Monday, 11/02 6pm
Ella Weed Room
223 Milbank

In this talk, Giuseppe Gazzola, a specialist of nineteenth century Italian literature who teaches at SUNY Stonybrook, will discuss the border crossings and literary connections between the Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) and the French symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). In particular, Gazzola will read from and then discuss Marinetti’s unpublished translations of Mallarmé, with an eye to explaining how we can understand more about both poets via this textual trace of influence. Gazzola will also talk about the modern edition of these translations that he is currently preparing. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Professor Phillip John Usher (pusher@barnard.edu; 212-854-5321).

Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation

Thursday, 11/05 6:30 PM
James Room
4th Floor Barnard Hall

Highlighting the work of scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of women’s studies, this year’s McIntyre Lecture brings us the work of Saba Mahmood. Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, Mahmood is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, which has been declared “essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender.” Picking up where Politics of Piety leaves off, Mahmood will reflect on why ethical practice and forms of embodiment matter to feminist politics, and, conversely, why we must rethink secular conceptions of the self and the body in contemporary debates about religion.

Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women

Friday, 11/06 4:10 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Catherine Waldby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney, Australia. In this presentation, Professor Waldby discusses the emerging tensions between women’s voluntary donation of reproductive tissues for stem cell research and the increasing recourse to transactional forms of tissue procurement, such as egg sharing and egg vending, locating this tension in both a feminist biopolitical analysis and in the broader dynamics of the global bioeconomy.

The Embodiments of Science Conference is Organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and The Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Tuesday, 11/10 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Suzanne Gardinier’s four books of poetry include the long poems The New World and Dialogue with the Archipelago, as well as a forthcoming book of elegies entitled Iridium. “Gardinier (pictured left) is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats’s words, every rift is laden with ore.” (Adrienne Rich) Matthea Harvey, “a master of the surprising, illuminating connection,” has written three books of poetry: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Modern Life. (Chicago Tribune) Katy Lederer is the author of two books of poetry, Winter Sex and The Heaven-Sent Leaf, which is “sparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble.” (Stephen Burt)

Sponsored by Women Poets and Writers At Barnard

Wednesday, 11/11 6 PM
Julius Held Auditorium
304 Barnard Hall

Barnard's Athena Center for Leadership Studies and Glamour magazine are honored to welcome Hoda Aminian and Azadeh Faramarziha, members of the Iranian Women's One Million Signatures Campaign, which won Glamour's 2009 Women of the Year Award. Launched in 2006, the Campaign's goal is to gather a million signatures on a petition asking Iran's parliament to grant equal rights to women. The Campaign has received international recognition for its extraordinary advocacy efforts to reform laws that discriminate against women. Despite the fact that the Iranian government has jailed or given suspended sentences to dozens of the Campaign's members, they continue to fight for women's rights and have galvanized a movement for reform across their country and around the world.

Sponsored by The Athena Center for Leadership Studies

Thursday, 11/12 6:30 PM
The James Room
4th Floor Barnard Hall

With the recent turn to pedestrian zones, bike lanes and greenways in New York and in many cities around the world, there is a growing sense that a new kind of urbanism is possible, one no longer dominated by the culture and politics of the automobile. “Rights of Way” will examine the issues surrounding bikes and pedestrianization, and will explore sustainability, finance, public health, and the ways in which the street can serve as a fulcrum in debates about public space and urban life.

MODERATOR
David Smiley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College

PANELISTS
Noah Budnick, Transportation Alternatives
Richard R. Gonzalez, Urban Design Lab at The Earth Institute
Margaret Newman, NYC Department of Transportation
Linda Pollak, Marpillero Pollak Architects
Sheila Somashekhar, Sustainable South Bronx

Sponsored by the Department of Architecture and the Urban Studies Program

Wednesday, 11/18 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Join us on a 150-year journey that begins in the mighty Pyrenees and wends its way into such cities as Chino, Fresno, and Bakersfield, California. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, who writes extensively on French Pyrenean migration to the New World, takes us from Basque country to "The Golden State," and paints a valuable portrait of domestic and political power by examining how family structures, and women’s positions in them, changed (or failed to) in the wake of the great crossing. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga is an Associate Professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, an Associate member of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and presently a Fulbright Scholar in the United States.

Sponsored by Forum on Migration

Thursday, 11/19 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Mary Gordon ’71 is the author of such bestselling books as Pearl, Final Payments, The Company of Women, Men and Angels, Spending, Circling My Mother, and The Stories of Mary Gordon. Saskia Hamilton (left) is the author of two books of poetry, As for Dream and Divide These. She is also the editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell and co-editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Timea Szell serves as the Director of the Creative Writing Program and teaches courses in creative writing, the First-Year Seminar Program, Women’s Studies and Medieval Literature. Her research interests center on medieval saints’ lives and recently human-animal studies. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review and other literary journals.

Sponsored by Women Poets and Writers At Barnard

Thursday–Saturday, 11/19–11/21 8 PM
Post-show discussion on 11/19
Minor Latham Playhouse
118 Milbank Hall

Dissident Acts: 3 Plays brings together work by Samuel Beckett and that of his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel. Beckett’s miniature Catastrophe interrogates the public role of art in a taut homage to Havel, who was at the time imprisoned for subversion of the state. Mrozek’s The Police unveils the deep absurdity of totalitarianism, while Havel’s Unveiling exposes the hypocrisy of the elite. Dissident Acts is presented as part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a festival coordinated by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, November 2009-March 2010. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre/Columbia Major in Drama and Theatre Arts, with the assistance of the Harriman Institute.

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Sponsored by the Barnard Department of Theatre