Spring 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

Spring 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium
New date: Friday, April 9th, 2010
5:30-7:00 pm
Philosophy Department Conference Room (Collins Hall, Room 139)


Mark Mossa, S.J. (Theology Department)
"Abandoning the Will to Power for a Will to Community: John Courtney Murray's Family Values and the Future of the American Catholic Church"

Rebecca Bates (English Department)
"Shit Theory: Excremental Identities in Djurna Barnes' Nightwood"

Ken Kurihara (History Department)
"Celestial Visions in 16th-Century Germany: 'Windows' Into the Inner World"

Emily Mkrtichian (English Department)
"Anxious Duplicities: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Hybridity in Wilkie Collins and Matthew Arnold"


As usual, refreshments will be served. Please join us for some interdisciplinary conversation!

For more info, e-mail intergradcolloquium@gmail.com

Call for Abstracts: Spring 2010 GSA InterGrad Colloquium

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Spring 2010 GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

Friday, February 26

Graduate students are invited to

submit abstracts for papers on

any interdisciplinary topic

(e.g. a paper you are preparing for a conference, a final paper you wrote for a class, a summary of a dissertation chapter, writing samples from your grad school application etc., which could be of interest to people in departments other than your own)

• gain valuable presentation experience
• get feedback on your work from other graduate students in a supportive environment
• first-year students are encouraged to submit, as well as advanced students

Papers must have 25-minute reading time (about 10-12 pages double-spaced)

Submission deadline: Thursday, February 11

Submit abstracts of about 300 words to: intergradcolloquium@gmail.com

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium - Fall 2009

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

October 28, 2009

4pm-6pm

“Gender Studies & Queer Theory”

Location: TBA

Refreshments will be served!

JESSICA THOMPSON
"Behind the Statistics: The Worldview and Realities of Poor, Young, and Unwed Mothers"

JESSICA HAUTSCH
"Journeying Even Deeper into a Fetish-Country: Erotic Objectification, Sexual Possessiveness, and the Blurring Between Object and Human in American and British Literature from the 1960s and 1970s"

WILLIAM HUGHES
"Erotic Triangles, Robinson Crusoe, and J.M. Coetzee's Foe"

Call for abstracts: GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium

October 28, 2009

“Gender Studies & Queer Theory”

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 16, 2009

From the popularity of Lady Gaga and our fascination with Michael Jackson to the passing of California's Preposition 8 and the Miss America controversy last year, gender politics and sexuality have proven to be truly timely topics. As American identity becomes increasingly global and pluralistic, so too do categories of gender, sex, and sexual preference; we recognize this plurality in various forms of popular culture and media, including films like Milk and Brokeback Mountain , as well as daily talk shows on sex-change operations. Whether through political debates about the sanctity of marriage, the creation of transsexual student groups on campus, and/or the popularity of Queer Studies, identity politics continue to fascinate us all. As scholars, teachers, thinkers, etc., how can we position ourselves in relation to these timely topics? How do sexual politics influence our world, from daily interactions to college classroom discussions? To what extend does gender seem socially crafted, culturally contracted, and/or a performance?

This interdisciplinary panel, entitled "Gender Studies & Queer Theory" , explores the scientific, psychological, philosophical, literary, historical, and economic aspects of gay culture, sexual identity, and gender distinctions (or lack thereof).

We welcome scholarly papers, presentations, talks, etc. that explore ideas about gender, sexuality, sexual preference, and/or any other aspect of identity politics that you find helpful to this discussion.

Some Potential Topics:

1.) What is gender?

2.) Homosexuality and the Catholic tradition

3.) Gender and public discourse/religious identity/civic responsibility/family values

4.) Feminism and embodiment

5.) Queer realities of transgender and intersex

6.) Queer Approaches to Literature

7.) Transsexuality on Campus

8.) A Psychological History of Homosexuality

9.) Identity Politics on Television, in Film, etc.

10.) Representations of Gays in Art and Music

11.) Gays in Corporate America (Think: Tom Hanks in Philadelphia)

12.) Historical studies of the relationship between the sciences and feminist thought

13.) Discussions of the role of the sciences/humanities in supporting modes of thought that perpetuate bad practices

14.) Discussions of the sciences’/humanitites’ emancipatory potential for women and others

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to intergradcolloquium@gmail.com by Friday, October 16, 2009.