Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

Jill de Zapien and Cecilia Rosales (University of Arizona) discuss community-based health interventions with immigrant women.

This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work, Department of Psychology, Center for International and Comparative Law, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work, Department of Psychology.

February

• Thursday, February 01, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Carol Jacobsen (Women's Studies, Art and Design) presents: Women in Prison: Resistance and Representation. She will present clips from her recent films and discuss her role as an artist and Director of the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project. She'll discuss her recent study, "Battered Women, Homicide Convictions and Sentencing: The Case for Clemency" published in the Hastings Women's Law Journal. This talk is part of the weekly series Women at the Margins: Law and Policy.

  This event is co-sponsored by Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Art and Design, School of Social Work, Center for International and Comparative Law.

• Wednesday, February 07, 2007
  

  Liza Featherstone: Uncovering Wal-Mart, a discussion at U-M Flint

  12:30 - 1:30 PM, Riverview Room, University Center, U-M Flint

  Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Featherstone contributes articles about Wal-Mart and other issues to The Nation magazine. She has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday, and Ms. She is a frequent radio and TV guest. She lectures frequently to college and university audiences, labor unions, and other citizen groups. She is a Ralph Shikes Fellow at the Public Concern Foundation and teaches political writing at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This discussion is sponsored by the Womens Educational Center, the Department of Political Science, and the Women's and Gender Studies program. Featherstone is in southeast Michigan under the auspices of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her appearance is supported by funds from the Motorola Foundation. Featherstone has agreed to sign books after the discussion, and a limited number of free copies will be available to students. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please email Peggy Kahn at pegkahn@umflint.edu.

• Wednesday, February 07, 2007
  

  Motorola Lecture: Liza Featherstone: Is Wal-Mart Selling Women Short?

  Liza Featherstone,

  7:00 - 8:30 PM, Michigan League Vandenburg Room

  Liza Featherstone, a U-M alumna and a journalist based in New York City, will deliver the 2007 Motorola Lecture. Featherstone's work on student and youth activism has been published in The Nation, Lingua Franca, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Left Business Observer, Dissent, The Sydney Morning Herald and Columbia Journalism Review. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, In These Times, Ms., Salon, Nerve, US, Nylon and Rolling Stone. She is the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (Verso, 2002) and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic, 2004). Before her talk, off our backs will be presented with the Michigan Media Award.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women.

• Thursday, February 08, 2007
  

  Lane Hall Conversations: Comparing schooling descisions of male and female headed households in India

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Amita Chudgar (IRWG Visiting Scholar) presents "Comparing schooling descisions of male and female headed households in India." Amita Chudgar completed her PhD in Economics of Education at Stanford University in June 2006. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at IRWG and a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Education, Michigan State University. Using a 70,000 household dataset on education participation from India, Chudgar models the differences in school participation pattern based on families' socioeconomic condition. The main outcomes explored are binomial (child in school, not in school) and multinomial (child in school, in labor market, out of school in other activity) in nature. Female-headed households are especially disadvantaged in terms of family's economic status; however, a previous study by the author showed that children in female-headed households were more likely to be in school compared to similar children in male-headed household. As a first step, this paper specifically focuses on the differences in children's schooling pattern based on the gender of the head of the household. In a scenario where girls are systematically less likely attend school compared to boys, an exploration of differences in school participation between boys and girls by family's socioeconomic status and gender of the head of the household is a next step. This talk is part of Lane Hall Conversations, which take place the second Thursday of each month at 12 noon.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women.

• Thursday, February 08, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Megan Sweeney (English, Afroamerican and African Studies) presents "Reckonings: Cultures of reading in women's prisons." Outdated romance novels, crime and legal thrillers, and "self-help" booksmany of which are written from a Christian perspectiveoccupy most of the library shelves in women's prisons. This limited range of reading materials reflects the overall evisceration of prison libraries since the 1980s. Coupled with dismantling educational and rehabilitative programs, and the scarcity of psychological and counseling services, the decline of prison libraries bespeaks an increasing dehumanization of incarcerated men and women that makes it difficult to regard them as readers, let alone as human beings capable of deep thought, growth, and transformation. Despite these dispiriting conditions for reading behind bars, some incarcerated women engage in highly creative and resourceful reading practices, and womens prisons remain a site for thriving cultures of reading. Drawing on individual interviews and group discussions with incarcerated women, Sweeney discusses how these women use limited library materials to perform self-directed "bibliotherapy," to work through experiences of sustaining and perpetrating violence, to gain knowledge and inspiration from other women, and to narrateand sometimes writetheir own life stories. This talk is part of the weekly series Women at the Margins: Law and Policy.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• Friday, February 09, 2007
  

  Global Conversations: Gender and Environmental Health

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Donna Mergler (World Health Organization) presents "Gender and Environmental Health." The ecosystem approach to human health (ecohealth) uses social, natuarl and health sciences to carry out interdisciplinary research, including gender-based and participative methodologies in order to understand the complex links between women's and men's physical and social environments and human health. In this presentation, the integration of gender in ecohealth studies will be discussed using examples of exposures to mercury and pesticides in different settings and countries. This talk is part of Global Conversations, which take place the second Friday of every month at 12 noon.

