Past Programs, Co-Sponsored Lectures and Special Events at the IRW

2007-2008

IRW 30th Anniversary Reception and Colloquium

The IRW 30th anniversary celebration took place on Friday, April 11 at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building with a reception and display at the Douglass Library's Mabel Smith Douglass Room on Thursday, April 10. Former IRW directors, Rockefeller Resident Fellows in the Humanities, and affiliate members participated in panel discussions considering the past, present and future of interdisciplinary feminist research. 

The IRW's Pilot Learning Community

The IRW Learning Community provides opportunities for Rutgers juniors and seniors to meet with IRW-affiliated faculty and guest lecturers and engage them in conversations about the inspirations, challenges and outcomes of their work. Thus, while focusing on their own research and activism on communities, IRW LC Scholars learn from leaders in the field. IRW Learning Community Scholars present the results of their semester-long projects to the public in the Spring. Please contact the IRW LC Coordinator, for more information.

In partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Education, the IRW is hosted a meeting on Tuesday, May 13, to discuss how Rutgers research centers, bureaus, and institutes can create learning communities which build on the unique intellectual strengths of CBIs. 

Faculty Forum on Violence Against Women and Children

With the Center on Violence against Women & Children (VAWC) at the Rutgers School of Social Work, the IRW co-sponsored a faculty forum on Friday, May 9 to bring together faculty from diverse campuses, schools, disciplines and departments relating to violence against women and children.  The primary goal being to provide an informal environment that facilitated collaboration and flow of ideas among Rutgers faculty.

2005-2006

“How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism, 1970-1975”

An exhibition at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries that makes clear the impact of the ideas of the American Women’s Movement of the 1970s on contemporary art.

March

Annelise Orleck

Lecture sponsored by Sociology and co-sponsored by IRW.

April

Francisca de Haan

IRW co-sponsors this lecture hosted by the Center for Comparative European Studies.

Fall 2005

"Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the U.S. Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution, 1965-1973"

Lecture by Marc Stein, York University

"What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?"

Roundtable discussions hosted by Social Text, WGS Department, and IRW

Queer Matters in Africa: An Intellectual History (.pdf)

Talk with Marc Epprechet, Queens University, Ontario

Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego

Lecture "The Intimacies of Four Continents"

Hurricane Katrina Teach-In

Presentations by Rutgers faculty and graduate students on the social, political, cultural, historical, geographic, climatic, health and public policy dimensions of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Diasporic Black Radicalisms in the Twentieth Century

Fall symposium for the 2005-6 Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series

2004-2005

No Permanent Waves

In May 2005, the IRW hosted a colloqium which explored alternate histories of the U.S. women's movement(s) while interrogating the uses and misuses of the "wave" trope.

Teaching and Practicing Diversity

The IRW hosted this workshop based on conversations prompted by the 2004-5 IRW Seminar, "Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice." Seminar participants shared their knowledge and experience with teaching diversity in the classroom.

2003-2004

Labor, Class and Sexuality

The IRW presented a one-day conference in May 2004 on the intersections of labor, class and sexuality. The event was co-sponsored by International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), the Departments of English, History, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Women's & Gender Studies, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, the Center for Historical Analysis, and the Labor Extension Program, Rutgers University.

African Women and HIV/AIDS: Gendered Experiences in Senegal, South Africa, and Immigrant African Communities in Philadelphia

On March 24, 2004, in conjunction with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, the IRW organized a colloquium on African Women's Health to discuss African women's experiences with HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. 

2002-2003

Gender Parity and the Labor Movement with Danish Trade Union Women

25 Danish trade union women visited IRW and the Labor Education Center at Rutgers to discuss trends toward workplace gender parity and new union organizing strategies targeted at women. 

Immigrant Women Organizing: Avenues for Collective Advancement

In June 2003, IRW director Dorothy Sue Cobble and History and Women's and Gender Studies professor Nancy Hewitt co-convened an afternoon symposium on the history, prospects and

strategies describing immigrant women's collective organizing efforts.