Calendar
| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Additional Info | Sponsor |
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| FDP New Faculty Colloquium Bewitchment, Biology, or Both: The Coexistence of NAtural and Supernatural Explanatory Frameworks Across Development Cristine Legare | November 7, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | map to location  Download a flier for Cristine Legare's lecture (PDF, 129K) | ||
| Professor Patricia Clough will be speaking as part of the Cultural Studies series Scenes of Secrecy, Scales of Hope | November 10, 2008 12:00 PM | EPS 1.128 | Talk by Professor Clough on her latest book, Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology. | map to location | |
| The Price of Pleasure Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships Robert Jensen and Diane McDaniel Rhodes Journalism, University of Texas | November 10, 2008 7:00 PM | Thompson Conference Center (TCC 1.110) | Critics of pornography have observed two trends in pornography in recent years: Commercially produced sexually explicit material is more mainstream and normalized than ever, while at the same time it has become more overtly cruel and degrading to women and more racist. Why is that, and what effect does it have on our ideas about gender and power, sexuality and relationships? To explore this question, the documentary film, "The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships", investigates three aspects of the pornography industry--production, content and consumption--to help gain a deeper understanding not only of the material but the larger culture in which it's produced and consumed. The film includes interviews with pornographers, pornography performers, and scholars in psychology, media, economics, and popular culture. Men and women candidly discuss how pornography has affected them and their partners. The film examines pornography's effects on the performers and audience, moving beyond liberal celebrations and conservative denunciations to engage a nuanced discussion of desire and harm, choice and system constraint, liberty and responsibility. Diane McDaniel Rhodes will introduce the program. She is chief operating officer of SafePlace, which provides a wide spectrum of services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and offers extensive community outreach, education and prevention programs. Rhodes, who has 24 years of experience in work movements for social justice, is the former executive director of the Pebble Project, which focused on sexual assault prevention services. She also teaches the "Exploring Interpersonal Violence" class at the UT School of Social Work. Robert Jensen, a University of Texas journalism professor who served as a consultant for the film, will introduce the documentary and lead a discussion after the screening. Jensen is the author of "Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity" | Trailer, study guide and more information about the film Map to Thompson Conference Center | Center for Women's and Gender Studies, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Radio-TV-Film Department, Senior Fellows honors program of the College of Communication, Texas Feminists, Texas Association Against Sexual Assault. |
| Making Race, Making Health History Department | November 11-15, 2008 | We would like to invite you to the upcoming conference, "Making Race, Making Health: Historical Approaches to Race, Medicine, and Public Health," which will be held at the Thompson Conference Center, Nov. 13-15. We have an exciting group of scholars coming to the conference from other universities inside and outside of the U.S. The conference opens with a keynote talk by Prof. David Oshinsky, along with a reception, on Thursday evening. It then continues all day Friday and Saturday. We invite you to register for the entire conference (which includes breakfasts and lunches) or attend a single session. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, we will be discussing a dissertation chapter on the architecture of migrant labor camps in Texas by Making Race, Making Health presenter Veronica Martinez. We're scheduling a lunch meeting, so look out next week for the formal announcement in order to RSVP and reserve your delicious, free, lunch. | Information about the program, the presenters, and registration map to location | ||
| Traveling People: Traveling Concepts What are Russian post-socialist perceptions of Western social and gender theories and methods of conducting empirical research? Tatiana Barchunova Associate Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk State University | November 12, 2008 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Chicano Culture Room, Texas Union 4.206 | Tatiana Barchunova, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk State University in Western Siberia, will discuss the challenge of translating the English- language gender discourse into Russian. In her presentation, she will track the distortion of contemporary texts and examine the misrepresentation of ideas within them. Her research and publications center on topics of feminism, gender stereotypes, and broader gender relations in post-Soviet society and the media, and her current interests include religious and consumption networks and leisure activities including Internet dating. | CREEES website map to location | The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, The Center for Women's and Gender Studies, The Department of Sociology and Social Science Research Council |
| Book Presentation: Violence and Activism at the Border Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez Kathleen Staudt Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Civil Engagement at The University of Texas at El Paso | November 12, 2008 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Littlefield House | Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpetrator(s). Drawing on in-depth surveys, workshops, and interviews of Juarez women and border activists, VIOLENCE AND ACTIVISM AT THE BORDER provides crucial links between these disturbing crimes and a border history of violence against women in Mexico. In addition, the ways in which local feminist activists used the Juarez murders to create international publicity and expose police impunity provides a unique case study of social movements in the borderlands, especially as statistics reveal that the rates of femicide in Juarez are actually similar to other regions of Mexico. Also examining how non-governmental organizations have responded in the face of Mexican law enforcement's "normalization" of domestic violence, Staudt's study is a landmark development in the realm of global human rights. Join panelists Professor Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez (Sociology), Hector Dominguez- Ruvalcaba (Spanish and Portuguese), Victoria Todriguez (Graduate Studies), and Kathleen Staudt (Author) for discussion and comments. Books will be available for sale before and after the event Reception to follow | map to location Download a flier for Kathleen Staudt's lecture (PDF, 178K) | Graduate School and Center for Women's and Gender Studies |
| Bombay (1995) Directed by Mani Ratnam | November 13, 2008 7:00 PM | PAR 201 | This powerfully provocative political-religious film is, on the surface, a love story between a good Hindu man and a devout Muslim woman who leave their village to marry and live in tumultuous Bombay. There they have twin sons and raise each one to understand and accept the disparate religious traditions of their parents. | map to location Download a flier for ''Bombay'' (PDF, 161K) | CWGS Global Feminisms Film Series |
| Adventures in Identity Sex, Death, and Birth--of Transgender Discourse Sandy Stone | November 14, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab); Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS; Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. In various incarnations she has been a filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist, cultural theorist, and performer. She is the author of numerous publications including "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" and "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age", both of which are available in a wide selection of translated editions. Read an interview from the journal "TransSisters". | map to location Download a flier for Sandy Stone's lecture (PDF, 129K) | |
| Meet with Elva Trevino Hart | November 16, 2008 5:00 PM | "The Joynes Literary Society invites Women's and Gender Studies students to take advantage of a wonderful opportunity to meet with memoirist Elva Treviño Hart. Ms. Treviño Hart has agreed to meet with a small number of students on Sunday, November 16th, at 5 p.m. The first ten students to sign up will receive a free copy of her memoir, Barefoot Hart: Stories of a Migrant Child. Because this is a very busy time of the semester and this announcement gives short notice, completion of the memoir is not required for attendance at the discussion. We encourage any interested students to come to the event. Tiff's Treats will be provided. See From Publishers Weekly: Hart's expressive and remarkably affecting memoir concerns her childhood as the daughter of Mexican immigrants who worked as migrant workers to feed their six children. In 1953, when she was only three, her parents took the family from Texas to work in the fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin for the first time, only to find that in order to comply with the child labor law they had to leave the author and her 11- year-old sister to board in a local Catholic school, where they pined for the rest of the family. Hart remembers other years when the entire family participated in the backbreaking field labor, driven mercilessly by Apa (her father), who was determined to earn enough money to allow all his children to graduate from high school. Apa not only achieved his goal but was able to save $2000 so that Hart could enter college, a step that led to her earning a master's degree in computer science. This account is not, however, an ordinary memoir of triumph over adversity. Instead, Hart eloquently reveals the harsh toll that poverty and discrimination took on her familyAin sharply etched portraits of Ama, Hart's worn-out mother who clearly loved her daughter but was too exhausted to show it; of her brother Rudy, who refused to sit at the back of the bus because he was a Mexican; and of her teenage sisters, who struggled to keep their dignity in the muddy fields. She recalls many painful incidents in school and with childhood friends that stemmed from being Mexican in a small white Texas town. At 17, she drove her father back to Mexico to visit his family; she recalls how he suddenly changed into a happy man who felt at home with his land, his language and his people. This is a beautifully written debut from a writer to watch." | |||
| Gender and Technology Research Cluster Meeting | November 19, 2008 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Chicano Culture Room, Texas Union 4.206 | Are you interested in the intersections between gender and technology? Would you like to meet students and faculty who share that interest? Then please join the Gender and Technology Research Cluster (GTRC) for an informal introduction to colleagues and resources. We'll have refreshments, handouts on resources that can help you with your work, and the opportunity to learn more about a range of research, teaching, and service initiatives. The GTRC is part of the Center for Women and Gender Studies and deliberately seeks full involvement from all academic disciplines, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. The GTRC's initial service initiative involves developing instructional and computing support for the Ann Richards School for Girls; your input, ideas, and participation are most welcome. To get started we'll give interested people 1-2 minutes to briefly identify their areas of interest in gender and technology. Tell everyone about your dissertation plans, a course you're teaching, a service project you'd like to launch, a grant application you're seeking, a symposium you'd like to hold, or anything else that you'd care to share. Afterwards, you'll be able to find those people with whom you'd most like to talk. If you're interested then let us know by either posting your brief statement on our web site | ||
| Gender Equity Report Talkback Dr. Hillary Hart, Dr. Chandra Muller, and Dr. Gretchen Ritter Members of the Gender Equity Task Force | November 20, 2008 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | GEB 3rd Floor Conference Room | Join us in a roundtable discussion concerning the Gender Equity Report. Brown Bag Lunch (CWGS will provide water and sodas) | map to location Download a flier for ''Gender Equity'' (PDF, 480K) | Center for Women's and Gender Studies |
| FDP New Faculty Colloquium Negotiating Gender Roles: Advocacy Context Moderates Backlash Potential and Assertive Bargaining Behavior Emily Amanatullah McComb's School of Business | November 21, 2008 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | GAR 2.108 | map to location Download a flier for Emily Amanatullah's lecture (PDF, 151K) | ||
| Intersections Launch Party | November 21, 2008 1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Intellectual Property | Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines, the University of Texas feminist graduate student journal, is hosting a launch party for issue six of the journal. We will be handing out free issues of the journals and hearing from some of the editors and authors that made this issue possible. The following UT student contributors will be speaking at the event: Elyshia Aseltine, Department of Sociology Book Review of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred Katherine Cummings Mansfield, Department of Educational Administration Examining the Politics of Education: A Critical Analysis of the French Ban on the Hijab in Public Schools Heather Wollin, Department of Sociology Mapping Inclusion: Social Groups and Subcultures within New York Cityís Queer Commercial Sex Landscape Food and drinks will be provided. Questions? Email intersections.journal@gmail.com | The University Co-op, the Gender and Sexuality Center, the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, and the Student Government |