Spring 2009
January
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Co-sponsored Event:Marilyn Lake, Professor, School of Historical and European Studies and LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, speaking on Drawing The Global Color Line: White Men's Countries And The International Challenge Of Racial Equality, Thursday, January 29th, 6pm, 406 IAB
- "Drawing the Global Colour Line is a landmark work of
transnational history...[It] shows how racial ideologies and responses
to them traversed the world; how developments in British colonies
interacted with those in the United States, how Australia provided a
model of defensive racial politics for settler communities around the
world; and how the rise of Japanese military power was crucial in the
development of the Anglophone world’s perceptions of race." -- Journal of Global History
- Cosponsored by IRWaG and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
- Co-sponsored Event: Archiving Women Conference, Friday, January 30th, 9:15am-4pm, Faculty Room, Low Library
- A one-day conference bringing together scholars and archivists to examine feminist practices in the archive.
- The archive is a living repository of knowledge about the past,
present and future. It has also become a site for critical reflection
on the ways different cultures and sub-cultures approach the
transmission, revision and contestation of their heritage. “Archiving
Women” will ask how the scholarship on gender, race and sexuality has
transformed the ways we think about archival structures and practices.
What kinds of new archives are being created and how are they
structured? Are new materials being collected, new histories being
shaped? What alternative forms of transmission are being imagined? How
have new media transformed the ways in which knowledge is classified,
stored, and retrieved? Join us for three panels animated by these
questions.
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Schedule:
9:15 Coffee
9:45am – 11:45pm Panel 1: Feminist Practices in the Archive
How do archives change when women are the subject? How have
feminist archival practices engendered new historical narratives and
new political agents?
Moderator: Brent Edwards, Columbia University
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Annette Gordon-Reed, Rutgers University and New York Law School
Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Library Zines Collection
12:45-2:15pm Panel 2: Creating New Archives and Collections
How do archives need to be transformed, recreated and created to
accommodate feminist questions and women’s collections? What new
theoretical questions emerge in the creation of new archives? What
have digital technologies and the world wide web enabled and disabled?
Moderator: Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute
Michael Ryan, Columbia University Libraries
Gail Twersky Reimer, Jewish Women’s Archive
Elizabeth Weed, Pembroke Center for Research on Women, Feminist Theory Papers Collection
2:30 – 4 pm Panel 3: Collecting and Bbeing Collected
What
constitutes an archive? What are the ethical and theoretical
consequences of collecting and being collected? Are there advantages to
forgetting and disappearance?
Moderator: Hazel Carby, Yale University
Nancy K. Miller, CUNY Graduate Center
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
- For more information, please visit www.socialdifference.org
- Sponsored by the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social
Difference, the Columbia University Libraries, The Institute for
Research in African-American Studies, the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender, Columbia University and the Barnard Center for
Research on Women.
February
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Event on Feminist Pedagogy, Thursday, February 5th, 12-2pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- You are invited to join faculty members Alice Kessler-Harris, Rachel Adams, and Julie Crawford
for a lively discussion of feminist pedagogy on February 5, from
12-2pm. We have asked each speaker to share their experience in
designing and teaching courses on women and gender; they will also
suggest approaches to incorporating feminist scholarship and gender
analysis in courses that are not explicitly about gender.
- Lunch will be provided for all participants, please RSVP if you
plan to attend. Participants in the Feminist Pedagogy course, to begin
on February 6, are especially encouraged to attend.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Theory Mondays on Judith Butler with Elizabeth Povinelli, Monday, February 9th, 4-6pm, 465 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Co-sponsored Event: Arendt After ’68: A Symposium, Thursday and Friday, February 12-13th, Time and Location TBA
- Participants include:
Richard Bernstein, New School
Jean Cohen, Columbia
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia
Ayten Gündoğdu, Barnard
Fred Moten, Duke
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago
- This symposium is devoted to a consideration of Hannah Arendt’s
theorization of violence in America in the aftermath of 1968,
especially as articulated in the short volume On Violence (1969). It
is intended to follow the end of a cycle of reflective and sometimes
nostalgic events marking the 40th anniversary of ‘68 at Columbia, and
its title, “Arendt after ‘68” reflects the symposium organizers’ sense
that a full accounting for the events of that year (in the US and
elsewhere) must include an analysis of the kinds of theoretical work
produced in its aftermath.
- Schedule:
Thursday, February 12
Deutsches Haus
4:10pm
Welcome: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia), Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
4:15pm
Introductory Remarks: Rosalind Morris (Columbia), Conference Organizer
4:30pm
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia), ‘An Honorary Male.’
Respondent: Kendall Thomas (Columbia)
5:30pm
Richard Bernstein (New School), ‘The Enduring Legacy of Hannah Arendt: Power, Public Freedom, and Violence.’
Respondent: Andreas Kalyvas (New School)
Friday, February 13
Room 501 Schermerhorn
10:30am
Jean Cohen (Columbia), ‘Banishing the Sovereign? Arendt on Sovereignty and Freedom in America and Beyond.’
Respondent: Andreas Huyssen (Columbia)
11:30am
Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard), ‘Arendt on the Stateless: Rethinking the Violence of Rightlessness in an Age of Rights.’
Respondent: Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago)
12:30–2:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm
Fred Moten (Duke), ‘Student Studies.’
Respondent: Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia)
3:00pm
Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia), “Anarchy's Democracy.”
Respondent: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia)
4:00pm
Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago), ‘From Willing to Judging: Hannah Arendt's Copernican Revolution.’
Respondent: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
5:00pm
Reception - 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with generous support
from the Office of the Provost
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Women's and Gender Studies Open House, Monday, February 23rd, 5-6pm, 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 and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Julie Crawford
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FEMINIST Interventions - Rosalind Morris,
speaking on "unstable ground: accident, accusation and the future of
the past in South Africa," Tuesday, February 24th, 7pm, 754
Schermerhorn Ext.
March
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Dissertation Prospectus Workshop, Friday, March 6th, 2-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Sarai Aharoni, Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University, on "Gender and 'Peace-Work': The Participation of Israeli Women in Formal Peace Negotiations 1992-2000", Monday, March 9th, 12-1:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Please join us for an informal lunch discussion, part of IRWaG's
Gender Colloquium. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to
irwag@columbia.edu
- Sarai Aharoni is a researcher at the Gender Studies Program,
Bar-Ilan University. Her work focuses upon the broad intersection
between gender, peace and security in the Israeli context. She will be
talking about her recent study which was designed to assess the gender
division of labor in the formal Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations
(1992-2000). The research suggests a unique documentation of the Oslo
peace process based upon the perspectives of women who worked as
professional and legal advisers, spokeswomen and secretaries, and
discusses the role of bureaucratic institutions in multi-level peace
negotiations.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Theory Mondays on Donna Haraway with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Monday, March 9th, 4-6pm, 465 Schermerhorn Ext.
- We will be going over Haraways's Primate Visions, specifically, chapter 2, 3, and 7, and Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience, chapter 2 of part 2.
- Co-sponsored Event: ZORA NEALE HURSTON LECTURE with Dorothy Roberts,
Professor of African-American Studies & Sociology - Northwestern
University School of Law speaking on "Race, Kinship and the New
Biocitizen”, Tuesday, March 10th, 7:30pm, Deutsches Haus at Columbia
University, 420 West 116th Street
- The Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia
University (IRAAS) in co-sponsorship with The Institute for Research on
Women & Gender Studies at Columbia University (IRWAG) presents the
Spring 2009 ZORA NEALE HURSTON LECTURE, in honor and recognition of the
many contributions of African-American women to our history, the
Institute sponsors an annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture. Zora Neale
Hurston, born in 1891, is one of the greatest writers and
anthropologists of the 20th century. She was a unique scientist and
artist who could write about the most ordinary things and make them
infinitely vibrant. Of writing, she noted: “Anyway, the force from
somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place,
gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write
what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story
inside you.” Some of Hurston’s works include: Jonah’s Gourd Vine
(1934), Mules and Men (1935), Tell My Horse (1937), Their Eyes Were
Watching God (1937), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), Dust Tracks on
a Road (1942), Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), Sanctified Church (1948),
and Mule Bone (a play written with Langston Hughes—1996). Zora Neale
Hurston died in 1960 but her works remain in the consciousness of world
literature.
