Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

The second-annual Washington University in St. Louis Graduate History
Conference: The History of the Body

October 26-27, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis

Keynote speaker: Professor Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University

The Graduate Conference Committee of the History Department at Washington
University in St. Louis invites graduate students to submit proposals for
its second annual Graduate Conference.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for this broadly conceived topic,
and are excited to see in what new and creative directions participants
will take this theme. For example, the “History of the Body” might include
bodies used for political and religious expression, gender and the body,
sexualities, the body politic, the transgression of boundaries, the
movement of people, changing ideas of “good” and “bad” bodies over time,
and the idea of bodies in the formation and appropriation of personal and
impersonal spaces. Very literal uses of the “body” as well as more
representational and less-direct approaches are equally welcome.

The Graduate History Conference chooses a biennial rotating theme, allowing
for deeper examination of historical problems and questions over a period
of time. This year will be the second year to explore the “History of the
Body,” and we are eager to see how this provocative topic will develop in
the concluding installment of the conference.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2012

Proposals for papers should be between 200-300 words. Final papers should
be approximately 20 minutes in length. Individual papers as well as
proposals for panels will be considered. We welcome new as well as
returning presenters. Please submit proposals to the conference website,
http://history.artsci.wustl.edu/GHA/Conference/Submissions.  For any
questions please contact Ethan Bennett at ethanrbennett@gmail.com.

MEChA and La Collectiva Femenil presents: Lenguas Sueltas, open mic nite on April 27th from 6-8pm on the West Mall.
for more information, contact: lenguas-sueltas@hotmail.com.

Members of the “Peers for Pride” program are required to take one class in the fall semester and one in the spring semester. During the fall semester course, “Confronting LGBTQ Oppression: Exploring the Issues and Learning the Skills to Communicate Them,” students learn basic facilitation skills while taking an in-depth look at some issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. They will write a monologue that they will perform on campus during the spring semester.
During the spring semester course, “Facilitating Dialogues on LGBTQ Oppression: Peers for Pride in Action,” peer facilitators have the opportunity to perform their monologue and fine-tune their facilitation skills and lead workshops across campus.
Participants are required to make a two-semester commitment to the program. Interested students must complete an application and an interview with the program’s director and course instructor, Shane Whalley, LMSW. For more information, contact Shane at swhalley@austin.utexas.edu.

The Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies 2011-12, Poets&Scholars, is having a two Preview/Promo events on Wed. April 27.

Introducing:

P.S. Poets&Scholars Lunchtime Reading Series

This is the first in a monthly series in which English department students and faculty share their own poetry and favorite poems by others.

Location: Atwood Library

Time: noon (light lunch provided)

Participants Roger Reeves, Liz Cullingford, Meta duEwa Jones, and Lisa Moore

Door Prize: An autographed manuscript (handwritten) copy of an original poem by Roger Reeves!

Evening poetry reading with

Eileen Myles and Hoa Nguyen

Location: Black Box Theater, new Student Activities Center (beside Gregory Gym)

Time: 5-7 p.m.

- Born in Saigon and raised in Washington, D.C., Hoa Nguyen is author of Red Juice, Hecate Lochia, six other books and chapbooks and co-editor of Skanky Possum. She has been teaching creative writing in Austin for 12 years.

- Eileen Myles was born in Boston and moved to New York in 1974. Her Inferno (a poet’s novel) is just out from OR books. For her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland, she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. Sorry Tree is her most recent book of poems. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.

We hope to see you there!

NSPIRE UT Presents:

SPEAK: A Multilingual Show

We’re here to say what we mean. We’re here to speak. About ourselves. About our bodies. About our experiences. About love and relationships, sexuality, culture.

We’re here to say things that aren’t being said. Things we’ve been told we can’t say, because our real feelings don’t always translate or because what we have to say will make people uncomfortable. These words in your minds – from our lips.

SPEAK is a multilingual monologue show written by the performers. In conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, INSPIRE UT asked men and women to speak in their own languages about themselves – their experiences, their idea of love, their relationships, their bodies – because we believe that talking about these things – in the ways that people think about them, in all languages – has the power to tear down the mystery surrounding them and to help others find their voices and the power to SPEAK.

PERFORMANCES:

Friday, April 15th – 8:00pm
Saturday, April 16th – 8:00pm
Friday, April 22nd – 8:00pm
Saturday, April 23rd – 8:00pm

All performances are in CAL 100.

Tickets: Suggested $5.00

Tickets will be available before the show. Proceeds will support INSPIRE UT and SafePlace.

