Graduate Colloquium
Where do feminist politics and scholarship intersect? Developed by and for graduate students as a forum to discuss timely topics in gender and feminist studies, the Gender Breakfast, is intended as a space for graduate students and faculty studying women and gender to meet across disciplines in a relaxed, collegial environment. It aims to promote interdisciplinary community and to foster intellectual connections with new colleagues.
Fall 2007
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Friday, September 14th
IRWaG Gender Breakfast Planning
This Friday's discussion will focus on planning our upcoming year of graduate student events and workshops. As IRWAG is poised to expand its graduate student activities, we hope to offer a venue for current students to brainstorm ideas for programming and community-building. The Colloquium is excited to hear your thoughts about what you most need as a graduate student working in Women's and Gender Studies here at Columbia. We look forward to seeing you on Friday.
Friday, October 5th
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.
Friday, November 16th
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)
Spring 2008
Friday, February 1st
Workshop #1
Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
Please join us for IRWaG's first Graduate Colloquium of Spring 2008, next Friday, February 1, from 11:30-1 PM in 754 Schermerhorn (the IRWaG seminar room). Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP.
Next Friday's colloquium will be a interdisciplinary workshop on the dissertation prospectus, presented by Prof. Sharon Marcus. The workshop will be useful to graduate students at all stages, but especially those who plan to begin thinking about and writing their prosectuses during the coming year. Prof. Marcus will discuss the basics of prospectus-writing, as well as how to best incorporate the study of gender or sexuality into a disciplinary prospectus. We will also workshop the prospectuses of two students who have recently defended them.
This is a great opportunity to learn just what goes into a prospectus, and to ask any questions you might have in an informal, interdisciplinary setting. We look forward to seeing you next Friday!
Please RSVP to ek2114@columbia.edu by Thursday Noon.
Friday, March 7th
1-3pm, 614 Schermerhorn Hall
Interdisciplinary Panel on Embodiment
A faculty panel on the body, featuring professors Jenny Davidson, English and Comparative Literature, Geraldine Downey, Psychology, Coco Fusco, Spanish and Portuguese, Eugenia Lean, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Beth Povinelli, Anthropology. Please join us for this unique opportunity to see interdisciplinary dialogue in action! A reception will follow in 754 Schermerhorn Extension.
Friday, April 18th
A Dissertation Chapter Workshop
The IRWaG Graduate Colloquium will be hosting a Workshop for student writing on Friday, April 18, from 11:30-1:00pm.
IRWaG's Graduate Colloquium will be hosting a dissertation chapter draft workshop. We 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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