- Small Reception to follow
- Speaker Bio: Dorothy Roberts has written and lectured extensively
on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning
reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is the author of
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
(Pantheon, 1997), which received a 1998 Myers Center Award for the
Study of Human Rights in North America, and Shattered Bonds: The Color
of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), which received research awards
from the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American
Community and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of
Children. She is also the co-author of casebooks on constitutional law
and women and the law and has published more than 60 articles and
essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review,
Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Social Text. Roberts has
been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford,
and Fordham and a fellow at Harvard University's Program in Ethics and
the Professions and Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race
and Ethnicity. She serves on the board of directors of the Black
Women's Health Imperative, the National Coalition for Child Protection
Reform, and Generations Ahead, as well as on the executive committee of
Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health at IPR.
She also serves on a panel of five national experts that is overseeing
foster care reform in Washington State and on the Standards Working
Group of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. She
recently received awards from the National Science Foundation and the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a book project on race consciousness
in biotechnology, law and social policy
- Co-sponsored Event: Patricia Powell
Book Reading, Tuesday,
March 24th, 6:00pm, 758 Schermerhorn Extension
- Patricia Powell will be reading from her third novel, The Pagoda
- About The Pagoda: Set in Jamaica in 1893, Powell's
anguished third novel tells the story of Lowe, an aging Chinese
shopkeeper whose 35-year marriage of convenience to multi-racial Miss
Sylvie becomes a marriage of love as the couple struggles to remove the
gender masks that made their intimate lifepossible and find a way to
love within new constructs of male and female identity.
- About the Author: Patricia Powell was born in Jamaica and
immigrated to the United States in 1982. She is the author of Me
Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda, and a forthcoming
novel due out this spring called The Fullness of Everything. Powell's
novels have earned herl a number of accolades, including a PEN New
England Discovery Award, a Bruce Rossley Literary Award, a
Ferror-Grumly Award for Fiction, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest
Writers Award, a Boston Women'sFund Take a Stand Award and a YWCA
Tribute to Outstanding Women Award.Excerpts from Powell's novels have
been widely anthologized and she has lectured and led creative writing
workshops in literary venues both nationally and internationally. She
is currently at work on a new novel, entitled Warrior Love, about an
African woman in Jamaica who escaped slavery and who formed a maroon
community that fought successfully against the British for 50 years.
Patricia Powell is writer in residence at Stanford University.
- Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women And Gender and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies
- For more information please email: fkb2104@columbia.edu
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Event on Workshopping Graduate Student Dissertation Chapter, Friday, March 27th, 12-2pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Co-sponsored Event: Jill Bennett, Professor of
Visual Culture, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and
Politics, and Associate Dean (Research), College of Fine Arts, at the
University of New South Wales speaking on "Affective Aesthetics:
Compassion, Resentment and the Emotional Life of Imagery”, Monday,
March 30th, 8:00pm, 612 Schermerhorn
April
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Jackie Stacey, Professor of Cultural Studies,
University of Manchester, will be giving a lecture on "Cloning Films
with a Difference: Feminism, Science, and the Cinema" on Thursday,
April 9th, 6:10pm, in 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
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Alondra Nelson, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University, will be
giving a lecture on "Acts of Reparation and the Social Life of DNA" on
Monday, April 13th, 12-1:30pm in 411 Fayerweather Hall.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Event on Work-Family Issues, Friday, April 17th, 12-2pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Co-sponsored Event: Travel, Boundaries, and Sojourns through the Unfamiliar,
a Transdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the
Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, April 17-19, Maison
Française, Columbia University
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium: Theory Mondays on Eve Sedgwick with Marianne Hirsch and Kate Stanley, Monday, April 20th, 4-6pm, 465 Schermerhorn Ext.
