Calendar
| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Additional Info | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pizza Party Politics: Gender and Immigration Voter Registration and Free Pizza Rebecca Torres, Yolanda Padilla, Nestor Rodriguez Geography, Social Work, Sociology | October 3, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | The Center for Women's and Gender Studies is sponsoring three roundtable discussions leading up to the election! Enjoy lunch and discuss the issues related to women/gender/politics. Voter registration cards will be provided. | map to location  Download a flier for Pizza Party Politics (PDF, 157K) | CWGS |
| LGBTQ Research Cluster Brown Bag with Sharon Holland Sharon Holland Professor of African American studies at Duke University | October 6, 2008 11:30 AM-1:00 PM | African American Culture Room in the Texas Union | Sharon Holland will be at UT-Austin on October 6-7. In addition to a number of events sponsored by the English department's American Literature Group, including a lecture on Monday evening, a pedagogy panel on Monday afternoon, and a roundtable on American studies on Tuesday afternoon, the Research Cluster is hosting a brown bag lunch with Sharon so that she can discuss with us her work in gender and sexuality studies and queer theory. Her book in progress is titled, "The Erotic Life of Racism". Sharon Holland is a professor of African American studies at Duke University (where she has just arrive from Northwestern). She is the author of "Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectivity" and co-editor of "Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country" For more information, please contact: cvet@mail.utexas.edu | map to location | LGBTQ Research Cluster |
| New Faculty Colloquium: Michael Johnson My Lady Dumps Dr. Michael Johnson Assistant Professor of French, and an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature. His research interests include: Classical and medieval rhetoric, Medieval European literatre and culture, sexuality and gender studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and European comics | October 10, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | My Lady Dumps When electro bad girl singer Peaches posted her parody of Alanis Morissette's parody of (Black Eyed Peas singer) Fergie's hit song "My Humps"--entitled "My Dumps"--the YouTube community got a notion for the critical power of shit to reveal ideologies at work both in Fergie's self- commodification and in Morissette's (privileged white) feminist critique of Fergie's commodified "lady lumps." By converting the song's refrain from, "my lovely lady lumps" to the absurd, but queerly resonant, "my lovely lady dumps," Peaches forces her audience to think about the relationships between women and commodity, and between the feminine and the excremental, which I will consider in light of Lacan's discussion of the excremental courtly Lady in his seventh seminar. | map to location Download a flier for Michael Johnson's lecture (PDF, 688K) | |
| Pizza Party Politics: Feminism and Politics Panelist Lulu Flores and Veronica Vargas Stidvent and Free Pizza | October 17, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | map to location Download a flier for Pizza Party Politics (PDF, 629K) | ||
| Technologies of Performance Gender Constitution Through the Hyper-Sexualization of Female Body Builders Betsey Blanche Graduate Student, Women's and Gender Studies and Information Studies | October 17, 2008 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | Garrison 0.120 | Come for great discussion and offer your expertise to colleagues working on women's and gender studies at UT! | map to location | |
| FDP New Faculty Colloquium: Lalitha Gopalan Movement in Short Films Lalitha Gopalan RTF | October 24, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | Dr. Lalitha Gopalan is from the Radio-Television-Film department. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, where she studied comparative literature. Among her published works are the books "Cinema of Interruptions: action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema" (2002), "Bombay" (2005), and "24 Frames: Indian Cinema" (2008). Her current book project, titled "Short Films in India", examines a range of artisanal filmmaking practices. | map to location Download a flier for Lalitha Gopalan's lecture (PDF, 147K) | |
| Night Scene Directed by Zi'en Cui | October 29-29, 2008 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Student Union Theater UNB 2.228 | "A Film about one of the biggest taboos in contemporary China: male prostitution. It is a unique portrait of a twilight world in parks and clubs that veers between documentary and fiction." - International Film Festival Rotterdam | map to location | Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Division of Diversity & Community Engagement, and Gender & Sexuality Center |
| A Walk to Beautiful (2007) Mary Olive Smith, Director, Producer and Cinematographer speaker: co-producer Allison Shigo | October 30, 2008 7:00 PM | CAL 100 | The award winning feature-length documentary, "A Walk to Beautiful", tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. They make the choice to take the long and arduous journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in search of a cure and a new life. | map to location Download a flier for ''A Walk to Beautiful'' (PDF, 150K) | CWGS Global Feminisms Film Series |
| Daniel Brouwer, Ph.D. Arizona State University | October 30, 2008 3:30 PM | LBJ Conference Room (CMA 5.160) | Daniel Brouwer (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000) researches issues that span public sphere and counterpublic sphere studies, rhetorical criticism, the rhetoric of social movements and cultural performance. His research on counterpublics, or discursive arenas created and employed by marginal peoples, involves the examination, analysis and publication of marginal, sometimes dissident, voices. Examples of his research in this area include studies of representational practices by gay men with HIV/AIDS in the pages of radical, underground print magazines, an analysis of HIV/AIDS, and a comparison of mainstream, queer, and Black media coverage of discoveries of "passing." His co-edited book, Counterpublics and the State, explores the terrain of public sphere theory through a series of case studies of often-antagonistic interactions between marginal peoples and state institutions and representatives. For his visit with us, Dr. Brouwer will discuss the intersection of public sphere and publics/counterpublic studies with rhetorical criticism (title forthcoming). | map to location | Rhetoric program in the Department of Communication Studies and The LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster |