Life History Parameters & The Proliferation of HIV/AIDS: Intersections of behavioral research, evolutionary anthropology, human freedom and social justice
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Larry Gant (U-M Social Work) presents this brown-bag discussion of his work. Since 1990, over $100 billion have been poured into global initiatives for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Current global HIV prevention initiatives emphasize safe sex practices but results show mixed success. Gant and his co-author, Kathleen M. Heath, argue that inconsistencies in traditional program outcomes may not result from paucity of interventions or funds but rather a lack of theoretical understanding about the evolutionary basis of sexual behavior. Using global life history data, we show that risky sexual behavior is an adaptive response to high mortality in order to avoid reproductive failure. Results of this study suggest that as HIV/AIDS increase mortality rates, risk-prone sexual behavior will increase augmenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The study suggests that efforts to raise life expectancy rates for women provides a counterintuitive but efficient structural strategy for HIV/AIDS in developing and threshold countries and communities.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Social Work, School of Public Health, Center for the Education of Women.
LGQRI: Lee Edelman, "Learning nothing: Bad Education"
5:00 - 6:30 PM, Michigan Union Pond Room
What can we learn from queerness? Lee Edelman answers, quite simply: nothing. That nothing, however, is infinitely harder to recognize than it seems. Edelman's lecture engages the resistance to queerness as resistance to encountering "nothing," a resistance that constitutes the very foundation of our aesthetic education. Continuing to think of queer theory and psychoanalysis in relation to each other, Edelman extends the argument he made in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by turning his attention to this persistently unmasterable lesson of the queer, especially as exemplified in Almodóvar's underappreciated masterpiece, Bad Education (La mala educación). Lee Edelman is the Fletcher Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Department of English, Tufts University. This talk is part of IRWG's Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative.
This event is co-sponsored by Institute for the Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature.
Lauren Pelon: Women in Music, Someone Will Remember Us
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Lauren Pelon traces the story of women in music and performs music from around the world. The concert celebrates music written by, or for, women. Crossing the boundaries of time, distance and culture, Pelon sings and plays approximately 25 ancient and modern instruments, some designed for women and some forbidden to them.
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women, School of Music Theatre & Dance.
High heels and vintage funk: Fashion, feminism and contested waves in the U.S. women's movement 734-764-9537 fax: 734-764-9533
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Jo Reger, IRWG Visiting Scholar, presents an informal brown-bag presentation of her current work, in which she argues that examining appearance norms, specifically fashion, is one key to understanding the complex relationship between second and third wave feminism in the United States. The third wave, or contemporary feminism, is described as more focused on the everyday and the individual as forces of social change. Whereas, second wave feminism is portrayed as more collectively oriented and often focused on institutional or political change. By analyzing ideologies of appearance, she argues that third wave feminists seek to reclaim femininity through the creation of politicized dress, differing from earlier feminists who often viewed fashion as solely an oppressive aspect of femininity.
Soraya Tremayne: Early Marriage, Education, and Women's Empowerment in Iran
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Soraya Tremayne, a professor of anthropology at Oxford University, is author of a forthcoming book on IVF and gamete donation in Iran. This presentation is from a study in a conservative community in the city of Yazd in Iran, where the incidence of early marriage (under fifteen years of age) remains relatively high. It explores the impact of education and development policies, which are based on the assumption that there is a positive correlation between education and the empowerment of women leading to a delay in the age of marriage. The study has a comparative perspective covering three generations of women involved in early marriage.
This event is co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studie.
LGQRI: The rise and fall of the 'gay boy' in postwar Japan
7:00 - 8:30 PM, Michigan Union Pond Room
Mark McLelland is the 2007/08 Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese in the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. The Second World War has been identified as a pivotal period for the development of lesbian and gay identities in the Wes
This event is co-sponsored by LGBTA Office.
renee c. hoogland: Art, the abject, and neo-aesthetics
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
On September 16, 2001, five days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that left both New York City, and the world at large, a radically different place, the German avant-garde composer Karl Heinz Stockhausen gave his by now notorious assessment of the events, describing them to a group of journalists as the "greatest work of art of all time." Since then, Stockhausen's admittedly insensitive words have become the starting-point for debates on topics ranging from the nature of terrorism and contemporary warfare, to the power of the media, the "current information war," and the "process by which art develops," as well as on the nature, power, and limitations of the aesthetic as such, both in theory and practice. The latter debates coincide with the so-called "ethical turn" in recent critical thought, a project that is curiously referred to as neo-aesthetics. It is in the context of this project that Hoogland will take up the challenge posed by Stockhausen's provocative comments. hoogland is an associate professor of cultural sexuality studies and American studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In addition to being a visiting scholar with IRWG, she is a visiting professor in the U-M Department of English Language and Literature. This talk is part of IRWG's Visiting Scholars series, and is free and open to the public.
