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Biopolitics, Geopolitics and Ideals of Recovery in the Second Trump Regime

10 Nov 2025

In late October, Professor Elizabeth Bernstein, Chair of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University (USA) visited UCC for a talk titled: Biopolitics, Geopolitics and Ideals of Recovery in the Second Trump Regime.

The well attended event was a collaboration between the Radical Humanities Lab, the Women’s Studies Unit, and the ISS21 Gender, Sexualities and Families Research Cluster.

Professor Bernstein has published widely on the political economy of the body, gender, and sexuality. She is also the author of award-winning books; Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex, (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Dr Evelien Geerts, Lecturer in Gender, Women's Studies & Philosophy and Women's Studies MA & PhD Program Director hosted the afternoon event in the CACSSS Seminar Room.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

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