Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Dear Faculty:

We are pleased to invite you to a series of workshops on teaching critical approaches to women’s human rights. We welcome you to attend any or all of the three workshops scheduled for this semester as part of the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative.

Each of the workshops will address readings available prior to the workshop; *please email Kristen Hogan (hogank@mail.utexas.edu) if you would like to receive the readings in preparation for the workshop.

We also welcome you to forward this announcement to any interested faculty.
Sincerely,
Kristen Hogan

Teaching Women’s Human Rights
Workshops for Faculty

Workshops for and by faculty on teaching women’s human rights material in the undergraduate classroom. All faculty welcome. For each workshop we invite attendees to read selected material in advance. To receive the readings, or for more information, email Kristen Hogan at hogank@mail.utexas.edu.

I. Using Service-Learning and Archival Materials in Support of Women’s Human Rights Course Objectives
Wednesday, February 23, 4-5:15, Gebauer 4th Floor Conference Room
Lisa L. Moore (English/CWGS) &
Kristen Hogan (CWGS)
Help students develop a reflective approach to service learning and archival research that will avoid the pitfalls of volunteerism in the community and appropriation in the archives. Share strategies to prepare students for ethical engagement with community-based service-learning; consider how the responsibility to mutually engage with others extends to understanding archival materials.

II. Teaching a Critical Human Rights Framework for Women’s Human Rights
Wednesday, April 6, 4-5:15, Walter Webb Hall 202
Karen Engle (Law/CWGS/Rapoport Center) &
Neville Hoad (English/CWGS/Rapoport Center)
Embrace your students’ energy for human rights while engaging them in a critical reading of the contexts in which international actors shape human rights discourse. Discuss readings and strategies for replacing a benevolent western human rights world view with a self-aware and mutually engaged practice.

III. Thursday, April 21, 4-5:15, Gebauer 3rd Floor Conference Room
Teaching Women’s Human Rights Material in Support of Course Objectives
Barbara Harlow (English/CWGS/Rapoport Center) &
Sharmila Rudrappa (Sociology/CWGS)
Explore how human rights texts may support courses you’re already teaching. Engage with example pedagogical strategies from the co-facilitators’ classes to understand how discussions about human rights can strengthen students’ critical thinking skills and other course objectives.

Workshops sponsored by the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies.

Culminating three years of development work, we are pleased to announce the online availability of Women and Social Movements, International—1840 to Present. The first release went public January 7 and includes 35,000 of published and manuscript primary sources related to women’s international activism, 1840 to the present. This online archive will eventually have 150,000 pages of documents when complete in early 2012.
The archive is co-published by The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY, Binghamton, and Alexander Street Press. Please check out the free trial site, which will remain freely available through the end of February. Go to http://alexanderstreet.com/aha.htm. Select “Women and Social Movements, International” and follow the login directions.

Kitty Sklar and Tom Dublin, Co-editors
State University of New York at Binghamton

Mark your calendars!!

Gender and Sexuality: Serving Women and LGBTQA Communities
Spring 2011 Calendar
(check www.utgsc.com for updates)

February
• Monday, February 7
o Launch of Gender Exploration Discussion Group, Gender and Sexuality Center, 5:30 pm (runs for eight weeks)
• Thursday, February 17
o Living With Pride Series: Religion and Sexuality, Gender and Sexuality Center, 6-7:30 pm
• Thursday, February 24
o GSC Speaker Series: Dr. Lissa Rankin, author of “What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend,” Glenn Maloney Room in the Student Services Building, 7 pm

March
• Wednesday, March 2
o GSC Speaker Series: Silvia Henriquez, Legislative Assembly Room in the Student Activity Center, 2 pm
• Wednesday, March 23
o Women’s Programming Alliance presents: Make a YAY Scale, Gender and Sexuality Center, 7 pm
• Wednesday, March 30
o Living With Pride Series: Masculinity and Gay Men, Gender and Sexuality Center, 6 pm
• Wednesday, March 30 – Friday, April 1
o Vagina Monologues, produced by the Women’s Resource Agency, Recreational Sports Center, 8 pm

April
• Fri, April 1 and Sat, April 2
o Feminist Action Project conference, School of Social Work, more info at: http://feministactionproject.blogspot.com/
• Open performance by Peers for Pride, location and time TBA
• April 11-15 – Pride Week
o Wednesday, April 13
• Open Ally Training, location TBA, Noon – 2 pm

May
• Wed, May 18
o Lavender Graduation, Student Activity Center Ballroom, 5 pm (To register: www.utgsc.com)

Please join the CWGS/Rapoport Center Research Cluster on Women, Gender, and Human Rights for its first meeting of the Spring semester. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jennifer Suchland of Ohio State University to begin our semester series. Please share this announcement.

“Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Category of Analysis”
Dr. Jennifer Suchland, Ohio State University
Tuesday, February 8, 4:30 -6pm, GEB 4th Floor Conference Room

What is at stake in how we define and combat sex trafficking? Since the end of the Cold War, the issue of sex trafficking has been dominated by debates regarding agency and violence against women. My talk will discuss why this is the case looking specifically at how a “violence against women” approach to anti-trafficking can privilege particular understandings of trafficking that obscure the role of the state and transnational flows of capital in sustaining the informal and formal economies that make up sex trafficking. I ask how we can advance a human rights approach to anti-trafficking that links economic and sexual rights.