She tries, he dies: Global conversations about the gender paradox and adolescent suicide behavior
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (South Alabama), will describe the gender paradox in adolescent suicidal behavior. She will consider definitional and methodological issues relevant to determining rates of suicidal behavior in the United States and around the world. The latest cross-cultural information delineating sex differences in rates of adolescent and young adult suicide will be presented. Gender differences in the prevalence and associative strength of risk factors for male versus female adolescent suicidal behavior will also be considered. She will then delineate the theoretical model underlying the Life Attitudes Schedule, a measure of suicide proneness. Recent empirical findings obtained with this instrument will be described and recommendations for prevention and intervention programs targeting adolescent males and females will be offered. This talk is part of IRWG's Global Conversations series.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Public Health.
AIDS, Gender and Human Security in Africa
3:00 - 6:00 PM, Michigan Union Kuenzel Room
Four internationally known scholars explore the human security implications of AIDs in Africa with a focus on how gender has influenced and been influenced by the AIDS pandemic on the continent. Chairs : Amal Fadlalla, Women Studies and CAAS and Howard Stein, CAAS and Epidemiology Panelists: Lisa Richey, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Copenhagen; Ezekiel Kakipeni, Geography, U of Illinois, U-C; Parikh Shanti, Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis; Mark Hunter, Geography, University of Toronto
This event is co-sponsored by Center for African and Afro-American Studies.
Exercise messages and motivation: Why midlife women don't want to exercise and what they can do about it
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
IRWG Research Investigator Michelle Segar discusses her work.
Hope Haefner (U-M OB/GYN): Drastic plastics: Designer vulvovaginal surgery
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Throughout the years, there has been an increased emphasis on physical appearance in women. Plastic surgery in the female population has included facial, breast, abdominal and extremity surgery. Recently, the vulva and vagina have become areas undergoing aesthetic procedures. This lecture will increase your knowledge of the current information available on vulvovaginal reconstructive surgery. The ethical issues surrounding these procedures will be discussed.
Open Seminar on Brazilian Transnational Documentary: Tania Cypriano
1:00 - 3:00 PM, 3512 Haven Hall
Open Seminar on Brazilian Transnational Documentary with Brazilian-American director and producer Tania Cypriano.
Vivian R. Shaw Lecture: Putting Passion into Practice
3:30 - 4:30 PM, Rackham Amphitheatre
Pamela Barnes, CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation presents the 2007 Vivian R. Shaw Lecture. This event is co-hosted by IRWG and the Department of Women's Studies. Barnes will use her own varied career experiences to discuss how a career "path" might be anything but. Her professional journey has led her through the worlds of finance (more than 20 years in investment management and corporate finance), nonprofit management (including executive positions at the International Trachoma Initiative and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in New York), and volunteer work (as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay). Now as the leader of a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing pediatric HIV infection and eradicating pediatric AIDS around the world, Barnes' collection of diverse experiences have all added to her "basket of skills," and allowed her to pursue her dreams.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Social Work, School of Public Health, Center for the Education of Women.
Screening with Tania Cypriano
7:00 - 10:00 PM, Natural Science Auditorium
DOCUMENTING AIDS AND MIGRATION: A BRAZILIAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE with New York-based filmmaker Tania Cypriano VIVA EU! (1989) 20 min. Best Documentary Film award from the Festival Latino at Joseph Papp's Public Theater; Best 16mm Film and Best Editing
Portuguese Bate-Papo with Tania Cypriano
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2609 School of Social Work Building
This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
LGQRI: Eileen Myles, "Sorry, Tree"
4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Sometimes I consider poems to be the last social object, like a talking vase you might want to circle a few times before you pick it up and allow it to begin. A book of poems holds the time it was written in. During the composition of Sorry, Tree (2001-2004) I fell in love, moved from the east coast to the west, America went to war, I fell out of love and the entire world was changed by our government's ill-considered decisions. On the other hand if you generally like poetry you might just want to listen to the poems I will read. There's no outside or inside to a poetry reading. Once you enter the room of its performance I think your evening will be changed. It's always easier to go home, but I urge you to not go home. Don't go to a meeting, don't stay in your office. Come to the reading. This talk is part of IRWG's Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Art & Design.
