Jennifer A. Boittin: “From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing”<\/p>\n
A presentation by Dr. Jennifer A. Boittin, professor of global history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n
As part of the 50th<\/sup> anniversary celebration of Women’s & Gender Studies at UW-Milwaukee, we are thrilled to host Jennifer A. Boittin, a professor of global history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Boittin\u2019s research focuses on questions of gender, sexuality, class and race in France and the French Antilles, West Africa, and Southeast Asia, among other places. Boittin looks at migrations, circulations, radical politics, and everyday existence in these regions. She is the author of “Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing,1919-1952” (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and “Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris” (University of Nebraska Press, 2010).<\/p>\n A reception will follow the lecture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer A. Boittin: “From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing” A presentation by Dr. Jennifer A. Boittin, professor of global history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As part of the 50th anniversary …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19463,"featured_media":2154,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"tags":[27],"tribe_events_cat":[17,14,21,13,11],"class_list":["post-2151","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-course","tribe_events_cat-alumni-and-community","tribe_events_cat-faculty-and-staff","tribe_events_cat-lectures-conferences-and-symposiums","tribe_events_cat-students","tribe_events_cat-uwm-campus-events","cat_alumni-and-community","cat_faculty-and-staff","cat_lectures-conferences-and-symposiums","cat_students","cat_uwm-campus-events"],"yoast_head":"\n