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August |
8/1/2007 - 12/14/07
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Lane Hall Exhibit - Carry On
:: Artist Rachel Melis, Asst. Prof. of Art, Kansas State University
Lane Hall
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September |
9/10/2007
5:00 - 10:00pm
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An International Workshop, The Language of Clothes: Status, Gender, and Law in the History of Attir in Japan, China, and Great Britian, from Ancient through Modern Times
:: RSVP by Tuesday, Sept. 4 to Jane Ozanich, jozanich@umich.edu, see www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/events/language_of_clothes.html
Michigan Room, Michigan League
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9/21/2007
12:00 - 1:30
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Rethinking "'Re'-presentation"
:: Lisa Disch, Prof. of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall
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October |
10/18/2007
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, "Putting Passion Into Practice"
:: Pamela Barnes, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Rackham Amphitheater, 915. E. Washington St.
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10/23/2007
4:00 - 6pm
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Book Reception for "What do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity" by Prof. David M. Halperin
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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10/28/2007
6:00pm and 8:00pm
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Sister Spit, the legendary all-girl spoken work roadshow national tour fall 2007
Aut Bar, 324 Braun Ct.
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10/30/2007
12 noon
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"Global Concepts, Local Practices: A Report from the China Site of the Global Feminisms Project," Center for Chinese Studies noon lecture series
:: Wang Zheng, Assoc. Prof. of Women's Studies,
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
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10/30/2007
11:30am - 1:00pm
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Community Forum: Michigan Women in the High-Tech Knowledge Economy
:: Amy Cell, SPARK, Susan Kaufmann, CEW Associate Director of Advocacy
Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty
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November |
11/13/2007
4:00 - 6:00 pm
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Book Reception for Translating Feminisms in China by Prof. Wang Zheng
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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11/13/2007
4:30 - 6:00 pm
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Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium, “Alternative Modernities: Subjectivity and Performance in the Worlds of Katherine Dunham and Agueda Johnston”
:: Christine DeLisle, Doctoral Candidate in History and Women's Studies and Penny Von Eschen, Prof. of History and American Culture
2239 Lane Hall
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11/15/2007
4:30 pm
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Book Reception for Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreigness , and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan by Prof. Amal Fadlalla
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St
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11/27/2007
4:00 pm
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Intellectuals and Power in Mexico: Elena Garro and Carlos Fuentes in Contrast.
:: Lucia Melgar, Universidad Nactional Autonoma de Mexico
4th Floor Common Room, Modern Languages Building
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January |
1/10/2008
4:30pm
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Rose Moss Reads From Her Work
:: part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium.
2239 Lane Hall
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Since immigrating from South Africa to the United States in 1964, Rose Moss has published four books, prize-winning stories and articles. Her most recent book, In Court, published in South Africa as a Penguin Modern Classic, brings together short stories written over many years. Her novel, The Terrorist , also published as The Schoolmaster, presents a man anguished at apartheid. He eventually bombs the Johannesburg train station. Her non-fiction account of two defendants in a major treason trial, Shouting at the Crocodile, presents leaders of the non-violent, non-racial internal anti-apartheid movement of the 1980¹s. This book is currently optioned for a documentary movie. Other short stories, set in the United States, present dilemmas that juxtapose art and suffering, beauty and cruelty, kindness and guilt.
Rose Moss now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches creative writing at Harvard Law School and in Harvard¹s Nieman Program for mid-career journalists. For more information, please see her web page www.rosemosswriter.com.
There will be a booksigning after the reading.
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1/14/2008
1:30pm
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Text- and e-mail mediated aggression, sexuality, and schools: New directions and challenges
:: Ian Rivers, Professor of Community and Applied Psychology, School of Social Sciences,Media and Communication at Queen Margaret University
4448 East Hall
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| This presentation addresses a topical issue in schools today - that of cyber-bullying. Based upon data gathered from an ongoing longitudinal cohort study (now in its sixth year), data is presented that demonstrates the development of this 'new' form of aggression in schools. Using both quantitative and qualitative data gathered from over 15,000 high-school students (12-15 years of age), this presentation explores the ways in which cyber-bullying (in this case text- and e-mail mediated aggression) is rapidly replacing other forms of aggression (physical, verbal and indirect/relational). Key issues raised include a discussion of its highly sexually-charged content, its impact upon heterosexual and LGBT youth, and the fact that female students are 50% more likely to be victims of this form of aggression than male students. Current data gathering includes exploration of the uses and abuses of social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo, and examples are provided of the ways in which such networks are being used as a means of organizing violence. |
1/22/2008
12:30 pm
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"We are not sluts, we are just having fun:" Young women discuss same-sex experimentation for the "male gaze"
:: Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Santa Cruz working on her dissertation entitled Male Objectification as a Context for Same-sex Experimentation in Young Women.
