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

All events are free and open to the public.

Fall 2008 Schedule

Monday, September 15
EMILY SETINA, English Language and Literature, Yale University
"'Are you a fact, young man?': Gender and Genre in Virginia Woolf's Photographic Fictions."

Monday, September 29
WORKING GROUP MEETING
Reading: Roderick A. Ferguson. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
(selections)

Monday, October 13
PERIN GUREL, American Studies, Yale University
"Such a Natural Little Girl: Heredity, Naturalism and Sex in The Bad Seed as Novel, Play and Film."

Monday, October 27
WORKING GROUP MEETING
Reading: Lisa Duggan, "The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism" and "Gay Shame Opposes Marriage in Any Form"

Monday, November 10
IRINA DUMITRESCU, English Language and Literature, Yale University
"Mary of Egypt, the Unwilling Didactrix."
JOSEPH CERMATORI, School of Drama, Yale University
"Shakespeare: Renaissance or Baroque?"

Monday, November 17
WORKING GROUP MEETING
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (selections)

Monday, December 1
JENNIFER SORKIN, History of Art, Yale University
"Women Kitchen Potters: Pottery on PBS, 1964-1965"
AND
Graduate Student Planning Meeting for Spring 2009

If you have any questions about the WGSS Graduate Colloquium, please contact Elina Bloch at elina.bloch@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 Colin Gillis at colin.gillis@yale.edu

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