Events Archive 2002-2003
December 2002
Women and Leadership: A Dinner and Conversation
December 4
The WFF hosted a dinner and conversation with:
- Maria Rosa Menocal, Director of the Whitney Humanities Center
- Amy Meyers, Director of the Yale Center for British Art
- Alice Prochaska, University Librarian and Director of Sterling Library
- Barbara Shailor, Director of the Beinecke Library
The panel was co-moderated by WFF Steering Committee members Kim Bottomly, Professor of Immunobiology, Dermatology and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; and Paula Hyman, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History.
January 2003
Professional Development Workshop
The Ins and Outs of the Tenure Process in the Humanities and Social Sciences
January 24
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers included:
- Margaret Homans, Professor of English, Professor and Chair of Women's & Gender Studies
- Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies
- Karen Wynn, Professor of Psychology
February 2003
Professional Development Workshop
The Ins and Outs of the Tenure Process in the Biological and Physical Sciences
February 7
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers included:
- Kim Bottomly, Professor of Immunobiology, Dermatology and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
- Michael Caplan, Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology
- Meg Urry, Professor of Physics & Astrophysics and Astronomy
A Long-lived ‘Quick Birther’ The Story of a Birthing Amulet
February 10
Co-sponsored by the Classics Department
Ann Hanson, Senior Research Scholar and Lector of Classics, delivered this lecture. Naomi Rogers, Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and History of Medicine, offered the response. The first in a three-part seminar series, “Gender Sexuality, and Antiquity: From the Arts to the Sciences.” This series examines social, cultural, and sexual practices in antiquity in areas ranging from ancient medicine to classical art, and explores contemporary implications for the construction of gender.
The Importance of Women to Economic and Political Development in the Middle East and Southwest Asia: Lessons from Egypt and Pakistan
February 13
Co-sponsored by the Center for International Security Studies
This session featured a lecture by Dr. Isobel Coleman. Dr. Coleman earned her Doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford and was formerly a partner at McKinsey. She is currently Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, heading a Council Task Force on the impact of US foreign policy on women in the Middle East.
Professional Development Workshop
Dual Academic Couples and the Job Market
February 14
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers included:
- Sharon Oster, Frederic D Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management
- Ray Fair, John M Musser Professor of Economics
- Cherie Woodworth, '01 PhD
- Brad Woodworth, Graduate student, Indiana University
Professional Development Workshop
How to Publish Your Work
February 21
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers included:
- Larissa Heimert, executive editor, Yale University Press
- William Summers, Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, editor of Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
- Jessica Brantley, editorial board member of the Yale Journal of Criticism, Assistant Professor of English
Reception in Honor of Provost Hockfield
February 24
Over 100 guests gathered to celebrate the appointment of Susan Hockfield as Provost of the University. Barbara Shailor, Director of the Beinecke Library, where the event was hosted, welcomed the group. Remarks were made by Elizabeth Dillon, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies; Carolyn Mazure, Associate Dean at the Yale School of Medicine and Director of Women's Health Research at Yale; Amy Meyers, Director of the Yale Center for British Art; Alice Prochaska, University Librarian; Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law; and Meg Urry, Professor of Physics & Astrophysics. Yale’s oldest all female a capella group, The New Blue, sang for attendees.
March 2003
MADRE visits Yale: A Gender Perspective on the US War Against Iraq
March 25
Co-sponsored by Women's & Gender Studies, YCIAS, Middle East Studies, Women's Center, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Amnesty International
Vivian Stromberg and Fathieh Saudi spoke on: "A Gender Perspective on the US War Against Iraq" as part of MADRE's national tour, "Every Child Has a Name: No War Against Iraqi Families."
Professional Development Workshop
Time to Write: Juggling Research, Teaching, and Departmental Responsibilities
March 28
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers: Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies; Kathy Knafl, Professor of Nursing; Linda Peterson, Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English.
April 2003
Professional Development Workshop
Career and Kids: Junior Faculty and Families
April 11
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers: Michael J. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Classics; Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean and Professor of Architecture; Catherine Gilliss, Dean and Professor of Nursing; Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies.
