{"id":688,"date":"2007-11-02T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=688"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:44:50","slug":"reconstructing-womanhood-a-future-beyond-empire","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/reconstructing-womanhood-a-future-beyond-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Hazel Carby&#8217;s <i>Reconstructing Womanhood<\/i>, a touchstone of scholarship in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, and Post-Colonial Studies.<\/p>\n<p>With a one-day symposium on November 2, BCRW joins the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, the Columbia University Libraries, and Barnard&#8217;s Department of Africana Studies in reexamining the importance of this work as it relates to a set of issues that are no less timely now than they were in 1987. Hazel Carby, along with scholars Lisa Lowe, Anne McClintock, Robert Reid-Pharr and Rinaldo Walcott, will lead us in reflecting on the production of &#8220;disposable life,&#8221; refashioning masculinities and queer sexualities, and imagining a future beyond empire.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the Feminist Classics series, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/irwag\/\">IRWaG<\/a> throughout 2007\/08, and designed to revisit the scholarly, artistic, and activist works responsible for shaping second-wave feminism. Other events include:<\/p>\n<p>Monday, 10\/01, 8:00 pm<br \/> Adrienne Rich Reads from her Work<br \/> Schermerhorn 501, Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, 10\/02, 12:50-2:00 pm<br \/> A Conversation with Adrienne Rich<br \/> Heymann Center Common Room, Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>In this spirit, the series continues with an event exploring Erica Jong&#8217;s <i>Fear of Flying<\/i> and transgressive feminist writing, a panel on the plays of feminist dramatist Caryl Churchill, and a discussion on classic works of feminist art. For more information, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/irwag\/\">IRWaG<\/a> at 212.854.3277.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Hazel Carby&#8217;s Reconstructing Womanhood, a touchstone of scholarship in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, and Post-Colonial Studies. With a one-day symposium on November 2, BCRW joins the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":689,"template":"","tags":[19,202,17,6,36,16,100,39,11,15,141],"class_list":["post-688","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academy","tag-africana","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-history","tag-intersectionality","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-sexuality","tag-transnational"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}