- We deeply mourn the loss of Eve Sedgwick, a brilliant, humane and
generous thinker and colleague who died of breast cancer on April 13.
- Schedule: 4-5pm: A sharing of memories, reflections and readings of
favorite Sedgwick passages. Everyone is invited to participate.
5-6pm: A discussion of Touching Feeling, particularly chapter 4,
"Paranoid Reading/Reparative Reading" led by Marianne Hirsch and Kate
Stanley.
- Please click here for the chapter.
- Co-sponsored Event: Thomas Glave
Book Reading, Tuesday,April 21st, 6:00pm, 758 Schermerhorn Extension
- Thomas Glave will be reading from his collection of short stories, The Torturer's Wife
- About The Torturer’s Wife: Thomas Glave, known for his
stylistic brio, expands and deepens his lyrical experimentation in
stories that focus—explicitly and allegorically—on the horrors of
despotic dictatorships, terror, anti-gay violence, the weight of
memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire, and intimacy.
- About the Author: Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up
there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and
Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica,
where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and
literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on issues of
social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians,
All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG).
Thomas Glave is the author of the
fiction collections Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer’s
Wife(released in fall 2008) ; the essay collection Words to Our Now:
Imagination and Dissent (winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award); and
is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and
Gay Writing from the Antilles. His fiction and nonfiction have
recently appeared in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, and African American
Review, and The Massachusetts Review. New work is forthcoming in Bloom
and Callaloo. He is 2008-2009 Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting
Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- SPONSORED BY: The Institute For Research On Women And Gender and The Institute For Research In African-American Studies.
- For Information please email fkb2104@columbia.edu
- Co-sponsored Event w/IRAAS: Justice for Her Film Screening and Discussion w/Aginah Carter-Shabazz, Yonzetta "Nas" Blakeney & Bianca White, Tuesday, April 28th, 4pm, 310 Fayerweather Hall
- "Justice For Her" presents Nas's story, a young woman from
Philadelphia who lost eighteen months of her freedom, and could have
lost her life. Please join Sociology's "Crime, Law, and Society" class
for this special event.
- FREE & OPEN to the Columbia Community
- Co-Sponsored By:The Institute for Research in African-American
Studies; The Department of Sociology; The Institute for Research on
Women and Gender & The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity
Initiatives at Columbia University
- Co-sponsored Event: Prose, Poetry and the Art of the Political with Antjie Krog and Adrienne Rich, Tuesday, April 28th, 8pm, Altschul Auditorium, IAB
- For many decades, Adrienne Rich (second image, left) and Antjie
Krog (top image, left) have been at the forefront of the dissident
tradition within their respective language worlds, writing poetry and
prose that pushes the limits of form while questioning the structures
of political violence in which they live. Both are among the most
lauded writers of their generation, receiving acclaim and prizes around
the world despite but also because of their insistent critique of the
status quo. Both have created works of inimitable beauty and force.
Both have championed justice and equality, and each woman has read and
admired the works of the other across the miles and oceans.
