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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
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
allowed over 80 participants
to learn about the nuts-and-bolts process of academic job offer, counter-offer and acceptance.