Calendar
Event Archives
April 30, 2008
Annual CWGS Spring Awards Reception
Please join us!
April 25, 2008
Technology, Gender and Disability
Dr. Tracie Harrison, Faculty Development Program
April 18, 2008
Reflections: Book Party at BookPeople
Laurie Green, Shannon Speed, Katie Stewart
April 18, 2008
"Concrete and Sustainability"
Dr. Jinying Zhu, New Faculty Colloquium
April 10, 2008
Making Europe/Making Europeans: The Ethnographic and the Everyday
Dr. Les Back, Goldsmiths University of London
April 11, 2008
Perspectives on Gender and Technology
Gender and Technology Spring Conference
April 10, 2008
Dr. Lucy Suchman
Part of the Perspectives on Gender and Technology Conference
April 4, 2008
"Go Red for Women: Women, Cardiovascular Disease and Brain Function"
Dr. Andreana Haley, New Faculty Colloquium
April 3, 2008
15th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women's and Gender Studies Conference
Keynote at noon: Gender and Video Games, Suzanne Freyjadis-Chuberka
March 28, 2008
Power, Gender, and Space: Deconstructing the Social Construction of Space
Dr. Hillary Hart
March 21, 2008
CWGS Faculty Development Grants and Research Workshop
Panel features UT faculty and staff from departments across campus.
March 20, 2008
Power Ladder Politics
Negotiating the Evolving Obstacles to Women's Leadership
March 7, 2008
"Towards Control of Biological Systems: Engineering Immunity"
Dr. Jennifer Maynard, New Faculty Colloquium
February 22, 2008
"Free but Unequal? The Gender Effects of Free Primary Education in Uganda"
Dr. Jane Lincove, New Faculty Colloquium
February 21, 2008
12th Annual Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy
February 15, 2008
CWGS Faculty Develoment Mentor Workshop
February 12, 2008
Women's Health Policy Roundtable
Roundtable Discussion
February 8, 2008
"Differences in the Role of Mother-Child and Father-Child Cultural Marginalization in the Expression of Depressive Symptoms among Asian American Adolescents"
Su Yeong Kim, New Faculty Colloquium
February 2, 2008
DOVE/WOODHULL INSTITUTE REAL BEAUTY SYMPOSIUM
Naomi Wolf
February 1, 2008
"The Gendered Blogosphere: Where Promise Meets Reality"
Dr. Dustin Harp, Faculty Colloquium Series
January 29, 2008
Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows
Film Screening and Discussion
January 25, 2008
"Designing e-Health Interventions for Low Health Literate Audiences"
Dr. Michael Mackert, New Faculty Colloquium
January 24, 2008
Gender, Childhood and Youth Research Cluster Event and Luncheon
Dr. Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Practicing for Print: The Hale Children's Manuscript Libraries
January 17, 2008
Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Roe v. Wade 35th Anniversary
December 7, 2007
Teaching Workshop
Part of the CWGS Faculty Development Program
December 7, 2007
"Return to Sender: Border Crossings, New Technologies and the Politics of Removal"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Simone Browne
November 27, 2007
Frida (2002)
Gender and the Technology of Art
November 27, 2007
"Work-Family Reconciliation Policy: A Case of U.S. Exceptionalism"
Dr. Janet Gornick, Baruch College
November 16, 2007
Queer Ethnography Research Cluster
Katie Stewart
November 16, 2007
"Conceptualizing Employee Efforts to Seek Change or Disengage: Implications for Leadership and Organizational Innovation"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Dnika Travis
November 15, 2007
Femocrats, Gender, and Judicial Selection: the Inside Story
Sally Kenney Public Lecture
November 9, 2007
Lessons from the Field: Sociological Research on Sexualtiy
Dr. Arlene Stein
November 9, 2007
"I left with only my clothes and my laptop" The Information Experiences of Domestic Violence Survivors
Faculty Colloquium
Dr. Lynn Westbrook
November 6, 2007
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Women as Technology
November 6, 2007
Decision-making by Children
Shelly Lundberg University of Washington
November 2, 2007
"Women in the Desert?: The Changing Demographics of Settlement in Egypt's Eastern Fronteir Under the Romans"
Faculty Colloquium
Jennifer Gates- Foster
October 30, 2007
Shorts from Women Make Movies
Women and Technology in the Real World
October 26, 2007
"The Paradox of Pornography and the Threat to Intimacy"
Faculty Colloquium
Dr. Robert Jensen
October 22, 2007
Japan Seminar, "Robo sapiens japanicus: Humanoid Robots and the Posthuman Family"
Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan
Jennifer Robertson
Department of Anthropology
October 19, 2007
Reflections: A Celebration of Works
Please Join us in recognizing the recent publications of our faculty affiliates.
