Fall 2009:
September 1st: Welcome Back Lunch
September 15th: Feminist Theory Workshop Janet Halley, Harvard Law School, Rape At Rome: Feminist Interventions in the Criminalization of Sex-Related Violence in Positive International Criminal Law
September 29th: Feminist Theory Workshop Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School, Ahmedinejad Comes to Columbia: Sexuality, Nationalism and Global Governance
October 16th-17th: Translating Feminisms Conference
October 19th: Anti-Trafficking Policy and its Effects at Home and Abroad
October 20th: Feminist Theory Workshop Unity Dow, Justice of the High Court of Botswana, Against the Order of Nature - Homosexual Conduct in Botswana
October 21st: Rana Husseini, Murder in the Name of Honour
October 23rd: Gender, Peace & Security Conference
October 26th: Columbia Law Women Reading Group - Deborah Rhode, The Injustice of Appearance
October 27th: Jessica Gonzalez v. United States of America
October 27th: Domestic Violence in the LGBT Community
October 28: Bearing Witness to the Atrocities in Guinea
October 28th: CGSL Colloquium Katherine Darmer, Distinguished Visitor in Residence, Continuing Influence on Rights Discourse of Scalia's Dissenting Rhetoric in Romer and Lawrence
October 29th: Addressing the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Indian Country by Restoring Tribal Sovereignty
November 5th: Law in Transition: Legal Developments in Transgender Rights
November 6-7: Embodiments of Science Conference
November 12th: Feminist Interventions Carol Sanger, Barbara Black Professor of Law, Abortion and the Visual Construction of Loss
November 17th: Feminist Theory Workshop Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Law School, Modeling Informal Labor Markets; Exit, Exclusion and the Paradoxes of Flexibility
November 24th: Feminist Theory Workshop Sealing Cheng, Wellesley College, Sexual Victimhood, Citizenship and Nationhood in South Korea
December 1st: Feminist Theory Workshop Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University, The State of Science and Sin
December 8th: Feminist Theory Workshop Janie Chuang, Washington College of Law, Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: How Prostitution Reform Debates Have Shaped U.S. Anti-Trafficking Policy
PAST EVENTS:
April 10th, 2009, 9:30am-5pm, JGH 107: Symposium entitled “Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities” sponsored by the Journal of Gender and Law.
March 12th, 2009, 4-6pm, JGH 103: Barbara Black Lecture with Angela Harris.
March 10th, 2009, 6:30 - 10pm, Casa Italiana
: Columbia Women’s Law Association annual Myra Bradwell dinner featuring guest speaker Susan B. Lindenauer ’64.
March 9th, 2009, 12pm, JGH 646: Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Columbia Law School/Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow Khiara Bridges will discuss her work on how the health care system impacts the reproductive rights of low-income women.
March 9th, 2009, 12pm, JGH 103: Youth Justice Association Panel, “Reproductive Law in American Society: The Recent Case of the Octuplets.” Featuring Professor Patricia Williams, NYU Professor of Social Work Dr. Alma Carten, and Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons Professor Dr. Kenneth Prager.
February 17th, 2009, 12pm JGH 105: “Doing Good While Doing Well - Women and Pro Bono in Law Firms” sponsored by CWLA. Four attorneys from Skadden Arps will discuss their pro bono experiences in family law, women’s rights, and other issues of special concern to women.
February 17th, 2009, 12pm JGH 107: Domestic Violence Project panel on “Other Faces of Domestic Violence: Opening the Courts to Teen and LGBT Survivors.” Andrew St.Ana from Sanctuary for Families and Farahnaz Rodriguez from the Brooklyn DA’s Youthful Offender Domestic Violence Court Program will discuss the particular difficulties facing these communities as well as how lawyers are finding innovative ways to work with teen and LGBT survivors of domestic violence.
February 16th, 2009, 12pm WJW 417: CWLA reading group. Associate-in-Law Noa Ben-Asher will be leading us in a discussion of Glenn Cohen’s article, “The Right Not to Be a Genetic Parent?” Non-pizza lunch will be served.
February 13th, 2009: Gender and Sexuality Law Program Symposium Celebrating the Work of Martha Nussbaum.
November 24th, 2008, 6:15 pm 754 Schermerhorn Ext.: Speak Out on Prop 8
Saturday, November 15th, 9am-7pm: Conference entitled “LGBTQ Law 2008: Where Do We Go From Here” sponsored by Columbia OUTlaws, Gender and Sexuality Law Program, and the LeGaL Foundation.
