Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities: on "Family," Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Organized by Two Resident Mellon Faculty Fellows, The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center:
Alyson Cole, Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College/The Graduate Center, CUNY
Kyoo Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY
<Members of the Seminar>
FACULTY
Prof. Burleigh, Erica
EnglishJohn Jay College
EnglishJohn Jay CollegeProf. Burger, GlennEnglishQueens College
EnglishQueens CollegeProf. Cole, AlysonPolitical ScienceQueens College
Political ScienceQueens CollegeProf. Ender, EvelyneRomance LanguagesHunter College
Romance LanguagesHunter CollegeProf. Lee, KyooPhilosophyJohn Jay College
PhilosophyJohn Jay CollegeProf. Raboteau, EmilyEnglishCity College
EnglishCity CollegeProf. Schmidt, Tyler T.EnglishLehman College
EnglishLehman CollegeProf. Traver, AmySocial SciencesQueensborough Community College
Social SciencesQueensborough Community CollegeProf. Treitler, Vilna Bashi Black and Hispanic StudiesBaruch College
Black and Hispanic StudiesBaruch CollegeProf. Trumbach, RandolphHistoryBaruch College
HistoryBaruch CollegeDISSERTATION
Weiser, KarenEnglishGraduate Center
EnglishGraduate CenterNavarro, Patricia-RuizSocial PsychologyGraduate Center
Social PsychologyGraduate CenterLast posted: 04/19/2010
The schedule reflects the on-going collaborative efforts and is thereby subject to change.
All the reading materials are pdf-downloadable and password-protected where applicable.
FALL 2009: Every Tuesday, 7:15-9:15pm, Rm 8106, the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016)
09/01: No Meeting
09/08: Greetings & Introduction
09/15: E Grosz, “Sexed Bodies,” Volatile Bodies; G Salamon, "The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material"
Recommended: E Grosz, “The Nature of Culture,” Time Travels
Recommended: M Nussbaum, "The Professor of Parody"
Recommended: D Usborne, "Gay With Children," New York Magazine
09/29: No Meeting (CUNY Following Monday Schedule)
10/05: PANEL: What’s Sex Got To Do with Family? (Lisa Duggan, Liz Grosz and Gayle Salaman, 6:30pm, Proshansky Auditorium)
10/06: Lisa Duggan's Visit: L Duggan, The Twilight of Equality?; F Engels, "Family," Ch 2 of The Origin of the Family
Recommended: M Cook, "A Couple in Chicago"(re Barack and Michelle Obama, May 26, 1996), The New Yorker
Recommended: R Frank, The Americans (Photo Exhibition at the Met): "Arts: This Land, in Photos,"A New York Times Review
Recommended: M Howell, "The Properties of Marriage in Late Medieval Europe: Commercial Wealth and the Creation of Modern Marriage"
Recommended: D Usborne, "Gay With Children," New York Magazine
10/13: P H Collins, From Black Power to Hip Hop, Ch. 1-2
Recommended: P H Collins, Black Feminist Thought, Ch. 3-4
10/20: Film: Our Family. K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro, 2007, Tamil with English Subtitles, Graduate Center, Rm 9024-9025, 7-9pm
Recommended: N Bernstein, "Immigration Stories, From Shadows to Spotlight," The New York Times
Recommended: R Blumenthal, "Mother, Nanny, and Now, Herself" (on Beverly Moore), The New York Times
Recommended: A Gentleman, "India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood," The New York Times
Recommended: J Kim, "An "Orphan" with Two Mothers: Transnational and Transracial Adoption, the Cold War [...]"
