Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Interactive Theatre for Dialogue performance about relationships & you…
Wednesday, Oct. 13th
7:00-9:00pm
BEL 328 (Entrance is on San Jacinto, across from the Alumni Center)

Sponsored by Voices Against Violence
And Women’s and Gender Studies

Voices Against Violence is a program of the University of Texas Counseling and Mental Health Center. The VAV program offers education and training programs for students, faculty and staff on the issues of relationship violence, sexual violence and stalking. VAV also supports survivors through counseling, advocacy and referrals.

VAV Theatre for Dialogue offers interactive performances that engage audiences in examining the complex issues of interpersonal violence. Peer Theatre Educators are trained through a two-semester course in Theatre for Dialogue, and are responsible for creating specific scenarios for the various on and off-campus populations requesting performances. Performances are individually designed to highlight issues relevant to specific populations.

For more information, please contact Lynn Hoare, Theatre for Dialogue Specialist for Voices Against Violence, at 512-475-6989, or visit

Oct 6: Career Boot Camp, 4pm-7pm: GEB 4th floor conference room

Oct 7: Workshops, 2pm-6pm: Texas Union, Texas Governors’ Room

On October 6, Liberal Arts Career Services will conduct a boot camp for our majors, helping them with various aspects of preparing for careers and training them to re-conceptualize what they can do with their degrees. Food will be provided.

On October 7, we will be holding four sessions at an hour apiece, running from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The first session is going to be about internships. From 3-4, we will have a graduate school panel.  The grad coordinator from LLILAS and Martha Newman, director of Religious Studies, will be part of the panel.  From 4-5, the Diplomat in Residence at the LBJ School, Ambassador Ronald McMullen, and a grad student will be speaking about careers in foreign service. From 5-6, we will be having some employers speaking.

Thursday, September 30th, 6:30pm, UTC 3.102

Join iella pelea! and MEChA for a presentation on the legacy of the Black Power and Brown Power movements of the 1960s. Stay for a discussion of the lessons we can learn from past militants and why they’re important for our struggles today against budget cuts on campus, immigrant rights, and more.

ella.pelea@gmail.com

This note is to announce the PCA/ACA Travel and Research Grants for next year’s Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The conference will run from April 20 through April 23, 2011. The list below outlines the various category of grant offered by the PCA/ACA. I would appreciate you passing along the information below to the members of your department and others who might have an interest.

Ø The Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant for Graduate Students to the National Conference (for 2011, 32 grants @ $300 each).

Ø The Peter Rollins Travel Grant for early-career faculty to the National Conference (for 2011, 12 grants @ $500).

Ø The Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant for Individuals presenting at the National Conference (for 2011, 10 grants @$500 each).

Ø The Marshall Fishwick Travel Grant to Popular Culture Studies/American Culture Studies Research Collections (for 2011, 3 grants @ $750 each).

Ø The Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Institutional Collection Enhancement to Build Popular and American Culture Collections (for 2011, up to $5,000).

Applications for all awards must be received no later than January 7, 2011. For specific information on the grants and to download applications please visit our website http://www.pcaaca.org/grant/overview.php and follow the links.

Sincerely,

Professor John Bratzel
276 Bessey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin Division of Diversity and Community Engagement Community Engagement Center

February 17-19, 2011

The Texas Union

Abriendo Brecha is an annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin dedicated to activist scholarship; i.e. research and creative intellectual work in alignment with communities, organizations, movements, and networks working for social and economic justice. Abriendo Brecha VIII calls for a renewed discussion on the meanings and practices of activist scholarship, particularly as it relates to solidarity between groups and overcoming power inequalities through alliance. Some themes for this year’s conference include: struggles over land, resource distribution, gentrification, prisons, cross-racial alliance, and immigrant rights.

