et aussi NEXT FRIDAY OCTOBER 16th.at the maison Francaise

La Maison Francaise 16 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
Tel: (212) 998-8750
FAX: (212) 995-4142

Friday, October 16 - 10:30 a.m.


A Symposium co-organized by NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) and Institute of French Studies (IFS). Presented with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Centre Pompidou


**NOTE**

The originally planned Thursday Oct. 15 session has been cancelled.
All the sessions are now concentrated on Friday, Oct. 16.


Feminism/s Without Borders:
Perspectives from France and the United States

This symposium will put scholars from te U.S. and France into conversation to explore how feminist movements have been divided over such differences as class, religion, sexuality, and race; how feminisms have been institutionalized by the state and by global institutions; and what kinds of alliances are possible across difference (including national difference). Different social and political contexts in France and in the U.S. have come to shape different feminist agendas and alliances in these countries. While French feminisms had to deal with the rhetorical frame of universal and secular Republicanism, U.S. feminisms were faced with the specifics of their racial history as well as the dismantling of the welfare state. Yet, French and American feminisms have constantly fueled each other, from the influence of Beauvoir in the U.S. to the recent importation by French feminists of the notions of postcolonialism and intersectionality. Invited speakers will address and speak from their national contexts, but will also move beyond the national to get to questions about feminisms and the transnational. As a transnational feminist project, then, this symposium moves to ask how ideas travel, what (and who) gets lost in translation, how and which global institutions (for example, the UN, NGOs, internationalized universities) come to shape feminist agendas in different countries.




10:30 a.m:

Welcoming remarks and introduction
Edward Berenson (History & IFS, NYU), Dean Catharine R. Stimpson (GSAS, NYU), Frédéric Viguier (IFS, NYU)

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.:

Institutional Legacies of Second-Wave Feminism
Laure Bereni (IFS, NYU); Rana Jaleel (American Studies, NYU);
Discussant: Victoria Hesford (Women’s Studies, SUNY Stony Brook)

2:00 p.m. – 3 :30 p.m.

Feminism and Religion: Current Controversies
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas; James McBride (Liberal Studies; NYU);
Discussant: Ann Pellegrini (CSGS, NYU)

4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.:

The Future of Intersectionality
Elsa Dorlin (Université de Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne); Robert Reid-Pharr (Graduate Center, CUNY); Discussant: Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Université Paris 13 / IFS, NYU)

6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.:

Keynote Lecture: Feminism’s Difference Problem
Joan W. Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)


La Maison Française is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The building re-opens a half-hour before evening programs. All events are open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.