2016 Keywords Roundtable Discussion on the keyword “choice”

The Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council are co-hosting a spring 2016 Keywords Roundtable Discussion on the keyword “choice.” 

Thursday, March 31, 2016, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Lehman Auditorium (202 Altschul Hall), Barnard College


Featured participants:

  • Rachel Adams: Director, CSSD and Professor of English and American Studies, Columbia University
  • Ester Fuchs: Director, Urban and Social Policy Concentration and Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Maya Sabatello: Assistant Professor of Clinical Bioethics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Carol Sanger: Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  • Josef Sorett: Associate Director, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies, Columbia University
     

Woman and City, a conversation with Wang Anyi

One of China's most critically-acclaimed writers, Shanghai-based Wang Anyi has published twelve novels including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Weatherhead Books on Asia/Columbia University Press), The Age of Enlightenment, Heavenly Fragrance, and Anonymous. She is the winner of many prestigious literary prizes, including the Lu Xun Prize, "The Writer of the Year" of the Chinese Literary Media, and The Dream of the Red Chamber Prize offered in Hong Kong. Her work was nominated in 2011 for the Man Booker International Prize. She is a professor at Fudan University.

Hosted by Lydia H. Liu and Eugenia Lean
Monday, 21 March at 6:00pm
104 Jerome Greene Hall
Columbia University
Registration required
Please click to register -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woman-and-city-a-conversation-with-wang-anyi-tickets-22421328798

Cosponsored by Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University; Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College; East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Columbia University; C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Columbia Law School Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Literary Translation at Columbia, Columbia School of the Arts; and Columbia University Press.
 

Twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!

IRWGS is proud to announce the twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!

$250 in prize money for each award!

All Columbia, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science, and General Studies undergraduates are encouraged to submit their best work for consideration.  All disciplines and topics within the fields of “queer studies” or “women’s and gender studies” (broadly defined) are welcome.  Papers will be judged by an interdisciplinary committee of IRWGS faculty.  Students are invited to enter one or both of the competitions (but must submit a different essay for each competition).

Application deadline: Monday April 18th, 2016 by 5pm

Application packets now available on irwgs.columbia.edu/undergrad. 


Symposium: "On The Body" May 6-7, 2016


Presenter: Julia Kristeva, Juliet Mitchell, Sherry Turkle, Paul Verhaeghe, Patricia Gherovici, Jessica Benjamin, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Robert Paul, Panagiotis Aloupis, Marina Papageorgiou, Rosemary Balsam, Jonathan House, Dominique Scarfone, Robert Michels, Lila Kalinich and George Sagi

Abstract:

At the dawning of psychoanalysis in Freud's project and throughout his writings, the intertwining of body and psyche was elemental. However, since Freud, the body has been progressively undertheorized. The APMSymposium 'On the Body' addresses the imperative to bring the body back to center stage and to consider the challenges it poses to our current ways of understanding our patients. Does the contemporary ideology of the body, an ideology of an omnipotent mind that transcends the limits of the body, produce different kind of patients from those of the times of Freud? How do we think of hysteria today and of the psychosomatic symptoms that we are encountering more and more in our practice? How is the body today used by the psyche?

This 2-day multi-disciplinary International Symposium in NYC with guest speakers from around the world will address singularly important topics in contemporary psychoanalysis such as:
• Disembodiment in our Digital Age and its Impact on the Psyche
• The Speaking Body, the Sick Body, the Sexual Body
• Sex, Gender and Infantile Sexuality

For more information, follow our Facebook page APM Symposium on the Body in NYC.

Register at http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2007/05/06/apm-on-the-body-conference-register-here/

#IAmPsyched - Museum Day Live on March 12th

We are so excited to announce that IamPsyched! Museum Day Live! 2016, Inspiring Histories, Inspiring Lives: Women of Color in Psychology, will launch on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at the APA Capitol View Conference Center. And for those of you not in DC, you can tune in to the livestream http://bit.ly/1Rfm4hI on March 12th.  

IamPsyched! is a joint project of the APA Women's Programs Office, the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, and Psychology's Feminist Voices, in collaboration with the Council on Women and Girls at the White House and the Smithsonian Affiliations program. We are creating a pop-up museum to empower girls of color to explore the social and behavioral sciences and to use psychology to engage in positive social change.

APA Interim CEO Cynthia Belar will be welcoming visitors to APA’s Capitol View Conference Center. Jennifer Kelly, Secretary of the APA Board of Directors, will be introducing our special guests.  Reiko True will be sharing her story with the girls in the audience. Ramani Durvasula (@DoctorRamani) will be moderating the town hall meeting. Other speakers include Judith Arroyo, Jessica Henderson Daniel, Iva GreyWolf, Angela Cole Dixon, Helen Hsu, Tami Jollie-Trottier, Camilla Knott, and Kee Straits.

