Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

This interdisciplinary conference, presented by Writing Across Communities, focuses on presentations of graduate student work. The 2011 conference focuses on “constructing space” as both a theoretical and practical concern, inviting discussion about how physical, rhetorical, and spiritual constructions of space can best be undertaken sustainably, ethically, and in concert with one another. Our keynote speaker is Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, of Texas A&M, and co-author of Ecospeak. We would like to invite graduate students in your department working on any of these issues to submit abstracts of their work for inclusion in the conference program. Please forward the announcement and attachments (PDF of Call for Papers and Conference Flier) to your department.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Writing Across Communities at the University of New Mexico presents the
Second Annual Earth Day Conference, Friday, April 22, 2011

Theme: Constructing Space(s): Making our Home(s) in the 21st Century
Keynote Speaker: Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, co-author of Ecospeak

Presentation proposals and paper abstracts due by February 25, 2011

This interdisciplinary graduate student conference focuses on a range of practical and theoretical issues relating to themes of Earth, practical environmentalism, and environmental sciences. The 2011 conference focuses on “constructing space” as both a theoretical and practical concern, inviting discussion about how physical, rhetorical, and spiritual constructions of space can best be undertaken sustainably, ethically, and in concert with one another.

Climatologists, chemists, biologists, and physicists, among other scientists, have discovered and for years described the wide-ranging impact that human civilizations have on Earth, the environment, and the planet’s other inhabitants. Engineers, architects, policy makers and others have taken scientific data and begun to imagine ways to mitigate or reverse the effects of human activity. Visual arts, literature, philosophy, and the humanities also have traditions of representing and interpreting the relationships between human and nature, human and animal. Finally, native and indigenous perspectives on living with the land have long been in contrast to western understandings of the best use of resources. Our relationships to the Earth, animals, and one another are mediated through these diverse lenses, and because living responsibly in the 21st century will take the input and collaboration of many thinkers and actors, it is imperative to have cross-disciplinary, cross-paradigm conversations about these relationships. By fostering this conversation, Writing Across Communities hopes to complicate and enrich the myriad ways in which we understand ourselves and our planet, and thus perhaps influence our actions upon it.

When and Where? April 22, 2011 at the University of New Mexico campus, Albuquerque, from 9 am to 4 pm.

Submission: Send your presentation proposal or paper abstract of 500 words or fewer to: earthdayconference@gmail.com . The submission should be an attachment in Word (doc or docx), PDF, or RTF format. Include a working title for your paper or presentation, your email, please also include a brief biography specifying your name, institution, department or discipline, and research interests. For panel presentations, submit a single document containing a working title for the panel, working titles for each of the presentations, and the abstracts for each presentation. Submissions must be received by February 25, 2010.

Presentation Format: We welcome submissions of multi-media presentations as well as traditional papers for individual presentations (15 minutes) or three-person panels (45 minutes per panel) from any discipline or combination of disciplines that address the themes of constructed space, creating and making home-places, and emerging environmental paradigms for life in the 21st century.

Questions? Contact Erin Penner, Writing Across Communities Events Coordinator, epenner@unm.edu.

Dear all,

I’m delighted to announce the spring semester schedule of the Queer Performance Reading Group. Each meeting will convene at Sao Paolo on San Jacinto at 3:30. As always, it is the social norm in this group that you are welcome to drop in and out (there is no expectation that every participant will attend every meeting) and it is also fine to join the discussion even if you have not read every word of the book.

Our spring semester schedule is:

Friday, February 11: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Monday, February 28: Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Monday, March 7: Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Friday, March 25: Tavia Nyong’o, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory

Monday, April 4: Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender
Bodies, Subcultural Lives

Friday, April 15: Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

Monday, April 25: Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

I hope to see you soon at Sao Paolo to discuss these exciting books! Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best wishes,
Robin

New Majorities, Shifting Priorities:
Difference and Demographics in the 21st Century Academy

Friday, March 4th, 2011
9 am to 5 pm
UCLA Campus, Royce Hall Room 314

The conference is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
RSVP: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/conferences/rsvp