Abriendo Brecha VIII is a unique opportunity for coalition building across geographic, political, and national spaces, as well as a forum to present engaged academic work in solidarity with communities at the local, national and international level. Solidarity, as a key theme, will both guide submissions as well as structure the nature of the conference. Presentations will consist of action-oriented discussions, panels, interactive workshops, performances, and film. This is an opportunity to meet, exchange experiences, and create local and cross-border connections with others working at the intersections of grassroots organizing and intellectual production.

We welcome the participation of activists, community members, artists, high school students and those not specifically connected to academia. Abriendo Brecha is free and open to the public.

Proposal submission deadline: November 15, 2010.

For proposal instructions and submissions please visit: www.utexas.edu/diversity/abriendobrecha/

Contact AbriendoBrecha2011@gmail.com with any questions.

Film Screening
September 23, 2010
6:30 PM in CAL 100

Sexual Abuse on College Campus.
95% of college rapes go unreported—and those who do report, specifically to campus authorities, get little to no justice. Approximately one-third of victims are first year students between 17-19 years old.

Join the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and Austin’s SafePlace in a discussion on this topic. Through some movie clips, testimonies, news briefs and statistics, an assembled panel of experts will lead a discussion on the issues of sexual assault on college campuses.

More information on the RAINN Day Campaign is included below -

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On Thursday, September 23rd you can Make a Difference and participate in RAINN Day, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network’s annual campaign to end sexual assault on college campuses.

Did you know college-age women are 4 times more likely to be sexually assaulted?

SafePlace is driving the campaign this year in the Austin/Travis County area and we plan to reach over 3,000 people this year. But we need your help – we need your help to Make a Difference and reach out to your friends about RAINN Day.

How you can help:
Visit out webpage to learn more about SafePlace, our services and RAINN Day.
On these pages you will find opportunities to participate in the movement to end sexual assault through awareness events or by downloading a pdf version of the RAINN Day card.

This card, which will be distributed at local colleges and universities, includes information on how to stay safe on campus, what to do if you or a friend is sexually assaulted and the number for the national hotline.

www.SafePlace.org/RAINN

We hope you will participate by visiting our website and sharing this link and the RAINN Day card with other students, faculty and staff. If you are interested in our upcoming event or in organizing your community to help end sexual violence, please sign up for the SafePlace newsletter or contact me.
Jessie Beal, Community Organizer:
CommunityEducation@SafePlace.org

About SafePlace:
SafePlace exists to end sexual and domestic violence through safety, healing, prevention and social change. Nationally recognized for its innovative and effective programs, we have been providing women, children and men a place of safety, compassion and empowerment in Austin, Texas since 1974. We offer programs to help recent and past survivors of rape or sexual assault. All programs can be accessed by calling the 24-hour Hotline.
Hospital Accompaniment An advocate will meet a recent rape or sexual assault survivor 24-hours a day at a local hospital for support and information.
Counseling Individual, group and phone counseling for women, children or men who have experienced recent or past sexual violence or abuse. Services are free of charge.
Legal Advocacy Advocates help survivors obtain a protective order and provide support as survivors seek justice and protection through the court and legal systems.
Emergency Shelter Our shelter provides safety to women, children and men. It includes a private area for those who have safety concerns following a rape or other sexually abusive situations.
24-hour Hotline 512.267.SAFE (7233) or 512.927.9616 TTY for the Deaf community. We can provide assistance with safety planning, information or accessing services.

When a 21-year-old photographer for El Diario de Juarez was gunned down as he was taking his daughters to school in Ciudad Juarez just across the border from El Paso last week, he became the 22nd Mexican journalist to have been killed over the past four years. Luis Carlos Santiago’s killing triggered a front-page editorial last Sunday in which the newspaper pleaded with warring drug cartels to let editors know “what you want from us, what we should try to publish or not publish, so we know what to expect.”

“The War Next Door: Reporting Mexico, Drugs, and the Border,” this year’s installment of our annual Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture series, will focus on the dangers and obstacles that journalists face in seeking to cover this deadly struggle that involves the Mexican state, the cartels and our own government. NPR Correspondent John Burnett will serve as moderator of a panel that will also feature Cecilia Balli, UT Austin Anthropology Professor, Javier Garza, Editor of El Sigle de Torreon, one of the Mexican newspapers at the heart of the conflict, and Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times Mexico City Bureau Chief.