Monday, November 17th, 12-1pm, WJW 417: CLWA lunchtime discussion with Professor Peter Rosenblum: “The Controversy over Trafficking Advocacy: Sex, Numbers, Tactics.” Reading available here.
Wednesday, November 12th, 12:15-1pm, JG 103: Women’s Rights - A Global Perspective on Gender Inequality. The recipients of the 2008 Gruber Women’s Rights Prize join the Human Rights Institute for a discussion on their organizations and their personal career development.
Wednesday, November 12th, 4:15-6pm, WJW Room 600: Neferti Tadiar, Professor of Women’s Studies, Barnard College: If Not Mere Metaphor - Sexual Economies Reconsidered, Katherine Franke, Commentator, Professor of Law, Director, Gender and Sexuality Law Program, Columbia Law School
Tuesday, November 11th, 12-1pm, JG 101: “Jessica Ruth Gonzales v. United States - An Update on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing” sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Law Program and the Domestic Violence Project. In December 2005, after unsuccessfully filing suit against the Castle Rock (Colo.) Police Department for failing to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband after he abducted her children, Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) filed a petition with the IACHR alleging that the failures of the police and the Supreme Court’s rejection of her claims violated the United States’ duty to protect women and children from domestic violence under international human rights law. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Professor Peter Rosenblum, and students from the Human Rights Clinic represented Ms. Lenahan before the IACHR, and Professor Jeffrey Fagan filed an expert report in conjunction with the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic. Students from both clinics will explain their involvement with the case and discuss ways in which it can be influential for future domestic violence and human rights advocacy in the United States.
Tuesday, November 11th, 5-6pm, JG 102: “Ensuring Women’s Rights in Times of Conflict and of Peace” Gruber Foundation Women’s Rights Prize, sponsored by the Human Rights Institute. The three recipients honored this year are: Yanar Mohammed, co-founder of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq; Sapana Pradhan Malla, a practicing Nepali lawyer and member of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly; and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a leading feminist scholar, therapist, and activist working to end domestic violence against Palestinian women. Reception to follow (JG Annex).
Monday, November 10th, 4:15-6pm, Jerome Greene 102: Barbara Black Lecture with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, criminologist, Hebrew University: Between the Politics of Exclusion and the Culture of Control: Violence Against Women and Law in Conflict Zones. Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s work is directed toward the plight of Palestinian women who suffer from historical and current injustices and who face daily violations of their basic human rights. She uses the term “femicide” to describe the victimization to which Palestinian women have been subjected, preferring it to “honor crime,” “romantic crime,” or “crime of passion” because, in her words, these crimes involve no honor, passion, or romance. Much of Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s work is done in association with Mada al-Carmel, the nonprofit Arab Center for Applied Social Research located in Haifa, Israel, and with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
Monday, November 3rd, 12-1pm, WJW 417: CWLA lunchtime discussion with Professor Ariela Dubler regarding gender in the 2008 election.
Monday, October 27th, 12-1pm, JGH 103: Domestic Violence and Immigration Panel, sponsored by the Domestic Violence Project. The DVP welcomes practicing attorneys from local non-profit organizations who will speak about their experiences with domestic violence-based asylum claims, U-visas (available for victims of a qualifying criminal activity, such as domestic violence, who have been useful in the investigation or prosecution of the case), and T-visas (available for victims of trafficking). Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 12:15pm, JGH 546: Professor Liz Schneider on “Law Reform in the 21st Century: Violence and Equality,” sponsored by the Domestic Violence Project, the Human Rights Institute, and the Gender and Sexuality Law Program. Professor Schneider will speak on some of the most important developments in law reform concerning domestic violence within the past half century and explore some of the contradictions and conflicts that present challenges for legal work going forward.
Tuesday, October 21st, 7pm, JGH 103: Film screening of “Crazy Love” sponsored by the Domestic Violence Project.
Monday, October 20th, 12pm, WJW 417: Columbia Law Women Lunchtime Reading Group discussion of the CT same-sex marriage decision.
Monday, October 20th, 4:15-6pm, JGH 106 (reception to follow): Panel on New Scholarship in Reproductive Rights, presented by The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.
Wednesday, October 15th, 7pm, JGH 103: Documentary film screening of “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” sponsored by Amnesty International NYC Women’s Human Rights Action Team and the Columbia University Law School Amnesty International student group.
September 19-20th, 2008: Conference entitled “What Is Feminist Politics Now? Local and Global” sponsored by the Columbia Institute for Research on Women and Gender
ONGOING EVENTS:
Colloquium in Gender and Sexuality Law
Columbia Law Women Lunchtime Reading Group (see above for dates)
Feminist Theory Workshop