IRWG cosponsored event: Gaping, Gawking, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies
5:15 - 7:00 PM, School of Social Work ECC
This event is hosted by the School of Social Work. Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and people of color all know what it's like to be stared at. Through words and images, author, poet and activist Eli Clare explores the internal experiences of living in marked bodies and the external meanings of
This event is co-sponsored by U-M Initiative on Disability Studies, LGBTA Office, IRWG.
IRWG cosponsored event: Challenges to advancing the rights, health and well-being of immigrant women in the current policy environment
3:00 - 4:00 PM, School of Social Work ECC
This lecture by Deeana Jang is hosted by the School of Social Work. It's been over 40 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing discrimination by federally assisted programs based on race, color or national origin. Yet, today there remain vast disparities in the socio-economic status and health and well-being of communities of color and immigrants. In the current environment, attacks on immigrants have heightened on a national, state and local level with the failure of Congress to enact fair and just comprehensive immigration reform. At the same time, there is backlash against women, and while there is great public attention on trafficking and domestic violence, resources on a federal level are directed to the criminal justice system and not on supportive services to empower survivors and support community responses to violence against women. This talk will provide one long-time activist's perspectives on the impact of this environment on public policy advocacy and the need for a new framework to work towards a more just and safe place for immigrant women, their families and communities.
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women, School of Public Policy, CRECH, IRWG.
IRWG cosponsored event: Laura Briggs: Activism and epistemologies
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
This event is hosted by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. This talk explores the emerging discourse about neoliberalism among feminist theorists. It examines the story these theorists tell about the genealogy of critique of neoliberalism, which they characterizing as beginning in Europe and emerging in the Americas in the Seattle anti-globalization protests of 1999. Although history is only a passing concern in this work, it is interesting that it passes over the Latin American protest against neoliberalism--beginning, say, with influence of the Zapatista movement beginning in 1994, or the left in the Central American civil wars before that. This talk suggests that such omissions matter, and argues for a scholarly practice that takes seriously not only the history but the intellectual labor of political movements.
Community of Scholars: Negotiating Differences: Sexualities Across Disciplines
1:00 - 2:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Chad Thomas: Celia and her Sweet Rose: Performing Lesbian in Cheek by Jowl's All-Male As You Like It; Kristin Scherrer: Coming to Asexual Identities; Corina Kessler: Kabbalistic Hieros Gamos: Reconstituting the Androgyne and The Divine during the Sabbath
Community of Scholars: Pirates and Party Girls: Representations of Gender, Sex and Violence
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Alana Reid: Female Pirates of Classical Hollywood; Katherine Luke: "You can't completely blame the guy": Race, gender and the "gray areas" of sex while binge-drinking
Translating Feminisms in China book release party
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Shaman Drum Bookstore
This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, the body and sexuality. Furthermore, these articles showcase the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China by demonstrating the extent to which translated feminisms - whatever they mean - have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories. This book is essential reading for students, academics and general readers interested in East Asia, comparative women's history, feminist texts and the politics of translation. The editor, Wang Zheng, is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Michelle Lopez: Taking a stand, women and HIV survival
3:00 - 4:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
In this talk, Lopez will explore the impact of U.S. Congressional Law (The HIV Ban) and its impact on families living in the United States. She will share her personal story and work with members of Congress and legal teams across the United States to get this Ban lifted. She will give a brief presentation on women and HIV and its impact on women of color, and a call to join national efforts to help end the spread of HIV in all communities. Lopez emigrated from Trinidad at the age of sixteen, and has lived in New York City since then. She is a mother, a lesbian, a trauma survivor, a woman living with AIDS and an award-winning HIV/AIDS activist. This talk is part of IRWG's HIV/AIDS series, and the Global Conversations series.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Public Health, School of Social Work, Lesbian Gay Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI).
IRWG cosponsored event: Low Wage Work and Work Organizations: A Critical Research and Policy Frontier
1:30 - 3:00 PM, 4212 School of Education Building
This panel is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies. Anne Ladky (Women Employed), Carrie Leana (University of Pittsburgh) and Amy Wrzesniewski (Yale University) serve as panelists.
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Education of Women, IRWG.
Sleep and health: Gender, socioeconomic status and inequalities in sleep
12:00 - 1:00 PM, ISR Room 6050, 426 Thompson Street
Sara Arber (Sociology, University of Surrey) presents this talk. Sleep provides a rich site for understanding aspects of gender inequalities within the family. The quality and timing of sleep is influenced by the social context in which it takes place, and by the individual's roles in the private and public spheres. Most adults share their sleeping space with a partner; each partner's actions influence the quality of the other partner's sleep, but in gender differentiated ways. This qualitative data illustrate how studying sleep can be used as a window to examine the dynamics of gendered relationships. This talk is part of IRWG's Gender and Global Health Speaker Series and the Population Studies Center's Brown Bag Seminar Series.
This event is co-sponsored by Global Health Research and Training, International Institute, Population Studies Center.
IRWG cosponsored event: Intellectuals and Power in Mexico: Elena Garro and Carlos Fuentes in Contrast
4:00 - 5:00 PM, 4th floor Common Room, Modern Languages Bldg.
LACS hosts this talk by Lucia Melgar. Throughout the 20th century power and culture were closely intertwined in Mexico. This benefited some intellectuals and cultural groups and damaged others. In this talk Prof. Melgar will present the case of Elena Garro, whose controversial position in the 1968 student movement led her into exile. She will contrast it with the case of Carlos Fuentes, whose role as Ambassador under the regime of President Echeverría has neither been examined nor questioned. Cultural power, political skills as well as gender are some of the factors at play in these contrasting situations.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Romance Languages, Department of Women's Studies, IRWG.
LGQRI: Thomas Sokolowski
4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Part of the Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative, Thomas Sokolowski, director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, speaks on his current work.
Andy Warhol: Camouflage Man
4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Part of the Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative, Thomas Sokolowski, director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, presents this lecture. While Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is considered to be the quintessential gay artist, a walkabout of his art and life might suggest that this queer hagiography is somewhat misplaced. Andy Warhol’s public connections to the gay community and/or queer politics or the AIDS pandemic were minimal to non-existent. In point of fact, while the young Andy of the nineteen fifties fully embraced the bon vivant, fey man-about-town lifestyle of his new hometown of Manhattan, the early Pop Period marked a clear line in the artist’s life from homosexual participant to asexual voyeur. How Warhol used the notion of camouflage throughout his lifetime will be discussed by means of a precise “reading” of both his art works and his writings.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of English Language and Literature, U-M Museum of Art, School of Social Work, School of Art and Design, Horace Rackham Graduate School.
IRWG cosponsored event: Labyrinths of impunity and gender violence in Mexico: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez
4:00 - 5:00 PM, 1636 International Institute
This talk by Lucia Melgar is hosted by LACS. In spite of strong national protest and international pressure, the murder of more than 400 women and the disappearance of thousands in the border city of Ciudad Juárez remain unsolved and unpunished. Based on academic research and on personal experience in political activism, Professor Melgar will present some of the questions and problems posed by the most emblematic case of gender violence in Mexico.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Romance Languages, Department of Women's Studies, IRWG.
IRWG cosponsored event: When the Virgin is Your Queen: Reflections on Gender, Nationalism, and Religion in Poland
3:00 - 4:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
This event is hosted by the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Agnieszka Graff (Center for American Studies, University of Warsaw) presents this lecture, which considers the role played by the cult of Virgin Mary as Queen of Poland - a key symbol of national identity - on Polish debates concerning women's rights. Increasing acceptance of anti-women solutions - especially in the realm of reproductive rights - is read as a side-effect of anxieties concerning Poland's status in the European Union.
