FSG 07-08 Activity Report
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Feminist Studies Group
Co-Chairs: Keridiana Chez and Randy Cota
09/21/07: First Meeting/Social.
09/23/07: Discussion of Nella Larsen's Passing and Judith Butler's critique of Larsen in Bodies that Matter (Ch. 6). Co-sponsored with SPTSA.
10/11/07: Harry Brod, “Can(n)ons of Masculinity: The Hidden History of Masculinities in the Classic Texts of Western Political Theory.” Co-Sponsored by the Political Theory Colloquium and SPTSA.
10/12/07: FEMINIST PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE, “What's Feminist About Feminist Pedagogy?,” organized by Jen Gieseking, Jen Gaboury, and Antonia Levy. Co-sponsored.
10/25/07: Foucault/Biopolitics Discussion Group, History of Sexuality Vol. 1.
11/2/07: Courtney A. Brkic, “Women, War and the Balkans: The Issue of Missing Person.” Co-sponsored with the English Department.
11/27/07: Foucault/Biopolitics Discussion Group, Discipline and Punish.
12/07/07: Jocelyn Boryczka, “Suspect Citizenship: Virtue, Vice, and the Political Identity of Women.” Co-sponsored with Political Theory Colloquium.
02/29/08: David Trinidad, “The Valley of No Return.” Co-sponsored with the English Students Association, inter alia.
03/13/08: Screening “Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She” (2006).
03/27/08: Screening “Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion” (2007).
03/28/08: Teaching Feminism Workshop.
04/04/08: W. Aali, PhD, Iraq, “Nationalism: A Study of American and Arab Women’s Poetry of the War (1967-2007).” Moderator: MEENA ALEXANDER, English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center/CUNY. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Women and Society, the Ph.D. Program in English, the Postcolonial Studies Group and the Center for the Humanities.
04/11/08: Sci-Fi Film Screenings of “Animatrix” and “Forbidden Planet.”
05/18/08: Foucault/Biopolitics Discussion Group Meeting, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution.
06/15/08 [Tentative]: Foucault/Biopolitics Discussion Group Meeting.
