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
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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 Reading Race, Thursday, October 30th, 612 Schermerhorn Ext
December
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CCASD and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics Engendering Archives Project: Afternoon Roundtable Discussion on "Archiving Performance," Thursday, December 5th, Time and Location TBA
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