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About Rutgers Institute for Research on Women

The IRW stimulates research on women and gender within and across the disciplines . . .

Six Thursdays each year, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm, the IRW presents cutting-edge work by scholars from Rutgers and other universities.

Info about this year's series

IRW Weekly Seminar

The IRW Seminar on Gendered Agency meets Thursday mornings from 10:30 to noon. Check our schedule of discussions, and if you'd like to join us for one or more sessions, please contact us to get the readings in advance.

2010-11 IRW Theme:

The Art and Science of Happiness

Description available

Featured Web Archives

October 2008 Focus article on the discussion of faculty projects featuring gender, ethnicity and race co-sponsored by the IRW and the Center for Race and Ethnicity

IRW 30th Anniversary Celebration in Pictures:

Highlights from our

special events in April 2008 commemorating the

rich history and bright future of the IRW

Rutgers Focus article

on IRW Learning Communities

Donations

You may now contribute to the IRWby making a tax-deductible donation to the Institute for Research on Women, ensuring our future success.

The IRW is located on the second floor of the Center for Women's Programs at 160 Ryders Lane,

New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8555.

2009-2010

Upcoming Lectures

Gendered Agency

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series

January 28, 2010

Laura Ahearn (Anthropology, Rutgers)

“Gender and Agency: Perspectives from Language”

February 18, 2010

Susan Stryker (Gender Studies, Indiana University)

“Christine in the Cutting Room: The Cinematic Embodiment of Transsexual Celebrity Christine Jorgensen”

March 4, 2010

Diana Meyers (Ellacuría Chair; Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago)

“Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude – Representing Agentic Womanhood”

Lectures at 4:30 on Thursday afternoons, with receptions preceding at 4:00 pm at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Everyone is welcome.

2008-2009 IRW EVENTS

A brief overview:

2008-09 IRW Distinguished

Lecture Series

Six lectures over the course of the academic year featured new work by Rutgers faculty and colleagues from other universities.

Graduate Student Forum

on Feminist Scholarship

Friday,April 3, 2009

A special showcase of Rutgers graduate student work using a gendered/feminist lens:

Twenty-three researchers from eight different departments introduced their work.

IRW Spring Symposium

The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture

February 26 and 27, 2009

Discussions of work-in-progress

by prominent scholars with a

keynote lecture by

Sally EngleMerry

IRW Undergraduate

Learning Community

research presentations

December 2008 and May 2009.

With the Office for the Promotion

of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

the IRW's October 9, 2008 workshop on

Negotiating for Women Entering the Academic Job Market

allowed over 80 participants

to learn about the nuts-and-bolts process of academic job offer, counter-offer and acceptance.

Updates

DEADLINE FOR FACULTY APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO NOV. 23

2010-11 IRW Seminar Call and Application Now Available

The IRW's 2010-2011 faculty-graduate student seminar on "The Art and Science of Happiness" provides a yearlong opportunity to discuss works-in-progress from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.

2009-2010 IRW Poster

This year's IRW Distinguished Lecture Series poster features artwork by painter, weaver and former Rutgers faculty member Emma Amos created at Rutgers' Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.

Download a pdf version now, and send us an email

to join our mailing list.

Printed copies of the poster are available on request.

Other News

IRW Undergraduate Learning Community

Undergraduate students interested in exploring questions and consequences

of "Gendered Agency" will gather at the IRW every Thursday afternoon

during Fall and Spring Semesters 2009-2010.

The 1.5 credit IRW Learning Community introduces participants to the work of leading feminist scholars and provides a shared space for individual inquiry on related topics. More info