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September |
9/1/2008 - 12/15/08
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Lane Hall Exhibit
HAITI
Jane Evelyn Atwood, photographer
Lane Hall Exhibit Space, 204 S. State Street, M-F 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Artist Statement
I asked to go to Haiti for an assignment in 2005 – but that first trip was not enough. I needed to photograph Haiti in depth, for myself.
For some time, violence had grown there, with hostages being taken, including journalists who were savagely tortured and killed. In this climate of insecurity and strife, I wanted to concentrate on the daily lives of the people living on the island. Because, as is always the case, the majority of the population doesn’t participate in these tragic events.
Almost immediately, I knew that I needed to talk about the plight of Haiti in a new and different way. First of all, color imposed itself -- because of the stark land in constant play with the unique Caribbean light and the bright hues favored by the culture. Since I usually work in black and white, but because color seemed a natural obligation there, I found myself favoring a certain aesthetic in the images I produced, along with the reportorial content.
I made three more trips to Haiti, and photographed ordinary Haitians in their daily lives. I deliberately avoided Port au Prince, the only area covered by the press. I began to put together a set of pictures about what I found, eschewing the clichés of violence and voodoo so often associated with Haiti.
I wanted to do a story that would have the journalistic merit of revealing the ordinary in an exciting way, through color and form and light.
These pictures were taken in Haiti between 2005 and 2007, in Gonaîves, Jeremy, Port-de-Paix, Anse Rouge, Fatima la Coupe, La Pointe, Anse à Foleur, Sainte Anne, Chansolme, Saint-Louis du Nord, Sources Chaudes, et Bassin Bleu.
Jane Evelyn Atwood 2008 |
9/4/2008
11:30 - 1:30
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"Black and Latina/o Queer Arts in the Bronx: A lunchtime conversation with Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez"
:: Arthur Avilles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez
3512 Haven Hall, 505 S. State St
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| Leading modern dancer and choreographer Arthur Aviles and playwright and author Charles Rice-Gonzalez will talk about their creative work and about their experiences directing the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), an alternative performance space that caters to community groups and artists as well as avant-garde, downtown performers. A former dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Aviles has directed his own company (the Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre) since 1996. He founded the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in an old factory building in Hunts Point in 1998 with his partner Charles Rice-Gonzalez. In addition to two concerts per year presented by AATT, BAAD! annually presents BAAD! ASS WOMEN, a cultural celebration of works by women; the Boogie Down Dance Series, a spring festival of dance in the Bronx; OUT LIKE THAT!, the Bronx's only fest celebrating works by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender artists during the month of June; and the BlakTino Performance Series, presenting the works of Black, Latino and artists of mixed race, in the fall. |
9/11/2008
12:00 - 1:00 pm
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The Personality and Social Context Area of Psychology Brown Bag Series Presents
"Understanding Gender Differences in the Clark and Hatfield"
:: Terri Conley, Asst. Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
3048 East Hall
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9/17/2008
4:10 pm
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Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
"A Democratic Reading of Plato's Dialogues: A Socratic Narrative"
:: Arlene Saxonhouse, Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies
Alumni Center Founder's Room
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9/23/2008
4:30 - 6:00 pm
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Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
"From the Burned-over District to West Africa: Nineteenth-century Narratives of Conversion and Mission in a Gendered African Diaspora"
:: Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
Sandra Gunning, Professor of English and Afro-American and African Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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October |
10/3/2008
3:00-5:00pm
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“Pathways Through the Joint Women’s Studies Ph.D. Program”
:: Holly Dugan, English, 2005. Asst. Professor of English, George Washington University
Breanne Fahs, Psychology, 2006. Asst. Professor of Women's Studies, Arizona State University West
Zaje Harrell, Psychology, 2002. Asst. Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
Rebekah Pite, History, 2007. Asst. Professor of History, Lafayette College
2239 Lane Hall
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10/8/2008
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"When the Ivory Tower is a Glass House" CANCELED. TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE.
:: Dr. Yolanda Flores-Niemann, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Houston
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10/13/2008
2:00 - 3:00 pm
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Public Screening, "Period: The End of Menstruation"
Angell Hall, Auditorium B
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As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman¹s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogatesthe cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.
