January
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Co-sponsored Event: 'The Need of Their Genius': Women's Reading and Writing Practices in Early America, A lecture by Mary Kelley, Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies, and chair, Department of History, at the University of Michigan, Tuesday, January 22nd, 6pm, Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 535 West 116th Street.
- Co-sponsored with the Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Part of the 14th Annual Bibliography Week Lecture
- Her latest book is Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill: Institute for Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
- Bibliography Week happens each year at the end of January in New York City when many of the principal national organizations devoted to book history -- the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Grolier Club, among others -- have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, and many of these are open to the public.
February
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Friday, February 1st, 11:30am-1pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
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FEMINIST Interventions - Gender and Public Health: Cutting Edge Research, Monday, February 11th, 4pm, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 20 West 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive:
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with Lisa M. Bates, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; speaking on "Women’s Empowerment and Early Marriage in Rural Bangladesh"
Wendy Chavkin, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, speaking on "Biology and Destiny Revisited: Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies";
Theresa Exner, Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, speaking on "Sex and the State: Working with New York to Increase Access to the Female Condom";
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Jennifer Hirsch, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, speaking on "Love, Marriage and HIV";
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Women's and Gender Studies Open House, Tuesday, February 19th, 4:30-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.:
- The Institute for Research on Women and Gender invites all interested and/or prospective Women’s and Gender Studies Majors and Concentrators to an OPEN HOUSE
- Please come and meet current and recent majors/concentrators, including Emma Kaufman, current double major in Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, and recent winner of a Marshall Fellowship and Monica Ager, recent double major in Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, and current District Representative for New York Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney.
- Refreshments will be provided. ALL ARE WELCOME!
March
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Friday, March 7th, 1-3pm, 614 Schermerhorn Hall:
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Interdisciplinary Panel on Embodiment
- A faculty panel on the body, featuring professors Jenny Davidson, Geraldine Downey, Eugenia Lean, Beth Povinelli, and Coco Fusco.
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Co-sponsored Event: CODEPINK NYC Activist Training Workshops, Saturday, March 8th (International Women’s Day), 9:15am-5pm, 501 Schermerhorn Hall.
- CODEPINK NYC, with the cooperation of student groups at Barnard College and Columbia University, will be running activist training workshops from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Columbia University campus in Morningside Heights. Building on the success of a similar event in March 2005 on the Barnard campus, CODEPINK NYC will run two plenary panels featuring national and international women activists discussing the roles of women as peacemakers and agents of change. There will also be two training sessions offering four separate workshops during each session. Topics for the workshops will include: high profile actions, non-violent direct action and civil disobedience, diversity & anti-racism, publicity for your campaign, youth activism, and art & activism (visuals for your campaigns), among others.
- Schedule:
March 8th 2008 Training Workshops: WOMEN AS PEACEMAKERS AND AGENTS OF CHANGE
9:00-9:40 a.m. Coffee & Registration
9:40 a.m. Singer/Songwriter Morley opens the day with a song
9:45-11:15 a.m. Morning Plenary: Global Struggles/Global Solidarity
Kozue Akibayashi, Demilitarization activist, Japan
Rabab Baldo, Peace activist, Sudan
Marina Durano, Economic rights activist, Philippines
11:30-12:45 p.m. Workshop session One
A. Campaigns 101 (How to build a campaign): Dana Balicki, CODEPINK (?)
B. Non-violent direct action & Civil Disobedience: Amy Bauer, AIDS activist
C. Diversity & Anti-Racism: J. Love from WE GOT ISSUES
D. Art + Activism (high profile actions & visuals for your campaigns)
Pilar from Global Action Program (?)
