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The IRW stimulates research on women and gender within and across the disciplines through our weekly interdisciplinary seminar, lecture series, and Global Scholar program. Continue reading...

If you'd like to participate

in a session of the

IRW Seminar, which meets Thursday mornings from 10:30 to noon, please contact us to get the readings in advance.

Projected Seminar Themes

for academic year 2009-10 and 2010-11 are now available

Featured Web Archives

IRW 30th Anniversary Celebration in Pictures:

Highlights from our special events in April commemorating the rich history and bright future of the IRW

Rutgers Focus article

on IRW Learning Communities

Donations

You may now contribute to the IRW by 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.

Uma Narayan

(Andrew W. Mellon Chair of the

Humanities and Professor of Philosophy,

Vassar College)

will present the

final IRW lecture of the semester on

Thursday, December 4

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,

160 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus

"Suspicious Centerings: Third World Women, The Rhetoric of Rights and the Politics of Rescue and Empowerment"

The feminist injunction to put the problems

of poor and marginalized women at the

center of analysis arguably has been

co-opted by some disturbing contemporary agendas, and such agendas will be the

focus of Professor Narayan's talk.

She will examine two distinct phenomena--

the movements in various countries

to "rescue" Muslim women from the veil

and the enthusiasm for economically

empowering Third World women through microcredit. She will talk about how

the rhetoric of rights obscures various deeply problematic aspects of these

"suspicious centerings."

View the IRW 2009-10 Interdisciplinary Seminar

Call for Applications

"Gendered Agency"

Updates

Call for Applications:

Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Gender Studies

to be housed at the Institute for Research on Women or the Center for Race and Ethnicity.

More information here.

IRW Undergraduate Learning Community

The Rutgers community is invited to join us Thursday, December 11 at 3:00 p.m.

for the public presentation

of our Fall 2008

Learning Community Scholars research projects.

Click here for more information.

Academic Excellence Fund

will support IRW Global Scholars

in Spring 2009:

We are pleased to announce that Salma Maloulidi and Eniko Magyari-Vincze have been selected to receive support to enable them to travel to Rutgers and participate in the IRW seminar for Spring Semester 2009.

Salma Maoulidi, women's human rights activist and lawyer who founded Sahiba Sisters in Tanzania will present her research on the consequences for women as Zanzibar undergoes a social and democratic transition.

Eniko Magyari-Vincze, a professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, will be theorizing the ethnic/racial discrimination faced by Roma women, particularly with respect to their childbearing and reproductive health choices.

Negotiating Workshop

The October 8 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.

Please contact the IRW or the Office for the Promotion

of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics to get information about our

future events.