CAST:
Aurora Sanchez – Tagalog
Ariel Dang-Tran – English
Lynn Hou – American Sign Language
Chinyere Ugwuzor – English/Pidgin English
Ganiva Reyes – Spanish/English
Juan Portillo – Spanish
Tatiana Makhinova – Russian
Veronica Hernandez – Spanish/English
Bobbi Duncan – English
Erica Allseitz -Facilitator (English)

The Austin Project Jam Sessions
art/activism/scholarship in performance

with:
Camille DePrang
Natalie Goodnow
Sruabhi Kukke
Candace Lopez
Nnenna Okeke

Friday April 15 at 8pm
Winship Drama Building 2.180
23rd St and San Jacinto
Reception following

Saturday April 16 at 2pm
Vortex Theater
2307 Manor Road

Here is what students have to say about the Theatre for Dialogue class with Voices Against Violence:

“This class will teach you so much about yourself and the world in which you live. This type of class, I believe, is what you come to university for; to foster a positive and beneficial relationship and awareness between community and school, between yourself and strangers. I will always cherish this class and what it’s done for me.”

“The amount of growth I’ve obtained from being in this class, both personally and
academically, has been immeasurable. This class has provided me with some serious self-reflection on the roles I play in life, as a student, as a friend, as a relative, and even as a boyfriend.”

The Theatre for Dialogue program of Voices Against Violence is looking for students for the 2011-2012 class cohort. Train with Voices Against Violence through a two-semester academic course:

Theatre for Dialogue
SW 360K or TD 357T
Wednesdays 2:00 – 5:00pm

Receive: 2 semesters of upper division credit through Theatre and Dance or Social Work.
Registration/participation is through application and interview. Applications DUE APRIL 18TH.

Find more info here:

http://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav_peertheatre.html

application available here:

http://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav_peereducator.html

“Amazing! Awesome! I cannot say enough good things about this class and the instructors.
It is of immeasurable value to me. By far, to me one of the most important classes on campus in this university.”

Hear what students have to say about this class:

Attention WGS Colleagues,

Here is an opportunity to get involved with one of our community partners!

Conspire Theatre is a new nonprofit theatre company (sponsored by Austin Circle of Theaters) created to serve marginalized and incarcerated women using the creative mediums of theatre and creative writing. Many of the women we serve have suffered severe physical and psychic trauma, and we counter that by creating a safe and joyful space to explore creativity, agency and self-expression. CWGS is working to help Conspire Theatre build a support network.

On May 14th, Conspire Theatre will be having its first ever fundraiser to support our Summer Workshop at the Travis County Jail. Since the summer of 2009, Conspire Theatre has been using theatre to help incarcerated women in Texas find their voices, develop communication and literacy skills, heal from trauma, and hold on to their humanity. Our mission is “to offer marginalized women a healing and empowering experience through the creative mediums of theatre and writing.”

Our fundraiser will be an Art and Crafts Sale held on S. Congress on May 14th, 2011. We’re seeking donations of sketches, paintings, sculptures, crafts (knitting, stitching, paper crafts, glass pieces – basically anything wonderful that you make!), photography, mixed media and whatever else you can think of. To donate artwork, crafts, or to volunteer the day of the sale, email Katherine Craft, Executive Director of Conspire Theatre at conspiretheatre@gmail.com.

Here is what students have to say about the Theatre for Dialogue class with Voices Against Violence:

“This class will teach you so much about yourself and the world in which you live. This type of class, I believe, is what you come to university for; to foster a positive and beneficial relationship and awareness between community and school, between yourself and strangers. I will always cherish this class and what it’s done for me.”

“The amount of growth I’ve obtained from being in this class, both personally and
academically, has been immeasurable. This class has provided me with some serious self-reflection on the roles I play in life, as a student, as a friend, as a relative, and even as a boyfriend.”

The Theatre for Dialogue program of Voices Against Violence is looking for students for the 2011-2012 class cohort. Train with Voices Against Violence through a two-semester academic course:

Theatre for Dialogue
SW 360K or TD 357T
Wednesdays 2:00 – 5:00pm

Receive: 2 semesters of upper division credit through Theatre and Dance or Social Work.
Registration/participation is through application and interview. Applications DUE APRIL 18TH.

Find more info here:
http://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav_peertheatre.html

application available here:
http://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav_peereducator.html

“Amazing! Awesome! I cannot say enough good things about this class and the instructors.
It is of immeasurable value to me. By far, to me one of the most important classes on campus in this university.”

Hear what students have to say about this class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mey55fB7DM4&feature=player_embedded

Attention WGS Colleagues,

Here is an opportunity to get involved with one of our community partners!

Conspire Theatre is a new nonprofit theatre company (sponsored by Austin Circle of Theaters) created to serve marginalized and incarcerated women using the creative mediums of theatre and creative writing. Many of the women we serve have suffered severe physical and psychic trauma, and we counter that by creating a safe and joyful space to explore creativity, agency and self-expression. CWGS is working to help Conspire Theatre build a support network.

On May 14th, Conspire Theatre will be having its first ever fundraiser to support our Summer Workshop at the Travis County Jail. Since the summer of 2009, Conspire Theatre has been using theatre to help incarcerated women in Texas find their voices, develop communication and literacy skills, heal from trauma, and hold on to their humanity. Our mission is “to offer marginalized women a healing and empowering experience through the creative mediums of theatre and writing.”