12:45-1:45 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:15 p.m. Workshop session Two
A. Counter-recruitment/Resisting Militarization of Youth
Barbara Harris from CODEPINK/Granny Peace Brigade; Jen Hogg from Iraq Vets Against the War, and Amy Wagner & Youth from the Ya-Ya Network
B. Know Your Rights: Street Protests & the Law
Chris Dunn, New York Civil Liberties Union
C. Publicity/Earning Media for your Campaign
Kathleen Vermazen, Women’s Media Center
D. On-line Organizing
Charles Lenchner, Democracy in Action
E. Closed-door session for Columbia Students
3:30-5:00 p.m. Closing Plenary: Local Voices/Local Strategies
Judith LeBlanc, United for Peace & Justice
Anita Graham, Community Voices Heard
Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York City Council member
7:30 p.m. Evening concert by NOUR, a New York-based Middle Eastern Music Ensemble in Hall T-9 at Riverside Church (enter at 91 Claremont Avenue, ½ block north of 120th Street)
- Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWAG) and GendeRevolution
- Endorsed by Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, MADRE, NOW-NYC, Small Planet Institute, We Got Issues, The Women & Gender Studies Program/Hunter College/CUNY
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Co-sponsored Event: Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London, speaking on "An Empire of God or of Man? The Macaulays, Father and Son", Monday, March 10th, 6:15pm, Heyman Center Common Room, East Campus:
- Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center, Department of Anthropology, the History Department, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
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FEMINIST Classics - "Fear of Flying": Can a Feminist Classic be a Classic? Conference, Friday, March 28th, 2-8pm, Social Hall at Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway at 121st St.:
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A discussion of what makes a feminist classic an American classic with Erica Jong, Min Jin Lee, Nancy K. Miller, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Rebecca Traister, and Aoibheann Sweeney.
- Schedule:
2pm
Welcoming Remarks:
Marianne Hirsch, Institute for Reasearch on Women and Gender
Michael Ryan, Columbia University Libraries
2:15-3:30 pm
Fear of Flying at 35
Moderated by Natalie Kampen, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Susan Rubin Suleiman, writer and critic, Harvard University
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, writer and critic, Stanford University
Aoibheean Sweeney, novelist, CUNY Graduate Center
3:45- 5pm
Can a Feminist Classic be an American Classic?
Moderated by Margo Jefferson, journalist, Columbia University School of the Arts
Min Jin Lee, novelist
Nancy K. Miller, writer and critic, CUNY Graduate Center
Rebecca Traister, journalist, salon.com
5:30 - 6:30pm
Erica Jong in conversation with Jenny Davidson, Columbia University
Reception
April
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Co-sponsored Event: Irit Koren, speaking on "Religious Feminism in Israel: A Revolution in Process", Friday, April 4th, noon, Room 101, 80 Claremont:
- Co-sponsored
by the Department of Religion, Barnard College; Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
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FEMINIST Interventions - The Rising Gender Gap in Education: Explanations and Potential Implications, Monday, April 7th, 4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.:
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with Thomas DiPrete, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Co-sponsored Event: Cabaret Masivo: Political Cabaret, a lecture/presentation in English and Spanish by JESUSA RODRÍGUEZ, Monday, April 7th, 7:30pm, 702 Hamilton Hall:
- Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and the Center for the
Critical Analysis of Social Difference, the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the
Center for Jazz Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and
the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
- Jesusa Rodríguez is Mexico’s leading cabaret and political performance artist, and the co-founder and co-director of the famous Teatro Bar El Hábito in Mexico City. In the aftermath of Mexico’s highly contested 2006 presidential election, she organized more than 3,600 cultural activities for the millions who gathered in the streets and the central square of the Mexican capital. Jesusa is also a recipient of an Obie Award and the first Senior Fellow of the Hemispheric Institute.
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Co-sponsored Event: Rites of Return: Poetics and Politics, A two-day symposium about the new genealogy, cultural memory and the contemporary obsession with the recovery of roots, Thursday, April 10-Friday, April 11th, Columbia and CUNY Graduate Center.
- You are invited to the first in a series of inaugural events, co-sponsored by the "Engendering Archives" project of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia and the Humanities Center of the CUNY Graduate Center.