UPDATED INFO will be available at

http://www.csw.ucla.edu/events/new-majorities-shifting-priorities

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is pleased to invite you to an upcoming conference that will address challenges now facing women’s, gender, sexuality, LGBT, ethnic, race, and postcolonial studies in the academy. The
current economic climate has given rise to a crisis in higher education, and the relevance of work being done in these areas of study is being questioned. Budgets are being cut, while numerous programs face the threat of downsizing or closure. CSW, together with the Center for the Study of
Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at NYU, organized this event as a response to these challenges by bringing experts in the above-mentioned fields together for two roundtable discussions. The roundtable participants will post position papers available to conference attendees on February 15th and these papers will provide the basis for engaged and sustained discussion with the audience on the topics and questions below:

Roundtable #1: Curriculum and Research in Gender, Sexuality, LGBT, Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies (9:30-12:00)

This panel is devoted to developing the most innovative and trenchant arguments that can be made for teaching and research in the areas of gender, sexuality, women’s, LGBT studies and the overlapping and intersecting fields of ethnic and postcolonial studies. Rather than remain on the defensive, fighting to keep the programs we currently have when they are attacked, might we instead take the opportunity to articulate broad, affirmative, forward looking new visions for the 21st century?

Panelists will articulate their intellectual, pedagogical and political visions for the future of these field(s) and address how they might imagine the place of gender, sexuality, women’s, LGBT, ethnic and postcolonial studies if they suddenly could remake the academy in any way they wished. Other questions the panelists will address include: How would you envision these fields of study as central rather than marginal to the academic mission? How might you organize them in relation to the humanities, social
sciences, sciences and professional education (divisions that you may also wish to question/remake)? How could your vision be put into play in the many dialogues occurring now about reorganizing the university? The focus for these papers, and this roundtable, will be on the intellectual grounds for remaking our fields, while the 2nd panel will focus more centrally on the institutional organization of them.

Roundtable #1 Participants:

Lisa Duggan, New York University

Rod Ferguson, University of Minnesota

Inderpal Grewal, Yale University

Laura Kang, University of California, Irvine

Sandra Soto, University of Arizona

Sarita See, University of Michigan

Roundtable #2: Academic Departments and Research Centers (1:30-4:00)

This roundtable is devoted to envisioning the best institutional structures, arrangements, and relationships among units devoted to teaching and research in the areas of gender, sexuality, women’s, LGBT studies and the related fields of ethnic and postcolonial studies. Participants will articulate what those institutional arrangements or structures might be based on their intellectual and administrative expertise and experience, considering how they would proceed if they suddenly had the power to remake the university in any way that they wanted. Other questions include: how would you
institutionalize gender, women’s, LGBT, postcolonial, and ethnic studies? How could the university be structured to position these areas and concerns as central rather than marginal to the academic mission? Participants will
reflect on the current crises and challenges facing their particular institution or higher education as a whole — from contingent labor and reduction of ladder faculty positions, to the student as consumer model, to the new metrics through which universities and their corporate guardians are assessing what works and what doesn’t. In the face of these shifts, are there specific institutional or structural arguments that gender and sexuality studies or ethnic and post-colonial studies are especially positioned to offer as a counter to the corporatized university?

Roundtable #2 Participants:

Laura Briggs, University of Arizona

Kathleen McHugh, UCLA

Ann Pellegrini, New York University

Angela Riley, UCLA

Jenny Sharpe, UCLA

Kathryn Stockton, University of Utah

New Majorities is cosponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute; UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Social Sciences; UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities; UCLA Department of Women’s Studies, UCLA LGBT Studies Program; UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; UCLA Afro-American Studies Program; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Program; UCLA Asian American Studies Center; and UCLA Department of Asian American Studies.

Greetings from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law.

We are pleased to invite you to register for our seventh annual conference. Entitled “Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict,” this year’s conference is designed to coincide with performances of The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch at the University of Texas, an award-winning play written by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke and based on actual interviews with Scottish soldiers from the Black Watch regiment who were deployed to fight in Iraq in 2003. The conference will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore some of the same intersections of violence, the colonial past, memory, and trauma that Black Watch invokes, as well as the unique role that performance might play in the analysis. It will consider these issues in a variety of geographic spaces and places, with a special emphasis on the legal and political regimes that are meant to preserve memory while also transitioning into post-conflict.
Lawrence Wright, journalist, playwright, and New Yorker Magazine staff writer, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, February 17, to be followed by a pre-show panel with the playwright and a performance of Black Watch at Bass Concert Hall. The conference proceedings will continue throughout the day on Friday at the UT School of Law. The schedule is pasted at the bottom of this email.