Note: screening only on this date. Discussion with film maker on 10/15. |
10/14/2008
2:00 -3:00 pm
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Challenging Dominant Health Discourses Through Feminist Film Practice: A Discussion With Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler
:: Giovanna Chesler, Feminist Filmmaker and Web Producer
Angell Hall, Auditorium B
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http://www.tuneinhpv.com
Chesler presents her web based project, Tune in HPV, and discusses her documentary film Period: The End of Menstruation, which she designed for entertainment, expression and education. Her projects build from the personal, embodied experiences of her participants. Their stories engage with dominant medical discourses, both challenging and reflecting trends launched by pharmaceutical companies which effect their gendered bodies. Period and Tune in HPV connect these stories with western medical knowledge, non-western medicine, and feminist critiques of science and technology to create complex conversations around technologies of the body and sexual health. |
10/14/2008
4:30 - 6:00 pm
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Faculty / Graduate Student Colloquium
“Doing Gender and Sexuality in Sociology”
:: Emily Kazyak, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology and Women's Studies
Karin Martin, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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10/16/2008
7:00 - 8:00 am
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Home Grown Health Messages: A Discussion with Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler
:: Giovanna Chesler, Feminist Filmmaker
Room F2305 Mott Hospital, UMHS Dept. of Obstetrics& Gynecology Grand Rounds
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| The Tune in HPV Project and the documentary film Period: The End of Menstruation by Giovanna Chesler build from personal stories which integrate and challenge existing public health messages and pharmaceutical ad campaigns. Chesler will show excerpts of her work and discuss the popular response to these projects. |
10/17/2008
9:00 am - 12:50 pm
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A mini- conference on Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
:: Panel I: Gender, Violence and the State, 9:00 - 10:45 am.
Panel II: Stigma, Policy, and Practice, 11:00 am - 12:50 pm
International Institute, Room 1636, School of Social World Building
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10/23/2008
5:00 pm
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Vivian R. Shaw / Penny W. Stamps Lecture
:: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Photographer
Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St.
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| Jane Evelyn Atwood is an internationally-known photographer. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; and finally, photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries. |
10/30/2008
5:00 pm
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Blackwater Abroad, Blackwater at Home: Global Violence, Privatizing War and the Threat to Democracy
:: Jeremy Scahill, journalist, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Michigan League Ballroom
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November |
11/3/2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
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Herman Colloquium on Gender and Economics, Women and Financial Literacy
:: Annamaria Lusardi, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Michigan League Hussey Room
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Annamaria Lusardi is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has advised the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Dutch Central Bank, and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center on issues related to financial literacy and saving.
The Herman Colloquium, funded by the Herman Family Foundation, is a collaborative effort between the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Economics intended to encourage the integration of gender analysis into the fields of economics and finance, and the integration of economics into Women's Studies. |
11/11/2008
12 noon - 1:00 pm
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Women's Studies Brown Bag Series
:: Valerie Traub (English) and Sari van Anders (Psychology). Focus on scholarship and research methods on sexuality and gender.
2239 Lane Hall
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Organized by Women' s Studies graduate students, this brownbag series will privde a space for graduate students to get a sense of the range of scholarship and research methods used by faculty in Women' s Studies, and also introduce graduate students to faculty and each other for the purposes of mentoring and advising. Feel free to bring your lunch. |
December |
12/2/2008
4:00 pm
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Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
"Luminous Trash: Throwaway Robots in Blade Runner, the Terminators, A.I. and Wall-E"
:: Patricia Yaeger, Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature and Women’s Studies
Rackham Amphitheater, 4th Floor
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12/2/2008
4:00 pm
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Gender & Piety: Practice and Belief in Medieval Jewish and Christian Communiites in Northern Europe