Exceptional sex: How drugs have come to mediate sex in gay discourse, and the implication of HIV prevention
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Kane Race (IRWG Visiting Scholar) presents this talk. The use of illicit drugs has monopolized recent discussions of HIV prevention among gay men, with drugs such as crystal methamphetamine proposed as a principle explanation for sexual risk-taking and HIV infection in both popular and social scientific discourse. But this positioning of HIV risk as an essentialized effect of certain drugs neglects a consideration of the social conditions and cultural assemblages within which particular sex and drug practices, and their effects, take shape. While the capacity of stimulants to enhance sexual pleasure was readily apparent to many participants in the gay dance party culture of the 1990s, the instrumental use of drugs specifically for sex has recently become a more prominent feature of gay discourse in North America and Australia. This paper considers how antidrug (among other forms of) moralism are producing new sexual and risk subjectivities, and how certain features of public health and psychosocial discourse could be contributing to this situation. This talk is part of IRWG's HIV/AIDS series, and the Global Conversations series.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Public Health, School of Social Work.
CANCELLED: Gina Ulysse reading: Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica
7:00 - 8:30 PM, Shaman Drum Bookstore
This event has been cancelled due to a delay in publication of the book. It will be rescheduled.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Department of Women's Studies.
CANCELLED: Alter(ed)natives
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
This event has been cancelled due to a delay in publication of the book. It will be rescheduled.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Department of Women's Studies.
IRWG cosponsored event: Rose Moss, Reading from Her Work
4:30 - 5:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
This talk is hosted by Department of Women's Studies and is part of the MLK Symposium. Since immigrating from South Africa to the Unites States in 1964, Rose Moss has published four books, prize-winning stories and articles. Her most recent book, IN COURT, published in South Africa as a Penguin Modern Classic, brings together short stories written over many years. Her novel, THE TERRORIST, also published as THE SCHOOLMASTER, presents a man anguished at apartheid. He eventually bombs the Johannesburg train station. Her non-fiction account of two defendants in a major treason trial, SHOUTING AT THE CROCODILE, presents leaders of the non-violent, non-racial internal anti-apartheid movement of the 1980's. This book is currently optioned for a documentary movie. Other short stories, set in the United States, present dilemmas that juxtapose art and suffering, beauty and cruelty, kindness and guilt. Rose Moss now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches creative writing at Harvard Law School and in Harvard's Nieman Program for mid-career journalists.
This event is co-sponsored by IRWG, MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Nancy Campbell: Gendering Addiction: The Visual Iconography of Twentieth-Century Drug Use
3:00 - 5:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
From "Panic in Needle Park" to "This Is Your Brain on Drugs," U.S. popular culture relies on a stock repertoire for rendering visible drug effects and diseases that would otherwise remain invisible. As with the representation of AIDS, cancer, or venereal disease, representations of drug addiction have become a familiar part of visual culture. Men who use opiates are often depicted as emasculated; women as perhaps gender deviant but not asexual. Racial codes operate as well, although interestingly heroin use has continued to be represented as a largely white phenomenon among women. This talk traces a representational history of opiate addiction from the 1950s to the 1970s in U.S. popular culture. The talk takes Al Pacino's first film, "Panic in Needle Park" (1971) as an illustration. This talk is part of IRWG's Addiction and Gender Program.
This event is co-sponsored by History Department, Science Technology and Society, UMSARC.
Antonia Abbey: Sexual assault on college campuses: What is alcohol's role?
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
At least half of all sexual assaults are committed when either the perpetrator or victim is under the influence of alcohol. But does alcohol play a causal role in sexual assault? This is a difficult question to answer. Abbey will describe the relevant existing research and its implications for prevention programming. Toni Abbey is a professor of psychology at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on sexual assault etiology and prevention with an emphasis on the role of alcohol and misperception of sexual intent, alcohol and sexual risk-taking and women's health and health-related behavior. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Relationships and boundaries in the academy: Exploring sexual harassment through theatrical dilemmas
3:00 - 5:00 PM, Rackham Amphitheatre
In this interactive theatre presentation, participants will see a series of vignettes that portray the ambiguous relationships and boundaries that can arise in university work situations. After each vignette, audience members will have an opportunity to dialogue with characters about the issues involved. In addition to learning more about the U-M policies, participants will explore the real-life dilemmas relevant to their work as instructors, students, and researchers. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Paula Ross-Durow: Adolescent sexual harassment of peers: A predictor of sexual assault?
