Mois : juin 2008

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The mission of the Jewish Women’s Archive JWA is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … A national non-profit organization founded in 1995 and based in Brookline, MA, the Jewish Women’s Archive presents the stories, struggles, and achievements of Jewish women in North America. We create and disseminate educational materials, develop partnerships, sponsor programs, conduct and support original research, and maintain an innovative website all designed to help us understand our past and shape our future.

The website offers a Virtual Archive, curricula and other educational materials, a variety of online exhibits, oral history guides, a blog, a growing collection of reminiscences of recently deceased Jewish women, and a myriad of other resources for anyone interested in the experiences of American Jewish women, both celebrated and unheralded.

In 2007 the Jewish Women’s Archive branched out into film, producing Making Trouble, a prizewinning documentary about three generations of funny Jewish women, featuring Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Shown at over 60 film festivals in 2008, Making Trouble will also be released on DVD and shown on cable television.

The Boston College is a private, coeducational Jesuit university with 8500 full-time undergraduates and 4000 graduate students. ‘Third World Literature’ is part of it.

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Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Associate Professor, English Department, teaches courses in the critical philosophy of postcolonial studies, political and cultural theories of nationalism, and Anglophone literatures of India and Africa … She is the founding chair of the Postcolonial Studies seminar at Harvard’s Humanities Center, and the convenor of the Postcolonial Studies Discussion Group at the MLA. She was visiting fellow in Women’s Studies at SUNY Stony Brook in Spirng 2002, where she taught a graduate seminar on « Feminism and Universalism. » In Spring 1999, she co-taught with Professor Laura Frader (History, Northeastern University) a graduate seminar « Gender, Race, Class, and Colonialism » in the Graduate Women’s Studies Consortium at Radcliffe. (Homepage).

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Introduction: This course focuses on the problems of interpretation encountered in the first world classroom when reading novels and poetry from the so called third world, in this case Africa, India, and the Middle East. We shall work from two premises:

• a) The artifacts of any given culture are embedded in their local context – social and political history, traditions, aesthetics, etc. – and thus are not transparent in their meaning or significance.
• b) Secondly, we cannot recognize the humanity of the « other » – the culturally strange, the foreign, the alien – without examining ourselves and how we impose meaning on the incomprehensible.

We shall try to come to terms with these two factors by:

• a) researching as much as we can of the local context – we shall use films and music to supplement our quest;
• b) by performing the texts we shall we be reading in class as a means of reflecting about cultural gaps;
• c) maintaining a consciousness journal.

Required Texts: … (full text).

International directory of abuse hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centres and women’s organizations, plus domestic violence information …

The goal of the Hot Peach Pages is to provide information on abuse in as many languages as possible, along with lists of abuse help agencies for every country in the world … (about 1/2).

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The Hot Peach Pages is checked at least once a month for broken links to web pages. We are currently not able to check email addresses.

Why call it the Hot Peach Pages? … (full text).

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The ISN is a free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide. The ISN works to promote a better understanding of the strategic challenges we face in today’s changed security environment … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: Based in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Center for Security Studies CSS at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), the ISN’s dedicated team – drawn from various disciplines, including the humanities, the social sciences, and information and communication technology – engage in research projects and education activities, provide news stories and in-depth analyses, and develop technologies for information sharing and for creating and supporting e-learning.

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