The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to invite graduate students and faculty 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.
Scheduled meetings and readings for this semester include:
This event will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:30-6:30pm, 465 Schermerhorn Ext.
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.
on Meaghan Morris
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