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About Rutgers Institute for Research on Women

The IRW stimulates research on women and gender within and across the disciplines . . .

Six Thursdays each year, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm, the IRW presents cutting-edge work by scholars from Rutgers and other universities.

Info about the 2008-09 series

NEW: 2009-10 lecturers and dates; more info coming.

IRW Weekly Seminar

The IRW Seminar meets Thursday mornings from 10:30to noon. If you'd like to participate in a session, please contact us to get the readings in advance.

2010-11 IRW Theme:

The Art and Science of Happiness

Description available

Featured Web Archives

October 2008 Focus article on the discussion of faculty projects featuring gender, ethnicity and race co-sponsored by the IRW and the Center for Race and Ethnicity

IRW 30th Anniversary Celebration in Pictures:

Highlights from our

special events in April 2008 commemorating the

rich history and bright future of the IRW

Rutgers Focus article

on IRW Learning Communities

Donations

You may now contribute to the IRWby making a tax-deductible donation to the Institute for Research on Women, ensuring our future success.

The IRW is located on the second floor of the Center for Women's Programs at 160 Ryders Lane,

New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8555.

Save the Dates

2009-2010

Distinguished Lecture Series

Gendered Agency

September 17, 2009

Susan Sidlauskas (Art History, Rutgers)

“Gender and Agency at the Asylum: Casebook Photographs in Early 20th-Century England”

October 8, 2009

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers)

“Sexiles: (post) Colonialism and the Machine of Desire”

October 29, 2009

Saba Mahmood (Social Cultural Anthropology, UC-Berkeley)

“Religious Ethics, Agency, and Feminist Politics: Some Reflections on Politics of Piety”

January 28, 2010

Laura Ahearn (Anthropology, Rutgers)

“Gender and Agency: Perspectives from Language”

February 18, 2010

Susan Stryker (Gender Studies, Indiana University)

“Christine in the Cutting Room: The Cinematic Embodiment of Transsexual Celebrity Christine Jorgensen”

March 5, 2010

Diana Meyers (Ellacuría Chair; Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago)

“Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude – Representing Agentic Womanhood”

Lectures at 4:30 on Thursday afternoons, with receptions preceding at 4:00 pm at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Everyone is welcome.

2008-2009 IRW EVENTS

A brief overview:

2008-09 IRW Distinguished

Lecture Series

Six lectures over the course of the academic year featured new work by Rutgers faculty and colleagues from other universities.

Graduate Student Forum

on Feminist Scholarship

Friday,April 3, 2009

A special showcase of Rutgers graduate student work using a gendered/feminist lens:

Twenty-three researchers from eight different departments introduced their work.

IRW Spring Symposium

The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture

February 26 and 27, 2009

Discussions of work-in-progress

by prominent scholars with a

keynote lecture by

Sally EngleMerry

IRW Undergraduate

Learning Community

research presentations

December 2008 and May 2009.

With the Office for the Promotion

of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

the IRW's October 8, 2008 workshop on

Negotiating for Women Entering the Academic Job Market

allowed over 80 participants

to learn about the nuts-and-bolts process of academic job offer, counter-offer and acceptance.

Updates

RU-FAIR

The IRW has been awarded a

Fall 2009 RU-FAIR grant

by the Office for the Promotion of Women

in Science, Engineering and Mathematics.

Watch this space for registration information for a workshop on Negotiating for Academic Women, a Faculty Forum and more!

Other News

IRW Global Scholar Update

In addition to presenting work at the IRW's weekly graduate-faculty seminar, the IRW's Spring 2009 Global Scholars, Salma Maoulidi and Enikö Magyari-Vincze, have been participating in panel discussions and discussing their research and activism in a number of Rutgers venues.

Salma Maoulidi was on a keynote panel at the Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference hosted by the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Recently, the Center for European Studies hosted the U.S. premiere of Enikö Magyari-Vincze's documentary about Roma women in a Hungarian town--the fruit of two years of discussions about contraception, child-bearing and other gendered aspects of their lives--followed by

a lively discussion.

The IRW Global Scholars (from Tanzania and Romania, respectively) are supported through an Academic Excellence Award.

To learn more about their work, please contact the IRW at 732-932-9072.

IRW Undergraduate Learning Community

Undergraduate students interested in exploring questions and consequences of "Gendered Agency" will be gathering at the IRW every Thursday afternoon next fall. The 1.5 credit IRW Learning Community introduces participants to the work of leading feminist scholars and provides a shared spared for individual inquiry on related topics. More info