Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

“From Beirut to Kabul: War, Occupation, and Resistance”
a talk by journalist Nir Rosen

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
7 p.m.
University of Texas at Austin
Thompson Conference Center auditorium (TCC 1.110)

http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/tcc.html

TCC is next to the LBJ School at Red River and Dean Keeton.

There is free convenient parking for motorists in the large lots along Red River. http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/img/maps/TCCparkingmMap.pdf
The conference center is on Bicycle Route 42; see http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/bicycle/downloads/bicycle%20map_07.pdf.
For bus routes, use the trip planner at http://www.capmetro.org/.

Independent journalist Nir Rosen will speak about his reporting in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan — sectarianism and civil war, occupation and resistance, terrorism and counterinsurgency. His most recent book, Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World, was just released last month by Nation Books.

Rosen, a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, is also the author of The Triumph of the Martyrs: A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and his documentary film “No End in Sight” about the occupation of Iraq won a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Rosen is a frequent guest on Democracy Now!, CNN, al Jazeera International, and various other television and radio shows in the United States and abroad.

Rosen has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Central Asia, including more than two years in Iraq reporting on the American occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi religious and political movements, interethnic and sectarian relations, and the Iraqi civil war. His reporting on the origins and development of Islamist resistance, insurgency, and terrorist organizations has also taken him to Afghanistan, Somalia, Jordan, and Pakistan.

Articles, interviews, and information about Rosen’s book are online at:

http://aftermathbook.com/

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/10/hbc-90007749

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/nir-rosen-aftermath-afghanistan

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/rosen.php

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, Department of Government, School of Journalism, and International Socialist Organization. For more information, go to http://www.utpalestine.org/.

We are looking for reviewers to contribute to our special section on Sexualities in the upcoming E3W Review of Books. Please see our Call for Reviews and potential titles below. Write back by November 15 if you are interested in reviewing any book below or any other relevant book or archive for our section.

Call for Reviews

“New Work in Sexuality Studies”

In the introduction to Empire of Love (2006), Elizabeth Povinelli praises “contemporary sexuality studies and gender studies [that] have engaged in what we might call a politics of trespass. That have refused to sequester, to ghettoize, women’s issues, gender issues, and queer issues to a subset of social life.” However, Povinelli also looks ahead to a theoretical moment wherein sexuality studies would no longer trespass or cross over, but simply become integral as a mode of analysis. This special section, anchored by Sandra Soto’s Reading Chican@ like a Queer: The De-mastery of Desire (2010), brings together new work in sexuality studies that signals the arrival of this theoretical moment. Please email Stephanie Rosen at ssrosen@gmail.com by November 15 with your proposals or to request a list of suggested titles.

Potential Books for Review

1) The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South. Brock Thompson (Oct 2010)

2) Gay Shame. Ed David Halperin (Jan 2010)

3) Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities).
Elizabeth Freeman (Oct 2010)

4) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures). Jose Esteban Munoz (Nov 2009)

5) The Promise of Happiness. Sara Ahmed (Jan 2010)

6) Gender, Sexuality and Museums: A Routledge Reader. Amy K. Levin (Aug 2010).

7) Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. Shayne Lee (Nov 2010).

8 ) Theatre and Sexuality. Jill Dolan (Aug 2010)

9) Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism. Scott Herring (Jun 2010)

10) The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Kathryn Bond Stockton (Jan 2009)

11) Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, politics, Desire. Ed. Catriona Motimer-Sandilands (June 2010).

12) The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality, and the Politics of South Asian Studies. Hugh Urban. (Dec 2009).

13) Media/Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. Kevin Barnhurst (Dec 2007).

14) Framing the Margin: Nationality and Sexuality Across Borders. Margaret Frohlich (2008).

University of Texas at Austin graduate students in any department planning research travel related to East Asia, or who plan to present at a conference or workshop on an East Asian topic, are invited to apply for support under this program. The total maximum annual award for any one student is $300; awards may only be used to offset all or part of airfare expenses. Furthermore, the overall amount of funding available through this program is contingent on allocations from general CEAS budget, and will vary yearly.