3048 East Hall
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1/24/2008
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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New Empirical Evidence on the Importance of the Birth Control Pill, 1957-1980
:: Martha Bailey, Asst. Prof. of Economics, Herman Faculty Fellow
2239 Lane Hall
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| Professor Bailey will provide an overview of her research, which focuses on the interaction between technology, legislation and public policy in spurring the economic progress of women in the United States during the twentieth century. In recent papers, she examines the impact of oral contraception on women's labor market participation and childbearing choices since 1960 as well as the origins of African-American women's wage gains in the 1940s. |
1/25/2008
12 noon
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From Protection to Abuse: Childhood Narratives in Hebrew Literature
:: Ruth Tsoffar, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature
200 Thayer Building, 202 S. Thayer St.
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| In this talk, Tsoffar juxtaposes several literary Hebrew narratives that together reflect the transition from the protective pedagogical canon into works that open the closet door of child abuse in Israeli culture. Since the 1980s, works explicitly confronting the experience and commission of sexual violence have been increasing in Israel and can be understood in part as representing a critique of utopian Zionism. Stories by Albert Swissa and Yehudit Katzir, for example, effectively protest and undermine the canonic and euphemistic dismissal of sexual violence as a natural, universal and nostalgic feature of the “bittersweet Israeli childhood.” They raise questions about the limits of silence, allegory, and tolerance in Israeli society today. |
1/31/2008
12 noon
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From Pathology to Identity: A Genealogy of Asexuality and the (A)Sexual Rights of Disabled People
:: Eunjung Kim
2239 Lane Hall
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| The recent emergence of asexual identity movements presents a particular question to groups that position sexual desire as central to the understanding of their identity. When challenging representations of disabled people that commonly consider them as asexual or discussing the necessity of sexuality to understand gender and queer identities, asexuality appears as an under-theorized leftover. This presentation investigates both historical and contemporary discourses concerning "the absence of sexual desire." What kinds of connections might exist between so-called "asexual" groups, oppressed by active desexualization, and people who claim an asexual identity? How do the various historical terminology and pathological registers of asexuality reflect intersections of gender, disability, and sexuality elaborated in sexology, popular culture, and individual narratives? Eunjung Kim speculates about the necessary differentiation between asexuality and desexualized identities, and calls for a recognition of the history of pathologization shared by asexual and desexualized people alike, without denying the existence of asexual individuals within desexualized groups. |
1/31/2008
3:30 pm
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LGBT Activism, Privilege Awareness, and Ally Behavior: Avenues for Inclusion and Prejudice Reduction
:: Kim Case, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and co-director of the Teaching-Learning Enhancement Center in the School of Human Sciences and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
4448 East Hall
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February |
2/2/2008 - 3/27/08
M-Th 10am to 9pm, F-Sa 10am to 5pm, Su 1pm to 9pm
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Exhibition, Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
On view at the University Library Exhibit Gallery, 100 Hatcher Graduate Librarty North
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| A Lifeline of Letters Document an Extraordinary Story of Survival and Courage During the Holocaust |
2/4/2008
4:00 - 5:30pm
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Women's Studies Faculty Talk About Their Research
:: Gayle Rubin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies
“Sex, Space, and Cities”
Ruth Tsoffar, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies
“That Which We Take For Granted: Critical Consciousness Against the Banality of Difference”
Eileen Zurbriggen, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies
“When Power and Sexuality Intersect: Personal and Cultural Implications”
2239 Lane Hall
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2/11/2008
4:00 pm
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Political Women: From Michigan Students to Global Feminisms,
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture
Reception follows
:: Abigail Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
Rackham Amphitheater, 4th Floor
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| Why do some women use political theories to understand their personal lives? Why are some moved by their personal experiences to participate in politics? Psychological data from different generations of women graduates of the University of Michigan illuminate personality characteristics and life experiences that underly these processes. Videotaped interviews with contemporary women’s movement scholar activists from China, India, Poland and the U.S., show how these women draw on their generations, social movements, life experiences and personalities to create political identities. |
2/12/2008
3:30 p.m.
