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11/3/2009
12 noon - 1:30 |
The 20th Century Lesbian History Website
:: Esther Newton, Women's Studies and American Culture
2239 Lane Hall |
When Esther Newton decided to teach a graduate seminar on 20th Century lesbian history, she did not imagine the collaborative project that would ensue. But when it turned out that almost all the best books were out of print, and that the word “lesbian” turned up such sponsored sites as “meet naughty girls – free” but little or no lesbian history, she decided there was a need for a website featuring this history. Since then two cohorts of graduate students have created essays for the site. This talk documents the results, expected and unexpected.
Esther Newton is Term Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, and Professor of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor Emerita at Purchase College, SUNY. She was a founder of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Program at Purchase College, and is author of many journal articles and of Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America; Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town and Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas. The last two won the Ruth Benedict Award of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association. Her next project is a memoir, My Butch Career. |
11/4/2009
12:10 - 1:15pm |
Honors Information Session
G239 Lane Hall |
| For Women's Studies students who would like to know more about the WS honors program. |
11/16/2009
4:00pm |
Women, Religion, and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece
:: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University
1022 Thayer Building, first floor |
| This talk examines the role of religion in shaping two distinctive patterns of female sociability in ancient China and Greece (c. 10th-4th centuries BCE). Comparisons and contrasts will be drawn between the forms, spaces, and ideologies of the religious festivities—from household feasts to public festivals—in which women participated in the two ancient societies. Whereas the sacrificial banquet in honor of patrilineal ancestors epitomized the ideal Chinese familial and sociopolitical order, festivals that featured competitive homosocial activities were at the center of Greek religious life. The talk will focus on how religion served crucial but different functions in defining women’s identities and forming their social ties in the two influential classical traditions. |
11/17/2009
12 noon |
Revealing Erasures: Visual Representation of Women of China: 1949-2009
:: Wang Zheng, Associate Professor, Women's Studies and History
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University |
Examining the covers of the official magazine Women of China over the span of 60 years, this presentation traces diverse interplays and contentions between the male-dominated central power, state feminists, and women of diverse social locations in the socialist period, and transformations of their relations in the market economy. The research is part of a large project on a history of the PRC from gender perspective.
WANG Zheng is associate professor of Women’s Studies and History and associate research scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. A long-term academic activist promoting gender studies in China, she is the director of the UM-China Gender Studies Project, and founder and co-director of the UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai. Her English publications concern changing gender discourses and relations in China's socioeconomic, political and cultural transformations of the past century, and feminism in China, both in terms of its historical development and its contemporary activism in the context of globalization. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (UC Press, 1999). Her current project is a gender history of the People’s Republic of China, exploring the relationship between gender and the socialist state formation, and gender and capitalist transformation. She has edited volumes (both in English and Chinese) on a variety of topics: the constructions of feminist subjectivity in socialist China, the politics and effects of translating feminisms in China throughout the twentieth century, and significance of introducing “gender” into the study of Chinese history as well as into the discursive contentions in contemporary China. |
11/19/2009
4:30 - 5:30 pm |
Getting a Great Job With a Women's Studies Degree, presented by the U-M Career Center
2239 Lane Hall |
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Complete Calendar
September |
9/21/2009
4:00 - 5:30pm
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Consuming (Gay) Fatherhood
:: Ellen Lewin, Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa
2239 Lane Hall
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Reproductive behavior and decision making in the United States are situated in a material context that some have called “stratified reproduction” meaning that reproductive careers of some are more socially valued than those of others. Gay men who wish to become parents are particularly disadvantaged in this context; shaped by expectations of conventional gender behavior and heteronormativity they are neither expected to desire fatherhood, nor to deserve to form and maintain families of their own. But as struggles for access to full citizenship have evolved, gay men’s desires for fatherhood have become more insistent and the methods by which they may achieve these goals more diverse.
This talk will focus on the strategies men deploy to become fathers, and on how these are shaped by their racial and economic positions and as well as by their understandings of the fundamental moral underpinnings of parenthood. Ellen Lewin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her major research interests center on motherhood, reproduction, and sexuality, particularly as these are played out in American cultures. Over the course of her career, she has completed studies that focus on low-income Latina immigrants in San Francisco, lesbian mothers, and lesbian and gay commitment ceremonies in the United States. She has just published Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. Common Language will be on hand to sell her book. |
9/23/2009
4:00 - 6:00 pm
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Social Psychology and the Neuropsychology of Passionate Love, Psychology Department Colloquium
:: Elaine Hatfield, Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaii
4448 Lane Hall
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| Two of Dr. Hatfield’s books have won the American Psychological Association's National Media Award for the best book in psychology. She is generally considered to have pioneered the scientific study of love. |
9/24/2009
11:30 - 1:00
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Resisting Assaults on Academic Freedom: A Panel Discussion
:: David Halperin, University of Michigan, Elaine Hatfield, University of Hawaii, Holly Hughes, University of Michigan. Moderator: Anna Kirkland, Univerisity of Michigan
2239 Lane Hall
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David Halperin's English course on the distinctiveness of gay male culture, titled “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation,” drew calls from conservative organizations to cut the university’s funding.