October 19, 2007
High Stakes Testing and Low-Performing High Schools: Equity and Accountability for At-Risk Students
Faculty Colloquium
Jennifer Holme
October 16, 2007
Flight Plan (2005)
Gender, Technology, and the Heroic
October 10, 2007
Intersections Launch Party
Student Journal: Women's and Gender Studies in review across disciplines
October 9, 2007
Twilight of the Golds (1997)
Masculinity and Reproductive Technology
October 5, 2007
Dr. Jan Cuny
October 5, 2007
"Yoruba Womanhood in Nigeria: Gender, Power, an Governance
Faculty Colloquium Series
Fehintola Mosadomi
October 5, 2007
"Un(bound): the Humanities in Transition" Fourth Annual Graduate Comparative Literature Conference
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Haun Saussy
September 28, 2007
"Gender, Technology, and the Girl's Gaze: Female Youth and Film Production"
Dr. Mary Kearney, Faculty Colloquium
September 25, 2007
Silkwood (1983)
Gender and Dangerous Technologies
September 21, 2007
The Career Path of Women in Educational Leadership
Dr. Michelle Young, New Faculty Colloquium Series
Educational Administration
September 19, 2007
CWGS Childhood and Youth Research Cluster
Inaugural Meeting
September 18, 2007
Desk Set (1957)
Gender Roles and Technology
September 17, 2007
LGBTQ Research Cluster Meeting
September 14, 2007
The Web of Infertility: Women's Perceptions of Information and Support Sources
Dr. Lee Ann Kahlor, Faculty Colloquium Series
Dept. of Advertising
September 7, 2007
Automatically "Understanding" Language?
Dr. Katrin Erk, New Faculty Colloquium
Dept of Linguistics
September 5, 2007
CWGS Fall Reception
Join us to celebrate the start of another year!
August 22, 2007
Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Student Orientation
New students will register for classes during orientation. Parking available in SAG. Breakfast and lunch provided.
May 8, 2007
Thesis Colloquium
A Celebration for our Spring/Summer MA and Portfolio Graduates!
May 1, 2007
Annual Spring Reception
Join us as we celebrate student and faculty achievement!
May 1, 2007
Recuperating Heterosexuality in the 1940s: Mary McCarthy's Third Husband, Bowden Broadwater
A talk by former UT CWGS Director, Desley Deacon.
April 27, 2007
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Parenting Among Adolescent Mexican-American Mothers
Dr. Katherine Bowman
School of Nursing
April 26, 2007
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche
Reading by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
April 26, 2007
Race in the Classroom: Professors Tackle the Controversies of Tough Classroom Discusssions
Presented by the Research Cluster on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
April 19, 2007
Reflections with Laura Furman and Joni Jones
A celebration of published works.
April 18, 2007
Promotion and Tenure Panel
Co-Sponsored by the FWO. Including Steve Leslie (Executive Vice President and Provost) and Dorothea Adams (Associate Vice President)
April 13, 2007
"Get up mari Dudu, get up!" - Reconfiguring Gender and Roma ("Gypsy") Identity through Political Discourses in Western Turkey
Dr. Sonia Seeman
School of Music
April 10, 2007
Projecting Blackness: African-American Religion in American Film
Dr. Judith Weisenfeld
April 6, 2007
Book Party at BookPeople!
Please join four distinguished scholars from the University of Texas who will introduce you to stimulating new subjects and exciting ways of revisiting old subjects-- from the Constitution to immigration, from multicultural education to sexual intimacies, from Africa to Mexico and the United States.
