WOMEN'S STUDIES SPEAKERS' SERIES
VOICES
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Fall
2008
Monday,
September 8, 2008
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Room
9205
Narratives
as Resources for Living with HIV
CORINNE
SQUIRE, Social
Science,
University
of
East
London
Cosponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology and the Center for Gay
and Lesbian Studies
Wednesday,
September 17, 2008
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Concourse
202
Jewish
Worker Women: A Jewish Socialist Woman’s Organization in Inter-War
Poland
and Its Significance
JACK
JACOBS, Political
Science, The
Graduate Center/CUNY
Cosponsored
with the Center for Jewish Studies
Friday, September 19, 2008
3:00
-
5:00 p.m.
Room
6112 (Sociology Lounge)
Cosmopolitan
Norms, Human Rights and Democratic Iterations
SEYLA
BENHABIB, Political
Science,
Yale
University
Cosponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in Sociology
Friday, October 17, 2008
4:00 - 6:00
p.m.
Room:
Concourse 197
Muna
Lee –Poet and Feminist of the
Americas
JONATHAN
COHN, author of A
Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna
Lee
Co-sponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso
Brazilian Literatures
Friday, October 24, 2008
4:00 -
6:00 p.m.
Room
4409 (English Lounge)
[Memoirs
and Discussions of Memoir]
JANE
MARCUS, (and panel)
English,
City
College
and The Graduate Center/CUNY
Cosponsored
with the Ph.D. Program in English
Friday,
October 24, 2008
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Concourse
201
What
Does It Mean to be Born Today? ,Arendt
on Birth in the Modern Age
ANNE
O’BYRNE, Philosophy,
Stony Brook/SUNY
Cosponsored
by the
New York
Society for Women in Philosophy (NYSWIP)
Friday,
October 31, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Martin
E. Segal Theatre
Enchanted
States: The Shaman’s Flight in Modern Times
MARINA
WARNER, Novelist, critic
and cultural historian
Cosponsored
with the Center for the Humanities, Ph.D. Program in English
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
Events
sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Room
4116
Sexuality,
Marriage and the Ends of Shakespearean Comedy
JULIE
CRAWFORD, English,
Columbia
University
Thursday, October 16, 2008
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Concourse
197
The
Madness of Paolo Barbieri of
Bologna
: A Comparison of Social, Legal and
Medical Perspectives
MONICA
CALABRITTO, Romance
Languages and Literatures, Hunter College/CUNY
Thursday, November 20, 2008
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Room
: Concourse 205
“May
You Never….Sorrow Know”: Love and Marriage in John Milton and
Katherine Philips
PAULA
LOSCOCCO,
English, Lehman College/CUNY
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