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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
Professor Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Director
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212.817.8895
Fax: 212.817.1539
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter

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

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The Mother Symposium

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

10 am to 5 pm

Martin E. Segal Theater, the Graduate Center

The Mother Symposium is a day-long conference at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York featuring scholarship, poetry and prose on mothers, mothering and motherhood. Authors from the special issue Mother of WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly) will be featured. Poetry readings, prose readings, discussions with authors, and scholarly panels are on the program. For more information click on http://mothersymposium.wordpress.com

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 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 Spring 2010

CSWS Newsletter 2009

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/

CSWS library catalog and checkout

Upcoming Events!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Room C 197

Fabrics of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization

Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design and Eugenia Paulicelli, Helena Ribeiro, Jane Schneider, Michael Skafidas and Sharon Zukin of the Graduate Center/CUNY

Moderator: Joseph Glick, Psychology, The Graduate Center/CUNY

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English

Thursday, February 18, 2010

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Concourse 197

Female Fortitude: A Memoir on Princess Clementina Sobieski

CLARE CARROLL, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center/CUNY

Cosponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance

Friday, February 19, 2010

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Room 4406 (English Department Lounge)

The Empty City : American Film and the Imagination of Disaster

MARIANNA TORGOVNICK. English, Duke University

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English

Thursday, February 25, 2010

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Room C205

Resistance, Agency, Spirituality: Zapatista Women Re-envision their Struggle.

SYLVIA MARCOS, Claremont Graduate School and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Political Science

Friday, February 26, 2010

10:00a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

The Mother Symposium

A day-long symposium on mothers, mothering and motherhood. Topics include queering motherhood, motherhood and work, reflexive/reflective motherhood, mommy lit, motherhood in film, art, literature and the media, the poetics of mothering.   Featuring readings of poetry and fiction as well as panel discussions.

Speakers include: Tamara Mose Brown, Cynthia Edmonds-Cady, Heather Hewitt, Caryn Medved,  Andrea O’Reilly, Michele Pridmore-Brown, Brenda Silver, Cindy Stearns and Leah Souffrant.

Poets Meena Alexander, Stephanie Cleveland, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Miranda Field and novelist Amy Sohn will offer readings.

Moderated by: Nicole Cooley, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Talia Schaffer and Pamela Stone.

Http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/ for complete schedule information or contact wsqeditorial@gmail.com 

Cosponsored with the Office of the President, the Ph.D. Program in Sociology and the Feminist Press