316f European Studies Seminar

Fall 1998: European Feminisms

Meeting times: every monday night from 7 to 9:00 PM (123 CIRUTI)

Coordinator Nicole Vaget, Professor of French

 

Syllabus

9/14: Introduction

9/21: Web workshop: meeting in in Library 231. Elena Khapalova and Jhenya Sokolova are your technologists.

9/28: John Varriano, Professor of Art: "Artemisia Gentileschi, a Baroque Feminist?" Meeting in Room 216 of the Art Building.

10/5: Elissa Gelfand, Professor of French: Jewish women writing in interwar France (1919-1939) Meeting in Ciruti 123.

10/12: October Break

10/19: Angelo Mazzocco, Professor of Spanish and Italian: The woman of the Renaissance. Meeting in Ciruti 123.

10/26: Students' presentations: Rebecca Landis: The modern woman of Spain Jesse McKinney: "Undiscovered" European women of the 19th century. Melody Wood: Modern women in France Tonya Michelle Picot: Statistics on women in Western Europe *Jennifer Schreiner: The prostitutes of Amsterdam

11/2: :Web workshop

11/9: Students' presentations: *Guergana Gougoumanova: Peasant women in Bulgaria: "Listen, daughter, and remember well..." by Martha Forsyth. *Zlatinka Gougoumanova: Women in Bulgaria *Anna Krutikov: Two women: of the Sixteenth Century"Jeanne d'Albret and Catherine de Medicis" *Raluca Dalea: Women in Roumania *Jennifer-Sue Nuccio: Two Queens of the Silver Screen: Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.

11/13 Field Trip to Clark Museum: "Farewell to the Wet-Nurse: Etienne Aubrey and Images of Breast Feeding in Eighteenth Century Art."

11/23: Film : Kieslowski's:"White'. Meeting in Ciruti 123

11/30: Jeremy King, Assistant Professor of History : Takes on Feminism, East and West, after 1989: Kieslowski's "White". Meeting in Ciruti 123 .

12/7: Peter Scotto, Associate Professor of Russian: Women in Medieval Russia. Power without authority. Meeting in Ciruti 123.

12/14: Nicole Vaget, Professor of French Women in power in contemporary France Final paper due

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