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Testosterone and Human Sexuality
:: Sari Van Anders, Assistant Professor. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington and Assistant Research Scientist, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
4448 East Hall
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2/13/2008
7:00 pm
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“Whose Story Is It: How an Archive Was Transformed Into an Exhibition, a Book, a Play, and a Documentary Film”
:: New York Public Library exhibit curator Jill Vexler and Ann Kirschner (Sala’s daughter and author of Sala’s Gift
Univeristy Exhibit Gallery, 100 Hatcher Graduate Library NOrth
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2/13/2008
3:00 - 4:00
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Gallery Reception, Open Secrets of Nature
:: Janie Paul
Lane Hall Exhibit Space
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2/18/2008
1:00 pm
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Issues of context and measurement in the study of sexuality
:: Sara McClelland, Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is entitled: Sexual satisfaction: The role of entitlement in satisfaction expectations and appraisals.
4448 East Hall
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| The study of sexuality has grown quickly over the last ten years. When considering the quality of research in this area, there are growing concerns about bias and construct validity in how psychologists and other social scientists measure concepts such as sexual health and sexual pleasure. I review a set of four studies: two of which use systematic methods to critically analyze sexuality research in an effort to identify gender and heterosexist bias in research designs and two studies which aim to provide empirical data and contribute to the psychological study of sexuality across gender, race/ethnicity, age, and sexual minority status |
2/20/2008
3:30 pm
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Gender and the Perception of Sexual Risk in Romantic Relationships
:: Terri Conley, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
4448 East Hall
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| In most situations, women perceive themselves to be at greater risk of harm than do men. Based on Gustafson’s gender-role perspective on sex differences in risk perception, we predicted that in at least one context, perception of the sexual risk of romantic partners, this gender difference would be reversed. Specifically, women should rate boyfriends as having lower risk for STIs than boyfriends rate themselves having. In two studies, we compared women’s perceptions of their boyfriend’s risk level to the boyfriend’s self-perception of sexual risk. As predicted, women rated their boyfriend as having a lower risk for STIs than the men rated themselves. Men did not show this pattern and in some cases showed the reverse pattern of perceiving their girlfriend to have a greater level of risk than she herself believed she had. |
2/21/2008
7:00 pm
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The Supreme Court and It's Impact on You
:: Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio
Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, Michigan League, 911. N. University, Ann Arbor
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| The lecture and reception to follow are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. For more information please call 734.764.9537. |
March |
3/14/2008
9:45 am - 12:30 pm.
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Herman Colloquium on Gender and Economics.
:: 9:45-11:00am
Robert Pollak Hernreich, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University
"The American Family and Family Economics"
11:15am - 12 noon
Francine Blau Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, Cornell University
"Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000"
Institute for Social Research, Room 6050
426 Thompson St.
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| These two talks will provide a general overview of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of women and the economy. |
3/14/2008
4:30 pm
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Reception to celebrate the release of Martha Vicinus and Caroline Eisner's new book, "Originality, Imitation, and Plagariarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age."
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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| Caroline Eisner was the Associate Director of the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, she became the Academic Dean at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont. Martha Vicinus is Director of the Sweetland Writing Center and Eliza M. Mosher Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. |
3/24/2008
7:00 - 8:30 pm
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The Performance of Voice: Queer Performance in Myrta Silva
:: Licia Fiol-Matta, Assoc. Prof. of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York
Michigan League Henderson Room, 911 N. University
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| Myrta Silva (Puerto Rico, 1923-1987) is known as one of the all-time best singers of Cuban guarachas. This talk explores the politics of voice and the question of queer performance by looking at the “before and after” of a humorous song created jointly by Silva and the Cuban composer Antonio Fernández (known artistically as "Ñico Saquito"): "Camina como Chencha" [Checha’s gait]. |
3/25/2008
4:00 pm
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Book Reception for "Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood" by Anna Kirkland, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science.
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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April |
4/1/2008
4:00 pm
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Book Reception for Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir by Joanne Leonard, Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Giselda Pollack Distinguished Professor of Art and Women's Studies.