- Antjie Krog has published 14 volumes of poetry, two of which are in
English. She has also worked as a journalist and translator. She is
best known for her account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
Country of My Skull. Down to My Last Skin, her first collection of
poetry in English won the inaugural 2000 FNB Vita Poetry Award. Among
her many other awards are the Eugene Marais Prize, the Dutch/Flemish
Reina Prinsen-Geerligs Prize, the Rapport Prize for best literary work
in a particular year, and the Hertzog Prize for the best poetry volume
over three years. For her journalistic work Krog has received the
Pringle Award as well as the Foreign Correspondent Award and has been
honored by the Hiroshima Peace Foundation. She has also been the
recipient of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
- One of America's most distinguished poets, Adrienne Rich has
published more than sixteen volumes of poetry and four books of
nonfiction prose. Rich's work has achieved international recognition
and has been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew,
Greek, Italian, and Japanese. She has received numerous awards,
fellowships, and prizes, including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the
Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize for Poetry, the Fund for Human Dignity
Award of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Lambda Book
Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, the National Book
Award, the Poet's Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and, most recently,
the Dorothea Tanning Prize of the Academy of American Poets and the
Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the
Institute for Comparative Literature, the Heyman Center for the
Humanities, and Barnard Women Poets, with additional support from the
Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Department of English, the
Center for Literary Translation, and the Dutch Language Program of the
Department of Germanic Languages.
- Free and open to the public. Tickets and additional information
will be available as of April 1, from the Institute for Comparative
Literature and Society. Visit www.columbia.edu/cu/icls/ or call
212.854.4541 for more information.
May
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Senior Thesis Presentations - Thursday, May 7, 5-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- In recognition of the senior essays by: Shira Burton, Megan Dey Lessard, and Oriana Magnera.
June
- Co-sponsored Event with the National Council for Research on Women: Igniting Change: Activiating Alliances for Social Justice Conference, on June 10-12th, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Fall 2008
September
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Co-sponsored Event: Adriana Cavarero, speaking on "Feminine Ancient Icons of Horror: Medusa and Medea," Tuesday, September 16th, 7pm, 301 Philosophy
- Lecture will deal with the lexicon of violence, war, terror, and horror
- Adriana Cavarero is one of the most significant feminist
philosophers of our time. She offers new and invigorating ways to
think philosophical narratives -from Plato, Sophocles, and Homer to
Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin and contemporary literary theory. Her
work, a work of remarkable range and erudition, combines political
theory, classics, feminist theory, and literary critique. It explores
questions of the body and the political, reconfiguring the bond between
logos and politics, and exposing the paradoxes that permeate notions of
?the body politic? in Western political philosophy. Cavarero?s work
opens new ways of studying the formation of subjectivity and identity,
the relationship between selfhood and narration, as well as the
disjunction of ontology and politics.
- Cavarero teaches philosophy of politics at the University of Verona
and she is regularly a visiting professor at New York University,
Berkeley and Harvard. Among her books are: In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy (Routledge 1995), Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (Routledge 2000), Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender (Michigan University Press 2001), For More than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression (Stanford University Press 2005), and Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence (Columbia University Press, in press).
- For more information, please contact Elena Tzelepis at et2104@columbia.edu
- Co-Sponsored by Hellenic Studies Program, Classics Dept, and the Italian Dept.
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“What is Feminist Politics Now? Local and Global”, Friday and Saturday, September 19-20, 2008, Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall and Columbia Low Library, Faculty Room
- In celebration of IRWaG's 21st Anniversary
- Co-sponsored with the Columbia University School of Law Gender and
Sexuality Law Program, Office of the President, Office of the Provost
and the Barnard Center for Research on Women
- The conference will explore:
- The changing meanings of feminism, and its goals (intellectual,
social and political) in a global context: to examine whether these
meanings can any longer be contained within the rubric of common social
agendas.
- Emerging social movements within the United States and beyond,
including those that foster the collective interests of women across
national, class, religious, and racial borders; the common interests of
women and men; and those that call for greater individual autonomy.
- Questions about how women within the post-industrial west can
effectively relate to, and remain engaged with, issues that arise from
diverse locations and affect differently situated women in different
ways.