- What is driving the contemporary obsession with the recovery of roots? In two days of intense discussion and conversation world-renowned scholars, writers, artists, and curators will explore questions of origin and identity, national and cultural memory, "trauma tourism" and museums of conscience, as well as literary and visual returns to lost sites . They will consider experiences of displacement and the risks and rights of return. Participants will include writers Daniel Mendelsohn, Saidiya Hartman, and Eva Hoffman; photographers Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, and Susan Meiselas; journalist Amira Hass; and scholars and curators Nadia Abu El-Haj, Svetlana Boym, Jarrod Hayes, David Levi-Strauss, Marianne Hirsch, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Nancy K. Miller, Alondra Nelson, Jay Prosser, Liz Sevcenko, Leo Spitzer, Diana Taylor, David Troutt, and Patricia Williams.
- Locations: Columbia University Law School, April 10, 3:30 - 8:30pm; CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, April 11, 9:30am – 6:30pm
- Co-sponsored with the Columbia University Seminar on Cultural Memory;
IRWaG; Center for Institutional and Social Change; CUNY Graduate Center
- Humanities Center, Women's Studies Program and the Center for Women
and Society, and the Concentration in Twentieth-Century Studies.
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Co-sponsored Event: Going Beyond the Wall: On Being a Native American Woman in Popular Film with Casey Camp-Horinek, Native American Film Actress, speaking on the evolution of cinematic representation of native women, part of Professor Jacquelyn L. Grey's anthropology course, "Imagining Native America", Monday, April 14th, 10:30am, Room 214, Pupin Hall:
- Co-sponsored
by the Office of the Vice Provost of Diversity, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Department of Anthropology
- Casey Camp-Horinek, film actress and member of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, will share her experiences as a Native American actress in popular film and native cinema, Monday, April 14, 10:35 a.m., Pupin Hall. The presentation will underscore the contemporary cinematic representation of native women after one hundred years of portrayal as objects of desire, violence, and destruction.
- Camp-Horinek has been featured in a number of film productions, including the 2003 documentary, “Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American,” “Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee,” and the television dramas “Geronimo” and “The Broken Chain.” She portrays Irene in the 2005 short “Goodnight Irene” and Sky Woman in the 2003 television drama “DreamKeeper.”
Her presentation on April 14 is being offered as part of the Anthropology course “Imagining Native America,” Professor Jacquelyn L. Grey, instructor.
- Co-sponsored Event: Take Back the Night March and Speakout, Thursday, April 17th, 8pm, 117th and Broadway, on the West side of the street
- Take Back the Night at Columbia and Barnard would like to invite you and your neighbors to the 20th annual Take Back the Night march and Speakout. The mission of the march is to create a safe and empowering space for survivors of sexual violence and their allies, and to raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault. We march to demonstrate our solidarity against the violence that affects all of us, as both male and female survivors, and as co-survivors who share the pain of our partners, our friends, and our families. We march because we recognize that only together can we break the cycle of violence.
- We will meet in front of Barnard Hall (at 117th and Broadway, on the West side of the street) at 8pm on Thursday, April 17th. The speakout will follow and last as long as people stay. We invite you to come to any and all parts of the march and speakout. Food will be served, an ASL interpretor will be on hand, and free childcare is available. Additionally, the march is wheelchair accessible. If you have any questions, feel free to check out our website at www.columbia.edu/cu/tbtn.
- Sponsored by: SVPRP, SGA, CCSC, ESC, GSSC, SGB, Office of the University Chaplain, IRWAG, BCRW, BOSS, JTS, BSO, College Democrats, AAA, CU Health Services, Barnard College Residential Life
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Friday, April 18th, 11:30am-1pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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A Dissertation Chapter Workshop
- The IRWaG Graduate Colloquium will be workshopping drafts of two chapters, one by Nadia Guessous (Anthropology) and the other by Derrick Higginbotham (English). Both will be circulated in advance, so please RSVP by Friday, April 11th, so we can get the chapters to you a week in advance.
