Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium, 4/4

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

“The Body”

Friday, April 4, 2008
4:30 pm

Dealy E-530
(Economics Dept Conference Room)

Ana Janssen, Philosophy, "The Gendered Body: An Historical Survey of the Concepts of Sex and Gender”
Heidi Febert, History, “Adorning All: Women and Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England”
Danielle Spratt, English, “Mannerly Members of Science and the Curious Members of Man: Castration as Metaphor in New Scientific Writing”

Wine and cheese will be served!

Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium: Call for Papers

Consider submitting a paper for the next meeting of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquia series, to be held Friday, April 4 on the topic "The Body." Abstracts are due by Tuesday, March 25 to intergradcolloquium@gmail.com . Colloquia are an informal way to present new or developing research and receive feedback from peers in a variety of disciplines. Plus, there will be wine and cheese!

The body may rightly be understood as the center of cultural, ethical, and aesthetic discourses, contributing explicitly and implicitly to our constructs of race, economy, law, desire, nationhood, textuality, and language. How do bodies and/or their materiality figure into these discourses? How can we “flesh out” the body and the texts that theorize or engage with it? How do bodies interact with each other and the world? How do they interact with that which is internal, that is with some kind of notion of spirit or soul?

GSA Social - The Jolly Tinker (Bronx)

It's that time again. Pizza. Beer. Wine. The best well drinks that the Tinker has to offer. Yes, it's a Tinker Social.

When: Thursday, Mar 6 - 9:00 pm - 12:00 am
Where: The Jolly Tinker, 387 Bedford Park Blvd , at the corner of Webster Ave.

Come to take a well-deserved break at the middle of the semester, before the 3-week March spring and Easter "break" which far too many grad students will be working through anyways. All GSAS students are welcome, and be sure to bring your Fordham GSAS ID !