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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| Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir interweaves the remarkable photography and collage work of artist Joanne Leonard with a warm, compelling account of an artist's life and creative processes. Leonard's work is by turns irreverent, bold, provocative, tender, wistful, poetic-and sometimes heartbreaking. The book's nearly two hundred reproductions include a wide selection of black and white photographs as well as her vivid, richly nuanced collages. |
4/3/2008
3:00 - 4:00 pm
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Harassment and Incivility at Work: Peering into the Dark Side of Organizational Behavior
Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment Series, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
:: Lilia Cortina, Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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| Sexual harassment and incivility represent two of the many ways in which people are subordinated, violated, and relegated to the margins of organizational life. This talk will show that these abuses are prevalent across diverse workplace contexts, particularly in the lives of women. It will also demonstrate how hostile work experiences can accumulate over time to undermine employees’ personal and professional health. The talk will close with findings on how people typically respond to harassment and incivility at work, raising questions about what constitutes a “reasonable” response. The overall aim of this research is to bring these negative behaviors into the light, in order to better equip individuals and organizations to combat them. |
4/3/2008
4:00 pm
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Book Reception for Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects by Nadine Naber and Amaney Jamal.
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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| Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the U.S., this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of ethnic studies. Unlike most immigrant communities who either have been consistently marked as "non-white," or have made a transition from "non-white" to "white," Arab Americans historically have been rendered "white" and have increasingly come to be seen as "non-white." This book highlights emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the lives of Arab Americans? What are the relationships between religion, class, gender, and anti-Arab racism? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses after September 11 that have simply "added on" the category "Arab American" to the landscape of U.S. ethnic and racial studies, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than a beginning, in the history of Arab American engagements with race, multiculturalism, and Americanization. Nadine Naber is assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Amaney Jamal is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. |
4/3/2008
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Law and Politics Workshop on Women and the Law
:: Papers include:
- "Law, Human Rights and Social Movements: Exploring the Justice Scaffold," Sally Merry, New York University (Anthropology) (Commentary by Mariah Zeisberg, UM Political Science)
- "Black People's Money: A Speculative Essay on the Interaction of Law, Economics, and Culture in the Context of Race, Gender and Class," Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Commentary by Anna Kirkland, UM Women's Studies)
- "Saballa Nitti's Death Sentence," Marianne Constable, University of California-Berkeley (Rhetoric) (Commentary by Elizabeth Wingrove, UM Political Science and Women's Studies)
- "Women's Civic Inclusion and the Bill of Rights," Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas-Austin (Government and Women's Studies) (Commentary by Alex Jakle, UM Political Science)
This event is sponsored by the Law and Politics Workshop (Department of Political Science), the Department of Women's Studies, Michigan Law School, the Institute for Research in Women and Gender, and the International Institute.
Michigan League Hussey Room
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| Papers and a full schedule of the event are available at http:// sitemaker.umich.edu/lawandpolitics/home. Please contact Alex Jakle(alexander.jakle@mac.com) or Mariah Zeisberg (zeisberg@umich.edu) with any questions. |
4/3/2008
5:00 pm
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Performing the Transnational Imaginary
:: Ella Shohat, Professor of Art, Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Rackam West Conference Room, 4th floor, 915 E. Washington
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| Ella Shohat is Professor in the departments of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, and is also affiliated with Comparative Literature and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She has published and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on issues having to do with cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and visual culture. More specifically, she has developed critical approaches to the study of Arab-Jews and the Mizrahim. Her award-winning work includes the books Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989), Unthinking Eurocentrism (co-authored with R. Stam, Routledge, 1994), Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997), Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT Press and the New Museum, 1998), Forbidden Reminiscences (Bimat Kedem, 2001). She has also curated a number of cultural events and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, such as Social Text, Critique, Jouvert and Public Culture. Her writings have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, German and Turkish. |
4/8/2008
4:00pm
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Motorola Lecture, Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed
:: Amira Hass, Journalist, Ha'aretz Israeli Daily
Rackham Assembly Hall
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| Hass, an award winning author and writer for the daily Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, is the only Israeli Jewish correspondent who lives full time in the West Bank. Deeply knowledgeable about issues of human rights and the current Palestinian situation, she has become one of the leading critics of Israeli policy. Her reporting of events and voicing of opinions that run counter to both official Israeli and Palestinian positions has exposed Hass to verbal attacks and opposition from authorities on both sides of the conflict.
The Motorola Lecture, established in 2001 with support from the Motorola Foundation, aims to expose U-M students to journalists addressing important issues concerning women and gender and to engage them in discussion about ways the media can reframe public understanding of complex issues.