- Please join us to take advantage of this great opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary peer-editing. It will also be especially helpful for people at the prospectus stage to see what a dissertation chapter looks like at the draft stage. Those of you who are stalled with your dissertations might also be motivated to jump back in, and maybe even set up an ongoing interdisciplinary dissertation group.
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FEMINIST Classics - Top Girls: Caryl Churchill and Feminist Performance, Monday, April 21st, 5pm, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University - 420 West 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive
- The Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to announce the next event in its Feminist Classics Discussion Series. "Top Girls: Caryl Churchill and Feminist Performance" will feature four distinguished scholars of theater and performance discussing one of the classic feminist plays of the contemporary theater. Featured panelists will be Elin Diamond, Rutgers University, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Barnard College, Jean Howard, Columbia University, and Joseph Roach, Yale University.
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Feminist Legacies of Columbia '68, Friday, April 25th, noon, 501 Schermerhorn Hall
- A moderated discussion with women who were at Barnard and Columbia in 1968 and played important roles in the rise of the feminist movement.
- Sponsored by the Institute on Research on Women & Gender (Barnard Women’s Center)
- Confirmed Speakers:
Louise Yelin, moderator, Kempner Distinguished Professor of Literature, Purchase College, SUNY;
Ti-Grace Atkinson, feminist activist and author;
Rosalyn Baxandall, Chair of American Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY College at Old Westbury;
Christine Clark-Evans, Associate Professor of French, Penn State University;
Elizabeth Diggs, Head of Playwriting and Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University;
Grace LeClair, Co-founder of Calvert Social Investment fund and Executive Director NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire;
Sharon Olds, poet, creative writing instructor, New York University; and
Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
- Co-sponsored Event: Chilsolm '72: Unbought and Unbossed Screening, part of the 2008 Social Action Week: "Purpose. Power. Progress. Celebrating Women as Agents of Change," Monday, April 28th, Uris Hall
- Other events will include:
Saturday April 26, 2008
Crimson Reign - Launch Party for Social Action Week
Sunday April 27, 2008
Total Woman, Total Praise
Church Service at First Corinthians Baptist Church
w/ Soror Rev. Dr. Lakeesha Waldrond
Monday April 28 -
Unbought & Unbossed
Film Screening with Voter Education & Voter Registration Tabling (MXGM)
Tuesday April 28 -
Uprooting Black Pain
Dinner & Discussion featuring Rimiko Taylor, PhD (Barnard's Furman Counseling Center)
Wednesday April 29 -
Delta Townhall: Environmental Effects of Columbia's Expansion into W. Harlem
Panel Discussion
Thursday April 30 -
The Global Outlook: The Role of Patriarchy and Violence in Women's Health
Guest Lecture and Discussion on the role of sexual assault and domestic violence in women's health. (In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month)
This event will feature Dr. Mehret Mandefro and Dr. Manel Silva the co-founders of TruthAIDS who conduct public health research on the roles of self-esteem, domestic violence, and sexual assault in the increasing rates of HIV/AIDS in women across the African Diaspora.
Friday May 1 -
In the Zone: Leadership Delta
This program will be at Harlem Children Zone's Truce Academy and will be a panel discussion and workshop on college preparation and leadership skills training.
Saturday May 2 -
Social Action Luncheon: Women, Faith, and Social Change
(Tentative Guest/Keynote Speaker will be Soror LaKeesha Waldrond)
- Co-sponsored Event: Greek Works in English, Wednesday, April 30th, 7pm 301 Philosophy
- To celebrate the movement of texts between cultures and languages and honor the faculty, fellows and students here at Columbia who make this happen
- Featuring: Peter Constantine (fellow, Hellenic Studies) will present a new translation by
Karen Emmerich (graduate student, English and Comp.Literature) of a novel by
Amanda Mihalopoulou, I'd Like (Dalkey Archive, 2008). Translator and author will read from the work.
David Plante (professor, Writing Division, School of the Arts) will present and read from the posthumous collection of poetry by
Nikos Stangos, Pure Reason (Thames & Hudson, 2007)
Karen Van Dyck (professor, Modern Greek Literature) will present and read from her forthcoming collection of translations of poems by
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, The Scattered Papers of Penelope (Anvil,2008 and Graywolf, 2009)
- All are welcome. Please join us afterwards for mezedes and wine.
May
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Co-sponsored Event: "The Way We Read Now: Symptomatic Reading and Its Aftermath" Conference, Thursday, May 1st and Friday, May 2nd, Columbia and NYU:
- A two-day conference to take place at New York University and Columbia University - 1 and 2 May 2008. This conference is free and open to the public.No tickets or registration necessary.
- For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.crals.org/symptomatic/
- Keynote Address: Fredric Jameson, Duke Univ. speaking on "Interpretation in the New World System:
- Organizers: Emily Apter, New York Univ.; Elaine Freedgood, New York Univ.; and Sharon Marcus, Columbia Univ.
- Papers By: Stephen Best, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Bill Brown, Univ. of Chicago; Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton Univ.; Margaret Cohen, Stanford Univ.; Mary Crane, Boston College; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Farid Laroussi, Yale Univ.; Christopher Nealon, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Leah Price, Harvard Univ.; Peter Stallybrass, Univ. of Pennsylvania; and McKenzie Wark, The New School
- Respondents: David Henkin, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Colleen Lye, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Sam Otter, Univ. of California, Berkeley; John Plotz, Brandeis Univ.
- Sponsors: Columbia University: Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia School of Law, Dept. of Anthropology, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Dept. of French and Romance Philology, Dept. of Philosophy, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Office of the Vice President of Arts and Sciences
New York University: Center for French Civilization and Culture, The Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Dept. of English, Dept. of French, Dept. of Italian, East Asian Studies Program, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The Humanities Initiative, Media Studies Program, and Office of the Dean
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Senior Thesis Presentations - Friday, May 5, 5-7pm, Lewis Parlor, Brooks Hall, Barnard College.
- inconjunction with Barnard
- In recognition of the completion of Theses by
Paula Cheng
Sarah Joy Cohen
Grace Iona A. Jama-Adan
Angela Jupp
Emma Kaufman
Chanel M. Ward
Margot Weisberg
- Need ID to enter building. Space is limited. Pls RSVP by Friday, May 2.Barnard (wmstud@barnard.edu or 212.854.2108) Columbia (irwag@columbia.edu or 212.854.3277)
June
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Co-sponsored Event: NCRW: "Hitting the Ground Running" Conference, June 5-7, Kimmel Center, NYU:
- This year’s conference themes will center around where women can have the most impact in the 2008 Presidential election and beyond, including research and policy issues that will need to be addressed with a new administration; challenges women in the academy confront—backlash, shrinking budgets, corporatization, conservative social pressures—and what can be done to counter them; and the implications of the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, generation and other markers of difference for feminist scholarship, leadership, and activism, nationally and globally.
- For more information please visit http://www.ncrw.org/events/conference2008/index.php
Fall 2007
September
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Elizabeth Jelin, Professor at CONDICET-IDES, Buenos
Aires, speaking on "Victims, Relatives and Citizens in Argentina: Whose
Voice is Legitimate Enough?" - Monday, September 10th, 7pm, 754
Schermerhorn Extension.
- Co-sponsored with the University Seminar on Cultural Memory
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Gender Breakfast, Friday, September 14, 9:15-11:15am, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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FEMINIST Interventions - Thursday, September 27, 4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Carole Vance, Associate Clinical Professor of
Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health,
""Juanita/Svetlana/Geeta” Is Crying: Melodrama, Human Rights, and
Anti-Trafficking Interventions"
- The talk examines important themes in the flood of documentary,
journalism and policy about trafficking into forced prostitution, and
the ways in which culturally resonant themes about gender, sexuality,
innocence, globalization, and sensation structure narratives about
trafficking, to great effect. While electrifying and mobilizing, these
“stories of trafficking’ motivate and support interventions that
ignore—rather than support-- human rights frameworks. What narrative
conventions, genres, tactics, and subjectivities would inform
alternative ways of telling the story and formulating rights-enhancing
policies?