:: Elisheva Baumgarten, Professor of History, Bar Ilan University
2022 Thayer, 202 S. Thayer St.
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12/3/2008
1:00 - 2:30 pm
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Interactive Workshop: Tokenism & the Diversity Agenda in Higher Education
:: A Conversation with Dr. Yolanda Flores-Niemann
4540 East Hall, Pillsbury Conference Room
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| Dr. Flores-Niemann is currently the Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Utah State University. She is one of only a few women of color senior-level administrators in higher education nation-wide. Prior to her current post, she was a Full Professor at Washington State University in the Department of Comparative Studies. Her research on the role of ecological-level factors in the production and maintenance of stereotypes, intergroup relations, tokenization, and educational outcomes is highly regarded. She also conducts research on promising practices for diversifying the academic pipeline in the absence of affirmative action policies. |
12/3/2008
4:00 - 5:30 pm
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When the Ivory Tower is a Glass House
:: Dr. Yolanda Flores-Niemann
Rackham Graduate School, West Conference Room
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| Dr. Flores-Niemann is currently the Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Utah State University. She is one of only a few women of color senior-level administrators in higher education nation-wide. Prior to her current post, she was a Full Professor at Washington State University in the Department of Comparative Studies. Her research on the role of ecological-level factors in the production and maintenance of stereotypes, intergroup relations, tokenization, and educational outcomes is highly regarded. She also conducts research on promising practices for diversifying the academic pipeline in the absence of affirmative action policies. |
January |
1/5/2009 - 7/31/09
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In Times of War: In Her Own Words
Lane Hall Exhibit Space
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| Lane Hall hosts In Times of War: In Her Own Words, an exhibit curated by the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI (courtesy of the Arab American National Museum; www.arabamericanmuseum.org). This exhibit has served as a mentoring project between university professors, local Arab American women and fifteen students, some from U-M. Initially, students met with local university professors to learn about the methodology for conducting oral histories. After a series of lectures, the students paired off and met with nine area Arab American women whose lives have been affected by the threat of conflict. The exhibit runs through July. |
1/12/2009
2:00 - 3:30 pm
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Transgressive Maids and Bunny-Eared TVs: Queering Network Television
:: Candace Moore, Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA
Thayer Building Common Room, 1st floor
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This talk examines two television programs of differing genres from the early 1960s that figure sexual and social transgression through the character of the maid: science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits (ABC, 1963-65) and domestic sitcom Hazel (CBS, 1961-1966). Comparing dramatic and comedic representations of women who were clearly marked as “different,” Moore suggests that televised discourses dealing with class, race, housework, and working women were intertwined with ideas portrayed by television about normative and non-normative female sexuality. Moore will draw from archival materials to present a critical framework from which these representations might be better read today.
Candace Moore is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, where her work focuses on queer representation in television. Moore's articles have appeared or are forthcoming in: Cinema Journal, GLQ, Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries, Televising Queer Women, and Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television. Moore has also published extensively as a media critic for Girlfriends Magazine, AfterEllen.com, and Curve. |
1/13/2009
4:30 - 6:00 pm
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Faculty / Graduate Student Colloquium
Global Feminisms: Collaborating on Scholarly Activism
:: Desdamona Rios, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology and Women's Studies
Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
2239 Lane Hall
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1/13/2009
12 noon - 1:30 pm
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Women's Studies Brownbag Series. Scholarship and research methods on masculinity.
:: Jennifer Yim (Psychology) and Ying Zhang (History).
2239 Lane Hall
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| Organized by Women' s Studies graduate students, this brownbag series will provide a space for graduate students to get a sense of the range of scholarship and research methods used by faculty in Women' s Studies, and also introduce graduate students to faculty and each other for the purposes of mentoring and advising. Feel free to bring your lunch. |
1/20/2009
5:00 pm
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“A Nation on the Steps of the Conference”: Imagining Health Sovereignty in Transnational Indigenous AIDS Activism
:: Scott Morgensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Macalester College
2239 Lane Hall
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Indigenous AIDS activists are asserting Indigenous control over the conditions of health, or “health sovereignty.” Their work critically theorizes the colonial governmentality and biopolitics of AIDS and inspires decolonizing directions in transnational feminist and queer thought. My talk traces the intellectual histories of Indigenous AIDS activists by connecting their interventions at the 2006 International AIDS Conference to two decades of Native American AIDS organizing in the US and Canada. I examine how activists created visual media that reimagined Indigenous solidarities--notably, by centering Indigenous queer and feminist critiques of colonial heteronormativity--and mobilized them in states and global systems to demand Indigenous health sovereignty. Their work directs scholars in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American studies, anthropology, women’s studies and queer studies to theorize global power by reference to the border-crossing and decolonizing claims on nationality, peoplehood, land, and health in transnational Indigenous movements.
