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| WOMEN'S STUDIES SPEAKERS' SERIES WOMEN AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
Fall
2009 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
Proshansky
Auditorium and
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 Room
6112 (Sociology Lounge) The
Unhappily Arranged Marriage of Polygamy and Same-Sex Unions: Lessons
from JUDITH
STACEY, Sociology,
Cosponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in Sociology 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 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 Room
C 197 Sotomayor’s
Reasoning LINDA
ALCOFF, Philosophy, Hunter
College/CUNY Cosponsored
by the Proshansky
Auditorium Girls
Write Now Annual 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 Cosponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in English 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, JILLIAN
CIACCIA, short story writer and artist, KARA
SWANSON, Law, KAREN
THROSBY, Sociology, Cosponsored
with the Feminist Press 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
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: Room
4108 (Liberal Studies Lounge)
From
Cortegiana in the ELIZABETH
PALLITTO, Comparative Literature,
the Graduate Center/CUNY Concourse
197 Elizabeth
Stuart, Princess Royal, Electress of the JOAN
HARTMAN, English (emerita) Concourse
205 Ornamentalism:
The Art of Renaissance Accessories
BELLA
MIRABELLA, English, |