April 5, 2007
14th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women's and Gender Studies Conference
Open to All. $15 Registration. Breakfast and Lunch Provided
April 3, 2007
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "Moolaadé"
Directed by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal 2004)
March 30, 2007
Dangerous Liaisons: Exploring the Complex Relationships between Risk Knowledge, Academic Achievement and Teacher Practice
Dr. Keffrelyn Brown
Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
March 26, 2007
The Gendered Shamanization of Mapuche Politics: Resistance and egotiation with the Chilean State
Dr. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, SUNY Buffalo
March 22, 2007
Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family
Dr. Nancy Folbre
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
March 20, 2007
Politics, the Prophetic and the Practical: How Religious Women Can Redefine Public Life
Dr. Amy Caiazza
March 19, 2007
Three Mothers
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Dina Zvi-Riklis
March 6, 2007
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "Beauty Academy of Kabul"
Produced by Liz Mermin (US 2004)
March 3, 2007
Explore UT - Campus Wide Open House
Strong Texas Women
March 2, 2007
The AIDS Crisis in Kenya: Assumptions and Realities about Sexual Norms and Identities
Dr. James Wilson
Department of History
March 1, 2007
Women's Liberation: What was in it for Men?
Michele Tertilt, Standford University, Department of Economics
Michele Tertilt
February 27, 2007
Islam, Democracy, and Identity: Comparing the Experiences of Muslim Immigrants in Germany and the US
Dr. Katherine Ewing, Duke University
February 23, 2007
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Professor M. Jacqui Alexander, Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.
February 23, 2007
Gender, Equity, and Social Policy
Panel discussion
February 16, 2007
Gender and Puberty in Adolescence
Dr. Shannon Cavanagh
Department of Sociology
February 14, 2007
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Reproductive Health
Join us for an open symposium highlighting reproductive health research across the 40 acres and a discussion of emerging issues, perspectives and challenges in this important area of research.
February 5, 2007
Interdisciplinary Grantwriting Workshop
February 2, 2007
Conceptualizing Health for Migrant Farmworker Women: An Adopted Insider's Perspective
Dr. Evelyn Clingerman
School of Nursing
February 1, 2007
Religion, Social Justice and the Welfare State
Ej Dionne
January 23, 2007
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "Water"
Directed by Deepa Mehta (India 2005)
January 19, 2007
Women in Construction: A Roadmap for Increasing Women Employment in the U.S. Construction Industry
Dr. Cindy Menches
Department of Civil Engineering
December 1, 2006
Pauline Hopkins, Black Cosmoplitanism, and the Colored American Magazine, 1900-1904
Dr. Gretchen Murphy
Department of English
November 28, 2006
Exploring Women's Leadership in Times of War
A Panel Dsicussion
November 17, 2006
'Why Keep on Trippin'?': The Queer Future of Black Studies
Dr. Matt Richardson
Department of English
November 10, 2006
Do it With Style: Imagining the Black Female Media Consumer
Dr. Jennifer Fuller
Department of Radio Television Film
November 7, 2006
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "Sophie Scholl"
Directed by Marc Rothemund (German 2005)
October 27, 2006
Should the US Government promote marriage among low-income unmarried parents?
Dr. Cynthia Osborne: New Faculty Colloquium
LBJ School of Public Affairs
October 26, 2006
Coffee and Conversation with Dr. Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
October 25, 2006
Teaching Workshop
A panel discussion with CWGS Faculty Affiliates.
October 24, 2006
Wal-Mart Workers Speak Out
October 24, 2006
Gender Roles and Technological Progress
Dr. Claudia Olivetti, Boston University, Dept. of Economics
October 23, 2006
Rapoport Center's Human Rights Happy Hour
"Comparative Law as Archeology:On Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist"
Professor Amr Shalakany
Assistant Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo
October 19, 2006
Gender and Labor Conference: What's Working?
October 17, 2006
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "North Country"
Directed by Niki Caro (US 2005)
October 13, 2006
Girl Fight!