Scott Morgensen is an interdisciplinary anthropologist and historian working at the intersections of feminist, queer, Native/Indigenous, and American studies. His research projects have examined settler colonialism as a condition of queer modernity in the US, and the colonial governmentality and biopolitics of global AIDS. He is engaged in long-term research and writing collaborations with Indigenous queer, feminist, and AIDS activists. His book Welcome Home: Settler Sexuality and the Politics of Indigeneity is being published by University of Minnesota Press. His writing appears in GLQ, Women and Performance, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, New Proposals and several other journals and collections. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Women’s Studies at UC Santa Cruz and he teaches in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Macalester College. He is an affiliate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he also works with graduate students in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, American Indian Studies, and Anthropology, and co-organizes the Global Sexualities Research Collaborative at the UM Institute for Advanced Study. |
1/22/2009
12 noon
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CAAS Faculty Brownbag, “The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia”
:: Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies
4701 Haven Hall
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| Jonathan M. Metzl is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies, and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine, at the University of Michigan. In this capacity he works as an Attending Physician in the adult psychiatric clinics and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on gender and health and the history of medicine. In addition, he is an Associate Research Scientist in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. He has written for such journals as the American Journal of Psychiatry; the American Journal of Psychotherapy; Textual Practice; Harvard Review of Psychiatry; Academic Medicine; Gender and History; and SIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture, and Society. His book, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, was published in 2003 by Duke University Press. |
1/22/2009
5:00 pm
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Engaged in a Sort of Way: The Queer Arrangements of George Ade's The Sultan of Sulu
:: Victor Mendoza, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Gettysburg College
2239 Lane Hall
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Part of a book project, Fantasy Islands, which examines sexual and racial governance in the U.S. during the early twentieth-century as inflected by the Philippine-American War (1899 to its official end in 1902) and subsequent colonial occupation, this lecture examines the ambiguously anti-imperialist work of Midwestern writer George Ade. Though he was in his day considered a brilliant satirist and master of slang, Ade was overshadowed by his literary predecessor, hero, and contemporary, the explicitly anti-imperialist Mark Twain. Yet Ade's "Stories of Benevolent Assimilation" (1899), a collection of vignettes running as a serial column in the Chicago Record, and his libretto to The Sultan of Sulu (1902), a musical comedy that, after premiering in Chicago, had a successful run on Broadway, deliver incisive but subtle critique of McKinley's rhetoric of "benevolent assimilation." Though both are set in the Philippines during the war, these works, very popular at the time, not only resist capitulating to nascent racializing stereotypes of Filipinas and Filipinos; they also imagine desires inassimilable to morally acceptable colonial relations, regional American life, and historical narrativization.
Victor Mendoza holds a Ph.D. (2007) in English from the University of California, Berkeley; and a M.A. in English and Interpretive Theory from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a graduate minor in Gender and Women's Studies. Currently he teaches comparative ethnic U.S. literature and culture at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania; last year he was the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois. Professor Mendoza specializes in American (1890 to present), Asian American, and comparative ethnic American literature and cultural production. His research and teaching interests include cultures of U.S. imperialism, critical race theory, queer of color critique, and transnational feminist studies. Professor Mendoza has published articles in American Literature and ELH (formerly English Literary History) and is currently finishing his book manuscript, Fantasy Islands: Illicit Desire and Philippine-U.S .Imperial Relations. |
1/22/2009
3:30 pm
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Women and the Economy Series. Women and the Economy: Obstacles to Low-income Women's Full Participation
:: Heidi Hartmann (Institute for Women's Policy Research), Randy Albelda (UMass-Boston), Sandra Danziger (U-M) and Kristin Seefeldt (U-M) discuss women living at and below the poverty line and the barriers to their full participation in the economy. Pamela Smock (U-M) will moderate.
School of Social Work Educational Conference Center, 1080 S. University Ave.
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1/27/2009
4:00 pm
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“Child Protection and Monastic Ambivalence in Ancient Buddhist India”
:: Amy Paris Langenberg, Brown University
2022 Thayer Building, 2nd floor
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| The Buddhist goddess Hārītī, a regal figure bearing auspicious symbols, appears regularly in Indian Buddhist art during the first half of the first millennium and into the medieval period. Seventh century Chinese pilgrims Yijing and Xuanzang report on her role as fertility goddess among local lay communities. The wide-spread and enduring Buddhist cult of Hārītī provides a focal point for an intriguing constellation of issues; namely the relationship of apotropaic, fertility and disease goddesses to the Indian Buddhist monastic community, the possibility that Buddhist monks might have aided the laity in promoting fertility, and more generally Indian monastic Buddhism's uneasy relationship to human reproduction. In this lecture Dr. Langenberg will contrast the cult of Hārītī, and various Buddhist narratives in which monastics seem to participate in the ritual protection of children, with orthodox Buddhist discussions of birth in order to explore the range of interpretive and ritual options available to ancient Indian Buddhist monastic communities in their dealings with the laity. |
1/29/2009
5:00 pm
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"Women We Will Never Know": Indian Surrogacy and the Transnational Distribution of Mothering
:: Kalindi Vora, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
2239 Lane Hall
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Drawing on recent ethnographic research at the Akanksha clinic in Anand, Gujarat, a facility which is gaining attention for its arrangement of local surrogate mothers for foreign couples, this talk explores some ways Assisted Reproductive Technologies allow for the growth of transnational surrogacy. These technologies change the way that the female body and the pregnant body are imagined. As a result, the uterus becomes an unused body part that can be rented out as a service to childless couples. This western medicalized understanding of the body also makes it possible to commodify the uterus and the services of the surrogate in gestating the embryo and fetus, so that gestation becomes a form of service work in the global economy.