This event is co-sponsored by Texas Performing Arts, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Libraries, the South Asia Institute, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Performance as Public Practice, British Studies, and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance (at St. Edward’s University).

You can learn more about the participants and register by visiting the conference website. This event is free and open to the public. Because space is limited at parts of the conference, we would appreciate your registration as soon as possible. Early registrants will be eligible for a 15% discount on tickets to Black Watch.

http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/aftershocks/index.php

We hope that you will be able to join us for what we are sure will be an exciting and thought-provoking event!

Best wishes,

Karen Engle

Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law & Director
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton
Austin, Texas 78705

http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/humanrights/

Schedule
Thursday, February 17, 2011 — UT School of Law
4:00 p.m.
Conference Opening: Lawrence Wright, Journalist, Playwright, New Yorker Magazine staff writer
Keynote Lecture sponsored by the UT Humanities Institute
5:15–6:30 p.m.
Pre-Show Panel: “Performance and Human Rights”
Chair: Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin
Gregory Burke, Playwright of Black Watch
Nicholas Cull, University of Southern California
6:45-7:45 p.m.
Reception in Bass Concert Hall
8:00 p.m.
Attend performance of Black Watch by the National Theatre of Scotland at Texas Performing Arts’ Bass Concert Hall.
Friday, February 18, 2011 — UT School of Law
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:30–11:00 a.m.
“Colonial Legacies”
Panelists:
Chair: Benjamin Brower, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois
Priya Satia, Stanford University
Ralph Wilde, University College London, University of London
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m. –12:45 p.m.
“Traumatic Legacies”
Panelists:
Chair: Barbara Harlow
Neloufer de Mel, Colombo University, Sri Lanka
Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth University
Jeffrey Helsing, United States Institute of Peace
1:00–2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15–4:00 p.m.
“Institutional and Legal Legacies ”
Panelists:
Chair: Karen Engle, University of Texas at Austin
Kate Doyle, The National Security Archive
Paul Gready, University of York
Helen Kinsella, University of Wisconsin/Madison
Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota, University of Ulster, Belfast
4:00–4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15–5:30 p.m.
Closing Panel
Invited participants from each of the previous panels

Dear All,

As some of you know (and some have heard about ad nauseum), I play roller derby with the Texas Rollergirls and I’d like to invite you all to come watch the season opener on February 20 at the Austin Convention Centre. Tickets are on sale on the website currently, but I found out yesterday that they’re a couple bucks cheaper if you buy directly from me, so I will have paper ones available next week for anyone that wants to track me down. ($10 if you catch me, $12 if it’s more convenient to buy online, $15 if you wait til the last minute and buy at the door.) Wear purple and silver to support my team, the Hustlers!

A little background: roller derby is a grassroots, full-contact sport played primarily by women all over the world (400+ leagues including, yes, Australia) and Texas Rollergirls was the first league in the world to begin playing the sport in its modern incarnation. As well as the competitive league I’m a part of, there’s also a thriving recreational programme and our Derby Brats programme for girls under 18. The league is a women-owned, women-operated non-profit organisation with all the work done by its members as volunteers. It’s a great feminist organisation that I’m really proud to be a part of, but more importantly: it’s fun and I want to share it with you guys! It should be a great night out and I’d love it if you could be there.

Cheers,
Beck
WGS MA Graduate Student

We have a date for Lavender Graduation 2011 — May 18, 2011. Deadline to register for ceremony is May 2, 2011. Graduates interested in participating can register at www.utgsc.com. Thank you and see you at the ceremony!

Lavender Graduation is a ceremony honoring the achievements of graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally students at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, DC is offering two internships to LGBT or ally undergraduate students for summer 2011. Details are below.
Are you an undergraduate Freshman, Sophomore or Junior?
If so, we encourage you to apply to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’snationally acclaimed Summer Congressional Internship Program.
2011 Summer Internship Program Application Deadline: Friday, February 4, 2011
All program participants will receive an 8 week work experience on Capitol Hill and great benefits:
· Free roundtrip travel to Washington, DC
· Monthly metro stipends
· Housing (all expenses paid by CHCI)
· Stipend of $2,500 for the 8 weeks in DC
This unmatched experience to learn first-hand about our nation’s legislative processes is for college undergraduates enrolled full time in an academic institution. Students of ALL majors that have an interest in the development of public policy and who have demonstrated leadership abilities should apply.
To learn more about the program, eligibility requirements, and how to possibly get credit for the internship please visit http://www.chci.org/internships/
Please do not hesitate to contact CHCI directly with any questions or concerns. The CHCI Staff is here to assist you with your application. Please know that you can apply to more than one of CHCI’s amazing programs.
Thank you and we look forward to assisting you complete your application.

Texas Tech University is set to host the 27th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education Feb. 3-4 in the Student Union Building (SUB), Second Floor, at Texas Tech. Please use the attachments as you see fit to help spread the word.

The Conference titled, “Innovative Voices: Initiatives, Projects and Practices for Empowerment and Gender Equality,” is part of a two-day celebration sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program at Texas Tech. The event will include papers and panel discussions topics surrounding women, gender roles and gender identity. Deadline for CFP’s is this coming Friday, January 21st, by email. See submission guidelines on our web site at: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/call_for_papers_and_panels_2011.php

All campus events are free and open to the public and will be held on the second floor of the SUB with walk-in registration and a welcome address beginning at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in the Matador Room. Academic paper and panel sessions will run from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Feb. 4 with concurrent sessions. Check our web site on January 26th for a detailed program schedule with panel session location and times, available for download online.

Schedule of events:

Feb. 3:
· A pre-conference screening of the documentary film, “The Education of Shelby Knox” will begin at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 in the Firehouse Theatre at the Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts located at 511 Ave. K.
· A panel discussion will follow with members from the film.
· Tickets are $13 for general admission and can be purchased through Select-A-Seat by calling (806) 770-2000 or on the Web at http://www.selectaseatlubbock.com. Student tickets are available for Texas Tech students with a valid ID at the Ticket Booth box office in the SUB (in front of the Allen Theatre) for $8. All prices include a $3 Select-A-Seat service charge.

Feb. 4
· Welcome address begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Matador Room.
· Academic paper and panel sessions will run from 9:00 a.m.-4: 00 p.m. with concurrent one-hour sessions.
· “Voices of Feminism,” a performance organized by Women’s Studies Affiliated Faculty Member Sara Peso White, will begin at 5 p.m. in the Matador Room. The performance will reflect on writings by women that address issues of concern for all.
· “Forth Wave: (Active)ism in Her(story),” featuring keynote speaker Knox will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Matador Room.

Pre-registration is now available on the Women’s Studies website. Registration is not required to attend the keynote panel. We encourage faculty to utilize this conference as part of their curriculum or extra credit. Proof of attendance will be provided at the registration desk for students needing to attend the conference or a single panel session for course credit.

Visitors without a Texas Tech parking sticker can find parking information by entering from the Broadway entrance to the campus. The traffic kiosk attendant will give directions to the SUB and nearest visitor parking location.

The Women’s Studies Program is a part of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement. For more information and the complete conference program schedule, visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/AWHE.php.

Thank you for your continued support,
The Women’s Studies Program
www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies

CONTACT: Patricia Earl, Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-4335, or patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project is pleased to announce its summer
internship program for 2011. We seek applications from graduate or
undergraduate students to work with the editorial staff at the Project’s
offices in New York City. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to
become proficient in primary and secondary source research, the process of
editing historical documents for publication, and the application of
digital technologies to historical research.

BOOK EDITION INTERNSHIP: Interns will be working on Volume IV of the
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, covering the years 1920-1966 and
focusing on Sanger’s efforts to create a global birth control movement.
Interns will conduct research under the supervision of editors on specific
topics, tracing people, places, events and issues covered in the
documents. The research will be used to produce annotation and
introductory material for the volume. Research will be conducted in the
Project’s offices, using the comprehensive microfilm edition and other
primary sources, as well as at local libraries and with resources
available on the Internet. Those with an interest in the histories of 20th
century China, India, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union are
particularly encouraged to apply.

