The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (GCWS) presents:
*Traveling People—Traveling Concepts*
Thursday, October 30, 4-6 PM
MIT, Bldg. E51, room 275
Please RSVP to gcws(a)mit.edu <mailto:gcws@mit.edu>
Join the GCWS for a conversation with:
*Tatiana Barchunova*
/Associate Professor of Philosophy/
/Novosibirsk// Statae University, Western Siberia, Russia/
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What are Russian post –socialist perceptions of Western social and
gender theories and methods of conducting empirical research?
Professor Barchunova will discuss the challenge of translating
English-language gender discourse into Russian. She tracks the
distortion of circulating texts and the misrepresentation of ideas and
tries to explain the distortion by several factors. The crisis within
the institution of publishing, the underdevelopment of Russian social
theory, and the lack of funding available to scientific communities to
publish the necessary (and large) volume of texts in translation, she
argues, all threaten to reinforce the conservative turn in cultural
translation.
*Tatiana Barchunova* is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk
State University (Western Siberia) where she received her Ph D in 1991.
Her initial empirical research focus was the post-Soviet gender system,
in particular gender stereotyping in the media. Her work has been
supported by the MacArthur, Soros, and Carnegie Foundations and the
Social Science Research Council. Barchunova edited a collection of
papers "Potolokpola"(/Gender Ceiling/) (Novosibirsk, 1998) and, with E.
Zdravomyslova and A. Temkina, edited a collection of translated Western
feminist texts (Saint-Petersburg, 2000) and co-authored a popular
book /Gender Studies for Dummies/ (2006). Currently she is interested in
religious and consumption networks and leisure activities (such as
historical and martial games, classical and historical dancing clubs,
and Internet dating) and the concept of “naive translation" the latter
of which will be the focus of her GCWS presentation.
Contact Andi Sutton, Program Coordinator, for more information and
directions to this event, at arsutton(a)mit.edu
<mailto:arsutton@mit.edu> or (617) 324-2085
*Directions to building E51 room 275: *
The discussion will take place in building E51 room 275 on MIT campus.
Here's a link to the campus map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go>
To get to E51 by T, take the Red line to Kendall Square. Exit on Main
Street. Walk down Main toward the river, staying on the right hand side
of the street. Take a right on Wadsworth Street and follow it until it
intersects with Amherst Street. Take a right on to Amherst and walk down
until you see a driving ramp on your left. Walk up the ramp and through
the doors. This is E51. Walk up the stairs and room 275 will be the
conference room straight ahead.
If you will be driving, there are parking meters on Main Street and
Ames Street. After 3 p.m. you can also park in most of the MIT
parking lots, including the one right in front of building E51.
*Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies*
16-287, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://web.mit.edu/gcws
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