Dr. Jemel Aguilar: New Faculty Colloquium
School of Social Work
September 29, 2006
Stereotype Threat and the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge
Dr. Matt McGlone
Communications Studies
September 26, 2006
Claiming Ourselves: Women, Power and Leadership Film Screening, "Troop 1500"
A documentary by UT professor and filmmaker Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro
September 12, 2006
Annual Fall Reception
Join Us As We Welcome Another Year!
September 8, 2006
Women in Science and Engineering: Network Access, Participation, and Career Outcomes
Professor Sharon Mastracci, University of Illinois, Chicago
August 24, 2006
Registration for New Students
New Students must attend orientation for Advising.
May 12, 2006
Thesis Colloquium
A celebration of our graduates!
May 5, 2006
Nancy Stalker - New Faculty Colloquium
Religion and Gender in Early 20th Century Japan: The Male and Femal Founders of Ommotokyo
Nancy Stalker
Department of Asian Studies
May 3, 2006
WGS Brown Bag
Beyond Grad School
April 28, 2006
Book Party at Book People
A Celebration of Works.
April 26, 2006
Susannah Stern
Gender, Youth, Cultural Production and the Internet
University of San Diego
April 25, 2006
Spring Awards Reception
Please join us! Recipients of our annual teaching and student awards will be announced.
April 21, 2006
Denise Noble
Dancehall Sexualities, Postcoloniality and the Transnational Logics of Black Popular Cultural Capital
April 20, 2006
Mizuko Ito
Japanese Media Mixers and the Cultural Politics of Childhood
Gender and Technology Series
April 20, 2006
Lisa Lowe
Intimacies of Four Continents
University of California, San Diego
April 14, 2006
Men and Depression Seminar
Aaron Rochlen: Real Men, Real Depression
April 12, 2006
WGS Major Info Sessions*
Learn about the new undergraduate major! *Pending Approval
April 7, 2006
'Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.
Julia L. Mickenberg reads from her new book.
April 7, 2006
Jennifer Brown, Danielle Tierney
Southern Field Manager, Director of Public Affairs - Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region
April 7, 2006
Barbara Jones - New Faculty Colloquium
When a Child is Dying: Children and their Mothers at the End of Life
Barbara Jones, Professor
School of Social Work.
April 7, 2006
CWGS Student Conference
Presentation Panels
April 5, 2006
WGS Brown Bag for Students: Publishing
March 24, 2006
Paul Martorana - New Faculty Colloquium
How hard is the glass ceiling? Gender effects for mentoring.
Paul Martorana
Department of Management
March 23, 2006
Promotion and Tenure Panel
What does it take to get tenure at UT? How do women faculty with childcare responsibilities fare in the promotion process?
March 10, 2006
Wei-Hsin Yu - New Faculty Coloquium
Market Transition and Psychological Well-being in Urban China
Wei-Hsin Yu
Department of Sociology, Population Research Center
March 8, 2006
Joy Castro
The Truth Book: A reading with discussion to follow
March 8, 2006
South Asian Writers Speak: Women, War and Trauma
March 8, 2006
Karen Riggs
Gender, Age, and New Technology
Gender and Technology Series
March 4, 2006
Explore UT
Strong Texas Women
March 1, 2006
WGS Brown Bag
Professional Associations and Conferences
February 24, 2006
Tracy McMillan - New Faculty Colloquium
The Implications of Urban Planning on Children's Health
Tracy McMillan
School of Architecture; Community and Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, and Social Work
February 23, 2006
Gretchen Ritter Book Talk
The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order
Gretchen Ritter
CWGS Director
February 22, 2006
Spring Reflections Series
A Celebration of Work
February 20, 2006
Daniel Health Justice
Presented by the LGBTQ Research Cluster
February 15, 2006
Barbara Crow and Leslie Shade
Feminist Perspectives on Digital Technologies
Gender and Technology Series
February 10, 2006
Marlene Dixon - New Faculty Colloquium
Work-Family Balance and Physical Activity: New Challenges and Opportunities
Marlene Dixon
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
February 9, 2006
Promoting Health in Underserved Populations
Advancing Women's Health conference
February 3, 2006
Mattie Richardson
Listening to the Archives: Cherry Muhanji's Her and Black Archives of Queer Memory
February 2, 2006
DiAna's Hair Ego
Reception and Film Screening
January 27, 2006
Tracie Harrison - New Faculty Colloquium
Latinas Aging with Childhood Onset Disabilities
Tracie Harrison
School of Nursing
January 26, 2006
Judith Halberstam: Notes on Failure
Presented by the LGBTQ Research Cluster
January 23, 2006
Alisa K. Braithwaite
A New Trajectory for the 'Scholarship' Girl: Jamaica Kincaid's and Michelle Cliff's Reinvention of Reading and Writing
January 19, 2006
Dr. Susan Wood
The Controversy Over Emergency Contraception
Dr. Susan Wood
January 18, 2006
Race/Gender and Ethnicity
Research Cluster Meeting
December 2, 2005
Michele Rountree - New Faculty Colloquium
Integration of HIV/AIDS Risk Assessment, Educational/Prevention Programming and Policy within Domestic Violence Shelters
Michele Rountree
School of Social Work
December 1, 2005
Interdisciplinary Grant-writing Workshop
November 29, 2005
The Controversy Over Hormone Replacement Therapy
Panel discussion with CWGS faculty affiliates and women's health experts.
November 18, 2005
Mary Jo Kirisits - New Faculty Colloquium
Biological Drinking Water Treatment
Mary Jo Kirisits
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
November 15, 2005
The Education of Shelby Knox
Film Screening and Discussion with Shelby Knox.
Shelby Knox
This event is part of the Women, Gender and Health Annual Theme Events sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UT Austin.
November 11, 2005
NWPC President, Llenda Jackson-Leslie
RSVP to wstudies@ uts.cc.utexas.edu
Llenda Jackson-Leslie
President of the National Women's Political Caucus, Communications Director for the ACLU
November 3, 2005
Reflections
A Celebration of Works
October 21, 2005
Gail Wyatt: Does Ethnicity Contribute to Gender and Health Disparities?
Gender, Relationships, and Health Conference Special Address
Gail Wyatt
UCLA Psychology
October 21, 2005
Rebecca Lewis - New Faculty Colloquium
Male-Female Relationships: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation
Rebecca Lewis, Professor
Department of Anthropology
October 21, 2005
Gender, Relationships, and Health Conference
Gender, Relationships, and Health Conference Panel Sessions
October 20, 2005
Gender, Relationships, and Health: Shelley Taylor - Why do Women Tend and Befriend Under Stress?
Gender, Relationships, and Health Conference Keynote Address
Shelley Taylor
UCLA Psychology
September 30, 2005
Teaching Workshop
Challenges of Large Classes, Issues faced by Women and Minority Professors, Understanding the Learning Environment
September 23, 2005
Lee Ann Kahlor - New Faculty Colloquium
Linking Television Viewing to the Accpetance of Rape Myths
Lee Ann Kahlor, Professor
Department of Advertising
September 20, 2005
"Born in Brazil" film screening
September 9, 2005
Lynn Westbrook - New Faculty Colloquium
The Madonna and Aliens: Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies
Lynn Westbrooks, Assistant Professor
School of Information
September 8, 2005
Fitness Workshop for Working Parents
Complete with activities for children.
Led by Professor Marlene Dixon
Department of Kinesiology
September 7, 2005
Public Feelings about Katrina
September 7, 2005
WGS Professionalization Brown Bag for Graduate Students: Funding
Martha Selby (Asian Studies), Carolyn Eastman (History), and Cynthia Buckley (Sociology)
Center for Women's and Gender Studies Faculty Affiliates
August 25, 2005
Orientation
For New MA Students, Classes start Aug 31st!
May 6, 2005
Elizabeth Engelhardt - New Faculty Colloquium
"A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food"
Elizabeth Engelhardt
Department of American Studies, UT-Austin
April 27, 2005
Spring Awards Reception
October 10, 2004
Film Screening
"Iron-Jawed Angels"
September 10, 2004
Launch Party
Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines