from the same nation, differed in their expectations. Women from third-world nations expressing concern...2017-08-251h 00
New Books in Women's HistoryJocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)Jocelyn Olcott is an associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her book International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the genesis of the UN’s 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) and the two-week conference of NGOs and government officials held in Mexico City. From the planning to the gathering itself there were conflicts regarding what were the significant women’s issues among the worlds geopolitical divides. Cold War competition colored how delegates, often from the same nation, differed in their expectations. Women from third-world nations expressi...2017-08-251h 00Give and TakeEpisode 32: International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event In History, with Jocelyn OlcottMy guest is Jocelyn Olcott. She is Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of, most recently, "International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History", which considers the history and legacies of the United Nation’s first world conference on women in 1975 in Mexico City (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Spring 2017). Special Guest: Jocelyn Olcott.2017-06-221h 06
#BirkbeckVoicesThe Languages of International FeminismAs part of a conference on ‘Languages of Internationalism’, hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group, Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University), Christine Vargha-Harris (Illinois State University – discussion only) and Emma Lundin (Birkbeck) examine the language adopted by international feminist movements in relation to the examples of the 1975 International Women’s Year conference and Swedish and South African political activists from 1968-1994. The panel, chaired by Philippa Hetherington (University College London), addresses how shared these languages were and the extent to which language difficulties were a hindrance at international events.
‘Languages of Internationalism’ aimed to shed light on the centrality of language to people’s...2017-06-171h 08