11/03: Berlant, "Remembering L"; Loh, "Call the Whole Thing Off"; Kipnis, "L in the 21st C"; Nussbaum, "Contemplative Creativity"; Phillips, "L"
Recommended: R Blumenthal, "Mother, Nanny, and Now, Herself" (on Beverly Moore), The New York Times
Recommended: W Cole, "The New Science of Siblings," Time
Recommended: J Kantor, "The Obama's Marriage," The New York Times
Recommended: J Lewis, "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic"
Recommended: G Sand, The Country Waif (Françoise le Champi)
11/10: Friedman, "Toxic Parents"; Greenfield, A Child Called Noah, excerpt; Klass, "Best Intentions"; Ruddick, "Maternal Thinking"
Recommended: J Beizer, "One's Own: Reflections on Motherhood, Owning and Adoption"
Recommended: R Blumenthal, "Mother, Nanny, and Now, Herself" (on Beverly Moore), The New York Times
Recommended: J Dreby,"Honor and Virtue: Mexican Parenting in the Transnational Context"
Recommended: E Haimes, "Embodied Spaces, Social Places and Bourdieu: Locating & Dislocating the Child in Family Relationship"
Recommended: b hooks, "Waiting for Daddy to Come Home: Black Male Parenting," We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Recommended: D Kinlon and M Thompson, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Recommended: A Lorde, "Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response"
Recommended: L Nottage et al, The River Crosses Rivers (Play): "In Plays by Women, a Tug of War Between Parent and Children," A Review
Recommended: M Pipher and R Ross, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Recommended: G Sand, The Country Waif (Françoise le Champi)
11/16: PANEL: Who Cares About Family? (Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams and Rhacel Parreñas, 6:30pm, Proshansky Auditorium)
Recommended: M Cook, "A Couple in Chicago"(re Barack and Michelle Obama, May 26, 1996), The New Yorker
11/17: Fischer, “Oedipus Wrecked? The Moral Boundaries of Incest”; Shor & Simchai, “Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion"
Recommended: R Blumenthal, "Trial Opens with 2 Views of Slashing Recounted"(re the Case of Hiram Monserrate, Intimate Partner Violence)
Recommended: R Devlin, "Acting Out the Oedipal Wish: Father-Daughter Incest, and the Sexuality of Adolscent Girls in the US 1941-65"
Recommended: E Dill, “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre”
Recommended: H Furneaux, “Charles Dickens's Families of Choice: Elective Affinities, Sibling Substitution, and Homoerotic Desire”
Recommended: T Glazer, In the Daylight (Play): "Skeletons in a Family's Dark Secret," A New York Times Review
Recommended: S Kershaw, "Shaking Off the Shame": Beyond Kissing Cousins, The New York Times
Recommended: K-W Mok, "Group Resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers," The New York Times
Recommended: G Sand, The Country Waif (Françoise le Champi)
Recommended: M Shell, “The Want of Incest in the Human Family: Or, Kin and Kind in Christian Thought”
11/24: Shonkwiler, “The Selfish-enough Father”; Smith, "Analyzing Ethical Conflict"; Yngvesson, "Going Home'"
Recommended: J Beizer, "One's Own: Reflections on Motherhood, Owning and Adoption"
Recommended: M-L Hopgood, "Another country, not my own," Boston.com
Recommended: R Nixon, "Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity," The New York Times
Recommended: G Sand, The Country Waif (Françoise le Champi)
12/01: Gonzales, "A Family Divided by 2 Words, Legal and Illegal," The New York Times
12/08: Rothman, "Family, Obviously"; Pitkin, The House That Giacomo Built; Stack, Call to Home, "Domestic Networks"; Stacey, "Pam's ... "
Recommended: Stephen Davis and Jeffrey Busch
Recommended: R Padawer, "Who Knew I Was Not a Father?" The New York Times
SPRING 2010: Individual Presentations: Every Monday, 3-5pm, Room tba, the Graduate Center, CUNY
02/01: Amy Traver
02/08: Emily Raboteau
02/15: (President's Day)
02/22: Karen Weiser
03/01: Erica Burleigh
03/08: Glenn Burger
03/15: Kyoo Lee
03/22: (Conference: All in the Family? on 3/25-3/26)
03/29: (Spring Break)
04/05: (Spring Break)
04/12: Patricia-Ruiz Navarro
04/19: Alyson Cole
04/26: Tyler Schmidt
05/03: Vilna Treitler
05/10: Evelyn Ender
05/17: Randolph Trumbach
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Other Relevant Information Forwarded from the Seminar Members
@ CF 10/30/2009: Changing Families in a Changing World, CRFR International Conference, John MacIntyre Centre • Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
@ CF 10/30/2009, 8:30AM-6pm: Before Sex, Rutgers Univ., Teleconference Rm, 4th Fl of Alexander Lib., 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ
