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Since 1997, the IRW has convened
an annual themed seminar which brings together faculty and advanced graduate
students from a broad range of departments, disciplines, and schools.
One of the features of the seminar over the course of the academic
year is the development of deep
engagements with the seminar material among the seminar fellows. Rather than public lectures, the seminar
showcases focused conversations about seminar fellows' works-in-progress,
addressing an overall theme from a range of disciplinary and methodological
perspectives.
In continuation of this practice, this year's IRW interdisciplinary 2009-2010
seminar brings University faculty, graduate students and IRW Global Scholars together for weekly discussions on one another's work-in-progress. Titled "Gendered Agency," the seminar
explores how attention to gender complicates and challenges contemporary understandings, uses, and expressions of agency-- a term that
has become increasingly popular in contemporary scholarship.
The seminar meets every
Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the
IRW Library (second floor, 160 Ryders Lane, Douglass
Campus). The 2009-2010 Seminar Schedule of Discussions lists paper titles, authors and respondent for each paper by date.
IRW seminar sessions are
open to the public, but guests are urged to request and read the paper
to be discussed before coming to the seminar.
Every Fall, the IRW
distributes a call for applications in announcement of the upcoming year's
seminar theme to faculty, department chairs, and graduate students
on the New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark campuses. With
support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Office of
the Vice President for Academic Affairs, up to eight faculty members
and five graduate students accepted into the seminar receive teaching
release time or research funds/stipends.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Frequently Asked Questions about the seminar.
through the academic year 2010-11.
Previous
years' seminar rosters, calendars, and project abstracts.
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