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The IRW's annual
lecture series presents cutting-edge work on women and gender
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives by speakers from the Rutgers community and beyond. The theme is coordinated with that
of our interdisciplinary seminar to both broaden and deepen the
content and impact of the lecture series.
2009-2010 IRW Distinguished Lecture Series Speakers
All lectures at 4:30 on Thursday afternoons, with receptions preceding at 4:00 pm, at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Susan Sidlauskas (Art History, Rutgers) -- September 17, 2009
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers) -- October 8, 2009
Saba Mahmood (Social Cultural Anthropology, UC-Berkeley) -- October 29, 2009
Laura Ahearn (Anthropology, Rutgers) -- January 28, 2010
Susan Stryker (Gender Studies, Indiana University) -- February 18, 2010
Diana Meyers (Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago) -- March 4, 2010
2009-10: Gendered Agency
Although the term agency has become increasingly popular in contemporary scholarship, the concept remains underspecified and often misused. Yet recent work has shown the centrality of gender to understandings of agency, including the extent to which agency is gendered. The 2009-10 Distinguished Lecture Series will address some of the following questions:
- Are there specifically gendered forms of agency?
- How do women and men act in response to conditions such as impoverishment and globalization in ways that are gendered, creative, complicit, resistant, effective, or self-destructive (perhaps all at the same time)?
- What can attention to language, biology, food, material culture, embodiment, performance, spirituality, media and other domains tell us about the modes, forms and perhaps origins and motivations of gendered agency?
- How does attention to gender challenge and complicate contemporary understandings and uses of agency, especially theories of individual and collective agency?
These questions raise epistemological, methodological, and theoretical issues for us as feminist scholars: what evidence "counts" as reflective of gendered agency and how do we read and/or interpret how and why certain forms of agency are gendered?
Lecture Series Archive includes previous years' lecture themes, schedules, and speakers.
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