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 2008
Spring 2009
Spring 2009
Thursday, February 5th
Feminist Pedagogy
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.
Monday, February 9th
Theory Mondays: Elizabeth Povinelli on Judith Butler
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to invite
graduate students and faculty from from the Columbia and Barnard
communities to participate in a series of conversations about important
books. We will meet once a month, on Mondays from 4 pm to 6 pm, in 465
Schermerhorn Extention (Anthro Lounge). Readings will be circulated in
advance and conversations will be led by a member of the faculty.
Readings for next semester will be selected by those present and should
address graduate students' interests.
We will be going over Butler's Gender Trouble, specifically, the preface, chapter 1 and 3. Please click here, here, and here for copies of the readings.
Friday, March 6th
Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
IRWaG will be hosting a Dissertation Prospectus Workshop on March 6, from 2-4pm, in 754 Schermerhorn Ext. The workshop is open to graduate students interested in research on women and gender, and will be led by Professors Alice Kessler-Harris (History) and Joseph Slaughter (English and Comparative Literature).
We are inviting students from all disciplines, in any stage of prospectus writing, to submit drafts of their prospectus for a workshop.
Drafts should be emailed to irwag@columbia.edu by Wednesday, February 25. We will select 2 or 3 drafts for the workshop to be circulated in advance of the workshop.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Monday, March 9th
Gender and 'Peace-Work' w/Sarai Aharoni
Gender and 'Peace-Work': The Participation of Israeli Women in Formal Peace Negotiations 1992-2000
Sarai Aharoni, Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
Monday, March 9
12-1:30p
754 Schermerhorn Ext.
Please join us for an informal lunch discussion, part of IRWaG's Gender Colloquim. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to irwag@columbia.edu
Sarai Aharoni is a researcher at the Gender Studies Program, Bar-IlanUniversity. Her work focuses upon the broad intersection between gender, peace and security in the Israeli context. She will be talking about herrecent study which was designed to assess the gender division of labor in the formal Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations (1992-2000). The researchsuggests a unique documentation of the Oslo peace process based upon the perspectives of women who worked as professional and legal advisors,spokeswomen and secretaries, and discusses the role of bureaucratic nstitutions in multi-level peace negotiations.
Monday, March 9th
Theory Mondays: Nadia Abu El-Haj on Donna Haraway
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to invite
graduate students and faculty from from the Columbia and Barnard
communities to participate in a series of conversations about important
books. We will meet once a month, on Mondays from 4 pm to 6 pm, in 465
Schermerhorn Extention (Anthro Lounge). Readings will be circulated in
advance and conversations will be led by a member of the faculty.
Readings for next semester will be selected by those present and should
address graduate students' interests.
Friday, March 27th
Workshopping Graduate Student Dissertation Chapter
Monday, April 20th
Theory Mondays: Marianne Hirsch on Eve Sedgwick
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to invite
graduate students and faculty from from the Columbia and Barnard
communities to participate in a series of conversations about important
books. We will meet once a month, on Mondays from 4 pm to 6 pm, in 465
Schermerhorn Extention (Anthro Lounge). Readings will be circulated in
advance and conversations will be led by a member of the faculty.
Readings for next semester will be selected by those present and should
address graduate students' interests.
We will be going over Sedgwick's Touching Feeling.
Fall 2008
Friday, November 21st
Graduate Colloquium Information Session: An Introduction to IRWaG
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.
Monday, November 24th
SPEAK OUT ON PROPOSITION 8
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.
Friday, December 5th
A Dissertation Chapter Workshop
The IRWaG Graduate Colloquium will be hosting a Workshop for student writing on Friday, December 5th, from 12-2pm.
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.
Workshop Abstracts:
Collins’ dissertation
project is a historical and ethnographic examination of the political
economic links between the coffee trade, public coffeehouses and
manhood in Tunisia. With an average of one coffeehouse for every one
hundred adult males, the ubiquity of this predominantly male
institution provides his project with an instructive vista into this
institution of the ‘public’ sine qua non. This chapter provides an
ethnographic orientation to the geo-economic materialities of gender in
the urban socio-scape of contemporary Tunis.
Gonzalez’s chapter, tentatively entitled “Becoming “Gay”: Queer Texts
in a Global Commodity Culture,” examines a diverse set of contemporary
cultural productions: academic, literary, and popular texts; websites;
and texts produced by activist groups that connect to both the North
and South American hemispheres through their modes of production,
avenues of circulation, and/or discursive affiliations. Focusing on the
problems presented by the categories of sexuality and identity in a
transnational context, she argues that both contemporary cultural
producers and critics are grappling with notions of all-inclusive
market forces and the impossibility of emancipatory resistance.
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