Kalindi Vora holds a PhD (2007) in History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies) from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Currently she is a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work draws from critical race and gender frameworks in the study of transnational movements of people and labor between India and wealthier nations. |
February |
2/3/2009
5:00 pm
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S & M's of Black Sexual Citizenship: The Erotic, Race, and Black Sexual Culture in Chester Himes' Pinktoes
:: LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida
3222 Angell Hall
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Horton-Stallings discusses Black erotica and erotic literacy as important to African American sexual wellbeing and citizenship. Using the work of Audre Lorde and Chester Himes, she explores the connection between the erotics of power and Black uplift and the politics of respectability. In the end, she offers that Pinktoes serves as an erotic critique of past repression of the erotic and a foreshadowing of the forthcoming Black erotic rebellion of Post-Civil Rights Black Americans.
LaMonda Horton-Stallings received her PhD in English from Michigan State University in 2002. Her research and teaching interests include African American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, and Black Folklore. She has published essays in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Obsidian III, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, CR: The New Centennial Review, Western Journal of Black Studies, and NWSA. Her first book, Mutha is Half a Word!: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture, critically engages folk and vernacular theory, black cultural studies, and queer theory to examine the representation of sexual desire in fiction, poetry, stand-up comedy, neo-soul, and hip-hop created by black women. She is currently at work on a second project that aims to theorize the development of discourses on sexual rights in popular black sexual culture. |
2/3/2009
12 noon - 1:00 pm
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Women's Studies Brown Bag. Scholarship and research methods on activism.
:: Victoria Castillo (History) and Nicola Curtin (Psychology).
2239 Lane Hall
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| Organized by Women' s Studies graduate students, this brownbag series will provide a space for graduate students to get a sense of the range of scholarship and research methods used by faculty in Women' s Studies, and also introduce graduate students to faculty and each other for the purposes of mentoring and advising. Feel free to bring your lunch. |
2/4/2009
4:00 - 5:00 pm
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The U-M Career Center Presents
Careers for Women's Studies Majors
2239 Lane Hall
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| Are you a Women's Studies major, or thinking of declaring a major in Women's Studies? Are you wondering what you can do with your Women's Studies degree after graduation? You are invited to attend "Careers for Women's Studies Majors" on Wednesday, February 4 from 4-5pm at 2239 Lane Hall. Learn about career options and employment opportunities for Women's Studies concentrators - presented by Amy Hoag from The Career Center . Bring your career questions and a friend (or two) to explore the range of employment possibilities for students with a degree in Women's Studies! |
2/6/2009
2:00 pm
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Women in the Economy Series. Women's Financial Futures: Trends and Policy Initiatives
:: Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research
2239 Lane Hall
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2/7/2009
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Women's Identity Symposium: Embracing Our Voice
:: Featuring a keynote address, workshops with Intergroup Relations, a faculty panel, and more
Michigan Union Ballroom
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The Women's Identity Symposium is designed to raise awareness and create community around the identity of "woman" on our campus. We hope to create a space for dialogue and prompt thought regarding the identity of woman, its interaction with other identities, and how those intersections play out at a university administered by many women, and vocally committed to diversity.
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2/11/2009
4:00 pm
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Book Reception for Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies
Shaman Drum Bookshop, 311 S. State St.
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| For more information please see http://www.shamandrum.com/bookshop/index.php?main_page=calendar&view=458 |
2/12/2009
5:00 pm
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Thinking About General Problems from a Gendered Place: Gender Dynamics in 1990s Anti-AIDS Organizing
:: Benita Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Binghamton University
2239 Lane Hall
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Using ongoing research into the life and death of ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles) in the 1990s, Professor Roth explores how gender divisions between women and men contributed to the demobilization of a successful social movement organization. She argues that gender studies can contribute concepts – like intersectionality – that can help re-center movement studies around realistic discussions of how disparaged statuses, like, gender, change the experiences of some activists, and thus the dynamics of many movement organizations. Feminists have argued for an intersectional approach to thinking about social locations – how mutually constitutive dominations come into play in creating social locations. She argues that without an intersectional feminist perspective, dynamics and divides that demobilize groups may remain hidden and ill-understood.
