This event celebrates the return of Gender Studies to The New School and explores what the university will gain from this new undertaking. Leading scholars in the field, along with New School faculty and students, explore the rich institutional and intellectual history of the interdisciplinary field of Gender Studies and speculate about the variety of directions it will take.
Panelists include: Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research; Mary Hawkesworth, editor of SIGNS and chair of Women’s Studies at Rutgers; Susan Faludi, author of Backlash and The Terror Dream; Bonnie Thornton Dill, professor and chair of the Women’s Studies Department and Founding Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland; Valerie Smith, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and director of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton; Judith Halberstam, professor of English, American Studies, and Ethnicity and Gender Studies at University of Southern California; Ann Cvetkovich, author of Mixed Feelings and professor and co-chair of the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster at the University of Texas.
New York City, NY; NYC