The event will take place on Thursday, October 7th, from 4-5:30 pm, in the Texas Union Quadrangle Room (3.304). It is, as always, free and open to the public. More information is available on our website at http://journalism.utexas.edu/news/PROD75_033466.html .

This is the first lecture in our Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series this semester. UT-Austin Associate Professor of Government Daniel Brinks and World Bank Senior Economist Varun Gauri will co-present a lecture entitled “Assessing the Distributive Impact of Social and Economic Rights Litigation: More Litigation = More Inequality?” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place next Monday, September 27, from 3:30-5:30, in the Faculty Lounge (TNH 3.214) at the University of Texas School of Law.

Professor Brinks’s research focuses on law and human rights in Latin America, as well as in comparative politics in Latin America, particularly Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. As a senior economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, Dr. Gauri’s research focuses on politics and governance in the social sectors, and aims to combine quantitative and qualitative methods in economics and social science research. Together, Brinks and Gauri edited the recent publication, Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Wendy Hunter, Associate Professor of Government at UT-Austin, will serve as respondent to Professor Brinks and Dr. Gauri’s talk.

More information on Professor Brinks and Dr. Gauri can be found on our website at: http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/humanrights/events/speaker-series.php#brinks. If you would like to request a copy of the paper on which their lecture is based, please contact me at scline@law.utexas.edu.

Also pasted below is the remainder of the schedule for the Happy Hour series this fall. We hope to see you at one or more of these events.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Karen Knop (Law, University of Toronto)
Title: “The Informal State in International Law: the United States, Gender and Unilateralism”
Co-sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Monday, October 25, 2010
Lora Wildenthal (History, Rice University)
Title: “Asylum Rights between Left and Right: The German Case”
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies.

Monday, November 8, 2010
Samera Esmeir (Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: “Temporalities of Struggle: National Liberation Movements and International Strategies of Rule”

Thursday, November 18, 2010
Thomas Pogge (Philosophy, Yale University)
Title: “The Health Impact Fund: How to Make New Medicines Accessible to All”
3:30—5:30 in TNH 3.124
Part of the Law & Philosophy Program’s workshop series, co-sponsored by the Rapoport Center.

Monday, November 22, 2010
Paola Bergallo (Law, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires)
Title: “Cycles of Right to Health Litigation: The Elusive Argentine Experience”
Co-sponsored by LLILAS and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Conference at the University of Texas at Austin
September 30 – October 3, 2010

http://www.coldwarcultures.org/

Cold War Cultures: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives is a four-day conference, hosted collaboratively by 20 academic and research units at the University of Texas at Austin. Almost 300 speakers from around the world offer approximately 90 panels, 6 international keynote speakers, and other featured speakers and events that take stock of the Cold War and its 65-year-legacies around the globe.
This conference addresses not only Cold War politics, especially the familiar rhetoric of threat and mutually assured annihilation and the redrawn maps of global power, but also a wide range of cultural and social phenomena, as power and political conflicts resonated in hearts and minds. Not just nation-states, but also cultures, were reshaped by Cold War power conflicts in a host of geographic contexts. From iconic public representations (the “daisy girl” commercial associating politics with nuclear annihilation) to distinctive media advertising, memorable political speeches, world expositions, spy novels and films, new forms of social and political life, and a plethora of official and popular events that transformed nations and individuals.
Whether enthusiast, student or scholar, conference attendees will find topics of interest to every taste, from presidents to comic superheroes, diplomats through spies, and refrigerators to world fairs. Be the guest of UTs academic community, and help us engage in a reconsideration of this half-century of political change and transformed global cultures.
REGISTRATION: This conference is free and open to the public, there are no fees or registration.
PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: The most recent program, containing the complete list of speeches, speakers, and venues, is downloadable in printer-friendly form downloadable from the website. On Thursday, 30 September, printed programs, campus maps, and other information will be available at the Bass Lecture Hall outside the keynote speech; on Friday and Saturday, they will be available at the office of the Center for European Studies (Mezes 3.126, 512-232-3470). Conference speakers and moderators should pick up their badges at these sites. See below for other location information.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
o Ambassador Robert Hutchings (LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin)
“American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War”
6:00PM, Thursday, 30 September 2010, Bass Lecture Hall (LBJ School)
o Greg Grandin (History, New York University)
“The Three Faces of Containment in the Americas”
11:00 AM, Friday, 1 October 2010, ACES 2.302
o John D. Kelly (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
“When in the Course of Human Events? Situating the Cold War”
1:00 PM, Friday, 1 October 2010, ACES 2.302
o Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi (Arabic Literature, Columbia University)
“Literature at War: Beirut, Rome, and Baghdad”
6:00 PM, Friday, 1 October 2010, ACES 2.302
o Kate Brown (History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
“Big Brother®–Made in America: How Soviet Agents Stole American Secrets to Create the Nuclear Security State ”
1:00 PM, Saturday, 2 October 2010, Welch 2.122
o Nicolas Vaicbourdt (Université de Paris 1, Sorbonne)
“Atlanticism as a Construction of the Cold War”
6:00 PM, Saturday, 2 October 2010, Welch 2.122
o Plus featured speakers in Asian Studies (Kim Brandt) and Germanic Studies (Janet Swaffar)
VENUES AND PARKING:
Parking at UT is difficult, but paid public parking is always available. See for the map of available public marking. Remember that the UT shuttle service is also available.
Sessions will be held in various buildings, most clustered around the UT Tower in various directions. Campus maps are available at . Batts (BAT), Mezes (MEZ), Parlin (PAR), Welch (WEL), and Will C. Hogg (WCH) are on the Tower Area map (#2), south and east of the Tower. Burdine (BUR) is in the sector north of the Tower (#1); Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building (ACE) is east of the Tower (#5), across Speedway from Welch; University Teaching Center (UTC) is south of the Tower (#3). Sid Richardson Hall (SRH), is on the eastern boundary of the main campus (map #7); the Bass Lecture Hall is in the LBJ Library/LBJ School of Public Affairs cluster. For the Thursday evening keynote and SRH sessions, participants may park in the LBJ Library parking lot off of Red River Street.
ORGANIZATION AND MAJOR SUPPORT BY:
o Center for European Studies
o Center for Middle Eastern Studies
o Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
o South Asia Institute
o Center for East Asian Studies
o Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
o plus 14 other campus departments, programs, and centers; see the website for information on our sponsors.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact the Center for European Studies at UT, or email coldwarcultures@gmail.com

Thursday, September 30, 2010

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Texas Governors’ Room (UNB 3.116), Texas Union,

The University of Texas at Austin

“Reading Chican@ Like a Queer”

Chicana/o literary and cultural texts have long been approached through two overlapping presuppositions: they offer instructive reflections of the material social processes that racialize and oppress peoples of Mexican descent living in the US; they help constitute and mobilize an oppositional Chican@ public for politically contesting racism in the US. What happens when these burdens of transparent reflection and of an identity politics squarely focused on race are lifted from the texts and from the readers/viewers? When reflection is shattered? When Chican@ representations thwart our desires for mastery (of knowledge, of agency)? When what they offer up instead is the unknowable, unthinkable, unsayable? In “Reading Chican@ Like a Queer” Sandra K. Soto, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, revisits key texts with these questions in mind.

Sponsored by: The Center for Mexican American Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Call for Papers
Thinking Gender 2011
21st Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels.
For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (3-5 sources). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please see the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html.

Send submissions to: thinkinggender@csw.ucla.edu

Deadline for Submissions: October 22, 2010, by midnight
Conference is Friday, February 11, 2011, at the UCLA Faculty Center.