Benita Roth is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her book Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave was awarded the Distinguished Book Award in 2006 from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association. She has authored various reviews, book chapters, and articles that have appeared in the journals Critical Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Agenda (Republic of South Africa), and Gender & Society. She recently co-edited (with Lesley J. Wood and Paul Almeida) the recent collection Teaching Social Movements, published by the ASA. In 2007, she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her ongoing research and teaching involves the nexus of gender, protest, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality in the U.S. postwar period. |
2/16/2009
4:00 pm
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Syndromes and a Century: Buddhism and the Representation of Sexual Modernity in Contemporary Thai Cinema
:: Arnika Fuhrmann, University of Berlin
Thayer Building, Room 2022
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| Much of contemporary Thai cinema draws on older literary and filmic forms as well as on folkloric and Buddhist motifs as a preferred means through which to delineate contemporary Thai sexual subjectivities and their imagined historical continuities. The talk begins by investigating Buddhism’s vital role in the production of nationalist sexual modernity in Nonzee Nimibutr’s Nang Nak (1999). In contrast, the second half of the talk examines how a queer cinematic avantgarde aims to defamiliarize motifs that are currently thoroughly occupied by “heritage” discourses and by normative state discourses about sexual subjectivity. Taking Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006) as its cases, the latter half of the talk analyzes the central role that Buddhist representation plays also in the legitimation of contemporary queer sexualities in ways that contest the modernizing, sexually normativizing national project. |
2/17/2009
5:00 pm
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Politics, Ethics and Transnational Feminist Knowledge Regimes of Visibility and Invisible Practices
:: Leela Fernandes, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall, after 5pm please enter through the fishbowl entrance off of the Diag
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In recent years, a rich scholarship on transnational feminism has emerged within the interdisciplinary field of women’s/gender studies. The paper examines some of the dominant trends that have shaped this body of scholarship. In particular, the paper analyzes the ways in which the paradigm of transnational feminism has oriented feminist research within a particular set of methodological, substantive and conceptual narratives. Such narratives tend to emphasize particular forms of visible border-crossing issues. The paper then draws on a theoretical engagement with transnational feminist knowledge to develop a broader methodological approach that addresses the epistemological, ontological and ethical dimensions of knowledge production. Drawing on particular examples of research on contemporary globalization, the objective of the paper is to provoke a theoretical discussion on knowledge production and the question of how to develop feminist research within a transnational frame.
Leela Fernandes is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her most recent book, India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (University of Minnesota Press, December 2006) examines the political implications that the rise of the Indian middle class has had for Indian democracy and the politics of economic reform. She is also the author of Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Transforming Feminist Practice (A. Lute Books, 2003).. She is Co-Editor of Critical Asian Studies and Associate Editor of Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society. She is currently completing a book Transnational Feminism: Essays on Ethics, Politics and Knowledge and working on a new research project on the politics of religious conversion in India. |
March |
3/5/2009
7:00 - 8:00 pm
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Motorola Lecture, Rethinking Thin
:: Gina Kolata, New York Times Science Reporter
Michigan Union Pendleton Room
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| Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender host journalist Gina Kolata for the 2009 Motorola Lecture. In this eye-opening lecture, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of the place of diets in American society. Brimming with anecdote, scientific data, and common sense, Rethinking Thin offers a challenge to the conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss. |
3/5/2009
4:00pm
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Self-Deception: Theory and Practice
:: Laura Kipnis,Professor of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
Michigan League Hussey Room
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A cultural critic and theorist whose work focuses on sexual politics and emotional economies, her most recent books are Against Love: A Polemic (2003) and The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (2006); her essays have appeared in Slate, Harper's, Playboy, the Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages, and she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. Her next book is How to Become a Scandal. T
his event is sponsored by the Department of English with generous support from the departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Psychology, and Women's Studies, the Program in American Culture, the Law School, the Humanities Institute, the LSA Honors Program, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. |
3/10/2009
4:00 pm
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Bisexuality, Feminism, Men & Me
:: Robyn Ochs - Activist, author, teacher, speaker, and editor of the Bi Women newsletter.
Weil Hall Room 1230 (O'Neil Room)
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| This provocative lecture explores some of the intersections between the personal and the political, covering topics from body image to social sex role conditioning and to heterosexual privilege. |
3/10/2009
3:00 pm
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Women and the Economy Series: The Negative Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Women's Career Progress
:: Madeline Heilman, New York University
2239 Lane Hall
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3/10/2009
12 noon - 1:00 pm
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Women's Studies Brown Bag Series. Focus on scholarship and research methods on transgender narratives and literature.
