We know that there are many scholars engaged with exciting feminist work spread out across the university. The Feminist Scholarship Reading Group
brings people from different departments and schools together to discuss a wide range of recent feminist scholarship and cultivate feminist intellectual community at the University of Iowa.
Our intention is to support reading that many of us want to be doing—rather than to add yet one more thing to our already busy calendars. The group will meet twice a semester, on a Sunday evening in 704 Jefferson Building, to discuss one essay. Participants are welcome to come to particular meetings depending on their interest in the article and/or availability; there is no long-term commitment. Although we have chosen an article for the first meeting, participants will select future readings and take turns facilitating discussion. Please join us on the following dates:
Sunday, April 20, 7:00-8:30 PM in 704 Jefferson Building (JB)
Readings:
Teresa Mangum's "Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go"
King, Barnes-Wright, Gibson, Johnson, Lee, Lovelace, Turner & Wheeler "Andrea's Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education"
Facilitators:
Teresa Mangum (Department of English & Obermann Institute of Advanced Studies)
Michelene Pesantubbe (Religious Studies and American Indian and Native Studies)
Sunday, March 9, 7:00-8:30 PM in 704 Jefferson Building (JB)
Readings:
Naomi Klein's "Disaster Capitalism"
Facilitators:
Gigi Durham (Journalism & Mass Communication)
Rosemarie Scullion (Departments of French, Women's Studies, and Cinema and Comp Lit)
Sunday, Nov. 4th, 7:00 - 8:30 PM in 704 Jefferson Building (JB)
Reading:
Inderpal Grewal & Caren Kaplan’s "Global Identities: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality" (2001)
Facilitators:
Meena Khandelwal and Aimee Carrillo Rowe
Sunday, Sept. 30th, 7:00 - 8:30 PM in 704 Jefferson Building (JB)
Reading:
Michele Wallace's "Dark Designs and Visual Culture" (2004)
Facilitators:
Bridget Tsemo and Vershawn Young
the above link includes a PDF file of the following:
- “For Whom The Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can’t Deal with Black Feminist Intellectuals”
- “Questions on Feminism"
- “Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor”