FSG 06-07 Activity Report

Feminist Studies Group
Co-Chairs: Keridiana Chez and Randy Cota

Speaker Series on “Interdisciplinary Scholarship on War, Gender, Race, and Nationalism”:

09/29/06: "A Stocking Full of Guineas: Virginia Woolf's Pacifism," JANE MARCUS, English, City College Distinguished Professor and The Graduate Center/CUNY, and "Reading the Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Radicalism," CAROL GILLIGAN, New York University School of Law, author of A Different Voice (Harvard U P) and The Birth of Pleasure (Vintage). Mod. Karen Weingarten.
10/20/06: "Nationalism and State Crime Too Closely Experienced—Reflections on the Western Balkans," SRECA PERUNOVIC, John Jay College of Criminal Justice . Mod. Pamela Burger.
11/03/06: "Rights of the Body in Times of War," ROSALIND PETCHESKY, Political Science and Women's Studies, Hunter College and The Graduate Center/CUNY, co-sponsored by the Political Theory Colloquium.
11/10/06: "Sex and Women: Pillars of Anti-Subversive War Strategy in Algeria, 1954-1962," MARNIA LAZREG, Sociology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center/CUNY. Mod. Lily Saint.
12/08/06: "Nationalism, Gender, Race and Sexuality in the U.S. National Security State," JEFF BUSSOLINI, Sociology, The College of Staten Island. Mod. Randy Cota.
02/23/07: "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times," JASBIR PUAR, Women's Studies and Geography, Rutgers University. Event co-sponsored with QUNY. Mod. Erin Lee Mock.
April 13th, 2007 Conference, “Resentment In/Of Women’s Studies”

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