:: Mira Bellwether (English) and Carla Pfeffer (Sociology)
2239 Lane Hall
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| Organized by Women' s Studies graduate students, this brownbag series will provide a space for graduate students to get a sense of the range of scholarship and research methods used by faculty in Women' s Studies, and also introduce graduate students to faculty and each other for the purposes of mentoring and advising. Feel free to bring your lunch. |
3/10/2009
7:00 pm
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Workshop: Loosening the Gender Girdle: How Gender Affects You
:: Robyn Ochs - Activist, author, teacher, speaker, and editor of the Bi Women newsletter
Weil Hall Room 1230 (O'Neil Room)
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| This workshop looks at the ways in which we are limited by a binary understanding of gender, and explore how the politics of gender tie together the feminist, queer and transgendered movements. |
3/11/2009
12 noon
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"Theorizing Blackness and 'Blackface' in Opera"
:: Naomi André, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and the Residential College
4701 Haven Hall
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3/16/2009
12:00 - 1:30
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“Images of Black Working Women: Mammies, Sapphires, Pets, and Threats,” Psychology Department Colloquium, Hosted by PS&C Psychology and Women's Studies
:: Kecia M. Thomas, PhD. Founding Director, Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity, Sr. Advisor to the Dean of the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia
4448 East Hall
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3/16/2009
8:00 - 10:00 pm
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Performance by the artist/activist group Salt Lines
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Michigan Room, Michigan League
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| This powerhouse group, comprised of Andrea Gibson (Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion), Denise Jolly (Seattle Poetry Slam), Sonya Renee (Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), and Tara Hardy (founder of Bent Writing Institute) represent some of the highest ranking and most respected artists coming out of the international Poetry Slam circuit. The University of Michigan is one stop on the Salt Lines March 2009 tour, taking place in honor of Women’s History Month. |
3/16/2009
12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Spring Pride Week presents the artist/activist group Salt Lines for an afternoon workshop on gender theory
MSA Chambers, Michigan Union
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| This powerhouse group, comprised of Andrea Gibson (Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion), Denise Jolly (Seattle Poetry Slam), Sonya Renee (Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), and Tara Hardy (founder of Bent Writing Institute) represent some of the highest ranking and most respected artists coming out of the international Poetry Slam circuit. The University of Michigan is one stop on the Salt Lines March 2009 tour, taking place in honor of Women’s History Month. |
3/17/2009
1:00 - 2:30 pm
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"Over-Prescribed/Under-Medicated: The Cultural Politics of Pain in America"
Contemporary Scholarship in Gender, Race, Disability, and Science Spring lecture series
:: Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University
UM School of Social Work, Educational Conference Center, 1840 SSWB, 1080 South University Avenue
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| The talk offers an historical analysis of how cultural debates, medical liberalism, political conservatism, ideologies of difference, and disability politics have shaped pain medicine as a field over the past half century, and why pain and pain relief has been a focal point in American cultural politics -- stretching from the 1950s with the centrality of surgical pain relief, through the rise of new theories of pain in the 1960s and Patient Controlled Analgesia in the 1970s, and into the 1980s and 1990s when a wave policies, state-level legislation, and court cases have sought to define the meaning of pain and the limits of relief. |
3/18/2009
4:00 pm
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Women and the Economy Series: Perfect Markets, Perfect Mothers, Perfect Match
:: Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine
2239 Lane Hall
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3/24/2009
4:30 - 6:00 pm
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Careers in Women's Health Panel
2239 Lane Hall
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3/27/2009 - 3/28/09
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Interrogating POWER Native PACIFIC Sexualities
CULTURE Performances And AMERICA
3512 Haven Hall
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Featured Speakers Esera Tuaolo, ex NFL star and LGBT activist. Author of Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Player in the NFL. Sourcebooks (2006). Visit: http://www.greatertalent.com/EseraTuaolo. Prof. Ty Kawika Tengan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai’i. Duke University (2008). Daniel Taulapapa McMullin, Samoan writer, filmmaker, painter. Author of A Drag Queen Named Pipi (Honolulu 2004); Name is Laloifi (Wellington, NZ 2005). Producer, Sinalela: A Samoan Fairytale. Visit: http://www.taulapapa.com/ Panelists Kea Cook, UM History; Christine T. Delisle, UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Vicente M. Diaz, UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Rochelle Fonoti, Anthropology, University of Washington; Susan Najita, UM English and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Kiri Sailiata, UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Damon Salesa, UM History and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Michael Spencer, UM Social Work; Amy Ku’uleialoha Stillman, UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Lani Teves, UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Lisa Uperesa, Anthropology, Columbia
SCHEDULE Topics, Films,
Guest Speakers Friday 3/27 3512 Haven Hall (all film screenings followed by roundtable discussion)
8:50 am Welcome
9:00 – Noon Gridiron Warriors Polynesian Power (2006).
1:00 – 3:30 Staging Sexuality I Ke Kulana He Mahu (2005).