• Friday, February 09, 2007
  

  LGQRI: Susana Cook: The Values Horror Show

  9:00 - 11:00 PM, The Work Gallery, 306 S. State Street

  The Values Horror Show (Written and directed by Susana Cook, original score by Julian Mesri) deftly combines political satire and dark humor to expose the horrors unleashed under the discourse of morality. In this biting social commentary, Cook conjures up the troubled historical ghosts of her native Argentina and compares the rhetoric used by the repressive military regime of Rafael Videla in the mid-1970s with U.S. politicians' current discourse. Commissioned by Dixon Place's Mondo Cane! Program, this brilliant tour de force is presented as a solo performance with a riveting rock-opera score. Described by Cook as "the story of a paranoid post-hero in the era of terrorism," The Values Horror Show maps out a suspicious world where the character travels through situations with seemingly no control over what she thinks. Her moments of lucidity are quickly overcome by a growing inability to question the values imposed on her--she acts out an existence dictated by the Patriot Act and is followed around by Santa, a God-like figure who appears to know everything about her activities. Born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a New York-based political theatre worker who has been writing and producing original work for over 20 years. Concerned with issues such as racism, classism, nationalism, and homophobia, Cook creates powerful political satires that use humor as a tool for exposing the rationales used to justify oppressions against minorities.

  This event is co-sponsored by Department of Latino/a Studies, Horace Rackham Graduate School, School of Social Work.

• Thursday, February 15, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Candace Kruttschnitt (University of Minnesota) presents "A Contextual Analysis of Women Prisoners' Mental Health." A rise in governmentality, the development of the risk society, and shifts in cultural sensibilities have all been used to explain recent trends in crime control and penal policies, most notably in the United States and in England and Wales. Despite the importance of this discourse, it is flawed in two respects: (1) it has left the experiences of those who are living out these transformations on the sidelines; and, (2) when these experiences are addressed, attention is directed primarily to the experiences of male offenders. Kruttschnitt will examine indicators of the mental health of 2,911 women held in two prisons in California and three prisons in England to determine whether and how different aspects of prison life and prisoners' experiences affect their well-being and whether generalities about transnational changes in penal life are warranted. Candace Kruttschnitt is a faculty member in sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on female offenders, including both reviews of research pertaining to gender differences in etiology and primary analysis of criminal court sanctions. This talk is part of the Women at the Margins series, which happens every Thursday at 4:00 PM.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• Thursday, February 15, 2007
  

  MILAGROS: MADE IN MEXICO

  5:30 - 7:30 PM, Natural Science Auditorium

  Latina/o Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender are proud to present a screening of MILAGROS: MADE IN MEXICO. "Milagros" is a 60-minute documentary shot primarily in Mexico. The documentary covers the impact of transnational migrations on the women of the Bajo region in Guanajuato, Mexico. The film shows how micro-enterprising endeavors are being implemented to end generational poverty, and the major cultural changes taking place as the role of women in Mexico drastically shifts. Ultimately, the documentary offers a unique understanding of migration to the US by allowing the viewer to experience the Mexican perspective. Filmmaker and Michigan native Martina Guzman will be on hand for a Q/A session following the film.

• Friday, February 16, 2007
  

  IRPVAL Lecture: Victoria L. Banyard: Building Bridges from Research to Practice: The Consequences and Prevention of Interpersonal Violence

