Events

NeuroCulture Lecture Series

In the 'age of the brain' neuroscientific knowledge is being widely applied to questions of mind, self and society, personal identity, gender, sexuality, and embodiment. The NeuroCulture Lecture Series organized by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Center for Humanities highlights how women's studies scholars, feminist theorists, ethicists, philosophers, writers of literature and memoir, artists and other outside of neuroscience are responding to expert knowledge about the brain and its implications. The series highlights the work of internationally known figures as well as emerging scholars.

Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Concourse 198
FEELING BEAUTY: A Neuroscientific Framework for Understanding why the Arts may be Sisters
G. GABRIELLE STARR, English and Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Science, NYU. Starr is the author of a history of the interrelation of lyric poetry and the early British novel, Lyric Generations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), as well as of articles on the history of the novel, imagination and mental imagery, close reading and the tools of cognitive science, the history of aesthetics, and on materialism and Ovid in the eighteenth century. Cosponsored by Center for the Study of Women and Society and Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:00 -8:00 pm
Concourse 198
TO LOVE WHAT IS
ALIX KATES SHULMAN will read from her memoir about a marriage transformed by traumatic brain injury. She is the author of the feminist classic Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and four other novels, three memoirs, including the award-winning Drinking the Rain and To Love What Is, and two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Nation, and The Guardian. Two new books will be published in May, 2012: Menage (a novel) and the collection A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays. JASON TOUGAW (English, Queens College) will serve as discussant. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
6:00 -8:00 pm
Skylight Room (Room 9100)
FEMINISM MEETS NEUROSCIENCE
VICTORIA PITTS-TAYLOR, Women's Studies and Sociology, CUNY and REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG, Sociomedical Sciences, Barnard College will consider how feminism should respond to the neuroscientific age. Pitts-Taylor is author of two books and numerous articles on the sociology of the body, medicine, gender and health, and editor of The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. She is currently writing two books on the brain, including Brain, Self and Society for the Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture. Jordan-Young is author of Brainstorm: Flaws in the Science of Sex Difference and many articles on sex difference in scientific research. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
6:00 -8:00 pm
Room 9206 and 9207
DISABILITY AND DEPRESSION
LENNARD DAVIS, Distinguished Professor of English, Disability and Medical Education at University of Illinois-Chicago, is Director of Project Biocultures and author of Obsession: a History, Enforcing Normalcy : Disability, Deafness and the Body, and other books, including a memoir and a novel. He is Editor of the Disability Studies Reader and co-Editor of The Disability Handbook and Disability and Social Theory. Cosponsored by the Center for Humanities.

Seminar in Sexuality and Gender

Thursday March 8, 2012
12:00- 2:00 pm
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)
MICHAEL CHORUST is author of Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, which won the PEN/USA Book Award
for Creative Nonfiction, and World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet. He is a freelance science writer and has published in Wired, The Washington Post, Technology Review, and The Scientist, among others. He wrote the screenplay for
The 22nd Century, which aired on PBS in January 2007.

Thursday March 29, 2012
12:00- 2:00 pm
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)
MARIA BRINCKER is an Arts & Neuroscience fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia University and will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at
UMass Boston starting Fall 2012. Her PhD thesis Moving Beyond Mirroring was a critical analysis of the traditional theoretical frameworks surrounding the
discovery and popularization of so-called mirror neurons. Her talk is entitled "The Illusion of Domestic Bliss and the Dynamics of Relational Minds."

Thursday April 19, 2012
12:00- 2:00 pm
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)
BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN, Sociology, GC and Baruch College, is author and co-author of many books in medical sociology, bioethics, gender and the
sociology of knowledge, including Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption, The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Implications of the Human Genome Project and Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the UnitedStates.

Other Spring 2012 Events

Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Room 9206
The Boy Actor and the Professional Actress in Shakespeare
PAMELA BROWN, English, University of Connecticut, Stamford
Cosponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance

Monday, February 27, 2012
4:00 -5:30 pm
Room 9204
Dorothy O. Helly Lecture: Biography of Sophie Hawthorne
PATRICIA DUNLAVY VALENTI, author of To Myself a Stranger: A Biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, will discuss how the often permeable boundaries between life and art affect work on the second volume of her Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
7:00 - 9:00 pm
C203/C04/C05
Girls Like Us: Domestic Trafficking
Invited speakers include: Rachel Lloyd, Jennifer Pozner, Ileana Jimenez, Emily May and Rinku Sen
Cosponsored by Girls Educational Mentoring Services

Friday, March 2, 2012
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Room 9205
Philosophy, Feminism, and Occupy Wall Street
Speakers: KATHY MIRIAM, Hunter College/CUNY; CINZIA ARRUZZA, Philosophy, New School; JENNIFER ULEMAN, Philosophy, SUNY Purchase.
Commentator: RACHEL MCKINNEY, Philosophy, The Graduate Center/CUNY
Cosponsored with the New York Society for Women in Philosophy(SWIP)

Thursday, March 8, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room C 201
The Ida B. Wells Lecture Documenting the Diaspora: Visual Archiving with New Media
MICHELE WALLACE, English, The Graduate Center/CUNY, is author of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.
Cosponsored with Institute for Research on the African Diaspora (IRADEC)

Thursday, March 8, 2012
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Room 9206
The Fictions of Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Costume Books to Satires (1590-1648)
EUGENIA PAULICELLI, Italian and Comparative Literature, Fashion Studies, The Graduate Center/CUNY
Cosponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance

Monday, April 2, 2012
6:30-8:30 pm
Elebash Recital Hall
Domestic Service in New York
This forum will examine the politics of domestic service in New York City, especially nannies and child care workers. Panelists will address the nature
of the work and the workforce, as well as campaigns by domestic workers, past and present, to organize and improve the conditions of their work. Speakers include Julia Wrigley (Graduate Center), Tamara Mose Brown (Brooklyn College), Premilla Nadasen (Queens College) and Joyce Gill-Campbell (Domestic Workers United).
Cosponsored by the Gotham Center.
Free to graduate students; $10 at the door.

Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:00 -7:30 pm
Room 9207
The Myth of Counter-Reformation Misogyny
VIRGINIA COX, Italian Studies, New York University
Cosponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance

Friday, April 27, 2012
4:30-6:30 pm
Room 9204
Title: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Cosponsored with the New York Society for Women in Philosophy(SWIP)

Friday, May 4, 2012
9:00a.m. -6:30 pm
Room 9205
Fashion Studies Today: a Multidisciplinary International Conference

Friday, May 11, 2012
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Skylight Room 9100
Annual Celebration of CUNY Women Scholars and Scholarship