Tuesday, March 2nd, 6:30pm This public seminar with Gayatri Spivak sets out to explore the heart of Occidentalism from the outside in by using Edward Said’s field-defining modern classic as the starting point. Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities. Gayatri Spivak is University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Joseph Keckler @ NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum
TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND 7 to 8:30 PM NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum: JOSEPH KECKLER. He will discuss and perform his work. Joseph Keckler is a performance artist, writer, and singer. His work explores the gap between theater and life, establishing unexpected connections between art, […]
A Feminine Palette: Women Artists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the work […]
Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School
Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m. Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street — Room 510 New York, NY WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY. Merging the creative and the […]
Different Subjects: Aesthetics and U.S. Minority Discourse
March 23, Tuesday 6:30 to 8 PM Kandice Chuh, English, University of Maryland This talk brings together aesthetic theory and U.S. minority discourse. By doing so, Chuh illuminates the longstanding and intimate relationship between aesthetics and “difference,” and shows how the critical vantage of minority discourse revises trenchant understandings of, especially, aesthetic subjectivity. This new […]
The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference February 25th and 26th, 2010 Click here for full program, or visit the CUNY Center for the Humanities. Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Keynote Speaker: Peter Brooks and J.M. Bernstein
Tendencies: Poetics and Practice @ CUNY
Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, and Charles Bernstein Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 pm Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities, and co-sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the PhD Program in English, and the Poetics Group This series of talks by poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship […]
The Scholar and Feminist Conference XXXV: FEMINISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Presented by the Barnard Center for Research on Women Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY With keynote addresses by Majora Carter and Joni Seager Already among the most vulnerable populations worldwide, women and other marginalized groups have been the most acutely affected by the instabilities produced by climate change. Issues […]
"Spanking and Poetry": An Exhibition & Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
February 25-26, 2010 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York City Visit the “Spanking and Poetry” website for more info.
From Turbulence to Transformation
Presented by the National Council for Research on Women Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3 to 5 PM A SPECIAL EVENT WITH: Edith Cooper, Managing Director, Global Head of Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Letty Chiwara, Manager, UNIFEM Cross Regional Programmes (invited) Moderated by Jacki Zehner, Founding Partner, […]