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4/14/2008
7:00 - 9:00 pm
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Thesis proposal presentations in American Culture and Women's Studies
:: megan, brett, amy micaela, gerloni, jennifer, cheryl, amanda, jamie, rebecca, andrea, jeff, kelli
3512 Haven Hall
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| speaking on old women, sitcoms, travel lit, COMPARTE, Jamaica, girl power, baseball, marriage, gay freshman, women’s prisons, foreign eyes, blues, gay bars |
4/14/2008
1:00-2:30
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Women's Studies Undergraduate Honors Colloquium
:: Emily Gelmann, Anna Luke, Andrew McBride, Kelly Rauser, and Ian Spear
2239 Lane Hall
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Emily Gelmann “The Possibility of a Better Future: An Argument for Androgyny. The Power of Children’s Books as a Socializing Agent for Change”
Anna Luke “Food for Change: The WIC Program and Community-Based Care”
Andrew McBride “Transmen in Porn: Alternative Masculinities and Dilemmas of Visibility”
Kelly Rauser “‘FemHags’ vs. ‘Big Daddy Protector:’ The Fight over Women in Combat in the Blogosphere”
Ian Spear “Considering Crime: Reflections on the Resubjectivation of Gay Male Identity”
Please be advised that sexually explicit material will be presented. |
4/16/2008
12:00 - 1:30pm
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Globalization, Gender, Technology and Work Practices in Outsourcing
:: Beatrice Quarshie Smith, Associate Professor of Literacy Studies, Illinois State University College of Education, Director ISU Center for Reading and Literacy.
Michigan League, 3rd floor, Henderson Room, 912 N. University
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For women in so-called developing countries such as Ghana, information and communication technologies (ICT) process outsourcing and is transforming both public and private life. Come learn about ICT outsourcing and its implications for the career education of women as well as the related policy debates about equity in general and women in post-colonial societies in particular. Reception to follow.
Please register online at www.cew.umich.edu or by calling 734-764-6005. |
4/16/2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Altern(ed)natives
:: Gina Ulysse, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, Wesleyan University
2239 Lane Hall
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| When "native" subjects have talked to one too many researchers, they know. They know that researchers arrive to collect information and stories about their lives, which will be reorganized and interpreted in a document with which the ethnographers will build their careers. It is a document that various scholars, who have sought to "reinvent," "decolonize" or "recapture" anthropology, claim has the potential to intellectually, socially and politically incarcerate subjects within yet another "Savage slot" (Trouillot, 2003). In this presentation, Ulysse proposes an alter(ed)native approach that pluralizes the native and, in the process, destroys the Savage slot. |
4/17/2008
12:00 - 1:30pm
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Who Cares for Our Children? The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
:: Valerie Polokow, Professor of Educational Psychology and Early Childhood Education, Eastern Michigan University
Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty
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| Professor Valerie Polokow has written extensively about women and children in poverty and about family and child care policies in national and international contexts. Her latest book, Who Cares for Our Children? The Child Care Crisis in the Other America, is an urgent call to action to address the growing child care crisis in the nation. Professor Polakow's presentation will contain compelling stories of diverse low-income mothers from across the nation and chronicle their resilient struggles in the face of ongoing child care crises. She will also discuss her groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, arguing for a universal child care system. |
4/18/2008
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The Future of Victorian Studies: A Conference in Honor of Martha Vicinus
Rackham East Conference Room
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For more information and the conference schedule, please see http://www.umich.edu/~ncf/marthaconference.htm |
May |
5/9/2008
7:00 - 8:30 pm
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The Words of a Woman
:: Author Christine Mary McGinley
Ann Arbor Library, Downtown, Multipurpose room, 343 S. Fifth Ave.
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The Words of a Woman is a literary mosaic and one-woman monologue, composed entirely of excerpts from the written works of more than fifty exceptional women from literature and history.
Christine will read the monologue, The Words of a Woman, reflect on the process of creating the work, and answer questions and share with the audience. |
June |
6/13/2008
3:00 pm
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Thinking 'Straight': Heteronormativity and Associated Outcomes Across Sexual Orientation
:: Jan Habarth, Ph.D. candidate in Psychology and Women's Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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| Heteronormativity has been defined as the privileging of heterosexuality, enforced compliance with culturally determined heterosexual roles, and assumptions about heterosexuality as 'natural' or 'normal.' Such definitions necessarily involve gender, for normative heterosexuality cannot exist without rigid, binary expectations of behavior based on gender. In addition, expectations of normative heterosexuality are implicated in the links between attitudes towards sexual minorities and personality constructs such as authoritarianism, openness to experience, and tolerance of ambiguity. However, to date no quantitative measure of heteronormativity exists. I will present data on the development of the Heteronormative Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (HABS), including an examination of relationships among heteronormativity, other relevant personality characteristics, and psychological well-being for heterosexuals and sexual minorities in a community-based sample. |
6/16/2008
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8/12/2008
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