Dr. Jennifer Suchland is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Her research is on comparative gender studies and issues of culture, law and political discourse. Her most recent essay, “Is Postsocialism Transnational?”, is forthcoming Summer 2011 in “Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society.” She will be discussing research from her current book project which includes work on the evolution of global anti-sex trafficking discourse and its impact on postsocialist Russia.

For more details on the event, please contact Lydia Crafts Putnam at crafts.lydia@gmail.com.

The Corcoran Department of History is seeking an additional participant and chair for a panel that
explores contributions to the second wave from outside traditional networks for the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, January 5-8 2012.

We would like to explore the extent to which the ideals and goals of second-wave feminism have been advanced through unconventional or disparate avenues, or by those who might have considered themselves
outsiders to the mainstream movement (broadly construed). One paper will examine the influence of professional women’s career ambitions on the course of the office workers’ movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Another paper will examine the development of a feminist consciousness by American military women serving in-country during the Vietnam war.

If you are interested please contact Amy Rebecca Jacobs (arjacobs@virginia.edu). Final abstracts must be submitted by February 15th , so if you are interested please contact her no later than February 7th .

The Gender and Sexuality Center is proud to bring Dr. Lissa Rankin to campus on Thursday, February 24th for “What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend.”

Where: Glenn Maloney Room; Student Services Building at 7 pm.

For more information on Dr. Rankin, please visit this website.

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.

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

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 Women’s Studies Program proudly announces the 27th Annual All-University Conference on The Advancement of Women in Higher Education, which will take place on the campus of Texas Tech University, February 4, 2011.

We invite papers and panel proposals that explore the manifold meanings of movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the presence of women’s, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those from the disciplines and specialty subject areas across the Texas Tech University campus, are welcome. We will be happy to consider proposals from the professional schools and the administrative offices, as well as those from scholarly areas where women have been historically under-represented, including mathematics, the agricultural and natural sciences, and technology and applied sciences. We also invite students, staff and faculty members in the social and behavioral sciences, the visual and performing arts, the communications fields, and the humanities to present their research.

The Program also issues a special invitation to interested parties from other colleges and universities, including Lubbock-area institutions, Angelo State University, and other institutions in the Southwest to present, to participate, and/or to attend this conference. Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students are all invited to share their work, in the form of research findings, group or single-author projects, and works-in-progress in multiple media in paper, poster or exhibit sessions.

Please reference the submission guidelines on our web site and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/call_for_papers_and_panels_2011.php

The deadline for submission by email is January 21, 2011

The LBJ Foundation, Harry Middleton Lectureship is pleased to be joined by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who will speak with Larry Temple, Chairman of The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. The lecture will be held in the LBJ Auditorium on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:00 p.m.

Justice O’Connor was appointed by Ronald Reagan as the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981 and served for 25 years before retiring in 2006. Previously, she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals, as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, in the Arizona State Senate, and as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona. A product of the southwest, Justice O’Connor was raised in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School.

Tickets: Seating is limited, and tickets are required for entry. TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. We will form a standby line that evening and will fill in any empty seats from that line about five to ten minutes before the program begins. However, there is no guarantee of entry.

Free tickets are available to students with a U.T. student ID at the Texas Union ticket office (UNB 4.300). Limit one per student I.D.

Location and Parking: Free parking will be available in the LBJ Library visitors’ lot (lot #38) and, after 5:00 p.m., in lots #37 and #39. The LBJ Auditorium is located on the lower level of the LBJ complex at 2313 Red River Street. Access to the Auditorium will be through the lobby of the LBJ School of Public Affairs or through the south Auditorium doors by the LBJ Fountain.

For more information please visit: http://lbjfoundation.org/middleton/

The Women’s Resource Agency (WRA) at the University of Texas at Austin is an agency of Student Government aimed to provide resources and programming for the UT campus and community-at-large regarding women and women’s interest issues. For more information, please contact texaswra@gmail.com .

The Women’s Programming Alliance present “What Goods Are We Really Being Sold” on Tuesday, November 30, Jester A209A at 6:00 pm. This interactive and fun workshop examines popular advertising images and the underlying messages they convey. It promises to be a thought-provoking and entertaining examination of popular media. Space is limited, so please RSVP to this training by emailing us at gsc@austin.utexas.edu.

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

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
7pm- Refreshments will be provided
University of Texas Union, Chicano Cultural Room 4.206 Corner of 24th andGuadalupe

Panelists from Amnesty International, Mamas of Color Rising and others.

Learn more about the maternal health care crisis in the U.S. and in Texas
and what YOU can do to HELP, including exciting upcoming campaigns, and legislation!

“Almost 19% of women in Texas receive delayed or no prenatal care,
significantly increasing their risk of death. Women in the USA have a
greater risk of dying during pregnancy complications than women in 40 other countries.

For more info, contact Kris at (512) 736-1277 or kristinabrady@hotmail.com

ALSO, tune into KAZI, 88.7FM that morning November 9th from 8-8:30am to hear Mamas of Color Rising speak about the Amnesty event and our community organizing work around increasing access to birthing choices for poor and working class mothers of color. The show is called Health Talk with Shannon Jones.