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 4448 East Hall

  Interpersonal violence occurs at such rates that it has become the focus of increasing concern for both researchers and practitioners. Building bridges between these groups is essential to changing communities and ending violence. This premise provides the framing context for this talk, presenting results from two longitudinal violence studies. The first examines mental health consequences of various types of interpersonal violence across the lifespan among women who are non-offending caregivers in families referred for family services, and the interconnected nature of violence in women's lives as well as additional risk and important protective factors. The second study uses experimental, longitudinal research design to examine efficacy of violence prevention with late adolescent college students. Both projects are framed in terms of how they were informed by collaborations between researchers and practitioners and the implications of research for innovations in applied efforts to reduce violence in relationships. Victoria L. Banyard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and Co-Director of Prevention Innovations: Research and Practices for Ending Violence Against Women on Campus, a research center at UNH. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology with a certificate in Womens Studies from the University of Michigan. She has completed postdoctoral research and clinical training at the Family Research Lab at UNH and the Trauma Center in Boston. She conducts research on the long-term consequences of trauma and interpersonal violence including factors related to resilience and recovery. She was the principal investigator on a study examining the efficacy of a college rape prevention program and has begun a program of research with several colleagues on broader community approaches to sexual and intimate partner violence prevention. This talk is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, a program of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research.

• Thursday, February 22, 2007
  

  CEW Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist Anne Ladky

  11:30 - 1:00 PM, Michigan Union, Pond Room, 1st floor

  Despite women's progress, approximately one-third of all full time working women earn less than $25,000 per year; over 15 million earn less than $9/hour. When millions of workers earn too little to support their families, they are cut off from the American dream the chance to build a better life for themselves and their children. With lesser incomes, they consume less, which threatens economic growth. Ms. Ladky will present her findings on the serious negative consequences of low-wage work for our families, communities, and the country's economic health. Anne Ladky is a nationally recognized expert on women's employment issues, equal opportunity, workforce development and career advancement. She is the executive director of Women Employed, an organization dedicated to improving the economic status of women and removing barriers to economic equity.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women.

• Thursday, February 22, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Beth Richie (University of Illinois-Chicago) presents "Black women, male violence, and the build up of a prison nation." Violence against women has clearly been established as a major social, public health and political problem. Despite the success of the feminist anti-violence movement in the United States in changing public policy and fostering a sense of public intolerance, some women continue to face terrible long-term consequences to male violence and abuses of patriarchal power. Among those who are most vulnerable are women of color, poor women, lesbians and women with a criminal background. Richie will present data from her current research to show how mainstream anti-violence strategies have had limited success because they have ignored the issues of race and class and relied too heavily on criminal legal strategies to respond to the problem of gender violence. This talk is part of Women at the Margins: Law and Policy, which happens every Thursday at 4:00 PM.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work, Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work, Center for the Education of Women.

March

• March 6, 2007 CANCELLED
  

  BIRCWH Lecture: Michael D. Stein

• Thursday, March 08, 2007
  

  Lane Hall Conversations: The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Elizabeth Roberts (IRWG) presents "The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador." When female in-vitro fertilization patients in Ecuador are told they need an egg donor many would prefer to use relatives--sisters, nieces, goddaughters, sisters-in-law, and grown daughters--rather than anonymous, paid donors recruited by the clinics. Egg donation between these kinswomen not only serves to make new children, but is also an occasion to maintain female economic alliances that are central to their familys economic fates. In my talk, I demonstrate how these practices are especially significant when revisiting the anthropological debates about the "traffic in women." In the case of egg donation between Ecuadorian kinswomen, relatedness is not produced through the exchange of women between men as proposed by anthropologists like Claude Levi-Strauss. Instead, the movement of eggs between female relatives in Ecuador promotes continued reciprocity between them, reinforcing formalized ties of affection and commerce which stand outside longstanding bourgeois boundaries between love and money. This talk is part of the Lane Hall Conversations series, which happens the second Thursday of every month at noon.

• Thursday, March 08, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Janie Chuang presents "Sex and/or Labor? The Reductive Narrative Behind Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking." Feminist advocacy has played a key role in moving the issue of human trafficking from the margins to the mainstream of international political and legal discourse. Yet highly divisive debates among feminists and human rights advocates risk compromising global efforts to prevent and address human trafficking. Chuang explores how these debates have produced an overly reductive view of the problem of trafficking i.e., as primarily a criminal justice issue and an issue of sexual exploitation that ultimately undermines efforts to develop long-term solutions. Janie Chuang is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law. Professor Chuang teaches courses in international law, and specializes in issues relating to gender, labor and migration, specifically trafficking in women. As an advisor on trafficking issues for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, she participated in the drafting of the UN Trafficking Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime, advocating for the inclusion of human rights protections for trafficked persons. Chuang is the U.S. Member of the International Law Associations Feminism and International Law Committee. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and her B.A. in Philosophy and International Studies from Yale University.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• POSTPONED TO FALL 2007
  

  Global Conversations: She tries and he dies: The gender paradox in adolescent and young adult suicidal behavior

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (South Alabama), speaks on teen suicide. This talk is part of Global Conversations, which happens the second Friday of every month at noon.

