Calendar
| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Additional Info | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Faculty Welcome Party LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster | September 5, 2008 7:00 PM-12:00 PM | Please help us welcome our exciting new faculty colleagues: Roberto Tejada (Art History), Deborah Vargas (American Studies) and Eric Pritchard (Rhetoric and Writing). We will meet, greet, and preview some of our upcoming events and speakers. Beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Feel free to bring contributions to the festivities. For more information please contact: tiffanymross@mail.utexas.edu | |||
| Annual Fall Reception Please joins us as we welcome another year! | September 10, 2008 3:30 PM-5:00 PM | Littlefield Home | The Center for Women's and Gender Studies cordially invites you to our annual fall reception. Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Littlefield Home, UT Campus Please join us as we welcome our new students and faculty affiliates and introduce our calendar of events for this year's theme: Global Femininisms. RSVP by September 5th to newert@mail.utexas.edu | Map to Location  Download a flier for the reception (PDF, 186K) | |
| ''LGBT Studies in Mexico Some Feminist Reflections on LGBT Research and Activism in Mexican Society'' Professor Gloria Careaga UNAM | September 12, 2008 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Chicano Culture Room, TX Union | Gloria Careaga is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City, and she is a leading scholar and an activist in the field of LGBT studies in Mexico and Latin America. | LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster | |
| CWGS Faculty Development Program Lunch | September 12, 2008 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | Dining Rm 4 AT&T Conference Center | |||
| The Woman's Kingdom (2006) and Nu-Shu A Hidden Language of Women in China (1999) Directed by Xiaoli Zhou and a Film by Yue-Qing Yang | September 18, 2008 7:00 PM | PAR 201 | Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture -- enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities. Beautifully shot and featuring intimate interviews, this short documentary offers a rare glimpse into a society virtually unheard of 10 years ago and now often misrepresented in the media. and Nu-Shu A Hidden Language of Women in China (1999) A film by Yue-Qing Yang, A thoroughly engrossing documentary that revolves around the filmmaker's discovery of eighty-six-year-old Huan-yi Yang, the only living resident of the Nu Shu area still able to read and write Nu Shu. Exploring Nu Shu customs and their role in women's lives, the film uncovers a women's subculture born of resistance to male dominance, finds a parallel struggle in the resistance of Yao minorities to Confucian Han Chinese culture, and traces Nu Shu's origins to some distinctly Yao customs that fostered women's creativity. | Download a flier for the Woman's Kingdom and Nu-Shu (PDF, 268K) | CWGS Global Feminisms Film Series |
| Pizza Party Politics: Gender, Race, and Voter Participation Voter Registration and Free Pizza | September 19, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 |