To apply, please send 1) an abstract or 1-2 page project description, 2) a CV, 3) a copy of your graduate transcript (unofficial is fine), and 4) a project/travel budget electronically in a single email to ceas@uts.cc.utexas.edu prior to the application deadline. Paper applications may also be submitted to Nicole Elmer in WCH 4.134. The project budget should note and, if applicable, demonstrate the use of other available sources of funding before an application will be considered. Applications are due by November 15, for activities taking place in the following spring semester, and March 15, for activities taking place in the following summer or fall.

Applications will be judged by the CEAS Executive Committee on criteria that include merit, efficient use of funds, and relevance to East Asian Studies. Priority will also be given to graduate students focusing on East Asia as a major component of their overall academic program. Payment of this award will be made on a reimbursement basis only. Students applying to this program in order to present at a conference or workshop may do so before their paper is accepted, but final confirmation of the award will be contingent on such acceptance.

(Snacks provided)

Friday, November 12
3-5 p.m.
GAR1.102

“Still Riding the Second Wave: The Importance of Radical Feminism in Reactionary Times”
The radical feminism of the second wave offers powerful tools for analysis and action that are more needed than ever. Using the feminist critique of pornography as a case study, Professor Jensen will discuss the consequences of the marginalization of radical feminism over the past two decades and argue for a radical theory and politics.

For more information, contact
Kyle Shelton kylekshelton@gmail.com
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt sarahsteinbockpratt@yahoo.com

Mon, November 22, 2010 • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM • School of Law 3.214 (faculty lounge)

Did you know that the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice holds periodic Happy Hour Speaker Series? They are usually on Mondays from 3:30pm to 5:30pm at the School of Law 3.214 (faculty lounge).
The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies will co-sponsor one of the Human Rights Happy Hour Speakers on Monday, November 22, 2010. Her name is Paola Bergallo, and she is a professor at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her talk will be about “Cycles of Right to Health Litigation: The Elusive Argentine Experience”.

Professor Bergallo’s research interests center on feminist critiques of the law, socio-legal theory and constitutional and human rights issues. She served as a researcher and consultant in projects of the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES), the Center for Reproductive Rights, the UN Fund for Population (UNFPA) and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) on gender and law, women human rights and sexual and reproductive rights. She is a founding member of Red Alas, Red de Académicas Latinoamericanas, a network which aims to reform Latin American legal education from a gender and sexuality perspective. In addition to an LL.B. with honors earned from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (1994), Professor Bergallo also holds a Masters of Law Degree from Columbia University (2000) and has completed a Masters in Legal Research (2003) from Stanford University where she is a J.S.D. candidate.

We hope to see you there!

Sponsored by: Rapoport Center, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies

Brown Bag Lunch Topic

Tue, November 30, 2010 • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM • Gebauer, 3rd Floor Conference Room

Paola Bergallo, Professor of Law, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires

Professor Bergallo has consulted on women’s human rights and sexual and reproductive rights for the Center for Reproductive Rights, the UN Fund for Population, and the Pan-American Health Organization. She is a founding member of Red de Académicas Latinoamericanas, a network to reform Latin American legal education from a gender and sexuality perspective.

Please join us for this event in connection with the new CWGS/Rapoport Center Research Cluster on Women, Gender, and Human Rights. The Research Cluster on Women, Gender, and Human Rights is a new monthly conversation among faculty and students; the discussion supports critical engagement with human rights discourse, connects researchers across campus working on women, gender, and human rights, and facilitates resource sharing for an interdisciplinary approach to advocacy and education for women, gender, and human rights. We invite current and new Research Cluster participants as well as all university community members. All are welcome.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Dear friends, colleagues, and students,

I am writing to remind you of our next Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker. University of California, Berkeley’s Associate Professor of Rhetoric Samera Esmeir will present a lecture, focusing on the Palestinian liberation movement, entitled “Temporalities of Struggle: National Liberation Movements and International Strategies of Rule.” UT Law Professor Derek Jinks will serve as respondent to her talk. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place this coming Monday, November 8, from 3:30-5:30, in a new location: JON 5.206/207 at the University of Texas School of Law. Please note the change in room location. This space is part of the new Susman Academic Center. It can be accessed by taking the elevators by the library entrance in the Susman Godfrey atrium.

Professor Esmeir’s research interests span issues around British rule in Egypt, violence, war and the security state in regards to the contemporary Middle East, and legal history, including the colonial histories of “comparative law” and the legal history of treason in Israel. Her recent publications include “The Violence of non-Violence: Law and War in Iraq” (Journal of Law and Society, March 2007), “On Making Dehumanization Possible” (PMLA: The Journal of Modern Languages Association, October 2006), “In the Name of Security: Introduction” (Adalah’s Review, 2004), and “1948: History, Memory, Law” (Social Text 75, Summer 2003). Professor Esmeir received a Ph.D. in Law and Society from New York University. She has worked as a lawyer and co-founded and co-edited Adalah’s Review, a sociolegal journal published in Arabic, Hebrew and English, focusing on Palestinian rights in Israel.

More information on Professor Esmeir can be found on our website at: http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/humanrights/events/speaker-series.php#esmeir/.

Finally, 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.

All Best,
Sarah Cline

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.

Thursday, November 11
6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.

St. Edward’s University
Fleck Hall, Room 305
3001 South Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas 78704

512-448-8400

Join us for a screening of HBO Films’ Iron Jawed Angels. This film tells the story of the American women’s suffrage movement of the 1910s. Dinner will be provided before the movie. After the screening, information will be provided about how you can get involved with women’s rights in your community.

Iron Jawed Angels is a 2004 film about the American women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s. It was filmed in Virginia, produced by HBO Films, and released in 2004. It received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film, directed by Katja von Garnier, follows political activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they use peaceful and effective strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote.
Plot

The film begins as Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor) return to the United States from England where they have been actively involved in the suffrage movement. As the duo becomes more active within the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), they begin to realize that their ideas were much too radical for the established activists, particularly Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston). Both women eventually leave NAWSA and create the National Woman’s Party (NWP), a much more radical organization dedicated to the fight for women’s rights.

http://iron-jawed-angels.com

Cost: Free

Missy Chambless, Student Life at 512-233-1665 or missyc@stedwards.edu

Please come and support the 1st Gay sensitive AA meeting here on UT campus! No need to be a student or faculty, the only requirement for membership is the desire to stop drinking!!!

When: Every Wednesday from 12:00-12:45 noon

Where: Center for Students in Recovery located in the basement of the School Social Work Bldg. 1925 San Jacinto Blvd. Austin, Tx 78712.

For further questions you can contact Heather N.
(hn85@mail.utexas.edu) or Ivana Grahovac 512-475-8352
(i.grahovac@uhs.utexas.edu)

As many of you know, the Texas After Violence Project is an independent non-profit organization conducting qualitative research about human rights violations, including serious violence, the criminal justice system, incarceration, and state executions.

We work primarily through a person-centered form of oral history in which we ask very few questions; we listen to and digitally record the first-person narratives of lived experience. When narrators have reviewed and approved the D.V.D.s and transcripts of their interviews, we make these narratives public in the manner and to the extent that their authors explicitly permit. We’ve started posting the materials online at the
Human Rights Documentation Initiative of the UT Libraries:

http://rmedia.lib.utexas.edu/index.php/Category:Texas_After_Violence_Project

Currently, we are also conducting a survey. With the support of Dr. Matt
Richardson and Diana Claitor, and with the organizational support of allgo: a queer people of color organization and the Texas Jail Project, we are surveying Texas county jails concerning their practices and policies regarding transgender inmates.

