The Program hosts a lively schedule of colloquia, lectures, workshops, and performances throughout the academic year. Check this page regularly for additions and updates.
September 9
Symposium: Love and Diane
The Cornell Daily Sun article
The Cornell Chronicle (pdf) the article is on page 8
Neil Altman paper (pdf)
Fran La Barre (pdf)
A powerful documentary by former Cornell graduate student Jennifer Dworkin, Love and Diane (Women Make Movies) was the focus of a day-long discussion interdisciplinary discussion among social workers, psychoanalysts, film-makers and film scholars, political theorists, feminist scholars, critical race scholars and others.
September 2005
Monika Treut, visiting film-maker
While at Cornell for three weeks in September, Monika Treut will work closely with students in film, German Studies, LBG Studies, and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. A retrospective of her past films and a premiere screening of her most recent film, as well as colloquium discussions of her films, will be open to the public.
September 22
Gender, Queer Issues, and The Academic Job Market
4:30 pm, 258 Goldwin Smith
How do I get a job in gender studies? In queer theory? How do I talk about my LBG Studies course to prospective employers in an English (or any other) department? What should my cv look like? Do interviewers know what the "T" stands for in LBGT? What should I wear?????
Panelists answer these and any other questions you might have about the academic job market. Open to graduate students in all fields who plan to go "on the market" in coming years. Start thinking now about your dossier: there will lots of time for questions and informal discussion.
October 24
Dorothy Kaufmann, Clark University
Author of the recent book Edith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance (published by Cornell University Press in 2004). Thomas (1909-1970), a writer and feminist, was actively involved in the French literary Resistance against Nazi occupation. The biography is based in large part on unpublished documents, in particular Thomas's diaries, that were given to Kaufmann on loan by her lover and intimate friend Dominique Aury, the author of Story of O. The story of Edith Thomas and Dominique Aury is unknown (except for Kaufmann’s book and some articles) and is quite extraordinary on many levels.