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Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, speaking on "Memory and Social Sculpture" - Thursday, September 27, 7:30pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall:
- In a talk on "Memory and Social Sculpture, " renowned Berlin
Memorial Artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock will present several
of their memorial projects and their concepts of art, politics, museums
and public memory. They will discuss their work in Berlin's Bavarian
Quarter, their project BUS STOP, and the Rosa Luxemburg memorial.
- Their new Munich map project "The City as Text" will be shown with
another Munich project in public space called "Heart, Hand and Mouth".
- For more information see www.stih-schnock.de.
- Sponsored by the University Seminar on Cultural Memory, the
Institute of Research on Women and Gender, Deutsches Haus, ICLS, the
Departments of Art History (Barnard and Columbia), English and
Comparative Literature and Architecture.
October
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FEMINIST Classics, Monday, October 1, 8pm, 501 Schermerhorn Hall:
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Adrienne Rich Reads From Her Work
- Sponsors: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research
on Women and Gender, Columbia University Libraries, Barnard Center for
Research on Women
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FEMINIST Classics, Tuesday, October 2, 12:50-2pm, Heyman Center Common Room:
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A Conversation with Adrienne Rich
- Sponsors: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research
on Women and Gender, Columbia University Libraries, Barnard Center for
Research on Women
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Friday, October 5, 11:30am-1pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Information Session: An Introduction to IRWaG
- The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is the locus of
interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and teaching at Columbia. IRWAG
offers graduate certification in Feminist Scholarship, training in
Feminist Pedagogy, and a student-run Colloquium that reads current
scholarship, workshops papers, and sponsors informal conversations
among students and faculty. Courses survey the history and theory of
gender studies, preparing students for professional work or further
academic engagement in the field.
- If you are a graduate student working in Women's and Gender Studies
here at Columbia, we invite you to come learn more about what support
IRWaG might offer you. We look forward to seeing you on Friday.
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Literature between Languages, Tuesday, October 16, 2-4pm, 707 Hamilton Hall
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Eleni Sikelianos, Irini Spanidou, and Karen Van Dyck will discuss how they work between Greek and English and how translation is a mode of writing for them.
- On Saturday these two writers will be joined by Olga Broumas up at
Yale at the Modern Greek Studies Symposium for an expanded panel on the
same topic.
- Sponsored by The Program in Hellenic Studies, ICLS, IRWaG, and The Center for Literary Translation
November
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FEMINIST Classics, Friday, November 2, 9:30am-6pm, Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall:
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"Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire." A symposium honoring Hazel V. Carby.
- The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hazel Carby’s
groundbreaking text, Reconstructing Womanhood, which traces the
emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural
reconstruction and examines the ways in which dominant racial and
sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's
fiction. The work of reconstruction announced by the title is
three-fold: it describes the efforts of nineteenth-century writers and
activists to redefine the meaning of womanhood and to challenge the
color-line that placed blacks outside the boundaries of the human; it
entails political efforts to transform and refashion the state; and it
encompasses the critical labor of imagining a future beyond Man.
Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Carby's scholarship in
Literary and Cultural Studies, feminist theory, critical race theory,
Marxism, and post-colonial criticism, this one-day symposium revisits
the import of this work in relation to an extended set of issues that
include re-writing the human, the production of disposable life,
refashioning masculinities and queer sexualities, and creating a world
beyond empire.
- List of Speakers:
Hazel Carby, Yale University
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY Graduate Center
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
- The symposium is free, but space is limited. To pre-register, please email fkb2104@columbia.edu. For additional information on times and location, please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/events/main/hazelcarby.