If you have an urgent message for me, I can be reached at https://awayfind.com/sage

Dear PPP Community,

As many of you know, I am organizing a Queer Performance Reading Group for faculty and grad students at U.T.  After an organizational meeting yesterday, I am pleased to announce our reading for the fall semester. Some of our books focus on both queerness and performance; others address one or the other–but we will read all the books through the lenses of queerness, performance, and race.  All UT faculty and grad students are cordially invited to attend any or all of the following meetings.  You are welcome to drop in and out of the group, and you are also welcome whether or not you have read every word of the book we are discussing.

Our meetings (each will convene at Sao Paolo on San Jacinto):

Monday, September 27, 4pm: E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies <http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780822336181-1>

Monday, October 11, 4pm: David Roman, Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts <http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780822336631-1>

Monday, October 25, 4pm: Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History <http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE%20PAPER%3ANEW%3A9780674032392%3A17.25>

Monday, November 15, 4pm: David M. Halperin, ed., Gay Shame

<http://www.powells.com/biblio/71-9780226314389-0>

AND work by Leo Bersani  (selections TBD)

Wednesday, December 1, 4:30pm: Dana Luciano, Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America <http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780814752234-0>

In the spring semester (dates TBA), we plan to read:

Tavia Nyong’o, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory <http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780816656134-0>

Jose Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity <http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780814757284-0>

Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives <http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780814735855-2>

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity <http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780822330158-0>

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. I hope to see you on September 27 and beyond!

Best wishes,

Robin Bernstein

The BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism, held by Dr. Tara Smith in the Philosophy Department, is sponsoring the Third Annual Undergraduate Essay Contest on Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged this year.

First prize is $2500, second prize is $1750, and third prize is $1200. All full-time undergraduates registered at UT for the 2010-2011 academic year – including those students who participated in last year’s contest – are eligible to submit an entry. The submission deadline is November 15th.

For the essay questions and full details, please visit <http://laits.utexas.edu/sites/bbtchair/essay-contest/>  or email vmwilli@austin.utexas.edu.

The Center for Health and Social Policy Proudly Presents:

Schools and Inequality, Revisited

by Dr. Paul von Hippel

Do U.S. schools contribute to the achievement gaps between children of different backgrounds? This question was famously debated in the 1960s and 1970s. Please join us as Dr. von Hippel revisits it in light of more recent research.

When: September 24, 2010

12:15 pm -2:15pm

Where: Bass Lecture Hall - LBJ School of Public Affairs - 2315 Red River

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP via email to robin.pearson@austin.utexas.edu

Next Month:  On October 25 CHASP will host our own Cynthia Osborne to present her findings on the evaluation of Texas’ Paternity and Parenting Awareness program for high school students.  Details will be forthcoming. Save the date!

Friday September 17th                  12:30pm-1:30pm         SSW 2.116

Wednesday September 22nd      4pm-5pm                          WEL 2.308

Friday September 24th                 11:30am-12:30pm         SSW 2.116

Wednesday September 29th        1pm-2pm                         SSW 2.112

Tuesday October 12th                   4pm-5pm                         PAR 203

Monday October 18th                   4pm-5pm                         WEL 2.308

SW 460K/SW 495K, Cross-listed with WGS 440

Travel abroad to London and earn course credit!  Explore this historic city with friends while learning about the diverse and culturally rich neighborhoods of London, especially the East End which has served as a point of entry for waves of immigrants seeking a better life. Through cultural immersion in ethnic neighborhoods, field visits and seminars, the course aims to promote cross-cultural learning and deepen students’ understanding of the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen in an increasingly global society.

Check out the web site for all Maymester courses: <http://www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/mm.html>

Scholarships are available.  More scholarship information at Global Assist: <http://utdirect.utexas.edu/student/abroad/globalassist.WBX>

For more information contact:

Clinical Prof. Ruth Rubio, ruthrubio@mail.utexas.edu

Clinical Assoc. Prof. Barbara Anderson, barbara.a@mail.utexas.edu

Erica Katz, Program Coordinator, Intl. Office, erica@austin.utexas.edu