IRWGS Columbia Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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Web Name: IRWGS Columbia Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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``We do not stand outside the world, looking out over this sea of poor benighted people, living under the shadow – or veil – of oppressive cultures; we are part of that world.``Lila Abu-Lughod``It is far easier to talk about the tragedy of LGBTQ youth suicide than it is to find ways to comprehend and address the complexity of their lives and identities.``Tey Meadow“Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on.``Saidiya Hartman``Universities and colleges are centers of knowledge production – asking hard questions and drawing on insights from across the disciplines to answer them is what we do best.``Jennifer Hirsch``These are revolutionary times that beg us to think, in newer and different ways, about what we will do in this moment.``Alondra Nelson``I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely.``Jack Halberstam``Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.``Carolyn Heilbrun``Feminist analysis can shift the frames of intelligibility so as to allow new experiences to emerge, experiences that have heretofore remained unspoken, or even unthought.``Marianne Hirsch The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality is the locus of interdisciplinary feminist and queer scholarship and teaching at Columbia University.ABOUT IRWGS Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, nationalism, gender and sexuality. She has published essays on a wide range of issues including: Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, the modern Levant, gender and nationalism, cultural memory and immigration, memory and gender, Hebrew Literature, Israeli and Palestinian Cinema, Mediterraneanism, Trauma and Narrative.ABOUT GIL HOCHBERGMORE WGSS FACULTY``I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach -- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle``.Angela DavisUPCOMING EVENTS The Feminist CityREGISTER HEREUrban space can be a place of possibility and a place of oppression. Informal networks of care make communities bearable for people who have been left behind and pushed out by traditional planning, policy and design. Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World , and Anna Puigjaner, GSAPP Associate Professor of Professional Practice and author of Kitchenless City, discuss their research towards an intersectional feminist urban future. Moderated by Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University.Free and open to the public. Virtual events hosted on Zoom Webinar do not require an account to attend, advanced registration is encouraged.Organizer:Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation eventCosponsors:Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and SexualityIn ¡presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.Our discussion of the work will begin with a short presentation from Diana Taylor and then a brief Q A, led by Alex Pekov and Mia Florin-Sefton. Participants will then be invited to share their thoughts and questions on the text.To help facilitate discussion participants should read the first chapter ¡Presente! beforehand.To receive a copy of the chapter please email mcf2180@columbia.edu. Event Details Join IRWGS and Mansi Garneni (CC 23) for a screening of the episode Guilty as F*ck from HBO s Insecure and a discussion centered around the intersection between sexuality and race, especially in Black men.Zoom event information will be distributed to those who RSVP the day of the event.RSVP hereco-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University Event Details Feed the Fire: A Cyber Symposium in Honor of Geri Allen celebrates the work of the late pianist, composer, improvisor, and educator and serves as a launch for a special issue of the journal Jazz and Culture, “The Power of Geri Allen.” Feed the Fire focuses on Allen’s work in music as a performer, composer, teacher, activist, and mentor, and features a keynote event with Terri Lyne Carrington (Berklee College of Music), Angela Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz), Gina Dent (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University).This online event is free and open to the public and is part of a week-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Pitt Jazz Seminar: https://www.jazz.pitt.edu/Registration required at http://heymancenter.org/events/feed-the-fire-a-cyber-symposium-in-honor-of-geri-allen/ParticipantsMount Allen III (SFJAZZ)Dwight Andrews (Emory University)Courtney Bryan (Tulane University)Terri Lyne Carrington (Berklee College of Music)Angela Davis (University of California at Santa Cruz)Gina Dent (University of California at Santa Cruz)Michael Dessen (University of California at Irvine)Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University)Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)Michael Heller (University of Pittsburgh)Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University)Vijay Iyer (Harvard University)Aaron J. Johnson (University of Pittsburgh)Veronica Johnson (Detroit Sound Conservancy)Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)George E. Lewis (Columbia University)Nicole Mitchell Gantt (University of Pittsburgh)Fred Moten (New York University / Tisch School of the Arts)Robert O’Meally (Columbia University)Yoko Suzuki (University of Pittsburgh)Francis Wong (Asian Improv Arts)The symposium is sponsored by the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities, the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, and the Institute for Research on African American Studies at Columbia University and the Jazz Studies Program and the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. Co-sponsoring the event are the Center for Jazz Studies, the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Department of Music at Columbia University, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women s Studies Program, and Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh. Event Details On which grounds can we claim, in 2020 and with scholarly confidence, that a literary text has “progressive” or “right-wing” affinities? How does a live performance’s evidently intended critique of racist or homophobic dispositifs actually succeed (or fail)? What justifies the declaration that a film unfolds a revolutionary sensibility—or more pragmatically, contributes to working through unprecedented social crisis? Questions such as these could not be more topical today against the backdrop of new fascisms and heated public conflict in an age of heightened emergency and precarity, fear, anger, and hate. In the German context, resonant inquiries have flared up in recent debates around individual authors’ or texts’ uncanny proximities with rightwing movements but also in a resurgence of interests in (progressive, egalitarian, anti-fascist) activist political aesthetics.This workshop emerged from a graduate seminar connecting twentieth-century German critical thought about aesthetics and politics to twenty-first century debates around art and reading in affect, queer, and critical race studies. While inspired by the range of connections we were able to make, we also noticed that aesthetic theory offers surprisingly few fresh and specifically developed answers to our questions. The workshop therefore re-envisions these questions from two (intertwined) angles:a) Building on recent debates about “critical” and “postcritical” reading methodologies in the humanities, we want to look more closely at—and specify—the ways in which we read politically today.b) At the intersection of the modernist tradition of politicalaestheticswith contemporary new materialisms, affect studies, and more, we will aim to finetune the agency of artworks in their relationships with society: What does or can art actually do politically?Presenters have been given the charge to develop their answers by starting from adverbs (- “reading [how]”) and verbs (- “art [does]”) respectively.Full conference information, including speakers and schedule, can be found here.REGISTER hereHosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University (faculty organizer: Claudia Breger), with co-sponsorship from The Heyman Center for the Humanities,the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and external support from the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Department of Germanic Languagesgermanic@columbia.edu 415 Hamilton Hall, MC 2812, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue · New York, NY 10027 Abigail Ony Nwaohuocha (JRN ‘15) will lead a conversation with Nigerian poet Wana Udobang on her work.This installment of the feministAbigail Ony Nwaohuocha (JRN ‘15) will lead a conversation with Nigerian poet Wana Udobang on her work.This installment of the feminist media(tions) program will focus on the experiences of women and girls in Nigeria and Africa—specifically looking at topics of coming of age, societal expectations, and overcoming trauma through joy—using the poetry of Wana Udobang as a lens to frame the discussion.Zoom event information will be distributed to those who RSVP, the day of the event.RSVP here The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality is the locus of interdisciplinary feminist and queer scholarship and teaching at Columbia University.

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