   

• Tuesday, March 13, 2007
  

  CEW Brown Bag Research Presentation: The bio-politics of HIV/AIDS in post-Apartheid South Africa

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, CEW, 330 E. Liberty

  While conducting her dissertation fieldwork in Johannesburg, Clarie Decoteau, Ph.D. candidate in sociology at U-M, engaged in social movement activism, local grass-roots initatives and community participatory action research projects on the topic of HIV/AIDS.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women.

• Tuesday, March 13, 2007
  

  LGQRI: Scott Spector lecture

  4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  What's in a scandal? For early twentieth-century newspaper readers in Berlin and Vienna, a spate of scandals involving the alleged homosexuality of certain public figures was both an encounter with the relatively new notion of the "homosexual as personage" and a way to negotiate the rapidly shifting grounds of political life. The label "homosexual" emerged in the context of German medical and juridical writing in the late nineteenth century, but it remained unknown to most people until these sensational news and court events. The scandal genre was able to link this realm of personal sexuality with political concerns in particular ways that still have resonance today. Scott Spector is an Associate Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous articles relating to cultural history, as well as the prize-winning book Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Sicle. This talk is part of IRWG's Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative.

• Thursday, March 15, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 5:30 PM,

  In this talk, Susan Tiefenbrun, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Global Legal Studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, will show that slavery is not dead despite the profusion of anti-slavery conventions that have been enacted nationally and internationally. Human trafficking is the modern-day manifestation of slavery. Every day, human beings, primarily women and children, are bought and sold as cargo for the purpose of exploiting them in sex work or other forms of unfair labor, and under slave-like conditions. She will discuss and define "trafficking," and explain how it is done worldwide, including in the United States. She will then talk about the extent of this very lucrative international crime that has not been stopped by laws that have been enacted specifically to eradicate this heinous human rights violation. She will look in particular at the United States law called the Victims of Trafficking Protection Act (TVPA) that views trafficking as an international problem requiring an international solution. She will discuss the domestic and international impact of the TVPA and what more we can do to stop the purchase and sale of human beings. It is hard for Americans to imagine that trafficking actually exists in the United States where every year 50,000 women are brought into our country from foreign lands and thrown forcibly into brothels and unable to escape. These women and children work for little or no wages in a system of debt bondage. Women (many of whom are children under the age of 18) are required to service more than fifty men a day in the brothel or else face severe beatings and torture.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• Friday, March 16, 2007 - Saturday, March 17, 2007
  

  Jim Leija: Sins, with all my heart

  8:00 - 9:30 PM, Video Studio at the Duderstadt Center

  An all-new live performance--written and performed by Jim Leija, and directed by Erin Markey, marks the culmination of Leija's MFA studies. Shows are on Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

• Wednesday, March 21, 2007
  

  Community of Scholars Presentations

  1:00 - 5:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Sundari Balan, Psychology

  Angela Dowdell, History

  James Leija, Art and Design

  Emily Lutenski, English & Women's Studies

  Rebecca Gershenson Smith, English and

  Kamille Gentles, Communcation Studies present work funded in part through IRWG's Community of Scholars.

• Wednesday, March 28, 2007
  

  Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Gayle Boss, essayist

  Tracey Easthope, Ecology Center

  Linda Nemec Foster, poet

  Rachael Perry, fiction writer

  Alison Swan, poet and essayist

  Diane Wakoski, poet

  Alison Swan facilitates this reading from the award-winning Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes. This collection of creative nonfiction prose works, almost all of them written or reimagined for the book, bears witness to the five interconnected freshwater seas we call the Great Lakes. Swan, who selected and edited the collection, will talk about the genesis of the project and the collaborative effort which resulted in Fresh Water, recently named a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. Laura Kasischke, Thylias Moss, and Leslie Stainton are also contributors. Swan received an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1991, and is an award-winning Great Lakes environmental activist. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided and books will be available for purchase and signing.

• Thursday, March 29, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Gini Sikes (journalist) presents "Warrior or whore: The roles girls play in street gangs" as part of Women at the Margins: Law and Policy, a weekly series on Thursdays at 4:00 PM.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

April

• Tuesday, April 03, 2007
  

  LGQRI C. Carr

  5:00 - 6:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Village Voice writer C. Carr presents "Jack Smith, Queer Theatre and the History of Performance Art" as part of IRWG's Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative.

