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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

Send questions and/or comments to:
Victoria Pitts-Taylor@gc.cuny.edu




WOMEN'S STUDIES SPEAKERS' SERIES

WOMEN AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

 

Fall 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Room 3491

Her Leaves Be Green: Early 17th-Century Songs from the Repertoire of Miss Ann Green and Ladies Frances and Mary Egerton

Musicians in Ordinary   

HALLIE FISHEL, soprano

JOHN EDWARDS, lute

Cosponsored with the Women’ Studies and Music Forum

                                                           

Thursday, September 24, 2009

7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Proshansky Auditorium

 and Friday, September 25, 2009

Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering

Belladonna* celebrates ten years of publishing and supporting the feminist avant-garde with a two day conference on feminist poetics and activism.  The conference launches on Thursday, September 24, with panels focusing on radical language processes and political thought, culminating in keynote performances by Diane DiPrima,  Kathleen Fraser, Erica Hunt, and Eileen Myles.  September 25, Friday, will continue the conversation with a broad spectrum of panels focusing on a variety of topics including: the body as discourse , ecopoeticss, multilingualism, exile and language, and writing from marginalized positions.  The conference will conclude with a performance/collaboration between Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang & Christine Stewart, Sally Silvers, Lila Zemborain & Cecilia Torino. Other panelist and presenters include: Caroline Bergvall, Dodie Bellamy, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Zhang Er, Jeanne Heuving, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Anne Waldman, Renaldo Wilson, and many others.

Cosponsored with Belladonna*, Center for the Study of Women and Society, Ph. D. Program in English and the Poetics Group

See www.center for the humanitiesgc.org for a complete schedule and registration information or contact belladonnseries@gmail.com

           

Friday, September 25, 2009

3:00-5:00 p.m.

Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

The Unhappily Arranged Marriage of Polygamy and Same-Sex Unions: Lessons from South Africa    

JUDITH STACEY, Sociology, New York University

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Sociology

 

Saturday, September 26, 2009

12:00.-4:00 p.m.

Elebash Recital Hall

CELEBRATING  EVE  SEDGWICK

Please join us to honor the extraordinary life and work of Eve Sedgwick , a beloved member of the CUNY faculty, whose groundbreaking work includes Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.(1986);Epistemology of the Closet(1991);Tendencies (1993) and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity(2003),as well as Dialogue on Love(1999) and her book of poems, Fat Art Thin Art(1994)       

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English, Center for the Humanities, and Women Studies  

 

Thursday, October 15, 2009   

6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Proshansky Auditorium

Celebration of MARILYN FRENCH

Please join us for a celebration and discussion of the work of Marilyn French. Speakers will include Gloria Steinem, Charlotte Sheedy, Blanche Wiesen Cook, and Carol Jenkins.

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Feminist Press and Marilyn French’s children

 

Friday, October 23, 2009   

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Room C 197

Sotomayor’s Reasoning 

LINDA ALCOFF, Philosophy, Hunter College/CUNY

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

 

Friday, October 23, 2009   

4:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Proshansky Auditorium

Girls Write Now Annual Readings  

The annual celebration of girls’ writing by Girls Write Now, an award winning project consisting of a close-knit community of professional women writers and their mentees, who come from New York City ’s underserved high school girls and who are supported in developing their creative voices.

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Technologies

A celebration of feminist scholarship on technology, featuring authors and poets from the Women’s Studies Quarterly

Participants include:

JAMIE SKYE BIANCO, English, University of Pittsburgh

JILLIAN CIACCIA, short story writer and artist,

KARA SWANSON,  Law, Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law

KAREN THROSBY, Sociology, University of Warwick , United Kingdom

Cosponsored with the Feminist Press

 

Friday, November 6, 2009

9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

Skylight Room 9100

The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy.  Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women and gender studies and /or feminist approaches to learning  and classroom strategies in various disciplines. Our aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality, in conjunction with race and class, both inside and outside the academy.

 Cosponsored with the Feminist Studies Group,  Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Feminist Press and Women’s Studies Certificate Program

  

Friday, December 4, 2009

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Room C198

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, the Carolyn Heilbrun Dissertation Prize and the Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize.

Doctoral candidates speaking about their work.

 

Events sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance:

 

Thursday, September 17, 2009

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Room 4108 (Liberal Studies Lounge)  

From Cortegiana in the Temple of Venus to Cortegiano in the Temple of Vertu : Metamorphosis in Tullia d’Aragona Self-Fashioning

ELIZABETH PALLITTO, Comparative Literature, the Graduate Center/CUNY

 

Thursday, October 15, 2009

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.    

Concourse 197

Elizabeth Stuart, Princess Royal, Electress of the Palatinate , and Queen of Bohemia , Negotiates

JOAN HARTMAN, English (emerita) College of Staten Island / and STEPHEN STEARNS, History, College of Staten Island/CUNY

 

Thursday, November 19, 2009

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Concourse 205

Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories

BELLA MIRABELLA, English, Gallatin , New York University