Our fundraiser will be an Art and Crafts Sale held on S. Congress on May 14th, 2011. We’re seeking donations of sketches, paintings, sculptures, crafts (knitting, stitching, paper crafts, glass pieces – basically anything wonderful that you make!), photography, mixed media and whatever else you can think of. To donate artwork, crafts, or to volunteer the day of the sale, email Katherine Craft, Executive Director of Conspire Theatre at conspiretheatre@gmail.com.

V-Day The University of Texas at Austin 2011Presents a Benefit Production of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Marh 30, 31, April 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Student Activity Center Auditorium

On March 30, 31, April 1, 2011, at 7:00 PM, V Day The University of Texas at Austin will present three night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s award wining play The Vagina Monologues at the Student Activity Center Auditorium.
Last year, over 5400 V-Day benefits were held around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $4 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, readings from V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer and Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops. The University of Texas at Austin has joined this global movement as part of the V Day 2011The University of Texas at Austin Campaign.

What is a V-Day Campaign?
A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women and girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the U.S and around the world.
You can catch UT’s a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues at the Student Activity Center Auditorium on Marh 30, 31, April 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM. This benefit production is sponsored by the Women’s Resources Agency of the Student Government. See you there!
For more information on V-Day you can click here.

How do theories and practices of performance reconfigure knowledge of lesbian
histories?

A Performance and Symposium
March 4-5
University of Texas at Austin
Sponsored by the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellows Program with generous support from the Department of Theatre and Dance, the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster, and The Warfield Center

Friday, March 4, 8pm, Winship 2.180:
the bull-jean stories: a multimedia adaptation featuring Q-Roc Ragsdale based on the book by Sharon Bridgforth

Saturday, March 5, Winship 2.112:
8:30-9:30 am: continental breakfast
9:30-10 am: Welcomes by Charlotte Canning and Robin Bernstein
10-11:30 am: “Archiving Queer Black Brilliance: The Mobile Homecoming Project.”
Panelists: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Wallace. Chair: Matt Richardson
11:30 am-1:30pm: Break for lunch
1:30-3pm: “Performing the Jazz Aesthetic: The Austin Project and the bull-jean stories.” Panelists: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, Q-Roc, Harold Steward. Chair: Deborah Paredez
3-3:30: Coffee break
3:30-5:30: “Reading Archives of Performance.” Panelists: Robin Bernstein, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Ann Cvetkovich. Chair: Meta DuEwa Jones
5:30: Closing Remarks: Kim Marra

All events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

by Sharon Bridgforth
featuring Sharon Bridgforth, Florinda Bryant and the 2010-2011 Austin Project Ensemble

WHEN: Sunday February 20 at 6pm
WHERE: Winship Drama Building, Room 2.180
WHO: Sharon Bridgforth is a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009 and a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic. Her piece, blood pudding, was produced in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. She is the 2010-2011 Visiting Multicultural Faculty Member at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
MORE INFO: www.sharonbridgforth.com

Austin’s Premier Drag King Troupe

Well who knew the [ALL]iday would come so soon! Come on out and celebrate with us at our annual dragtastic [ALL]iday Show!

Featuring special guests from Austin and Houston!

Hosted By:
Stanley Roy & Avery Austin

10% of proceeds to help disadvantaged youth

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10TH

Doors @ 9pm, Show @ 10pm

18+
$10 at the door

@ Elysium, 705 Red River

http://www.kingsnthings.org

What: Women and Fair Festival (part of East Austin Studio Tour)

Where: 1604 East 11th St (The Old School)

When: Saturday and Sunday, November 20 & 21, 10am-6pm – Festival

Saturday, November 20, 2pm – Film and discussion, The Way North, Maghrebi Women in Marseilles
Sunday, November 21, 2pm – Translingual poetry concert featuring award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Liliana Valenzuela

Who: Sponsored by Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) www.atcf.org

Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) is presenting the 7th annual Women and Fair Trade Festival as part of E.A.S.T. (the East Austin Studio Tour). Eight cooperatives, formed by women adversely affected by globalization, will come from all over the world to tell their stories and sell beautiful textiles, toys, pottery, jewelry, clothing, and other handmade crafts. Art lovers, activists, university students, avid shoppers, and the broader Austin community will learn about fair trade and shop at the same time. The market festival will also feature international music both days, a documentary film followed by a discussion on Saturday at 2pm, and a translingual poetry concert featuring award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Liliana Valenzuela on Sunday at 2pm.

For over ten years, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (Austin So Close to the Border) has educated Austinites about labor and human rights, fair trade, and the hidden costs of U.S. trade policy.

After 50 years of serving regional, low-income communities, the Austin American Friends Service Committee office closed September 30, 2010. A former program of AFSC, Austin Tan Cerca has been reborn as a full non-profit organization that will continue to serve the Austin community and border region. Its principles and educational mission remain the same.

So come and support indigenous communities while enjoying their culture through music, shopping and artistic expressions.

Josefina Castillo, Program Director
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
(512) 474-2399
jcastillo@atcf.org