- Speakers will include:
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Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
Farah Griffin, Columbia University
Ai Xiaoming, Zhongshan University
Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Juliet Mitchell, Cambridge University
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Dorothy Allison, Writer
Patrick Califia, Writer and Therapist
Uma Narayan, Vassar College
Sara Ruddick, Faculty Emerita of The New School
Katie Cannon, Temple University
Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Chair
Madhu Kishwar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University
Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Lara Deeb, University of California, Irvine
Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
Yvonne Hirdman, Stockholm University
Teresa Valdes, Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de la Mujer, Santiago, Chile (Bing Overseas Study Program)
Wang Zheng, University of Michigan
Katherine Franke, Columbia University
Temma Kaplan, Rutgers University
Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
- To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/events/main/fempoliticsnow/
October
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CCASD Engendering Archives Project: Roundtable Discussion on Torture and Truth: The Image as War with Pardiss Kebriaei, Center for Constitutional Rights, Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU, Rosalind Morris, Columbia, and Diana Taylor, NYU, Thursday, October 2nd, 612 Schermerhorn Extension
- Moderated by Saidiya Hartman, Columbia
- The forum will address the ways forms of terror introduce,
modernize and transform visual technology, the transformation of the
archive of war imagery by the development of new media and the role of
digital and visual media in producing the enemy.
- For more information, please visit www.socialdifference.org
- CCASD Liberalism's Others Project: "Who's Afraid of Sharia? War, Law, and Humanitarian Intervention." A Conversation between Naz Modirzadeh (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard School of Public Health) and Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), moderated by Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School), Thursday, October 2nd, 4:10-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension.
- Organized by Lila Abu-Lughod, William B. Ransford Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies.
- The discussions introduces an interdisciplinary workshop on what Sharia
might mean for human rights law and women's rights in the Muslim world.
- For more information, please visit ircpl.org or contact eb422@columbia.edu
- Sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
(IRWaG) and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference
(CCASD). Reception to follow.
- Co-sponsored Event:CUSAPA Columbia University Series on Art, Politics and Anthropology presents the first installment of TRANSDIASPORART with Rosanna Raymond,
speaking on "Dreaming Cannibals: A well exercised consumption in the
name of science," Monday, October 6th,6-7:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.,
Reception to follow
- Co-Sponsored with the support of IRWaG, Dept. of Art History and
Archaeology, ISERP’s Colloquium on Politics, Society, Environment, and
Development, and Museum Studies
- Co-sponsored Event: Lynne Segal, speaking on "Who Do You
Think You Are: Feminist Memoirs," Wednesday, October 8th, 6:15pm,
Heyman Center Common Room, 2nd floor, East Campus
- Co-Sponsored with the Heyman Center
- Co-sponsored Event: Geri Allen in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin, Friday, October 24th, 7:30pm, 301 Philosophy Hall
- Geri Allen, celebrated jazz pianist, composer, band leader,
producer & educator will sit down for a one-on-one conversation
with Farah J. Griffin, Director of IRAAS & Assoc. Director of the
Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University as a part of Prof.
Allen's musical residency this fall semester which will culminate with
“New Songs, New Life: The Geri Allen Quartet in concert:
- “New Songs, New Life” The Geri Allen Project in Concert, Saturday,
October 25th, 7:30pm, Columbia University Miller Theatre, (116th &
Broadway)
- Tickets: $20 General Admission, $10 Students & Seniors with
ID.Tickets may be purchased at the Miller Theatre box office or by
telephone at (212) 854-7799
- Sponsored by: Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University,
Institute for Research in African‐American Studies (IRAAS), Institute
for Research on Women & Gender (IRWaG), Louis Armstrong Jazz
Performance Program, Office of Government & Community Affairs
- In association with Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group
- For information contact jazz@columbia.edu or iraas@columbia.edu
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FEMINIST Interventions - Michael Warner, speaking on "Notes on Normativity," Tuesday, October 28th, 6:10pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
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CCASD Engendering Archives Event on "Seeing Race: The Photographic Archive" with Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley, Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute, and Tina Campt, Duke University, Thursday, October 30th, 612 Schermerhorn Ext
November
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IRWaG Undergraduate Curricular Input, Wednesday, November 5th, 5:30-6:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
- Are you interested in Women's and Gender Studies? Do you have
suggestions about the kinds of Women's and Gender Studies classes you
would like to see offered?
