Professors Goldberg and Franke with Professor
Judith Butler at the Symposium in her honor
ONGOING EVENTS
SPRING 2012
Monday, January 23 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Peggy Cooper Davis - "Hard to See"
4:20-6pm, Room JG 304
COLORING GENDER/COLORING LAW: As it has in the past, the Spring 2012 Feminism & Legal Theory Workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of manuscripts by a distinguished interdisciplinary group of academic and independent scholars, with faculty commentary. This workshop will offer students and faculty from the Columbia and the Greater New York area communities who are writing, advocating and thinking about feminism and its impact on the law a structured opportunity to discuss and debate pressing issues of law and policy in contemporary feminism. This week's guest will be Peggy Cooper Davis, John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics and Director, Experiential Learning Lab.
Monday, February 6 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Affiong L. Affiong, Esq. - "Women, History, Politics & Power in Nigeria"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Affiong L. Affiong, Esq., co-founder of Moyo wa Taifa, a Pan Afrikan Women’s Network (Linking Afrikan women on the Continent and in the Diaspora) and Executive Director, Moyo Pan Afrikan Solidarity Centre (A foundation for developing group, organisational and institutional capacities to facilitate the re-emergence of autonomous Afrikan people’s institutions in London and Accara).
Friday, February 10 - Symposium Honoring the 40th Anniversary of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joining the Columbia Law Faculty
10:30-6pm, JG 104-106
This all-day symposium will recognize the 40th anniversary of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joining the Columbia law faculty as the first female tenure-track professor. This gathering will mark not only this important milestone, but also the foundational contributions Justice Ginsburg has made, as jurist, as advocate, and as scholar, to the law of gender-based justice and equality.
To register for the event, please RSVP to Gender_Sexuality_Law@law.columbia.edu. Due to limited space and tight security measures, seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat.
Schedule:
10:30 | Welcome
David Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and Katherine Franke, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
11:00 - 12:00 | A Conversation with Justice Ginsburg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in conversation with Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law and Vice Dean, Columbia Law School, and Abbe Gluck, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
12:00 - 12:45 | Q & A with Justice Ginsburg
2:15 - 3:30 | Sex Discrimination Litigation in the 1970s, moderated by Ariela Migdal, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union
Kathleen Peratis, Outten & Golden LLP
Wendy Webster Williams, Georgetown Law School
Harriet S. Rabb, Vice President and General Counsel, The Rockefeller University
Herma Hill Kay, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
3:45 - 5:00 | Transnational/International Perspectives on Gender Justice, moderated by Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Hon. Susanne Baer, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Hon. Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Hon. Kate O’Regan, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Hon. Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
5:00 - 6:00 | Closing and Adjournment to Cocktail Reception
Tuesday, February 14 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Rose Villazor, Hofstra
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Rose Villazor, Hofstra.
Wednesday, February 15 - Brown Bag Lunch w/Senior Fellow Julie Goldscheid - "Rethinking Civil Rights and Gender Violence"
12-1:15pm, Case Lounge, Room 701.
Commentator: Olati Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Julie Goldscheid is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and is a Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law. She writes and speaks widely about gender-based violence, women's economic independence and gender equality. Please click here to download her paper. Hard copies are also available outside Room 600.6 (northeast corner cubicle) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School.
Monday, February 20 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Carla Shedd - "Criminalization of Black boys in Urban High Schools"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Carla Shedd, Associate Professor of Sociology.
Monday, March 5 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Kendall Thomas - "Democracy and Disgust: Notes on Race, Religion and Sexual Citizenship after the Proposition 8 Cases"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law & Director, Center of Law & Culture.
Tuesday, March 6 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Cheryl Harris, UCLA
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Cheryl Harris, UCLA
Monday, March 19 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Cynthia Peabody, M.Div. - "Self-Love and Social Justice"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Cynthia Peabody, M.Div., Director for the Center for Study of Science & Religion.
Tuesday, March 20 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Jose Gabilondo, FIU
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Jose Gabilondo, FIU
Wednesday, March 21 - Brown Bag Lunch w/Erez Aloni - "Registered Contractual Relationships"
12-1:15pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 101
Erez Aloni is the 2011-2013 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow.
Tuesday, March 27 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Athena Mutua, Buffalo
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Athena Mutua, Buffalo
Monday, April 2 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Alondra Nelson - "Bio Science: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology & Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
Tuesday, April 10 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Osagie Obasogie, Hastings
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Osagie Obasogie, Hastings
Monday, April 16 - Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop w/Vivian Ducat - "All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert Screening"of African Ancestry"
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Vivian Ducat, Filmmaker and Director of Ducat Media.