Elaine Hatfield's work on the psychology of love and sexual desire was singled out for U.S. Senator William Proxmire’s derisive “Golden Fleece Award,” with claims Hatfield was “fleecing” taxpayers with “unneeded” scientific research.
Performance artist Holly Hughes drew national attention as one of the so-called “NEA Four” artists whose grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were revoked in 1990 because they offended ''standards of decency.''
These scholars’ experiences and insights have important implications for everyone whose work challenges prevailing orthodoxies. |
9/30/2009
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What Does It All Mean? An Evening of Stories and Songs with Cantor Linda Hisrchhorn
University of Michigan Hillel, 1429 Hill St.
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| A songwriter's journey through religious school and the feminist movement on the way to becoming a cantor and the use of songs and stories (funny and poignant) to understand torah text, liturgy and her own life growing up in New York City as a first gene |
October |
10/2/2009
10:00am - 3:00pm
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Emerging Rural, Nonmetropolitan, and Working-Class Perspectives in LGBTQ Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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10:00-1:00 SESSION I: HISTORY & ETHNOGRAPHY OF RURAL QUEERS
Mary L. Gray, Indiana U.,"Queer Kids Here? Mediating the Politics of Gay Visibility in Rural America"
Emily Kazyak, U-Michigan, "Rejecting Cultural Markers of Queerness: Sexual Identity Constructions of Rural Gays and Lesbians"
Colin R. Johnson, Indiana U., "Hard Women"
10-min. response by Esther Newton + Q&A
1:10-3:00 SESSION II: LGBTQ RURAL & WORKING-CLASS CULTURES
Scott Herring, Indiana U., "I Hate New York: Dispatches from Another Country"
Nadine Hubbs, U-Michigan, "Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music"
Heather Love, Penn, "'Eye-on-the-teacher': Queer Routes of Upward Mobility" |
10/2/2009
7:00 pm
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Film Screening: Small Town Gay Bar
SH\'aut\ Performance Space, 315 Braun Ct.
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10/15/2009
5:00 pm
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2009 Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Unfinished Agenda: Women's Rights and Rewards
:: Faye Wattleton
Rackham Amphitheater
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| Faye Wattleton is the co-founder and president for the Center for the Advancement of Women (CFAW), an independent, women focused, national opinion research, education and policy advocacy corporation. CFAW conducts and sponsors research to identify and understand issues and experiences important to women’s daily lives. CFAW packages its research, to shape attitudes, opinions and public policy through broad based communications platforms. Ms. Wattleton holds a BS degree in Nursing from Ohio State University and a MS degree in Maternal and Infant Care with certification as a nurse-midwife, from Columbia University, in addition to thirteen honorary doctoral degrees. Ms. Wattleton will speak about the CFAW's mission to promote and protect women’s rights and other progressive health and social issues. |
10/28/2009
12:00 - 1:30
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Lynn Verduzco Baker, "'You're a Good Young Mother, You Take Care of Your Kid:' An Intersectional Analysis of the Social Category of Mother"
Emma Garrett, "The Worm of the Unconscious and the Death of Domestic Space: Pauline Hopkins' 'Of One Blood'"
:: Women's Studies Graduate Student Brownbag
2239 Lane Hall
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Lynn Verduzco Baker is a Ph.D. candidate in Women's Studies and Sociology.
Emma Garrett is a Ph.D. candidate in Women's Studies and English.
Both will discuss the ways their dissertation research approaches the concept of "respectability" in regards to marginalized women. |
10/29/2009
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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Graduate School in Women's Health: Women's Health Careers Series
:: Jessica Allen, social work and public health student
Janaiya Johnson, public health student ;
Ebony Parker-Featherstone, MD, family medicine resident and fellow in obstetrics and gynecology with a specialty in adolescent women's health
Lee Roosevelt, RN, BSN, MPH, second career nurse midwife student
2239 Lane Hall
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| Come hear from current graduate and postgraduate students about their career paths in women's health. |
10/30/2009
12:10-1:30
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Pizza With Professors
:: Elizabeth Cole, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Psychology, Nadine Hubbs, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Music, Nadine Naber, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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November |
11/3/2009
12 noon - 1:30
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The 20th Century Lesbian History Website
:: Esther Newton, Women's Studies and American Culture
2239 Lane Hall
|
When Esther Newton decided to teach a graduate seminar on 20th Century lesbian history, she did not imagine the collaborative project that would ensue. But when it turned out that almost all the best books were out of print, and that the word “lesbian” turned up such sponsored sites as “meet naughty girls – free” but little or no lesbian history, she decided there was a need for a website featuring this history. Since then two cohorts of graduate students have created essays for the site. This talk documents the results, expected and unexpected.
Esther Newton is Term Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, and Professor of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor Emerita at Purchase College, SUNY. She was a founder of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Program at Purchase College, and is author of many journal articles and of Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America; Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town and Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas. The last two won the Ruth Benedict Award of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association. Her next project is a memoir, My Butch Career. |
11/4/2009
12:10 - 1:15pm
|
Honors Information Session
G239 Lane Hall
|
| For Women's Studies students who would like to know more about the WS honors program. |
11/16/2009
4:00pm
|
Women, Religion, and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece
:: Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University
1022 Thayer Building, first floor
|
| This talk examines the role of religion in shaping two distinctive patterns of female sociability in ancient China and Greece (c. 10th-4th centuries BCE). Comparisons and contrasts will be drawn between the forms, spaces, and ideologies of the religious festivities—from household feasts to public festivals—in which women participated in the two ancient societies. Whereas the sacrificial banquet in honor of patrilineal ancestors epitomized the ideal Chinese familial and sociopolitical order, festivals that featured competitive homosocial activities were at the center of Greek religious life. The talk will focus on how religion served crucial but different functions in defining women’s identities and forming their social ties in the two influential classical traditions. |
11/17/2009
12 noon
|
Revealing Erasures: Visual Representation of Women of China: 1949-2009
:: Wang Zheng, Associate Professor, Women's Studies and History
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University
|
Examining the covers of the official magazine Women of China over the span of 60 years, this presentation traces diverse interplays and contentions between the male-dominated central power, state feminists, and women of diverse social locations in the socialist period, and transformations of their relations in the market economy. The research is part of a large project on a history of the PRC from gender perspective.
WANG Zheng is associate professor of Women’s Studies and History and associate research scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. A long-term academic activist promoting gender studies in China, she is the director of the UM-China Gender Studies Project, and founder and co-director of the UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai. Her English publications concern changing gender discourses and relations in China's socioeconomic, political and cultural transformations of the past century, and feminism in China, both in terms of its historical development and its contemporary activism in the context of globalization. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (UC Press, 1999). Her current project is a gender history of the People’s Republic of China, exploring the relationship between gender and the socialist state formation, and gender and capitalist transformation. She has edited volumes (both in English and Chinese) on a variety of topics: the constructions of feminist subjectivity in socialist China, the politics and effects of translating feminisms in China throughout the twentieth century, and significance of introducing “gender” into the study of Chinese history as well as into the discursive contentions in contemporary China. |
11/19/2009
4:30 - 5:30 pm
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Getting a Great Job With a Women's Studies Degree, presented by the U-M Career Center
2239 Lane Hall
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December |
12/1/2009
12 noon - 1:30pm
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Beyond the Ideal Woman: Reflections from History and Psychology
:: Dasa Francikova (History) and Natalie Sabik (Psychology)
2239 Lane Hall
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This semester we are pairing Women's Studies graduate students working in the Humanities and Social Sciences to discuss their research. Hopefully these brown bags will generate conversations around the common themes and different methods of work in Women's Studies. We invite the community to talk, discuss, exchange and connect with one another!
Don’t forget to bring your lunch!
~The Women's Studies Brown Bag committee: Cookie Woolner (History), Sam Montgomery (Psych) and Cat Cassel (English) |
12/3/2009
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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RESCHEDULED TO WINTER TERM: Paths to Midwifery: Women's Health Careers Series
2239 Lane Hall
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12/9/2009
4:00 pm
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Feminist Approaches to Biography: Graduate Student Presentations and Discussion
:: Allison Brooks (Creative Writing), Allison Desimone (Musicology), Mickenzie Fasteland (English & Women’s Studies), Amanda Hendrix-Komoto (History), Discussant, Prof. Adela Pinch (English and Women's Studies)
2239 Lane Hall
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January |
1/20/2010
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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Senior Leadership in Women's Health: Women's Health Careers Panel
:: Timothy Johnson, Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Women’s Studies, Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
Lori Lamerand, President/CEO, Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan and Planned Parenthood of East Central Michigan
Carolyn Sampselle, Carolyne K. Davis Collegiate Professor of Nursing, Obsterics and Gynecology and Women's Studies, Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing
2239 Lane Hall (rescheduled from Jan. 21)
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1/28/2010
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2010 Motorola Lecture on Gender and the Media
:: M. Gigi Durham, University of Iowa and author of the "The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It"
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February |
2/17/2010
3:30 - 5:00
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Careers in Women's Health Panel
2239 Lane Hall
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