- Professors Elizabeth Povinelli (Director) and Julie Crawford
(Director of Undergraduate Studies) of the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender invite you to an informal meeting to discuss our
curriculum.
- The conversation is open to any and all undergraduate students
(current and potential Majors; those interested in the occasional or a
specific kind of class; those simply curious about the subject etc.)
- Refreshments will be served.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Graduate Colloquium Information Session, Friday, November 21st, noon, 12pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.:
- Please join us for an informational session on the programs and
resources that the Institute for Research on Women and Gender offers
graduate students. We will discuss IRWaG’s fellows program, the
Institute’s feminist pedagogy class, travel grants for conferences, and
upcoming events. We will also talk about IRWaG’s Graduate
Certification in Feminist Scholarship. This certification is a
wonderful opportunity to engage with a broad spectrum of theoretical
literature central to feminist thought, to work with faculty outside
your department, and to formally demonstrate your competence in
feminist scholarship. We’ll discuss logistical questions to do with
fulfilling the coursework requirements, designing reading lists, and
preparing for the oral exam.
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, SPEAK OUT ON PROPOSITION 8, Monday, November 24th, 6:15pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.:
- Panelists include: Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School), Kevin Maillard (Fordham Law School), and Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia, History Dept.). Moderated by: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia, Anthropology Dept.)
- Please join us for a discussion on California's Proposition 8 and its aftermath.
- Co-sponsored Event: *Unchain the Agunah* Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Susan Aranoff, Tuesday, November 25th, 7:30pm, Rennert Auditorium in Hillel
- An agunah is a woman trapped in a marriage because her husband will
not give her a get, a halachic divorce. On November 25th, Yavneh and
JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance), together with the Barnard
Center for Research on Women and the Columbia Institute for Research on
Women and Gender, are hosting an event concerning this sensitive topic.
- The film Mekudeshet (Sentenced to Marriage), by Anat Tsuria will be screened followed by a discussion with Dr. Susan Aranoff,
head of Agunah International Inc., an organization set out to help
agunot in legal proceedings. This is a hot issue currently facing the
Jewish community at large in our attempt to deal with the rabbinical
courts and cruel men that are stifling these women.
- This event is sponsored by Yavneh at Columbia, for questions please
contact Yavneh Education head, Elisheva Bellin at eb2284@barnard.edu.
December
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CCASD and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics Engendering Archives Project: "Performing the Archive," Friday, December 5th, 10am, NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th fl. Conference Rm.
- A one-day conference that will bring together scholars, artists and
cultural institutions to explore the practical and conceptual
challenges posed by 'live' practices and embodied repertoires to
conventional understandings of the archive and archival practice.
- Invited participants include George Lewis, Tavia Nyong’o, Jean Howard, Elin Diamond, Diamela Eltit, Anna Deveare Smith, Lois Weaver (Split Britches), Reverend Billy, Ozzie Rodriguez (La MaMa E.T.C.), Mary Marshall Clark, Marvin Taylor
- Keynote Address: Animating the Archive and Re-imagining Scholarship by Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
- For more information, please visit www.socialdifference.org
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IRWaG Graduate Colloquium, Dissertation Chapter Workshop, Friday, December 5th, noon, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
- Join us Friday, December 5th at Noon in Room 754 as we workshop two
exciting dissertation chapters. The IRWaG workshop is a great
opportunity for grad students in any field writing papers, articles, or
dissertation chapters with a focus on gender to develop their work. On
December 5th we’ll hear from Melissa Gonzalez and Rodney Collins.
- This will be a workshop of the papers. Please e-mail irwag@columbia.edu for a copy of the papers and come prepared to discuss them.
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