4:00 - 5:30 Remaking Hawaiian Men Ty Kawika Tengan
Saturday 3/28 3512 Haven Hall
9:30 – 12:15 Staging Sexuality II. Na Kamalei: Men of Hula (2007)
12:30-2:00: Samoan Fairytales Sinalela (2001) and Dan Taulapapa McMullin
2:30 – 430: Patriotic Fairytales Guam: Tip of the Spear (2007).
Saturday Evening Change of Venue: Room 4 Michigan League
6:30 – 8:30 Esera Tuaolo “Creating a World of Tolerance” |
April |
4/7/2009
5:45pm
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A screening of the documentary film Lioness, by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers. Following the screening, Ms. McLagan will give a brief talk.
Michigan Theater Screening Room, 603 E. Liberty
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| LIONESS, a feature documentary by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, tells the story of the first group of female Army support soldiers – mechanics, clerks and engineers – to serve as Lioness. While deployed in Iraq from 2003-2004, these young woman ended up in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans. Yet they are rarely – if ever – mentioned in news stories. LIONESS makes public, for the first time, their hidden history. |
4/7/2009
10:00 - 11:30 am
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Discussion with Professor Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania) about her book, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2007).
:: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
2239 Lane Hall
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4/13/2009
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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Women's Studies Undergraduate Honors Presentations
:: Micaela G. Battiste, Amy M. Bowers, Jamie Budnick, Amanda Grigg, Rebecca Halpern
2239 Lane Hall
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Micaela G. Battiste “Realizing Neoliberal Globalization: A Transnational Feminist Reading of Fair Trade and Gender Mainstreaming”
Amy M. Bowers “Embracing English, A Subtle Violence: Five Essays on Contemporary South Asian/Western Literature”
Jamie Budnick "Subversive Stories / Hegemonic Tales: Conversations with Non-heterosexual College Women on Sexuality, Society, and Self"
Amanda Grigg “Popping the Question: (Do Marriage Promotion Programs Live Up to the Hype?) A Response to Feminist Concerns Over Federal Marriage Promotion”
Rebecca Halpern “Making It Count: A Gendered Analysis of the Survival of Incarcerated Women” |
4/26/2009
7:00 pm
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“Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore” A play about 19th century paleontologist Mary Anning
:: Performed by Claudia Stevens
Residential College Auditorium, 701 East University
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Claudia Stevens, playwright and performer, will perform Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore, at the Residential College Auditorium, 701 East University, in Ann Arbor on Sunday April 26, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. A donation of $10/person ($5, students) is requested.
Creator of unique and complex interdisciplinary pieces, Stevens prides herself on her solo performances as a musician-actor. Her plays encompass themes ranging from crime and art to hate crimes and reconciliation, drawing heavily from literature, history, and issues of identity. Her recent work, “Blue Lias,” written in 2005 with music composed by Allen Shearer, is set in the present at an imaginary convention of geologists. The audience is involved in the action, taking on the role of scientists at the convention being entertained by a play about fossil hunter Mary Anning. In one of her most nuanced and dynamic performances, Stevens brings to life this colorful and unique figure of Victorian England, moving the action back and forth between the present and the 19th century. Her Anning is at once playful, wistful, sardonic and angry, waiting in the cloak room to receive a small honor while she reviews her life and times, the indignity of her position within the all-male scientific community, and—religious herself—the emerging conflict between science and religion. Stevens also portrays Anning’s nemesis, the eccentric, humorously self-important William Buckland, who often helped himself to her work. A clergyman as well as an Oxford geologist, Buckland tried hard to reconcile scientific discoveries with literal biblical accounts. Through music, dramatic performance, letters and impressions by contemporaries, and enchanting visual representations of fossil dinosaurs, coupled with Allen Shearer’s imaginative musical score, Stevens enriches her depiction of complex, expressive, and significant characters and issues in the history of science.
This performance is sponsored by the following University of Michigan units: Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Life Sciences Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, ADVANCE Program, Museum of Paleontology, Women in Science and Engineering, and Women’s Studies. For more information, contact Kira Berman at 734-647-8574, or kiberman@umich.edu. |
4/28/2009
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"Responding to a Colloquium on the Science of Learning"
:: Elizabeth Cole, Maria Cotera, Vicente Diaz, Angela Dillard, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Isabel Milan and Desdamona Rios
3512 Haven Hall, 12:00 noon til 2:00
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This panel of faculty and graduate students participated in a series of seminars this year on the Science of Learning, convened by CRLT in response to the growing interest in learning research at universities in Europe and in the United States. The panel will discuss insights gained and questions raised.
Lunch provided. Register for lunch at http://www.crlt.umich.edu/faculty/regfaccolloquium.php |
August |
8/18/2009
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