If you, your friends, students or colleagues want to participate in serious, purposeful qualitative research, please join us. We offer two eight-week training sessions this fall. Both will begin this week, one on Thursday nights 6 -8 on the U.T. campus, and one on Friday afternoons, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. at our office by South Congress Avenue & Riverside Drive.

I’m working on the information issues in intimate partner violence, specifically those inherent in community interactions, social media, and agency services. What sources are trusted? What inhibits effective information decision making? How are required documents managed for personal and official purposes? How is safety maintained on the Internet?

These are just a handful of the information issues that need to be addressed. If you are interested in talking through any of these questions and/or working with me on a research or service project, then please let me know. I could use help — anything from a conversation to a short volunteer stint on a project to an Individual Study on a full scale study.

Lynn Westbrook, Associate Professor, 232-7831, School of Information, lynnwest@ischool.utexas.edu

It is almost time for Project Reach Out (PRO) on Saturday, November 6th, 2010!

Project Reach Out is a large-scale, biannual volunteer event sponsored by the UT Student Volunteer Board. Our mission is to unite the UT student population for one day of service to help the needs of the Austin community. Previous PRO events have counted over 500 volunteers serving a variety of non-profit agencies throughout Austin, all in a single day.

A list of agencies is now available and we would like to invite you to sign up at http://tiny.cc/projectreachout !!!

Please register by clicking on the link in the “Register Here” column for the agency you prefer. Please note the time shift and location. We will keep you updated on the day-of instruction after registration period.

If you have questions please contact us via e-mail at svbprojectreachout@gmail.com

Join us for an informal panel discussion
about GLBT issues in the workplace

GLBT issues affect everybody in the workplace from managers to HR. Panelists from a variety of industries share their experiences about being out at the office, legal issues, and how to encourage and support an integrated workplace.

Out for Business is a part of Explore McCombs Diversity Weekend
Date: Nov. 5th, 2010
Place: CBA Events Room 3.130
Time: 11:00 – 12:00

Speaker: Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield

Friday November 5th, BURDINE 214, 1:30-3:00pm

Sociology of emotions research has focused on the ways that emotional performance can reproduce gender inequality, particularly in various occupations and organizations. Yet this research often overlooks the racial character of professional workplaces and how emotion work is experienced by racial/ethnic minorities. Based on 25 semi-structured interviews with black professionals, this talk addresses this gap in the literature by examining the ways that race shapes emotional performance in the professional work environment. I conclude that some emotions are, to an extent, marked “whites only” by virtue of the tokenization that black professionals experience in the workplace.

Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield (PhD John Hopkins, 2004) teaches sociology at Georgia State University. She has written widely on social stratification, work and occupations, and the intersections of race, class and gender. Professor Wingfield is the author of “Doing Business with Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy” (2008, Rowman and Littlefield), “Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the 2008 Presidential Campaign” (with Joe Feagin, 2009 Routledge), and “Changing Times for Black Professionals” (2011, Routledge).
Department of Sociology Race and Ethnicity Speaker Series, in conjunction with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

For more info: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwsoc/4313.html

The University of Texas School of Social Work and SafePlace, Austin Present: The 5th Annual Liberation-Based Healing Conference

http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/ceu/lbh/

November 5 – 6, 2010.

National Conference Sponsors: Institute for Family Services • Center for Community Engagement at Lewis & Clark, Graduate School of Education and Counseling Affinity Counseling Group • Johns Hopkins University, Educational Psychology

University of Texas Co-Sponsors:
* University of Texas, Diversity Education Institute, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
* University of Texas, Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
* University of Texas, Institute for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue

Central Texas Co-Sponsors:
SafePlace, Austin • ALLGO • American Gateways • Caritas of Austin • Center for Survivors of Torture • Con Mi MADRE • Refugee Services of Texas • St. Hildegard’s Community (Episcopal) • Travis County Behavioral Health Planning Partnership