Tuesday, April 17 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Khiara Bridges, Boston University
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Khiara Bridges, Boston University
Tuesday, April 24 - Columbia-Fordham Critical Race Theory Colloquium w/Adrienne Davis, Washington University
4:20-6pm, Room TBD
This week's guest will be Adrienne Davis, Washington University
FALL 2011
September 20 - Cosponsored event with the Center for the Study of Law and Culture and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights: Screening and Discussion of AKU SIAPA with Zari Aziz, CLS '10
4:15-6pm, JG940
The Center for the Study of Law and Culture, The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights are excited to present AKU SIAPA (eng: "Who Am I?"), a film that explores the various political and cultural implications of wearing the hijab in Malaysia. The film will be screened in room 940 at 4:15 in JG 940 on Tuesday, September 20th. Discussion with Zari Aziz '10 to follow. Why do Muslim women in Malaysia wear the hijab? What are their challenges? When, why and how did the wearing of hijab became popular in Malaysia? Through a series of candid interviews with Muslim women, young and old, urban and rural, Norhayati Kaprawi a Muslim woman activist and filmmaker, uncovers why Muslim women wear the hijab - and why some take it off. The interviews also demonstrate what Muslim women understand about the hijab and the Qur'anic verses that compel them to cover up. Just as importantly, AKU SIAPA interviews religious scholars, academics and politicians from both Malaysia and Indonesia about the phenomenon of the hijab and its development within Islam and in Malaysia. AKU SIAPA is a necessary viewing for those who are curious about the hijab and those who want to better understand political Islam and its impact on women in contemporary Malaysia. The film premiered on 25 Feb 2011 and received immediate responses and reactions. Some found it to be enlightening, others controversial, but many regard it as one of the most important Malaysian documentaries to watch today. Please check out the trailer here; and article on the Wall Street Journal online here. Also check out the bbc coverage on Islamisation in Malaysia here. Please contact Peter Graham at pgraha@law.columbia.edu with any questions.
September 28 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power" with Leslie McCall and Averil Clarke, moderated by Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw
6:30-9:30pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 103
The Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy presents Leslie McCall & Averil Clarke, "Intersectionality & Social Explanation in Social Science Research," a seminar moderated by Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw. Leslie McCall is a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her seminal work, "The Complexity of Intersectionality" is the most cited article ever to be published by Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society. She is also the author of Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy. Averil Clarke is a Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University, and is also affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. She is completing a book manuscript entitled Child Sacrifice: The Social Infertility of College-Educated Black Women.
For an advanced copy of the paper entitled, "Intersectionality and Social Explanation in Social Science Research" by Averil Clarke & Leslie McCall, please email Rosa Isabel Arenas at rarena@law.columbia.edu
October 12 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power" with Catharine A. MacKinnon
6:30-9:30pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 207
The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies presents Catharine A. MacKinnon, speaking on "Intersectionality as Method" with an introduction by Beth Ribet, Research Director, Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She is among the most heavily cited scholars publishing in the English language, and is world renowned for her groundbreaking work in the areas of feminist jurisprudence, pornography and civil rights, and politicizing rape and other forms of gender-based violence as a "gender crime" in the context of international human rights law. Since 2008, she has served as the Special Gender Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (The Hague). Co-sponsored by The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law.
October 13 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "DSK and Justice: The Politics of Getting Off in a Rape Culture"
6:30-8:30pm, JG 105
The Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy and Connect present An Open Forum: "DSK and Justice: The Politics of Getting Off in a Rape Culture". Co-sponsored by The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law.
October 21 - Cosponsored event with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race: "Conversation with Justice Sonia Sotomayor"
5pm, JG 104-106
On Friday, October 21st, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent the afternoon in conversation with Suzanne B. Goldberg, Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law, and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. She spoke candidly about many of her personal experiences—from her childhood days as a Nancy Drew aficionado to her most recent time serving on the nation's highest court. The visit was well attended by students, faculty, alumni, and distinguished guests, who enjoyed the rare chance to learn about and from Justice Sotomayor. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality Law and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. For more photos from the event, please click here.
October 26 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power" with Paul Butler
6:30-9:30pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 103
The Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy presents Paul Butler, George Washington Law School, speaking on "Stop and Frisk: Sex, Torture and Control". Paul Butler is the Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Professor Butler teaches in the areas of criminal law, civil rights, and jurisprudence. His scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, among other places. In 2003, he was elected to the American Law Institute. He lectures regularly for the ABA and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the U.S. A thoughtful critic of the war on drugs, Butler first came to the public's attention with his provocative call for jury nullification to resist the criminalization of African American and Latino communities. He is the author of the award-winning Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. Co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Law and Culture Center for Violence Research and Prevention Center on Crime, Community and Law Center for Gender and Sexuality.
