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Spring 2017 Brown Bags
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
The topic of this brown bag is securing funding for your research with a discussion
led by WGSS faculty expert Professor Melissa Forbis and PhD student, Shruti Mukherjee.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
Andy Eicher and Tara Holmes workshopped papers for an upcoming conference. The title
of Andy's paper was "Positively Poz!:" The Possibilities of Desiring HIV. The title of Tara's
paper was "If It's in a Word or It's in a Look: Confronting the Unbearability of Motherhood
in The Babadook."
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
This informal discussion will address how people balance graduate school/life in the academy with “real” life. What coping
mechanisms do people have? Hobbies? There is a tendency to pretend everything is okay
all of the time and to never let on when we are overwhelmed, but this session seeks
to disabuse the ideal of a “perfect” academic or graduate student. We will also open
space to talk about how we work--and live--within the confines of our grad student
budgets. It's rough out here, so maybe we can offer each other some advice on how
to get by.
To get the conversation going, here are some links to articles dealing with said issues:
- http://qz.com/872546/a-brown-professor-compiled-30-essential-tips-for-succeeding-in-graduate-school/
- https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/mar/20/phd-research-mental-health-tips
- https://www.themuse.com/advice/4-steps-to-staying-sane-as-a-grad-student-in-the-real-world
- https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/personal-finance-grad-school
Fall 2016 Brown Bags
Paper Workshopping Brown Bag
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
We will be workshopping Rachel Corbman's "Disability in the Lesbian Feminist Archive." Her paper revisits a 1981 special
issue of off our backs on "women with disabilities" in order to argue the usefulness of lesbian feminism to disability studies. Rather
than pre-circulating a paper, Rachel asks that you read selections from off our back's special issue, which is available on JSTOR. She specifically recommends "Making
Things Different: An Interview with Connie Panzarino" and the piece from the "NY
Lesbian Illness Support Group."
Every semester, WGSS will host a paper workshopping brown bag during campus lifetime.
This brown bag is designed as an opportunity for participants to share and receive
feedback on WGSS-related projects. Everyone is welcome to attend. And everyone whose
work aligns with WGSS is encouraged to workshop their papers or projects.
Please contact Allyse Knox-Russell or Tara Holmes with any questions.
Post-Election Roundtable
Wednesday, November 9
1 p.m. (campus lifetime)
Humanities 2052
Join us for a post-election discussion. Conversation pieces linked below. Light snacks
will be served!
On privilege and moving to Canada:
On gender, illness, and disability:
Lisa Diedrich- "Illness as a Metaphor, 2016"
Etc. articles on the election:
Corey Robin- "The Ruling Class Circus"
Harry Belafonte- "What Do We Have to Lose? Everything."