WGSS Graduate Colloquium

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Graduate Colloquium is a venue in which Yale graduate students from a wide range of disciplines present work that engages women's studies, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies.  At the Colloquium, graduate students give academic talks, present syllabi, discuss pedagogy, and engage in roundtable discussions on pressing issues and questions central to the field of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, with much lively discussion to follow.

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Working Group is a subsidiary of the Colloquium. The purpose of the Working Group is to foster interdisciplinary discussion about current issues in the field of women's, gender, and sexualitystudies by bringing together graduate students and and faculty at Yale who are working on topics at the intersection of their discipline and WGSS. This venue aims to introduce recent work in a variety of disciplines and to strengthen our understanding of how our own work might engage with emerging debates in this field.

All events take place at 5:30 PM in William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 309, 100 Wall Street, unless otherwise noted.

All events are free and open to the public.

WGSS Graduate Colloquium and Working Group Schedule

2009-2010

Fall 2009 Schedule

Monday, September 28 Working Group: led by Asst. Prof. Kathryn Lofton (American Studies, Religious Studies) on Lauren Berlant's The Female Complaint.

Monday, October 12 Colloquium: Madison Moore (American Studies) - "Edie Sedgwick, Fabulous!" Laura Miles (English) - Conceiving the Word: Medieval Visionary Women and Kristeva's 'Autoerotic Circle of Pregnancy.'

Monday, October 26 Working Group: led by Asst. Prof. Sam See (English) on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Touching Feeling.

Monday, November 9 Colloquium: Anastasia Jones (History) - "Lust for Change: Lesbian Feminist Sexual Politics from the Second Wave to the Sex Wars." Julia Fawcett (English) - "Sex, Scandal, and the Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century England."

Monday, November 16 Working Group: led by Prof. Inderpal Grewal (WGSS) on Nikolas Rose's The Politics of Life Itself.

Monday, December 7 Colloquium: Sara Fieldston (History) - "Between Deprivation and Depravation: Social Work, Poverty and the Family Service of New Haven, 1947-1967." Monica Martinez (American Studies) - "Decolonizing the Mind: Envisioning Educational Alternatives in South Texas."

If you have any questions about the WGSS Graduate Colloquium, please contact Catlin Casey at caitlin.casey@yale.edu

If you have any questions about the WGSS Working Group, or if you would like to be added to the classesV2 server in order to access the readings in advance, please contact Molly Farrell at molly.farrell@yale.edu

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