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Since 1977, the Center for the Study of Women and Society has promoted interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. The focus of the Center's research agenda is the study of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nation in relationship to the experiences of women and men in societies around the world.

The Center co-sponsors with the Women's Studies Certificate Program intellectual exchange symposia and lectures--- among scholars within CUNY as well as with visiting scholars. The Center also seeks to collaborate with grassroots and professional organizations.

CONTACT

Center for the Study of Women and Society
Anne Humpherys, Director
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212.817.8895
Fax: 212.817.2988
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter

Certificate Program

Send questions and/or comments to:
AHumpherys@gc.cuny.edu

Financial Aid at the Graduate Center

• The College and Community Fellowship Program (CCF) addresses issues faced by people leaving prison and making the transition back into our communities.
  
  
• CLEAR (Community, Leadership and Education After Reentry) supports a research group comprised of formerly incarcerated women and men, which focuses on publishing research on issues around reentry, policy and practice.
  
  
• Activist Women's Voices: Oral History Project
  Established in 1995 with the aim of creating linkages between activist women in the community and student and faculty researchers in the university.
  

WHAT'S NEW?

Women's Studies Speaker's Series Fall 2008

Since 1972, Women's Studies Quarterly has been a leading journal in women's studies and has been central to the work of the Feminist Press. Beginning in 2005, WSQ will be published by Feminist Press in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Women and Society. The general editors are Women's Studies Faculty Nancy K. Miller, English and Cindi Katz, Geography/Environmental Psychology
http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/

Women's Studies at CUNY Blog
http://womenstudies-cunywide.gc.cuny.edu/

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Upcoming Events!

Monday, November 3, 2008

4:30 - 6:15 p.m

Concourse 201

In the Key of Female: Music and Gender in the Modern American Cantorate

MARSHA DUBROW, The Graduate Center/CUNY

Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of Women and Society

Friday, November 21, 2008

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Room 9204

To Forget, To Remember/To Write, to Grieve

On the publication of Grace Cho’s Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War

Panel includes: GRACE CHO, Sociology, College of Staten Island/CUNY

PATRICIA TICINETO CLOUGH, Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center /CUNY

DAVID ENG,  English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

DAVID KAZANJIAN, Graduate Chair, English, University of Pennsylvania

HOSU KIM , Sociology, Drake University       

JACKIE ORR, Sociology, Maxwell School , Syracuse University

Cosponsored with Sociology

Friday, November 21, 2008

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Room 9207

Women and Institutions in the History of Natural Philosophy: Cavendish and du Chatelet, Two Case Studies

KAREN DETLEFSEN, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

Cosponsored by the New York Society for Women in Philosophy (NYSWIP)  

Friday, December 5, 2008

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Room 4409 (English Program Lounge)

And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women,  Edited and with an Introduction by Muneeza Shamsie

Panel discussion moderated by DOHRA AHMAD, English, St. John’s University
Panel includes Novelists and Poets: FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN, English, Montclair State University, HUMERA AFRIDI, SORAYYA KHAN, MANIZA NAQVI, TAHIRA NAQVI, SEHBA SARWAR
SABYN JAVERI-JILLANI

Cosponsored with the Feminist Press and the Ph.D Program in English

Friday, December 12, 2008

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Women’s Studies Student Awards Luncheon

Recognition of students completing the certificate requirements, students who have graduated with a Certificate, and winners of the Nina Fortin Dissertation Proposal Year Prize, the Sue Zalk Travel Award, and the Carolyn Heilbrun Dissertation Prize.

Doctoral candidates speaking about their work

Dramatic reading: “Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices”

A 1962 radio play by SYLVIA PLATH