Seminar Overview

Since 1997, the IRW has convened an annual themed seminar which brings together faculty and advanced graduate students from a broad range of departments, disciplines, and schools. One of the features of the seminar over the course of the academic year is the development of deep engagements with the seminar material among the seminar fellows.

In continuation of this practice, this year's IRW interdisciplinary 2007-2008 seminar brings Univeristy faculty, graduate students and IRW Global Scholars together for weekly discussions on one another's work-in-progress. Titled "Communities: Research and Action," the seminar focuses on domestic, global and virtual communities inspired by women's, gender and sexuality themes, as well as community-based activism.

The seminar meets every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the IRW Library (second floor, 160 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus).

Seminar sessions are open to the public, but guests are urged to request and read the paper to be discussed in advance. Rather than public lectures, the seminar showcases focused conversations about seminar fellows' works-in-progress, addressing an overall theme from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. 

Every Fall, the IRW distributes a call for applications in announcement of the upcoming year's seminar theme to faculty, department chairs, and graduate students on the New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark campuses.  With support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, up to eight faculty members and five graduate students accepted into the seminar receive teaching release time or research funds/stipends.

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Frequently Asked Questions about the seminar.

Current Calendar of Seminar discussions.

Future Seminar Themes through the academic year 2010-11.

Previous years' seminar rosters, calendars, and project abstracts.