Stand Your Ground: a Feminist History of Self-Defense -- webinar with Caroline Light

Join the first-ever Harvard Alumni Association Virtual Speakers Bureau event to connect with fellow alumnae/i around the world and have the chance to hear from Professor Caroline Light, lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of Undergraduate Studies, on her recent research and scholarship.

Professor Light will speak on her recent research and scholarship, which confronts the racial and gendered logics of the recent spike in do-it-yourself (DIY) security citizenship, from stand-your-ground laws and open-carry licenses, to the resurgence of predominantly white, male, armed militias. Dr. Light’s upcoming book on the topic, Stand Your Ground: America’s Love Affair with Deadly Self-Defense, reveals how past appeals to the sanctity of "a [white] man's castle" continue to haunt contemporary notions of security and threat and exposes how the nation's obsession with lethal self-defense rests on centuries of violence against the most vulnerable.   

Please register to attend the event by Wednesday, May 18th: https://goo.gl/w50ASL.