Professional Development Workshop
Career Horizons: Taking the Long View of an Academic Career
April 25
Co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate Career Services and the Whitney Humanities Center
Speakers: Glenda Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies; Gary L. Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering & Applied Science, Master of Jonathan Edwards College; Alice Prochaska, University Librarian.
Antinoos, Lover or Son of Hadrian?: The Representations of Desire in Roman Imperial Art
April 3
Co-sponsored by the Classics Department
Natalie Kampen, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women’s Studies andArt History, Barnard College, delivered this lecture. Diana E. E. Kleiner, Deputy Provost for the Arts and Dunham Professor of Classics and History of Art, offered the response. The second in a three-part seminar series, “Gender Sexuality, and Antiquity: From the Arts to the Sciences.” This series examines social, cultural, and sexual practices in antiquity in areas ranging from ancient medicine to classical art, and explores contemporary implications for the construction of gender.
Terrorism and Tragedy: Women at the Center or Margin?
April 21
Co-sponsored by the Classics Department
Nancy Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College, delivered this lecture. Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, offered the response. The third in a three-part seminar series, “Gender Sexuality, and Antiquity: From the Arts to the Sciences.” This series examines social, cultural, and sexual practices in antiquity in areas ranging from ancient medicine to classical art, and explores contemporary implications for the construction of gender.
May 2003
Citizenship, Borders & Gender: Mobility and Immobility
May 8-10
Co-sponsored by the Yale Center for International & Area Studies, Yale Law School, the Crossing Borders Initiative, and the Woodward Lecture Fund.
The movement of peoples across national borders is posing unprecedented challenges to receiving as well as sending countries. While a former generation of immigrants left their countries of origin and assumed new “national” identities, today’s migrants – whether legal or illegal – show different patterns: they may live in their host countries without ever legalizing or normalizing their status; they may engage in seasonal migratory patterns of back and forth among various countries, with the consequence that both the sending and receiving countries develop an ambiguous relation to these groups. We are seeing the ‘disaggregation of citizenship,’ a process through which national identity, continuous territorial residency and collective rights and benefits are increasingly separated from each other.
We are also interested in the ability that some have to move around the globe, the necessity that others find to move in search of work, and the fact that many people have neither resources nor capacity to change their place of residence. Further, we are interested in how governments – and especially federations – address both the multiple affiliations of their members and their own obligations under transnational covenants. Given the growth of transnational governance, we are intrigued by the effects of supra-national norms on the concept of the nation.
The central purpose of this conference was to situate gender within the context of these widely discussed and ascertained trends in the contemporary world. How do these trends affect women, their children, and family structures? Does a focus on immobility, as well as on mobility, alter the analyses? What effects do transnational norms of equality, mostly to be implemented through the nation state, have on understandings of citizenship and of the nation state? Does mobility across borders help or hinder women in achieving equality of status? What is the interaction between the women and children of migrant groups and the governments of their host countries? What role do transnational and international organizations play?
- Citizenship, Then and Now, Moderated by Seyla Benhabib, Speakers included Alexander Aleinikoff, Linda Bosniak, David Jacobson, Cynthia Patterson and Gerald Neuman.
- Federated Citizenship / Multiple Allegiances, Moderated by Judith Resnik, Speakers included Catherine Dauvergne, Vicki C. Jackson, Patrizia Nanz, Aihwa Ong, and Jay Winter.
- Mobility / Immobility: Gender and Crossing Borders, Moderated by Seyla Benhabib, Speakers included Dilek Cinar, Nicola Lacey, Sarah van Walsum, Jacqueline Bhabha and Alicia Schmidt Camacho.
- Transnational Movements, Women's Equality and Citizenship, Moderated by Judith Resnik, Speakers included Suad Joseph, Angelia Means, Valentine Moghadam, Linda Kerber, Audrey Macklin, and Reva Siegel.
- Transnational Forms of Nation-State, Moderated by Vilashini Cooppan, Speakers included Alexander Aleinikoff, Linda Bosniak, Aihwa Ong, Robert Barsky, Seyla Benhabib, and Judith Resnik.
View the poster for the event and the conference proceedings.