Help Us Publicize “IamPsyched!” 

I’m reactivating my Twitter account to get out the word. Follow me on Twitter at @DrMilesCohen for regular updates and you can join us on March 12th via livestream.

Please use these hashtags to help us get out the word: #IamPsyched #MuseumDay #ImagineHer 

For the first time, we are using a platform called Thunderclap to publicize #IamPsyched on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

What is Thunderclap? It’s a new platform that allows people to pledge a Tweet or Facebook message that is concentrated and unleashed all at the same time, like an online flash mob. It’s completely safe and will automatically post exactly one message on your behalf. 

It takes 5 seconds to join.

1.       1: Visit http://thndr.me/zcgEzL

2.       Click “Support with Twitter”, “Support with Facebook” or “Support with Tumblr”  

3.       Once you’ve added your support, encourage your friends to join the Thunderclap by clicking one of Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr icons at the bottom right. 

We just need 100 supporters to get our message out. With your help, we can use psychology’s past and present to inspire today’s girls of color.

Joyfully giving psychology away,

Shari Miles-Cohen, with Cathy Faye, and Alexandra Rutherford

Reproductive Freedom Festival - Live-Stream on March 20th

The Festival

The Reproductive Freedom Festival, a theatrical recognition and celebration of the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy, is being developed by Words of Choice to support reproductive freedom, rights, health and justice and to generate new conversations on these subjects. We are pro-women’s rights, pro-human rights, pro-reproductive rights, pro-reproductive justice and pro-choice.

Short theatrical works, poetry and spoken word selections will be presented in a Live Theatrical Reading, at The TACT Studio in NYC and also streamed live to the world, via a multi-camera interactive livestream

The LiveStream

One of the best parts! The Live Event in New York will be shared simultaneously across the country via premiere high-quality Live Arts Streaming of VirtualArts TV. This is not your back-of-the-house wobbly camera, but a professional multi-camera set-up of the theatrical works.  You will feel like you are in the room with the performers in New York!

Included will be short interviews with experts and artists, along with selected visual arts. Online participants may join in by Twitter and instant messaging.  In other words, this is TV of dynamic new writings coming through to you by computer, with international online participation. 

Connect with reproductive freedom advocates across the country!

http://reproductivefreedomfestival.org/watch/

Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions at Connecticut College

Student Counseling Services (SCS) at Connecticut College is pleased to announce two postdoctoral fellowship positions: (1) an LGBTQ counseling postdoctoral fellowship position, and (2) a Multicultural Counseling postdoctoral position. These are two year, academic appointments (Mid-August thru May, ending May 2018) are geared toward training early career professionals in working within a campus community providing a range of individual, group, and campus community based services. The postdoctoral fellows are expected to engage in the full range of activities typical of professional staff members at SCS while receiving supervision from licensed psychologists. The fellows may have the opportunity to provide supervision to doctoral level practicum students at SCS.  The postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to accrue requisite hours (practice and supervision) for licensure and support in preparing for the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology. The successful candidates will receive an annual non-negotiable salary of $40,000.

Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor Position

Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Psychology at Connecticut College, a private, highly selective liberal arts college, invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in clinical or counseling psychology to begin July 1, 2016. The appointment will be for a single year, but will be renewable for a second year. A Ph.D. in clinical or counseling psychology is expected at the time of appointment. We seek a colleague who is an excellent teacher and a dedicated undergraduate advisor and research mentor. Teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Psychology and Psychology of Personality, as well as courses to support our offerings in clinical psychology and contribute to our ongoing effort to address issues of diversity in psychology. The full-time visiting faculty teaching load is three courses/sections per semester. 

 Connecticut College values the contributions visitors bring to our community and encourages their active engagement with the department and all aspects of campus life during the course of their appointment. Visiting faculty are initially participating members of the faculty and voting members in their second and subsequent years; their presence is welcome at all faculty meetings.

Psychology faculty members at Connecticut College work collaboratively with students on a wide range of research and community projects. Our department was recognized by the APA with the Culture of Service Award in 2013. More information about our department and its undergraduate and MA programs can be found at the following links to our college website: Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program. 

 Connecticut College seeks creative scholars excited about working in a liberal arts setting, with its strong focus on engaged teaching and research, participation in shared governance, and active involvement in an institution-wide advancement of diversity. The College has a demonstrated commitment to supporting outstanding teaching, most notably through programming by the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching and Learning. Visiting faculty are also eligible for funding to support enhanced student-faculty engagement associated with their courses.

