Fall Semester 2003

Oct. 4, 2003
3-5pm
Jersey City Museum

Jersey City Museum presents:
Hughes' Dream Harlem: Film Screening and Q&A
Langston Hughes is best known as a prolific wrter of poems, plays, and novels from the 1920's until his death in 1967. Shot entirely in Harlem, this cine-poetic experience includes a round table writers' conversation in Hughes' home, a stroll through Strivers Row, and a night out on the town at Harlem's Sugar Shack. Ossie Davis narrates while Ruby Dee reflects on Hughes' life with poet Sonia Sanchez, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, and others.
Director: Jamal Joseph; Producers: Darralynn Hutson and Voza Rivers
Co-represented with AFrican Diaspora Film Festival.
$7 Adults, $3 Children
For more information: (201)413-0303 or www.jerseycitymuseum.org

Georgia O'Keefe Museum Research Center presents:
Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Conference
During this two-week period, an international group of thirty-five well-known art professionals wil discuss and debate the future of the art museum. The conference offers the art community and public an unprecedented opportunity to talk to and listen to each other. The interchange of ideas will be active and available on the website 24 hours a day. Those wishing to participate can do so through a special e-mail address posted on the website.

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Series:
"Genders in Production: Remaking Selves in Mexico's Global Factories"
Leslie Salzinger, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
The image of global restructuring as an inexorable, linear force bearing down on "the local" is grimly seductive, but mistaken. Tracing the process through which gendered understandings, assumptions, and subjectivities structure on-the-ground production in Mexico's maquila industry, Salzinger shows how the course of global production is shaped by idiosyncratic meanings, selves, and locally emergent intentions.
Bring bag lunch; beverages will be provided. Reservations are recommended.
To register: Bernadine Cidranes (212)992-9540, bernadine.cidranes@nyu.edu

The Politics of Mourning
David Kazanjian, Department of English, Queens College/CUNY
Marc Nichanian, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and
Cultures, Columbia University
Patricia T. Clough, Department of Sociology; Coordinator, Women's Studies Certificate Program; Director, the Center for the Study of Women in Society: Queens College and The Graduate Center/CUNY
For more information: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies or
(212) 817-8895

6 weeks, starting
Oct. 7, 2003
7-9pm
County College of Morris

Shaming Al
Elizabeth Wilson, School of Social Science, Institure for Advanced Study, Princeton; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Department of English, The Graduate Center/CUNY
For more information: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies or
(212) 817-8895

Oct. 23, 2003
6:30-8pm
The Fales Library
Elmer H. Bobst Library
3rd Floor, NYU
70 Washington Square South

New Jersey Project Fall Conference:
"In Search of the Other America: Poverty in the 21st Century"
Main Speakers: Scott Sernau (Indiana University-South Bend)
"Inequality and Poverty in the 21st Century: Why They won't Go Away and Will Get Harder to Teach About"
Pem Davison Buck (Elizabethtown Community College)
"Rural Poverty: How Whiteness Was Designed to Fool Working Folk"
Registration $30.00.
For more information: Contact the New Jersey Project at (973) 720-2296

Institute for Research on Women Distinguished Lecture Series:
"Masculinity Politics and World Society"
R. W. Connell, Professor of Education, University of Sydney.
"Globalization" is re-shaping out conceptions of the social, including our understanding of gender politics. How are local masculinities changing under the pressures of new international capitalism? What forms of masculinity are emerging in transnational arenas? How are men's interests articulated, and how is masculinity deployed, in world politics? This lecture will bring together international research in this field and propose a way to understand masculinty politics in global society.
For more information: (732)932-9072 or http://irw.rutgers.edu

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Series:
"Gender, Americanization, and Anti-Americanism: The German Case"
Molly Nolan, Department of History, NYU
This talk explores the shifting place of gender in debates about Americanization and in discourses of anti-Americanism and American anti-Europeanism. Of particular concern is the preoccupation with masculinity in the current transatlantic conflicts.
Bring bag lunch; beverages will be provided. Reservations are recommended.
To register: Bernadine Cidranes (212)992-9540, bernadine.cidranes@nyu.edu

Feb. 26, 2004
Reception 4pm,
Lecture 4:30pm
Rutgers University, Douglass Campus

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Series:
"Betsy Driver: Dissecting Intersex"
Why are we defined by what is between our legs? Betsy Driver, Director of Bodies Like Ours, will discuss the political and societal issues her organization works to address. Through community support and awareness, Bodies Like Ours seeks to end the shame and secrecy that surround people born with atypical genitals.
For more information: www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality International Visiting Scholar Series: "Collaborative Possibilites in Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU and AUB: A Workshop"
Continuing our "Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Global South" series, we will explore ideas for institutional collaborations.
For more information: www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality

"A Thousand Genocides Now"
Kamala Viswesaran, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
For more information: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies or (212) 817-8895

Women's Studies Events in the Area
2003-2004