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Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Events
GCWS Conferences
Fall 2008
Traveling People -- Traveling Concepts
a discussion with Tatiana Barchunova, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Novosibirsk Statae University, Western Siberia, Russia
When: Thursday, October 30
4-6 PM
Where: Building E51-275
MIT Campus
What are Russian post –socialist perceptions of Western social and gender theories and methods of conducting empirical research?
Professor Barchunova will discuss the challenge of translating English-language gender discourse into Russian. She tracks the distortion of circulating texts and the misrepresentation of ideas and tries to explain the distortion by several factors.
The crisis within the institution of publishing, the underdevelopment of Russian social theory, and the lack of funding available to scientific communities to publish the necessary (and large) volume of texts in translation, she argues, all threaten to reinforce the conservative turn in cultural translation
Tatiana Barchunova is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk State University (Western Siberia) where she received her Ph D in 1991. Her initial empirical research focus was the post-Soviet gender system, in particular gender stereotyping in the media. Her work has been supported by the MacArthur, Soros, and Carnegie Foundations and the Social Science Research Council. Barchunova edited a collection of papers "Potolok
pola"(Gender Ceiling) (Novosibirsk, 1998) and, with E. Zdravomyslova and A. Temkina, edited a collection of translated Western feminist texts (Saint-Petersburg, 2000) and co-authored a popular book Gender Studies for Dummies (2006). Currently she is interested in religious and consumption networks and leisure activities (such as historical and martial games, classical and historical dancing clubs, and Internet dating) and the concept of “naive translation" the latter of which will be the focus of her GCWS presentation.
Spring 2009
GCWS Course Development Events
We invite you to join your feminist colleagues from our nine member institutions to learn more about the unique teaching opportunities offered by the GCWS and to explore innovative course design with scholars in different disciplines and from different institutions. Through these informal gatherings, our goal is to initiate conversations among peers whose research and teaching interests intersect within broad topic areas and to encourage collaborative course development for future interdisciplinary graduate courses in Women's and Gender Studies.
Come to one (or more) of the three evening conversations we have planned for the Spring semester to share your course ideas, meet potential teaching partners, and become an active part of our dynamic institution.
FOOD
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 5:30 - 7:30 PM: Possible issues or directions include, but are not limited to:
- Food and its socio-cultural contexts
- The gendered systems of food production and consumption
- Food, Social Justice, and Inequality
- Eating and Body Image
*Location TBA* Contact gcws@mit.edu for more information
LAW & ORDER
Date and Time to be determined by participants.
Possible issues or directions include, but are not limited to:
Women in Prison
Gender and the criminal justice system
The institutionalization of power and social control
Gender, Justice, and International Law
*Location TBA* Contact gcws@mit.edu for more information
WORK
THURSDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1:30 - 3 PM: Possible issues or directions include, but are not limited to:
Gender, Work, and Migration
Labor and Inequality
Women in a Globalized Market
Gender and the informal economy
*Location TBA* Contact gcws@mit.edu for more information
Conversation on Publishing Options: Meet the Editors
Tuesday, May 5th, 2-3:30 PM
MIT Campus, Building E51-095
The GCWS’ Faculty Development committee welcomes you to a Conversation on Publishing Options. We are very fortunate to have editors from Beacon, Harvard, and MIT Presses, whose specific acquisition interests include religion, classics, immigration, and science and technology, and whose presses are highly regarded for both scholarly monographs and trade books in a range of fields. Whether we are at the mid-career level or trying to figure out how to turn that dissertation into a book, this will be a wonderful opportunity for all of us. We look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP to gcws@mit.edu
Presenters:
Marguerite Avery is Acquiring Editor in Information Science and Science, Technology, and Society at The MIT Press. She has pursued graduate work in gender history and will complete her Masters of Library and Information Science this May.
Joanna Green is an Editorial Assistant at Beacon Press, a nonprofit and independent book publisher of serious nonfiction, and the Criticism Editor for Fringe Magazine. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a BA in English and Women's Studies from the University of Minnesota.
Sharmila Sen is the editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press. She commissions and acquires books on religion and classics, among other subjects, written for scholarly, as well as general intellectual audiences. Sharmila received her AB from Harvard, her PhD from Yale, and taught as an assistant professor of English at Harvard for 7 years before being appointed as editor at HUP.
Directions for E51-095:
To get to building E51 by T, take the red line to Kendall Square. Look for the intersection of Hayward Street and Main Street. Walk one block down Hayward until it intersects with Amherst Street. Take a left on Amherst and walk down until you see a parking lot and building on your right. This is building E51. Walk up a ramp to the entrance. Walk down the stairs to the ground floor and take a right. Room 095 will be at the end of the hall on your left.
Link to the campus map
How to Publish Early in your Graduate Career
Wednesday, May 20th
5:30 - 7:00 PM
MIT Campus
Building E51 Room 095
Please join us for a panel discussion of the most effective ways to turn that paper you worked so lovingly on into a publishable article in Women’s and Gender Studies. One faculty member, two faculty editors, and a fellow graduate student will present:
· Tips on selecting the appropriate journal
· Editing suggestions for shaping a seminar paper into publishable article
· Advice on how to pitch interdisciplinary and gender studies work to discipline-based journals
· and more!
Light refreshments provided.
Please RSVP [required] to gcws@mit.edu
Presenters:
Marilyn Gaull is a REsearch Professor at Boston University's Editorial Institute. She has published widely on British and American literature, intellectual history, folklore and oral performance, and the history of science. As an editor, she founded The Wordsworth Circle, a large and comprehensive journal of Romantic studies, Editor’s News for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals which she helped to organize, and Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters, her most recent series for Palgrave.
D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein's present research focus is the complex relationship between white feminism and motherhood and mothering, past and present. She has published in a variety of communication and women's studies journals and is currently under contract to complete a book manuscript and co-edit two future volumes on feminism and maternity.
Amber Musser will receive her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in June 2009 with a dissertation on the history of masochism.
Deborah Swedberg has been the Managing Editor of Studies in Romanticism at Boston University for 27 years. She also teaches in the Women's Studies Program.
Directions for E51-095:
To get to building E51 by T, take the red line to Kendall Square. Look for the intersection of Hayward Street and Main Street. Walk one block down Hayward until it intersects with Amherst Street. Take a left on Amherst and walk down until you see a parking lot and building on your right. This is building E51. Walk up a ramp to the entrance. Walk down the stairs to the ground floor and take a right. Room 095 will be at the end of the hall on your left.
Link to the campus map
Information About Past Conferences
On April 4 & 5, 2008, GCWS hosted its 3rd conference in women's and gender studies: Who's Laughing: The Politics of Humor. Click on the link for more information!
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On March 23-24, 2007, GCWS hosted its 2nd conference in women's and gender studies: BEYOND REVOLUTION OR BEHIND IT? The Politics and Practice of Contemporary Feminism Across Academic and Activist Communities. Click on the link for more information!
(Click on the link for more information about this conference.)
On March 30 - 31, 2006, GCWS hosted its first graduate student conference: Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster. (Click on the link for more information about this conference.)
Publications by or about the Graduate Consortium
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