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To register for Center Courses, please email bcrw@barnard.edu or
call 212.854.2067. Checks should be made payable to Barnard College.
NEW COURSE!
Gender and Social Change in Turkey through Cinema
with Ayça Alemdaroglu
co-sponsored by The American Turkish Society
Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
02/14, 03/20, 04/17, 05/08
324 Milbank Hall
Fee: $ 120
Film provides a rich lens through which
culture can be analyzed and debated.
This course will look at gender relations
and social change in Turkey through
cinema. Films that represent gender
relations and women's living conditions
in rural and urban contexts will be viewed
and discussed. Among the themes for
our conversation will be rural to urban
migration, the politics of modernization,
consumption culture, "individualization"
and feminist movements. Film, gender
and Near Eastern studies enthusiasts are
all welcome. Please join us!
Ayça Alemdaroglu is a PhD candidate
in Sociology at the University of
Cambridge and a visiting scholar at New
York University. She studies gender,
youth, culture and politics in Turkey and
the wider Middle East.
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Translating Silences: An Expanded Poetry Workshop
with Charlotte Mandel
Wednesdays, 6:15 - 8:15 PM
02/20, 03/05, 03/19, 04/02, 04/16, 04/30
BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall
Fee: $ 200
To begin a poem is to connect with
feeling, idea, and the joy of language.
Poet Charlotte Mandel invites both
new and previous participants to this
supportive workshop, which aims to
explore sources of poetry within the self
while refining techniques of the craft.
Whether published or a "closet" poet,
you are welcome.
Thanks to enthusiastic response, the
poetry workshop "Translating Silences"
will continue to open each session with
an additional half hour to focus upon the
work of a well-known contemporary "poet
of the month."
This semester's reading list is as
follows:
- District and Circle by Seamus Heaney.
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2007.
- The Sleeping Beauty by Hayden Carruth.
In Collected Longer Poems by Hayden
Carruth, Copper Canyon Press, 1993.
Also published as a single volume,
Harper Colophon, 1982; revised 2nd
edition Copper Canyon Press, 1990.
A book (or selected texts) by the "poet
of the month" will be assigned to be
read in advance, and discussed during
the first half hour. The hour and a half
"Translating Silences" workshop will
follow with exchanges of creative work by
participants. optional assignments and
imaginative exercises will be offered.
Charlotte Mandel is the author of six
books of poetry, including Sight Lines,
The Life of Mary and The Marriages of
Jacob. She edited Saturday's Women,
an award-winning anthology of women
poets. Her poems, short fiction and
critical essays have been published in
many journals nationwide.
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Consuming Passions: Pleasure and Politics in Women's Memoirs
with Lori Rotskoff
Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm
9/26, 10/24, 11/28, 12/19, 1/23, 2/27, 3/26, 4/30, 6/4
This one-year course began in Fall 2007
What are the passions, pleasures, and political commitments that fuel
women's lives? In this class, we will discuss memoirs by American women
who have embarked on journeys of personal fulfillment, intellectual
growth, or political activism from the 1920s to the present.
Some memoirs focus on matters of appetite, desire, consumption, and
addiction—subtly revealing how individual cravings are linked to broader
issues of gender, power, and cultural identity. Other writers fashion
their life stories in a context of historical change and social
activism; they are consumed by passionate struggles for justice and
equality. What motivates women to recount their life stories—and what do
we, as readers, gain from reading them?
Participants of all ages and professional backgrounds are welcome to
join our monthly discussion group. The mood is informal, yet
informative. Whether you are an avid reader of memoirs or new to the
genre, you will gain new insights that will enrich your reading in the
future.
Lori Rotskoff is a cultural historian of American family life. She
holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, and has written
articles and reviews for the Chicago Tribune, Reviews in
American History, and The Women's Review of Books. This is
her third year teaching at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Possible readings include:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
Gael Greene, Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
Elizabeth Hayt, I'm No Saint: Memoir of a Wayward Wife
Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
Toni McNaron, I Dwell in Possibility
Assata Shakur, Assata
Susan Shapiro, Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved Except Sex
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Women's Cultures / Women's Lives
with Leslie Calman
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm
9/18, 10/16, 11/13, 12/11, 1/8, 2/5, 3/11, 4/8, 5/6, 6/3
This one-year course began in Fall 2007
Now in its 16th year, Women's Culture/Women's Lives explores
contemporary writing by women of many cultures. Led by Leslie Calman,
former director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women and current
vice president of external relations at the International Center for
Research on Women, this is truly a discussion group, with members
bringing their own perspectives and insights to understanding the
changing lives of women. Prerequisites: intellectual curiosity,
open-mindedness, a fondness for great books and smart women, and a sense
of humor. Please join us!
This semester's reading list is as follows:
9/18 Kirin Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
10/16 Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
11/13 Lisa Fugard, Skinner's Drift
12/11 A.B. Yehoshua, A Journey to the End of the Millennium
1/8 Willa Cather, My Antonia
2/5 Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones
3/11 Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
4/8 Orhan Pahmuk, Snow
5/6 Carmen Laforet, Nada
6/3 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Half of a Yellow Sun
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