Please join us as Professor Susanne M. Klausen joins us to discuss abortion in South Africa under apartheid between the years 1948 and 1994.

Susanne M. Klausen is Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of two books: Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910–39 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Abortion under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is currently working on a monograph on the criminalization of interracial heterosex in South Africa during apartheid.

The McMillan-Stewart lectures are coordinated by the MIT Program in Gender and Women's Studies and are organized by the holder of the namesake chair, Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program and member of the MIT History Faculty since 2011. Endowed by Geneviève McMillan, the lectures provide a space for scholars, artists, journalists, activists, and other experts to reflect on issues related to women in the developing world, specifically (but not exclusively) in the Middle East and North Africa. Lectures are free and open to the public.

This event will take place on November 7 at 5 pm in room 3-333. This event will be open to the public.