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IRWAG Research Friday with Maya Mikdashi on “Sex and Sectarianism”

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University presents Research Friday with Maya Mikdashi “Sex and Sectarianism: Disarticulating Madhhab/Sect and Sex/Gender”

Friday, October 7, 11am-12:30pm 754 Schermerhorn Extension, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University Response from Kendall Thomas (Law, Columbia)

Lunch will be served!

Please join us for the first IRWAG Research [...]

Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies Program, Brooklyn College

Associate/Full Professor of Women’s Studies (Visiting Endowed Chair), Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

The Women’s Studies Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, invites applications for a Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the Associate or Full Professor rank (Job ID# 4645) beginning in Fall [...]

SlutWalk NYC: October 1st 2011

SlutWalk NYC – Rally and March Saturday, October 1st Noon Union Square

Toronto police officer Michael Sanguinetti had no idea he would spark an international wave of protests when he told students at York University that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized.” But his words tapped into a [...]

Call for Papers: “Gender, Sexuality, and Poverty”

2012 Women’s Studies Conference: Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Consortium Saturday, March 31, 2012 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA

The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC), comprised of Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, and Gettysburg Colleges, sponsors an annual conference on women’s studies. The theme of the 2012 conference, held at Gettysburg College [...]

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment Special Editors: Ann Burlein & Jackie Orr

This issue of WSQ attempts to intervene in the present moment by conjuring the power and seductions of enchantment. How to find and create places of allure when things seem impossible, when the world seems impassable, when survival [...]

CCASD Keywords: MOVEMENTS

CCASD Keywords: Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversations: Movements Wednesday, September 21st, 5-7pm 754 Schermerhorn Ext., Columbia University

Featured participants:

Lila Abu-Lughod Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor, Department of Anthropology and Institute for Research on Women and Gender Columbia University Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference

Janet Jakobsen Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women’s, Gender, [...]

Reparations and the Human: David L. Eng

REPARATIONS AND THE HUMAN

a lecture by David L. Eng

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September 28, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm

David L. Eng, English, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

This presentation explores the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation. Reparation is a key term in [...]

Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference

Call for Papers and Panels

Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference Celebrating 40 Years of Social Justice Work

September 23-24, 2011 Barnard College

Confirmed speakers: Sonia Alvarez, Lisa Duggan, Jacqueline Ebanks, Amber Hollibaugh, Ana Oliveira, Ann Pellegrini, and Ai-jen Poo.

Forty years ago, the Barnard Center for [...]

IRWaG Feminist Interventions with Rebecca Jordan-Young, 3/28

The Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender presents FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS with:

REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG Women’s Studies, Barnard

“Sexual Logics: Dissecting Some Links Between Bodies and Desires in Current Sexual Science” with comment from Alondra Nelson, Sociology, Columbia

Monday, March 28th 4:10-6pm 754 Schermerhorn Extension (1200 Amsterdam Avenue) Columbia University

We hope to [...]

March 29th: Native Peoples Forum: Tz’uninija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement on Mining & Women’s Rights in Guatemala

MINING AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA Victoria Cumes Jochola of the Tz’ununija’ Indigenous Women’s Movemen­­­­t

Tuesday, March 29th 4:00pm-6:00pm 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

Victoria Cumes Jochola of the Tz’uninija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement will be visiting NYU as part of a three-week speaking tour coordinated by the Network [...]