DIGITAL INTERNSHIP: Interns will work on our digital edition of Sanger’s
speeches and articles, focusing on texts written by Margaret Sanger in the
late 1930s. Interns will proofread the texts, add XML encoding, and draft
subject index entries for the documents. Interns will conduct research as
needed to verify dates, titles, and publication information, or to
identify the names of people, organizations and books mentioned in the
documents.

WEB OUTREACH INTERNSHIP: Interns will work on strengthening the Project’s
growing web presence, our facebook page, website, and research blog, to
draw more attention to the project’s work and connect with our audiences.
For this internship, familiarity with both history and web-based
technologies is required.

More information and an application can be found at the project’s website,

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutmspp/internships.html

The deadline for applications for summer internships is March 1, 2011.
Internships during the academic year can be arranged on a case by case
basis.

Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D.
Associate Editor/Assistant Director
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Department of History, New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-8666
(212) 995-4017 (fax)
cathy.hajo@nyu.edu

Visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger

Point Foundation Online Scholarship Application for LGTBQ students:

Point Foundation is the nation’s largest publicly-supported organization granting scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate scholarships, mentorship, leadership training and hope for students of merit who have been marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Additionally, Point Foundation provides programs that affect social change by challenging attitudes that contribute to social stigma and its resulting prejudice, which is often experienced by those in the LGBT community.

The application for the 2011-2012 scholars opened on December 10th, 2010 at 8am PST and will close on February 11th, 2011 at 11:59pm PST on our website (http://www.pointfoundation.org/instructions.html ).

If you have any questions, please email Joey Hernandez, Program Administrative Assistant (joey@pointfoundation.org ).

The 2011 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium “Theory in the Flesh: Bodies of Scholarship, Activism, and Community”

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio

May 7, 2011 at The University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: AnaLouise Keating

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2011

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives-our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings-all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. – This Bridge Called My Back

With ‘Theory in the Flesh,’ Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, co-editors of the foundational feminist text This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, sought to establish a theoretical terrain that incorporated the various aspects of identity for women of color and grounded these elements in lived experience.

This symposium seeks to commemorate 30 years of This Bridge by exploring the applications, relevancies and politics of Theory in the Flesh in our contemporary moment. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together graduate students, scholars, writers, artists and performers.

We invite papers that engage the concept of the corporeal, the self, community, and activism. Papers may challenge, complicate, critique, or expand current conceptualizations of the Theory in the Flesh in all disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary, cultural, queer, feminist, environmental, American, political, subaltern, bicultural, and popular cultural studies.

We also encourage topics that propose new and imaginative approaches to discourse analysis, methodology, and pedagogy. Visual arts and rhetoric proposals are highly encouraged; the symposium will feature an exhibition of artistic responses such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures related to our theme. We also invite creative writing proposals that bridge disciplines and explore questions of revolution and imagination.

Some possible topics include:

- Language
- Desire
- Concepts of communities/nations/space
- Alternative literacies
- Pedagogies in the grade school, university, or feminist classroom
- Discourses of development, progress, and difference
- Feminist methodologies
- Discourses of nativism, hybridity, and mestizaje
- Rhetorics of nationhood, sovereignty, and terrorism
- Local and global policies
- Environmental studies
- Queer studies
- Popular Culture
- Science Fiction
- Film Studies
- Music Studies
- Imagination in the arts
- Poetry as a revolutionary art form
- Politics and poetry
- Body studies
- Technologies of imagination
- Socio-linguistic studies

Please submit 250-word individual abstracts or panel proposals (comprised of a 250-word abstract for the panel as a whole and titles for each paper) to utsagradconf@gmail.com by March 1, 2011. Paste your proposal into the body of the email message and include any technology requests. Please also include your contact information. If submitting a work of art, please attach a low-resolution image of your piece, if possible, in addition to your abstract. The conference registration fee is $20.00 for pre-symposium registration and $25.00 for registration at the symposium.