• Thursday, April 05, 2007
  

  Gender and Global Health: Rachel Snow

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Rachel Snow (Public Health, Population Studies Center) presents "Sex, Gender and Risk Taking" as part of IRWG's Gender and Global Health Speaker Series.

  This event is co-sponsored by Global Health Research and Training, International Institute.

• Thursday, April 05, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Kristi Holisinger (Missouri-Kansas City) presents "Feminist perspectives on female offending: Understanding women and girls' pathways to crime." She'll present information on the nature and extent of female crime and explore who females in the correctional system are by examining theories and research (pre-feminist and feminist) that have attempted to explain their behavior.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• Tuesday, April 10, 2007
  

  Queering Development: Genders, Sexualities and Global Power

  Suzanne Bergeron, UM Dearborn and IRWG

  Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati

  Andil Gosine, University of Toronto

  Alexandra Texeira, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

  Ara Wilson, Duke University

  1:00 - 3:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Moderator, Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan Dearborn and IRWG

  Suzanne Bergeron is the author of Fragments of Development: Nation, Gender and the Space of Modernity and is currently co-editing Querying Development: Sexual Rights and Resistance to Global Power. She spent a semester last year at IRWG as a visiting scholar engaged in research on the heteronormative discourse of caring labor in economic theory. She is currently Associate Professor of Womens Studies and Social Sciences and director of the Womens and Gender Studies program at the University of Michigan Dearborn.

  Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati, "Querying/Queering Development" Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is currently co-editing an anthology, Querying Development: Sexual Rights and Resistance to Global Power, and is working on a booklength manuscript on the same topic. Previously she has published articles and a book on Latin American feminisms, the global politics of development, and LGBT rights movements in the global South. Her talk will focus on the ways in which sexuality is understood, imagined and organized in global practices and discourses of development, with an emphasis on how scholars and activists have rethought the normativizing effects of neoliberal globalization.

  Andil Gosine, University of Toronto, Mia Mottley Speaks (Homo) Sex: HIV/AIDS scripts on sexuality and sexual rights in the Anglo Caribbean Andil Gosine is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto. His research engages cultural analysis to examine the collaboration of 'race' with gender, sexuality and class in various contexts, including in international development and environmental policy, and in popular culture. He has published in various journals including Men and Masculinities, Social Justice, Topia and the Canadian Women Studies Journal, and contributed chapters to various collections (Queer Youth Cultures, Queer Online) and has a forthcoming book, Stories Less Told. "Mia Mottley Speaks (Homo) sex" will be published in a forthcoming anthology, Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS: The Caribbean and Beyond.

  Alexandra Texeira, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice Alexandra Teixeira is currently the philanthropic partnerships officer at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Prior to joining Astraea, she developed strategies and tools for collaborative sexual rights advocacy within the United Nations as the research and policy coordinator for global advocacy at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Alex has served on the NGO Task Force of the Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Women, as an evaluation consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and as a program fellow at the Global Fund for Women. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Third Wave Foundation and is deepening her interest in leadership theory, organizational development, and sustainable activism. Alex is completing a master's degree in International Affairs at Columbia University.

  Ara Wilson, Duke University, NGOs as Erotic Sites Ara Wilson is the author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons and Avon Ladies in the Global City (UC 2004) and is currently working on a book, Sexual Latitudes, that discusses globalization as a stage for sexual politics. Currently Director of Sexuality Studies and associate professor of Women's Studies at Duke University, she has taught transnational feminist cultural studies at the Ohio State University and has been a fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, the Five College Women's Studies Research Center in Massachusetts, and the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality at Kent University (UK).

  This event is co-sponsored by U-M Dearborn Women's Studies.

• Thursday, April 12, 2007
  

  Lane Hall Conversations: Revisiting the 'Hysteria' Etiology Theory of Hyperemesis Gravidarum with a Contemporary Lens

  12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Julia Seng (IRWG, OB-GYN, Nursing) discusses "Revisiting the 'Hysteria' Etiology Theory of Hyperemesis Gravidarum with a Contemporary Lens" as part of Lane Hall Conversations, which happen the second Thursday of every month at 12 noon.

• Thursday, April 12, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Joanne Belknap (Colorado) discusses girls in the juvenile justice system.

  This event is co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work.

• Thursday, April 19, 2007
  

  Women at the Margins: Law and Policy

  4:00 - 6:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall

  Susan Sharp (Oklahoma) discusses capital punishment and gender differences in crime and deviance as part of Women at the Margins: Law and Policy.

• CANCELLED
  

  Women of color for leadership in the 21st Century economy: A focus on the B-STEM disciplines