- Sponsored by: Office of the Provost,Yale University; Barnard Center
for Research on Women; Institute for Research on Women and
Gender,Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard College;
Institute for Research on African American Studies, Columbia
University; Women's Studies Program, Duke University; Women's, Gender,
& Sexuality Studies Program, Yale University; and Columbia
University Libraries.
- Celebrating the Publication of Haifa Zangana's City Of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account Of War And Resistance: Wednesday, November 7th, 11:00am, 501 Schermerhorn Hall
- Meet The Author for A Reading, Discussion, And Book Signing
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Co-sponsored with the Department Of Middle East And Asian Languages And
Cultures and the Institute For Comparative Literature And Society
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Film Screening:Salata Baladi (Salade Maison) Q&A with Egyptian filmmaker, Nadia Kamel, Tuesday, November 13, 7pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
- When her young nephew hears a sermon in Cairo encouraging religious
war, Nadia Kamel, long-time assistant to the legendary Egyptian
filmmaker Youssef Chahine, takes it upon herself to acquaint him with
the history of his maternal grandmother Maria (Naela). Incorporating
footage of visits by Maria and her husband to relatives in Italy,
Israel, and Palestine, this documentary tells the story of a remarkable
woman who is part Jewish, part Christian, part Muslim—and all at once a
feminist, a communist, an Italian and an Arab. Her history poignantly
reveals the tensions and disfigurements brought about in a culture
forced to accommodate the arbitrary boundaries of politics. A tale of
humanity, tolerance, and diversity.
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Co-sponsored with the Middle East Institute and Cinemaeast
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Co-sponsored Event:Freedom on Our Terms: A New Agenda for Women and Girls Conference, Saturday-Sunday, November 10th-11th, 8:30am, Hunter College
- In 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas at the
National Women's Conference to evaluate gender discrimination in
America and to develop recommendations for reform. Never before had
such a diverse group of women gathered in one place to share the
realities of their lives, educating each other about the unique
challenges they faced as a result of violence, poverty, sexual
orientation, race, ethnicity, age, geography, and physical disability.
Under the leadership of its Presiding Officer, Bella Abzug, conference
delegates enacted a comprehensive National Action Plan, consisting of
twenty-six planks focused on the many fundamental and crucial issues
faced by American women and including calls for action on equal rights,
reproductive rights, and lesbian rights.
- BCRW joins with The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and Girls
Speak Out Foundation as they present a two-day conference to build on
the achievements of the National Women's Conference. Participants
represent a diverse and intergenerational group of feminist activists,
including participants and delegates from the original 1977 National
Women's Conference, as well as representatives from other countries.
The conference includes interactive panels and presentations focused on
feminist activism, cultural performances celebrating women of all ages,
and a substantive follow-up network charged with monitoring progress
made towards the conference's eponymously titled plan of action:
"Freedom on Our Terms: A New Agenda for Women and Girls, 30 Years after
the National Women's Conference."
- The anniversary conference promises to be a vibrant cultural event
that highlights the power, excitement, achievements and spirit of the
feminist movement. By providing feminist activists of different
generations a forum for dialogue, debate, and advocacy, this event aims
to strengthen the connection between older and younger feminists and
women of all backgrounds. It will truly celebrate the enduring spirit
of the National Women's Conference by inspiring women to proudly carry
forward a women's rights agenda in the 21st century.
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Sponsored by BCRW, The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and Girls Speak Out Foundation
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Friday, November 16, 11:30am-1pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension:
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Reading in New Scholarship
- Please join other graduate students for a lunch and a discussion of selections from Lee Edelman's 2004 book NO FUTURE: Queer Theory and the Death Drive at 11:00am on Friday, November 16 in 754 Schermerhorn Extension (the IRWaG seminar room). Food will be served.
- Please click here
to download a PDF file of the selections from NO FUTURE which we will
be discussing on November 16. There are two related GLQ articles that
may be of interest to you but are not required reading for our meeting
- "Cruising the Toilet" and "Theorizing Queer Temporalities."
- Please RSVP to mmg64@columbia.edu by November 12 so that we can order the right amount of food.
- About the reading: In this radical work--called a “polemic” by the
author himself--Edelman addresses the “reproductive futurism” inherent
in mainstream political discourse and argues that the truly radical
potential of queer oppositional politics lies in its future-negating
figuring of the death drive. His work is a significant and provocative
contribution to recent scholarly conversations about queer temporality,
and we hope that you will join our discussion.
- “On every side, our enjoyment of liberty is eclipsed by the
lengthening shadow of a Child whose freedom to develop undisturbed by
encounters, or even by the threat of potential encounters, with an
‘otherness’ of which its parents, its church, or the state do not
approve, uncompromised by any possible access to what is painted as
alien desire, terroristically holds us all in check and determines that
political discourse conform to the logic of a narrative wherein history
unfolds as the future envisioned for a Child who must never grow up”
(Edelman 21)
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FEMINIST Classics,
Monday, November 26, 6pm, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University - 420
West 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive:
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The Past and Future of Women's Friendship: "The Female World of Love and Ritual"
- List of Speakers:
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College
Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan
- “The question of female friendships is peculiarly elusive,” writes
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg in her landmark 1975 essay, “The Female World
of Love and Ritual.” “ We know so little or perhaps have forgotten so
much.” Pursuing this elusive question through the diaries and letters
of nineteenth-century American women, Smith-Rosenberg finds that a
continuum of female intimacies, affections, and sexualities exists
within the normative structures of heterosexual marriage and family.
Smith-Rosenberg’s call for critical attention to the spectrum of
emotional ties between women -- from friendship, to sisterhood, to
avowals of love -- been taken up by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia
University), Sharon Marcus (Columbia University), and Ivy Schweitzer
(Dartmouth College). Griffin’s Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends
(1999) traces the close romantic friendship between Rebecca Primus and
Addie Brown, two black nineteenth-century Americans, through their
letters. In Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian
England (2007) Marcus explores the multiple manifestations of
friendship among women in Victorian England, its centrality to female
identity and the ideal of companionate love it helped realize for women
and for men. Placing friendship within an Aristotelian ideal that
emphasizes its public and political nature, Schweitzer’s Perfecting
Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature shows
how early American women and minorities appropriated and redefined the
discourse of perfect friendship adapting it to the challenges of
interracial relationships that shape American history.
- This event will bring these scholars together with Smith-Rosenberg,
Professor of History at the University of Michigan, in order to discuss
the past and future of women’s friendship. Alice Kessler-Harris, R.
Gordon Hoxie Professor of American Literature at Columbia University,
will moderate the panel.
- Caroll Smith-Rosenberg's article is available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/pdf-files/femaleworld.pdf
- This Feminist Classics event is sponsored by the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender and the Barnard Center for Research on
Women. The Feminist Classics series revisits scholarly, artistic and
activist works that have shaped second wave feminism.
December
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Co-sponsored Event:A Conversation with Atteyat El Abnoudy, Saturday, December 8th, 4pm, 179 Grace Dodge Hall, Teacher's College
- Moderated by Barnard College Professor of Middle East Politics Mona El Ghobashy.
- Ms. El Abnoudy is an award winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker,
whose work examines gender, class and race marginalization in Egyptian
society. This has limited her popular appeal and frequently invited the
displeasure of Arab governments. Her artistry however, is universally
applauded and she is regarded as one of the finest Arab film directors
alive today. The African Diaspora Film Festival will be screening her
classic film Democracy Days (1996), tracing the role of women in the 1995 Egyptian parliamentary elections as well Nubia train/ Ktar el Noba, a rare revealing film focusing on the realities of the daily life experiences of Black Egyptians in Nubia, Ethiopia Through Egyptian Eyes, a documentary about Egyptians traveling to Ethiopia for a NGO, and Diary in Exile, a film which explores the lives of Sudanese emigrants in Egypt.
- Co-sponsored by the African Diaspora Film Festival.
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