November 9 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power" with George Lipstiz and Kenyon Farrow
6:30-9:30pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 940
The Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy presents "Intersectionality, Coalitions and Politics" with George Lipstiz and Kenyon Farrow. Leslie McCall is a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. George Lipsitz studies social movements, urban culture, and inequality. His books include MIDNIGHT AT THE BARRELHOUSE, FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN WHITENESS, A LIFE IN THE STRUGGLE, and TIME PASSAGES. Professor Lipsitz serves as chairman of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum and is a member of the board of directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance. He is a Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D in history at the University of Wisconsin. Kenyon Farrow has been working as an organizer, communications strategist, and writer on issues at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, prisons, and homophobia. Currently he serves on the Executive Committee of Connect 2 Protect New York, and the Center for Gay & Lesbian Studies (CLAGS). Kenyon is working on a new report on the Tea Party and LGBT Politics with Political Research Associates, as well as working as a book editor with South End Press.
November 16 - Cosponsored event with the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy: "Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power" with Sumi Cho and Barbara Tomlinson
6:30-9:30pm, William and June Warren Hall, Room 207
The Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy presents Sumi Cho on “Post-Intersectionality” and Barbara Tomlinson on “The Secret Life of Intersectionality.” Professor Cho employs a critical race feminist approach to her work on affirmative action, sexual harassment, legal history, and civil rights. She was the principal investigator for a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund grant on the first coordinated legal research on Japanese American interment, redress, and reparations. The AALS Minority Groups section honored her with the first Junior Faculty Award. Professor Cho currently serves on the Board of Directors for LatCrit. She is a Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law. Professor Cho holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Tomlinson’s work on rhetoric and affect in feminist and antifeminist argument in sociolegal studies, feminist musicology, and feminist science studies has appeared in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Cultural Critique, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, Journal of American Studies, and Literatura e Estudos Culturais/ Literature and Cultural Studies. Other work, particularly on metaphor and composing processes, has appeared in Cultural Sociology, Written Communication, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, the Journal of College Reading and Learning and edited collections. She is a Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cosponsored by the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. RSVP by e-mail to Rosa Arenas at rarena@law.columbia.edu.
Monday, January 23 - OUTLAWS Spring Kick-Off Meeting
12:10-1:10pm, JG 304
Join us for the first Outlaws general meeting of the semester on Monday, January 23rd from 12:10-1:10pm in JG 304! There will be delicious food (vendor TBD, but not pizza!), and board members will discuss plans for the semester. Come to learn about what programming we have in store and how you can participate this semester.
Thursday, February 2 - Edward Phillips and Elizabeth Leake - "'Unnatural Indecency': Sexuality and Homosexuality under Nazism and Fascism"
5:30-7:30pm, The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th Streets)
Please join Columbia University's The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America for their Spring 2012 Symposium on "'Unnatural Indecency': Sexuality and Homosexuality under Nazism and Fascism" in connection with Holocaust Remembrance Day. Free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended: RSVP at <http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu> Welcoming remarks by Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University) Speakers include Edward Phillips, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945" and Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University Department of Italian - "Fascism and Sexuality in Italian Literature and Film". Europe and the United Nations commemorate the victims of the Shoah each winter on the date of Auschwitz's liberation in 1945, and the Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with an annual academic event exploring issues of discrimination and crimes against humanity.
Last year, the Academy broadened its focus to explore another minority group that was targeted in the racism and xenophobia of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, and that suffered and died along with the millions of Jews: the Roma and Sinti (known as Gypsies), who were also judged to be "racially inferior." This year, our Holocaust Remembrance will focus on sexuality and homosexuality in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Thousands of men, primarily, were victims of state persecution and violence: arrested, institutionalized in mental hospitals, castrated, or imprisoned in jails or concentration camps where they succumbed to starvation, disease, exhaustion, beatings, and murder. Speaker Bios: Elizabeth Leake is professor, Acting Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Italian Department at Columbia. Her research interests include Twentieth Century narrative and theatre, psychoanalytic and ideological studies in Italian literature, fascist Italy, Italian cinema, and early Danish cinema. She is a recipient of the Modern Language Association Aldo
and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for her book The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone (2003) and The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars 2001. Her latest book, After Words: Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth Century Italy, was published in February of this year, and she is co-authoring another entitled Representing Confino. Edward (Ted) Phillips joined the Museum in 1994 and has been Director of the Division of Exhibitions since June 2008. Throughout his career at the Museum, he has been a member of the curatorial teams for special and traveling exhibitions, and has worked on nearly 40 exhibition projects. He also helped develop and edit educational and exhibition publications
that accompanied several of the major exhibitions. Ted earned a Ph.D. in Russian and Early Modern European History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the Museum, he taught Russian history at the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. Between 2000 and 2002, Ted curated the Museum's traveling exhibition Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945. For more info: Contact: Allison Jeffrey,aj211@columbia.edu or 212-854-8942.
