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Events are typically free and open to the public, but seating may be limited. We ask that you register for events. Click for online registration

IGSF Special Events

IGSF Welcome Reception

DATE: Wednesday, 11 January, 2012
TIME: 4:00-6:00 PM
PLACE: Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor

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Screening and Panel DiscussionScreeing and Panel Discussion of Mis Representation

MISREPRESENTATION:
WOMEN, GIRLS, POWER AND THE MEDIA

A panel discussion loosely based on issues raised in the film
MISS REPRESENTATION

For more information.

Misrepresentation: Women, Girls, Power and the Media
Panel discussion: 7PM, Leacock 232
Moderator:
Judy Rebick - Journalist and Co-founder of rabble.ca, Winter-Eaken Visiting Scholar in Canadian Studies, MISC
Panelists:
Anne Lagacé-Dowson - Journalist and Radio talkshow host at CJAD
Francine Pelletier - Journalist and Founder of La Vie en Rose
Martine Vallée - Director, Social & Consumer Policy, CRTC

Screenings of Miss Representation will take place in Leacock 232 at the following times:
11 AM
1 PM
3 PM
5 PM
Panel discussion at 7 PM
Reception to follow

DATE: Thursday, 9 February, 2012
TIME: screenings at various times throughout day; panel discussion 7 PM
PLACE: Leacock 232

Online registration available until 9 AM Thursday, 9 February.
Reservations held until 15 mins before scheduled screening/panel time.
Click for online registration or call 514.398.3911

Event presented by Media@Mcgill and IGSF.

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Talks & Seminars

“Out of Work or Out of Time?
Rethinking Labour After the Financial Crisis”

DATE: Thursday, 19 January, 2012
TIME: 3:00 PM
PLACE: IGSF Seminar Room, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor

Seminar by Lisa Adkins

Lisa Adkins is currently a visiting scholar at the IGSF. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia and was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her books include Gendered Work, Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity and Feminism After Bourdieu. She has most recently contributed to debates concerning the reconstruction of social science through the volumes What is the Empirical? (2009; co-edited with Celia Lury) and Measure and Value (2012; co-edited with Celia Lury).

Professor of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Science
Newcastle University, Australia
IGSF Visiting Scholar, McGill University

For more information.

Prior to the recent global financial crisis and for neo-liberal economies, a consensus was emerging that the latter ushered in a new form of sexual contract, one characterised not by exclusion and containment, but by the prospecting for potential, a prospecting which positioned women’s labour not as a site of surplus for capital, but as a site of vitality and possibility. Yet this new sexual contract has been and continues to be understood as undone or disassembled by the recent ‘crisis’ of financial capitalism and subsequent ongoing recession, not least because these events are widely perceived to threaten the return of an exclusionary sexual contract. In the words of one commentator from the UK, the financial crisis and ensuing recession threatens to ‘send women back to the kitchen’. But in this paper I suggest that this position is one which thoroughly misunderstands the processes of the production of value in post-Fordism. Specifically, this position brackets the marginalization of wage labour in contemporary capitalism as well as the thoroughgoing externalization of value production. The latter reveal that the idea of any simple ‘return’ to an exclusionary sexual contract is out of time with the contemporary present. Traditional indicators of exclusion or containment such as job losses and unemployment rates, for example, have little - if any - traction when value production is externalized. In short, I argue that the recessionary tendencies associated with this moment should not be understood as undercutting and disassembling a new sexual contract, but understood through the logic of the folding of the economy into society.

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Talk and Exhibit by Cynthia Hammond

Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, where she teaches architectural history. In addition to publishing on women, architecture, public space, and landscapes, Hammond maintains a studio practice and is one of the founding members of the art/design firm, pouf! art + architecture.

Architects, Angels, Activists:
Interdisciplinary Feminist Research as Urban Intervention

DATE: Wednesday, 7 March, 2012
TIME: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
PLACE: Leacock 232

Exhibit & Vernissage:
Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum

VERNISSAGE: 5 - 7 PM, Wednesday, 7 March, 2012

EXHIBIT RUNS: Monday, 5 March through Friday, 28 April, 2012
PLACE: IGSF Seminar room, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor

For more information.

Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum is an exhibition curated by Hammond and one of her Bath collaborators, Dan Brown, shown for the first time in Bath in 2011. For the first time in Canada, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs that survive the arboretum, featuring such famous figures as Annie Kenney and Adela Pankhurst central to the feminist cause. Suffragettes in Bath offers a window onto the social context of the suffrage movement within a cultural landscape the suffragettes created with shrubs, trees, and flowers in pre-WWI Somerset. A 40-page, illustrated exhibition catalogue will be available at the vernissage, 5-7pm, IGSF.

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Workshop

Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement
organized by Media@Mcgill together with IGSF

DATE: Friday, 27 January, 2012
TIME: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
PLACE: IGSF Seminar Room, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor

Keynote and Panel will follow:
TIME: 6 PM - 8 PM
PLACE: Grand Bibliothèque auditorium, 475 Maisonneuve Est

To register for workshop sessions please click: Occupy

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Archive + Feminism

On February 3, 2012 the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies was pleased to host the Archive + Feminism research workshop convened by Prof. Maryanne Dever, a scholar-in-residence at IGSF and professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University in Australia. The daylong workshop combined scholarly talks and in-depth discussion between faculty and graduate students about new theories and practices of archival research in gender, sexuality and feminist studies. Talks featured the work of Library and Archives Canada literary archivist Catherine Hobbs and professors Maryanne Dever, Christabelle Sethna of the University of Ottawa, Linda Morra of Bishop’s University, and Sarah Parsons of York University, throwing light on a number of key cases that open up essential questions of archiving feminism: from how the RCMP spied upon the Canadian women’s movement and kept archives now essential to movement scholars, to the archiving case of Merle Thornton, a noted figure in Australia’s second wave women’s movement known as one of the “Bar Room Suffragettes,” emergent approaches to archiving the lives and personal effects of Canadian women writers such as Jane Rule and others (and how to cultivate an ethical orientation to them), and the complex negotiation of privacy, intimacy and sexual identity in the archive of Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz’s 15-year relationship.

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EsquissesEsquisses series, Winter 2012

A lunch-time series of works-in-progress by McGill faculty

Lunch provided, but seating is limited - We ask that you register.
Click for online registration or call 514.398.3911
Updates: www.mcgill.ca/igsf
PLACE: IGSF Seminar Room, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor

Eve's Perfection: Spinoza on Sexual (in)Equality
Hasana Sharp
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
DATE: Tuesday, 31 January, 2012, 12:30 PM

Designing Sound Technologies: Some Gender Problems
Jonathan Sterne
Associate Professor
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
DATE: Tuesday, 13 March, 2012, 12:30 PM

Writing Arab Men into the 1948 War for Palestine
Laila Parsons
Associate Professor
Joint appointment History/Islamic Studies
DATE: Tuesday, 10 April, 2012, 12:30 PM

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