[GWAMIT] FW: GCWS Fall 2017 Courses

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From: Syed Zaman <szaman at mit.edu<mailto:szaman at mit.edu>>
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 7:34 PM
To: gcws <gcws at mit.edu<mailto:gcws at mit.edu>>
Subject: GCWS Fall 2017 Courses

Dear All,

The deadline for applying to GCWS Fall courses is fast approaching!  Course details are below.  Instructions on how to apply can be found here<http://web.mit.edu/gcws/courses/how-to-apply.html>. Please forward this message to graduate students.  Thank you!

Best Wishes,
Syed

Syed Zaman
GCWS Program Assistant/Interim Program Manager
szaman at mit.edu<mailto:szaman at mit.edu>




GCWS Fall 2017 Courses
Application Deadline: August 21, 2017


Workshop for Dissertation Writers in
Women’s and Gender Studies
Fall/Spring: Thursdays, 5:30 PM– 8:30 PM
September 21, 2017 – May 10, 2018
Meets *every other week* at MIT
Meeting Location: MIT, Building 4, Room 144
MIT Course Number: WGS.600

This workshop intends to establish a community of inquiry for graduate students in various stages of the dissertation writing process with status assessments taking place the first two weeks of class. The class is intended to provide a safety net for personal well-being, self-care, and spiritual focus during what may be one of the most intense and self-serving processes of one’s life journey. The seminar will cover the technical aspects of data collection, gaining entry and fieldwork, citations, literature review, sources and subjectivities, writing proposals for research funding, publication practices, and navigating local institutional politics. Primarily, this is an opportunity for graduate students to obtain feedback on their writing in gender and feminist theory, critique, policy, and methodology, particularly interdisciplinary projects and individuals that embody the realities of “difference”. But it also aims to discuss the challenges, tensions, and ‘politics’ of getting certain interdisciplinary projects through the institutional pipeline. The course will include mini-lectures, discussion, multimedia presentations, dissertation-related writing and review, assigned readings using the RL Model, and15-30 minute guest “testimonials” from seasoned scholars. For those doing fieldwork abroad, this workshop will highlight topics in international development, transnational feminism, and gender policy and practice updates that affect the research process.

FACULTY:

Robin Chandler is Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist and gender specialist. Her research in international development is focused on 21st century nations undergoing rapid social, political, and economic change. She is former director of Women’s Studies at Northeastern University and is an author of Women, war, and violence: Personal perspectives and global activism.


The Politics of Madness:
Gender and Psychiatry through Film and Theory
Wednesdays, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
September 6, 2017 – December 13, 2017
Meeting Location: MIT, Building 5, Room 234
MIT Course Number: WGS.640

As far back as Greek antiquity’s diagnosis of hysteria as a function of the “wandering uterus,” popular understanding of female psychopathology has been located in the body of the woman. As such the natural history of psychiatry is inextricably linked to cultural constructions of power, gender and psychosexuality and thus provides a rich and complex context within which to interrogate the hegemonic medicalization of mental illness and human behavior.  This course will bring together conceptual tools from the disciplines of medical anthropology, clinical psychology, and film studies. We will put into dialogue media representations and scholarly analyses from two cultural sites- India and the US- to investigate four clinical entities:  trauma, paranoia, hysteria, and eating disorders/body image disturbances, with the goal of complicating universalizing assumptions about illness, healing, medical practice, and psychosexual development.  Key questions we will address include:  how do comparisons of psychiatric structures illuminate gendered emotional experience across cultures and psychohistories? How does the practice of psychiatry in different settings both perpetuate and destabilize patriarchal narratives of the woman’s psyche? And how might such interrogations in turn inform social policy and clinical practice?

FACULTY:

Emily Fox-Kales is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also teaches feminist media studies at Northeastern University. She has served as Film Editor of the journal Gender & Psychoanalysis and is the author of Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders.

Sarah Pinto is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, who specializes in medical anthropology, gender and sexuality, kinship, and global mental health.  She is author of Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India, and Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India, and co-editor of Postcolonial Disorders.


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