 Recognizing that intellectual vitality and diversity are inseparable, the College is continuing with what has been a very successful initiative to diversify its faculty, staff, and student body. The College is also fully engaged in a campus-wide effort to implement a new general education curriculum in which full participation and inclusion are central themes. Information about the Connections Program can be found at http://www.conncoll.edu/news/news-archive/2015/connections-announcement/#.VgBbDiBViko.  AA/EEO

Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vita and three letters of recommendation to Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/34198. In your cover letter, please summarize your teaching and research activities. Review of applications will begin on March 4, 2016, and continue until the position is filled.

Serve as Editor of the Society for the Psychology of Women’s newsletter, “The Feminist Psychologist.”

HELP WANTED…SPW is seeking a creative, energetic and organized feminist with strong writing skills to serve as Editor of the Society for the Psychology of Women’s newsletter, “The Feminist Psychologist.”  The Feminist Psychologist is one of two official publications of the Society for the Psychology of Women (SPW), APA Division 35.  TFP Newsletter is published four times per year (quarterly). A hard copy and an electronic version of the newsletter are currently available to paid members of SPW. The newsletter routinely reaches over 3000 readers immediately upon publication online and in hardcopy approximately six to eight weeks after that. The new editor will help to develop the newsletter as it makes a transition to a completely online version, using new software and embedded video clips.  

The Editor of the newsletter must have strong writing and organizational skills and is responsible for pre- and post-production processes including announcing upcoming deadlines, reviewing and proofing submitted copy, and coordinating Editorial Board assignments. Other duties include copy design, layout and final submission for production in coordination with APA Staff. As the official newsletter of the Society for Psychology of Women, the Editor should be skilled at handling editorial disputes and negotiating organizational politics. The Editor is also responsible for managing the budget for the newsletter. The position requires the ability to work under tight deadlines in order to insure that up-to-date and relevant materials are included in the publication. The Editor must have access to, and be proficient in, the use of Microsoft Office Publisher (or other online publishing software), Microsoft Word, and PDF programs such as Adobe.  

The Feminist Psychologist newsletter editor is a member of the SPW Publication Committee. There is a small stipend/honorarium associated with the production of each issue of the publication.

Self-nominations are encouraged. Please send a vita and a short note about your interest to Dr. Maureen McHugh at mcmchugh@iup.edu ASAP, but no later than March 1, 2016.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF OUR BODIES OURSELVES

Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), a highly respected feminist nonprofit organization, seeks an Executive Director who is passionate about women’s health and social justice to lead its essential work. 

The Executive Director will be responsible for overall management, including infrastructure development, fundraising, and program oversight. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and skilled communicator who can serve as the organization’s primary public spokesperson and fundraising leader. The position requires the ability to balance visioning and strategic planning with day-to-day supervision of staff as well as coordination with the Board and OBOS founders. 

All applicants should have familiarity with the content and philosophy of OBOS (the books as well as the organization’s work as reflected on its website and in its programmatic activities) and possess a strong commitment to expanding OBOS’ involvement with all women, including women from communities of color, immigrant and refugee women, women in prison, and women with disabilities. Applicants should also be sensitive to issues surrounding gender identity and gender expression, and, preferably, have a background in women’s health. 

Leadership Qualities and Characteristics

Applicants should be feminists capable of envisioning and helping to implement effective means of advancing the health and human rights of women and girls globally. We seek an Executive Director who is: 

- Dynamic, entrepreneurial, and inspirational 

- A highly motivated self-starter with demonstrated ability to lead a nonprofit, public, or professional organization 

- Committed to building coalitions, engaging with diverse constituencies, and maintaining strong communication and synergy among Board members, staff, founders, donors, and volunteers 

Skills

- Ability to design, obtain funding for, and implement programs, projects, and public activities to study, synthesize, and disseminate the best available information about how to improve women’s health 

- Ability to conceive, develop, and execute creative, successful fundraising strategies 

- Excellent communications skills 

- Budgeting and financial skills 

- Ability to develop partnerships and alliances with individuals and other institutions as well as build effective, collegial working relationships with staff members 

- Cross-cultural competency, preferably including some global travel and knowledge of Spanish or another language 

- Demonstrated advocacy skills on behalf of mission-driven organizations

Responsibilities

- Oversee finances and fundraising, including spearheading initiatives to obtain funds from foundations, public agencies, and individual donors 

- Establish clear program objectives and priorities 

- Oversee communications, marketing, and all print and digital publications 

- Leverage OBOS’ assets, including editorial content and brand 

- Develop policy in the areas covered by OBOS’ mission 

- Manage and oversee all operations 

- Supervise staff and volunteers 

- Collaborate with leaders of other organizations 

- Serve as the primary media spokesperson, representing OBOS at conferences and meetings to advance the organization’s vision and mission 

 

Experience 

- 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably some of which is international, managing a nonprofit, public, or professional organization 

- Working with diverse communities of women and/or managing a team committed to feminist values 

- Speaking at conferences, public gatherings, and to the media 

 

Please send a cover letter and resume by March 1, 2016 to Joan Rachlin, Search Committee Chair, at EDsearch@ourbodiesourselves.org. 

First Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Columbia University.

The WISC Graduate Research Symposium (WGRS) is a multi-disciplinary research conference that aims to highlight and celebrate emerging research conducted by women graduate students in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
We want to highlight your research! We will have awards for best poster and presentations. These awards will include monetary compensation.

https://womeninscienceatcolumbia.org/symposium/
 

2016 ORI’s Annual Conference: Women's Voices in Psychoanalysis: Erased or Forgotten

– Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs

Date & time: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 (9:15 am - 4:30 pm)

Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, NYC, 10003

Earn 4.5 CE / post-graduate / psychoanalytic education credits! [NYS CEU for SW credits – are pending]

Presenters: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD and B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC

Discussant: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP

Moderator: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt

This full day conference will put a highlight on lives and contributions to psychoanalysis by women who were “erased or forgotten”: Sabina Spielrein, Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, Clara Thompson, Alice Balint, and Enid Balint.

Psychoanalytic theory and practice was originated and advanced by men. To say that psychoanalysis was male-centric would be an understatement. From Freud’s original work to the Wednesday Psychological Society, women had only a faint voice in the early psychoanalytic movement. However, as the 20th century progressed so did the presence of women in psychoanalysis.  Theorist/clinicians such as Anna Freud,  Melanie Klein, Karen Horney, Hanna Segal, Helene Deutsch, Joyce McDougal, to name a few, had begun to make significantand enduring contributions, garnering their share of notoriety, respect and recognition, challenging the male dominated establishment. 

When we move beyond the women mentioned above, the voices of the early psychoanalytic contributors become even more remote and faint. If one was to ask, “Who was Sabina Spielrein?” – the best answer will be mostly based on Sabina’s story of her time as a patient of Carl Jung, who he treated forhysteria, who later became infamously known as Carl Jung’s lover.  But her story does not end there; following her time with both Jung and Freud, she too became an analyst, and also an original thinker in this new field.  Very few will know that Sabina Spielrein was the first one who proposed the idea of the duality of instinctual life, represented in the life and death instincts, which was incorporated by Sigmund Freud, and given a credit in his Beyond the Pleasure Principle. It was Sabina who discussed with Melanie Klein her interest in child development and the importance of early oral feeding (sucking), and the mother’s breast; and she was the first female who had presented a psychoanalytic paper for the doctorate degree, and promoted psychoanalytic thought in Russia, adding that she was a pioneer in the treatment of children in a “psychoanalytic nursery”, until Stalin banned psychoanalysis all together.

Similarly, if one is asked about Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, or even Clara Thompson (who was considered to be Ferenczi’s American protégé) – it will usually take a “Ferenzian” to tell you that – besides being “Ett.,” “R.N.,” and “Dm.” in Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary – these women had contributed significantly to Ferenczi’s revolutionary clinical armamentarium of "relaxation", "elastic",  and "active" techniques, as well as his “mutual analysis” therapeutic experiment; and increased empathy in working with trauma, something that prior psychoanalytic tradition did not consider to prioritize, but what is on the top of the list in the context of the contemporary psychoanalytic thinking worldwide.

This conference aims to reach further into the historical record and bring long overdue recognition to the incredibly influential female voices in the formative phase of psychoanalysis, much of whom were discarded, marginalized, or forgotten (perhaps repressed) from the narrative of the psychoanalytic movement.   Our distinguished speakers will include: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD (representing the voice of Sabina Spielrein); B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC (representing the voices of “Ferenczi’s women,” Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, and Clara Thompson); and Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP (our discussant, who also will bring to light the contributions to psychoanalysis of two wives of Michael Balint, Alice and Enid Balint). We will dedicate a significant part of this conference to the panel discussion and to questions and answers between the presenters and the attendees. Let their voices be heard!

For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.orinyc.org/conf.html .

To register: send your registration forms (http://www.orinyc.org/Registration-form.html) and payment to: ORI Administrator; 75-15 187 Street; Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725. Or, email the registration form and the PayPal receipt to adminorinyc@gmail.com. 

Special scholarships for undergraduate/ graduate students, retiredpractitioners, as well as for group registration, are available. For more information, contact ORI administrator by email Admin@ORINYC.org or by phone 646-522-1056.