Queer/Trans Holocaust History
The Holocaust is one of the most researched horrors of the Modern past. Yet, the study of queer and trans Holocaust histories is relatively new. This upper-level course covers the key analytics that the Holocaust has generated within the historical discipline, but from the position of queer and trans scholarship. It attends to the varying and uneven experiences of queer and trans people under Nazism, but equally fronts new methods and conclusions about the Holocaust, state and individual violence, social hygiene practices, the role of sex within society, identity formations, and the relationship of the present to the past.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zavier Nunn
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SENIOR SEMINAR I
The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester will be determined by the instructor and the advisor. Students receiving a grade of B+ or higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to register for Senior Seminar II by the Instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages. Please note, the seminar is restricted to Columbia College and GS senior majors.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
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GENDER & POWER TRANSNATL PERSP
GEND,SEX&POWER TRANSNATL
This course considers formations of gender, sexuality, and power as they circulate transnationally, as well as transnational feminist and queer movements that have emerged to address contemporary gendered and sexual inequalities. Topics include political economy, global care chains, sexuality, sex work and trafficking, feminist and queer politics, and human rights. If it is a small world after all, how do forces of globalization shape and redefine the relationship between gender, sexuality, and powerful institutions like the state? And, if power swirls everywhere, how are transnational power dynamics reinscribed in gendered bodies? How is the body represented in discussions of nationalism and in the political economy of globalization? These questions will frame this course by highlighting how gender, sexuality, and power coalesce to impact the lives of individuals in various spaces including workplaces, the academy, the home, religious institutions, the government, and civil society, and human rights organizations. This course will enable us to think transnationally, historically, and dynamically, using gender and sexuality as lenses through which to critique relations of power and the ways that power informs our everyday lives and subjectivities.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tara Gonsalves
Info - 4 points
GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM
Artists,Workers & Witches
Genealogies of Feminism:
Course focuses on the development of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, though priority will be given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Julia Bryan-Wilson
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New Directions in Gender and Sexuality S
New Dir Gender and Sexual
This colloquium will focus on new and developing research in gender and sexuality studies. It is meant for graduate students who are thinking about researching and teaching in this field in the near and distant future. Through a roster of guest speakers and in colloquium discussions, this course poses current questions, issues, methods, modes of study, and practices in the interrelated fields of gender and sexuality studies and critical race studies. The course is best suited to graduate students who have completed at least one year of coursework. Colloquium requirements include attendance at 3-6 guest speaker events over the course of the year, relevant reading in the field as necessary, and participation in discussion.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
C. Riley Snorton
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