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 Colloquium, 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 2009
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Thursday, September 17th, 5-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
Graduate Student Welcome & Cocktail Hour
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG) invites graduate students to join us for an informational kick-off. COME for free food & drink; STAY to discover the resources IRWaG has to offer graduate students ...
- to learn about fellowship and grant opportunities, workshops to enhance your research, and the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies ...
-to see old friends and colleagues and meet new ones ...
- and to share YOUR input for the 2009-10 programming at the Institute!
ALL graduate students interested in questions of gender and/orsexuality - of all stages, departments, and disciplines - are welcome. Come and join IRWaG's diverse and interdisciplinary intellectual community!
See you there!
Christine Varnado & Rachel Van
Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:30-6:30pm, 465 Schermerhorn Ext.
Barbara Johnson Memorial Gathering
Barbara Johnson died on August 27. Marianne Hirsch, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Patricia Williams invite you to join them at an informal memorial gathering of readings and reflections.
Please come and bring a brief passage from her work that you might wish to read.
This memorial is part of IRWaG's "Theory Monday" series which is
dedicated to conversations about important books. We wish to honor
Johnson's brilliant and ground-breaking theoretical contributions by
reading and talking about her work in her memory.
Barbara Ellen Johnson was a Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and
Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University where she taught for the
past 25 years. Johnson earned her undergraduate degree from Oberlin
College, and her PHD from Yale. A world renowned literary critic and
theorist, Johnson was the author of numerous books including Defigurations du langage poetique, The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, The Wake of Deconstruction, The Feminist Difference, and her latest book, Persons and Things, published last year. She treated her final degenerative illness with
mordant wit and courage, continuing to write and bringing to
publication her extraordinary translation of Mallarme's 1897 version of Divagations in 2007.
Friday, October 9th, 12:45-2pm
Research Fridays
Julie Golia will be sharing with us a selection from her dissertation, ""Queen of Heartaches": The Newspaper Advice Columnist as Icon and Journalist" and Rachel Adams, a professor from the English Department, will comment.
How did America’s first generation of advice columnists delineate their professional standards and their high-profile public personas? As leaders in a new, as-yet-undefined field of journalism, early columnists carved out a distinctly, even proudly female niche of interpersonal reportage. In this paper, Julie Golia examines the impact of “soft news” female reporters on the profession of journalism, arguing that advice columnists both widened and limited options for women journalists.
Please RSVP if you will be attending (and please indicate if you will need a vegetarian lunch) to Rachel Van
Please click here to download a PDF of Golia's selection.
October 26, 2009
Catherine Driscoll, Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and IRWaG Visiting Scholar
on Meaghan Morris
This event will be held on Monday, October 26th, 4:30-6:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
We will be going over the work of Meaghan Morris, particularly the "Banality in Cultural Studies". Please click here for a copy of the reading.
Please RSVP if you will be attending to Christine Varnardo
Friday, November 20th, 12:30-2pm
Research Fridays
Elizabeth Bernstein of the Sociology Department will give a paper on "Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: the Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Campaigns."
Roxana Galusca, a visiting scholar from the University of Michigan, will comment.
Spring 2010
Feminist Pedagogy Course
Theory Mondays
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.
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