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2005-2006
“How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism, 1970-1975”
An exhibition at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries that makes clear the impact of the ideas of the American Women’s Movement of the 1970s on contemporary art.
March
Annelise Orleck
Lecture sponsored by Sociology and co-sponsored by IRW.
April
Francisca de Haan
IRW co-sponsors this lecture hosted by the Center for Comparative European Studies.
Fall 2005
"Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the U.S. Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution, 1965-1973"
Lecture by Marc Stein, York University
"What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?"
Roundtable discussions hosted by Social Text, WGS Department, and IRW
Queer Matters in Africa: An Intellectual History (.pdf)
Talk with Marc Epprechet, Queens University, Ontario
Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Lecture "The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Hurricane Katrina Teach-In
Presentations by Rutgers faculty and graduate students on the social, political, cultural, historical, geographic, climatic, health and public policy dimensions of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Diasporic Black Radicalisms in the Twentieth Century
Fall symposium for the 2005-6 Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series
2004-2005
In May 2005, the IRW hosted a colloqium
which explored alternate histories of the U.S. women's movement(s) while interrogating the uses and misuses of the "wave" trope.
The IRW hosted this workshop based on conversations prompted by the 2004-5 IRW Seminar, "Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice." Seminar participants shared their knowledge and experience with teaching diversity in the classroom.
2003-2004
The IRW presented a one-day conference in May 2004 on the intersections of labor, class and sexuality. The event was co-sponsored by International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), the Departments of English, History, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Women's & Gender Studies, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, the Center for Historical Analysis, and the Labor Extension Program, Rutgers University.
African Women and HIV/AIDS: Gendered Experiences in Senegal, South Africa, and Immigrant African Communities in Philadelphia
On March 24, 2004, in conjunction with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, the IRW organized a colloquium on African Women's Health to discuss African women's experiences with HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
2002-2003
Gender Parity and the Labor Movement with Danish Trade Union Women
25 Danish trade union women visited IRW and the Labor Education Center at Rutgers to discuss trends toward workplace gender parity and new union organizing strategies targeted at women.
Immigrant Women Organizing: Avenues for Collective Advancement
In June 2003, IRW director Dorothy Sue Cobble and History and Women's and Gender Studies professor Nancy Hewitt co-convened an afternoon symposium on the history, prospects and
strategies describing immigrant women's collective organizing efforts.
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