Contact: utsagradconf2011@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: March 1, 2011
Facebook: “Theory in the Flesh”

Deadline: February 15, 2011

The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in social scientific approaches to sexuality studies, to run September 2011 – August 2013. Applications are welcome from scholars who study sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed). The Fellow will be affiliated with both the Gender Studies Program and a department at Northwestern, which must be either Anthropology, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, or
Sociology. That is, the Fellow must have relevant expertise in both sexuality studies and one of these fields, and must be prepared to teach courses that are cross-listed in both Gender Studies and the affiliated department.

The Fellow will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses each
year. The Fellow will also be expected to assist in the organization of on-campus educational activities such as an annual workshop, as part of a
new interdisciplinary initiative on sexuality and health in social context.

Applicants must have completed all the requirements for the Ph.D. (or equivalent) by September 1, 2011, or have received their degree within the
last five years. The stipend is $45,000 plus benefits in the first year of the fellowship and $46,350 plus benefits in the second year. In addition,
the Fellow is eligible for $2,000 per year to fund research and conference travel, and up to $2,000 for allowable relocation expenses in the first year.

In order to ensure full consideration, all application materials must be received by February 15, 2011. Applicants should send the following
materials in PDF format by email attachment to sexuality@northwestern.edu, with the subject heading of “Postdoc Application”:

1) a cover letter: Please briefly situate your work in relation to the field of sexuality studies. Please identify the department(s) with which you are
qualified to be affiliated, from among the above list. Optionally, please identify a possible faculty mentor in that department or in Gender Studies.
Please address the question of your experience within interdisciplinary academic environments.

2) a full curriculum vitae

3) a two-page summary of the dissertation

4) a two-page research plan for the fellowship period (this may include, but should extend beyond, revisions to the dissertation)

5) titles and short descriptions of at least two courses that you could teach and that might be appropriate for cross-listing between Gender Studies and your department

6) a writing sample consisting of either a dissertation chapter or an article

7) a full graduate school transcript from your doctoral-degree-granting institution

In addition, please arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent, either by email to the same address (subject heading: “Postdoc application
letter of reference”), or by mail to Gender Studies Program, Sexuality Studies Postdoc, Northwestern University, Kresge Hall 2-321, Evanston, IL
60208-2211. One letter should be from the dissertation chair, and at least one should comment on teaching qualifications.

Administrative questions should be directed to Clare Forstie at sexuality@northwestern.edu. Substantive questions may be addressed to Héctor
Carrillo at hector@northwestern.edu or Steve Epstein at s-epstein@northwestern.edu. For more information about any of the
participating departments or programs, see http://offices.northwestern.edu/browse/A/academic.

AA/EOE: Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged.

We wanted to let you know about our upcoming annual conference on reproductive justice and health care reform. We have issued a Call for Papers and welcome submissions from a range of disciplines.

Please also consider signing up for the email list of the Section of Family Planning & Contraceptive Research at the University of Chicago. You will receive periodic updates regarding our current work on reproductive health issues, including policy briefs on topics such as health care reform, global health projects, research reports and articles, clinical services, and information on our innovative sexuality education programs.

Visit our new website for more information about the Section. Join the listserv and follow the Section on Facebook andTwitter.

The Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research is committed to helping women and girls reach their full potential by bringing a life-course perspective to our understanding of family planning and reproductive health. We are dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that allow us to situate family planning in its biological, social, and political context. Our priorities are reflected in the four programs within the section: research, education, policy, and clinical care.

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)

The College Women’s Caucus is a new national feminist organization designed to increasing political engagement among college-aged women, both on campuses and within their local communities. It is a part of the National Women’s Political Caucus, a multipartisan, multicultural grassroots organization dedicated to increasing women’s participation in the political field and creating a political power base designed to achieve equality for all women.

The CWC at UT is the first chapter in the entire nation, which means YOU have a chance to shape the direction of this new national organization! Just a few of the things we will be doing this next year include:
Working on Student Government campaigns as well as local political campaigns
Hosting training sessions and forums open to all students on various political topics and on issues of concern to college women
Inviting successful women politicians to come share about their experiences in the political realm
Working with middle school and high school girls to give them the leadership skills and belief in themselves to be leaders later in life
Traveling to the National Women’s Political Caucus convention next summer

If you would like more information about CWC, please contact Alyssa Davis at alyssalynn7@gmail.com and check out our facebook group: College Women’s Caucus at UT.