February
- ISERP/IRWAG Workshop - Gender and the Global Locations of Liberalism, cosponsored by the Middle East Studies Workshop, February 2, 4:30-6pm in the Fred Murphy Lounge, 465 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Therese Taylor, Professor of History, Charles Stuart
University, Australia, "On the Trail of Honor Killings: Is "Burned
Alive" Real History or Fake Memoir?"
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Gender Breakfast, Friday, February 3, 9:15-11:15am, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College, "The Politics of Personhood: Caste and Gender in Late Colonial India"
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Feminist Film Screenings - February Series - A Dirty Shame, Friday, February 3, 5:30pm, 612 Schermerhorn:
- ISERP/IRWAG Workshop - Gender and the Global Locations of Liberalism, February 17, 10:30am-12pm, 801 IAB:
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Chris Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT, “What We Women Want: An Ethnography of Transnational Feminism”
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FEMINIST Interventions - Defining Gender, February 27, 7pm, 614 Schermerhorn:
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Eleni Varikas, Visiting Scholar at the Program in
Hellenic Studies, Professor of Political Science, University of Paris
VIII, “The Secret Life of Concepts: Gender Experience,
Disidentification, Self-definition”
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renée c. hoogland, Visiting Scholar, IRWaG and the
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Cultural Sexuality
Studies/American Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands,
“Affective Un/Doing: Bodies, Art, and De/Constructions of Gender”
March
- ISERP/IRWAG Workshop - Gender and the Global Locations of Liberalism, cosponsored by BCRW, March 2, 6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Isabella Bakker, Chair and Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science, York University, Canada, "When
Globalizations Collide: Macroeconomic Policy Rules, Gender Agreements
and Human Insecurity"
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Gender Breakfast, Friday, March 3, 9:15-11:15am, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
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Queer Futures, cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, March 29th, 5pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
- "Queer Pasts: In Search of Lourdes Casal's 'Ana Veldford'"
- featuring Frances Negron-Muntaner, Asst. Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Ana Maria Dopico, Associate Professor, New York University and Anna Veltfort, artist and muse, among others, on the 30th anniversary of Cuban poet Lourdes Casal's founding text "For Ana Veldford"
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as part of Women’s History Month
April
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Intimacy, Postcolonialism, Postsecularism Public Workshop, April 6-7:
- with keynote speaker James Schamus of Columbia University and FocusFeatures Films
- featuring Tawia Anwah, Indrani Chatterjee, Lawrence Cohen, Eric Fassin, Saba Mahmood, Tricia Rose, Michael Warner, Robyn Weigman and others…
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FEMINIST Interventions, April 17th, 7pm, 612 Schermerhorn:
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Sharon Marcus, Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University, “Just Reading: Female Friendship and
the Marriage Plot”
Fall 2005
GENDER, DESIRE, AND FEMINISM: AN EVENING OF EGYPTIAN FILMS
with
Q & A with Director Hala Galal
moderated by Professor Noha Radwan, MEALAC, Columbia University Wednesday, November 9
7-9 pm
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Reception to follow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (754 Schermerhorn Extension)
Free and open to the public
Please join Egyptian director Hala Galal for a screening of her documentary Women’s Chit Chat,
about generations of feminist women in Egypt. The film takes a serious
look at the Egyptian women’s movements transformations over the years,
interviewing some of the leading Egyptian proponents for women's rights.
Galal is one of the key figures in the founding of the independent
production company SEMAT, which has been responsible for making some of
the most interesting short and documentary films coming out
of Egypt in recent years. Along with Women’s Chit Chat,
two other films, both by women directors and produced through SEMAT,
will have their U.S. premieres. These are a short Egyptian film called The Elevator a voyeuristic thriller set in a trapped elevator and conducted via suggestive cell phone calls, and a documentary called Do You Know Why? about an Egyptian teenager’s drive to shape her career as a provocative sex symbol.
This special event takes place in the context of ArteEast’s first
CinemaEast film festival, which will take place at the Quad Cinema from
November 4 to 10. In addition to a screening a selection of films from
throughout the region, ArteEast will offer a number of workshops with
visiting filmmakers and critics from the region, dealing with a range
of issues such as cinema of trauma and the independent documentary. For
more information about the festival visit www.arteeast.org.
Sponsored by ArteEast, the Columbia Middle East Institute, the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle
Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, and Turath.
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