Other NEU Organization Events
Snell Library's 20th Anniversary Celebration
With featured speaker David S. Ferriero, LA '72, MA '76, Archivist of the United States.
Monday April 25, 2-4PM, Snell Library
Refreshments will be served.
R.S.V.P. by April 15th to Nina Shah, nin.sha@neu.edu, (617) 373-5452.
What's in a Name? A Community Conversation about the Politics of Naming in Women's Studies
Wednesday, April 20th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, Building 32 Room 155, The MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Board of Directors has been discussing the possibility - and implications - of changing our name, and we want to get input from you! In recent years, in an effort to better represent changes in scholarship, curricula and politics, many Women's Studies programs have changed their names to incorporate new terms -- gender, sexuality, feminist -- even sometimes removing the word "women" altogether. Following our own discussions of these questions internally, we have asked 5 faculty members from across our member institutions to contribute their experience and expertise to the question: What's in a name? We hope the conversation can be both useful in informing the board as we make this important decision and intellectually exciting -- a chance for us to reflect on the state and contours of the field as a larger community. The focus in this conversation is dialogue and exchange, so we hope you attend and contribute your thoughts. We'd like to hear what you have to say about the state of Women's Studies (if that's even what you can call it!).
Panelists include:
Panel and discussion moderated by Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College, and GCWS Board Co-Chair
*Dessert and refreshments to follow* *Please RSVP to arsutton@mit.edu*
*For directions and parking information, contact arsutton@mit.edu*
More information about the panelists:
Sally Haslanger is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Director of the MIT Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her recent work is on the social construction of purportedly natural categories such as gender, race, and the family, and on topics in feminist epistemology.
Debra Renee Kaufman is the founding and current Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of Sociology,a nd a Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University. Her contributions to feminist pedagogy include the Feminist Inquiry course at the GCWS. Two of her books, Achievement and Women and Rachel's Daughters, have been recognized for their contributions to feminist scholarship.
Afsaneh Najmabadi is th eFrancis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her last book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. She is currently working on Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, and on Genus of Sex: How Jins Became Sex in Iran.
Modhumita Roy is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and current Director of Women's Studies there. Her research focuses on South Asian literature, literatures of empire, post-colonial theory and feminist theory. She has taught several courses for the GCWS, including several sections of Feminist Inquiry. Her book, The Sun Never Sets: Imperial Ideologies and Indo-British Fiction is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
J. Keith Vincent is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. His work focuses on how sexuality is embodied in literary form, particularly the novel. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction.
Women's History Month Film Festival
Thursday March 17
The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program's contribution to a month-long series of film events hosted by universities in the Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies. They will be screening a film and having a panel discussion with the director and scholars. More details will be announced soon.
Gender Matters Series
Wednesday March 23, 12-1:30PM
440 Egan
A panel discussion on Women, War, and Violence.
Panel Discussion on Feminism and Contemporary Post Holocaust Narratives
Wednesday April 6, 12-1:30PM
Panelists will include Debra Kaufman and Janet Jacobs.