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Increasingly in the media there have been reports of adolescents perpetrating violence on peers, with significant harmful outcomes. A 2001 study using a nationally representative sample of adolescents revealed that over 50% of teens admitted to perpetrating sexual harassment, and a recent review of studies on dating violence suggested that 9-46% of adolescents had been either perpetrators or victims of this type of behavior. Most research on adolescent sexual harassment/sexual assault has been cross-sectional in nature and has focused on the prevalence of these problems, rather than risk factors that predict sexual assault behaviors in teens. This research presentation will address the question of whether adolescents who engage in sexual harassment of peers are more likely to perpetrate unwanted sexual contact with their peers in the future. Uncovering risk factors for adolescent perpetration of sexual assault is critical to the development of appropriate interventions to stop the cycle of violence. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
IRWG cosponsored event: From Pathology to Identity: A Genealogy of Asexuality and the (A)Sexual Rights of Disabled People
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Comparative Literature hosts this presentation, in which Eunjung Kim investigates both historical and contemporary discourses concerning "the absence of sexual desire" and asks what kinds of connections might exist between disabled people, often considered as "asexual" and oppressed by active desexualization, and people who claim an asexual identity. The presentation addresses how the various historical terminology and pathological registers of asexuality reflect intersections of gender, disability and sexuality elaborated in sexology, popular culture, and political movements.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Women's Studies, IRWG.
LGQRI event: Gender and Sexuality Studies in Brazil
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Women's Studies Visiting Scholar Richard Miskolci presents this brown-bag discussion of his work. Despite the importance of sexuality in the work of the precursors of Brazilian social science, like Gilberto Freyre, it was only in the second half of 20th century that women's studies and sexuality studies became a relevant field of research in the Brazilian academy. Mainly located in the departments of Sociology and Anthropology, this field has grown substantially and its consolidation is attested by the creation of specific research centers since the beginning of the 1990s in important universities, respectively Nucleo de Estudos de Genero Pagu (Universidade de Campinas, State of Sao Paulo), CLAM (Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and IEG (Instituto de Estudos de Genero, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina). A clear sign of the institutionalization of the field is also provided by the prominence of journals like cadernos pagu and Revista Estudos Feministas. There are similarities and also differences between these research centers and these journals according to their varying relations to feminism and/or lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transsexual activism and gender and sexuality studies. This talk will furnish an overview of the history of the development of this academic field in Brazil and its current state, highlighting its distinctive features in relation to American queer studies. This event is part of IRWG's Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative.
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
4:00 - 5:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
American University law professor Nancy Polikoff argues that, while same-sex marriage is a civil rights victory for LGBT people, it's not the fix to what's wrong with the law of families. The fix is implementing laws that break down the bright line between married couples and everyone else. In her recent book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, Polikoff criticizes the mainstream "marriage movement" for blaming all social problems on the decline of life-long marriage and the gay rights "marriage equality movement" for pushing marriage as the solution to the problems gay families face. She reframes the debate by arguing that all family relationships and households need the economic stability and emotional peace of mind that now extend only to married couples. Unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended family units, and myriad other familial configurations need recognition and protection to meet the concerns they all share: building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence, and nurturing the next generation.
Andy Smith: Sexual violence and the state: New approaches to anti-violence organizing
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Recently, many anti-violence organizations, particularly those that are women of color led, have been pursuing alternative strategies for addressing violence outside the criminal justice system. These strategies, also critique "restorative justice" models as well. This talk will explore the variety of strategies that are being pursued, their rationale, and challenges they pose for ending violence. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Lane Hall Exhibit Space Opening Reception: Janie Paul, Open Secrets of Nature
3:00 - 4:00 PM, Lane Hall Exhibit Space
This work arises out of my particular connection to nature and my fascination with fundamental things and phenomena: the gestures of animate and inanimate beings toward and away from each other, the revelations that come with light and with darkness and the way that thought slips in and out of consciousness. It is about the nesting of worlds within each other and the simultaneity of diverse experiences in the same place. My work process alternates between the intentional activity of drawing and painting and the scanning and reconstruction process of collage. These methods reflect the ways in which we move forward with the new and reformulate or reassemble the familiar to enlarge our world. Some of the images reflect the way we experience the whole; some mirror the fragmentary nature of our experience or the way in which beginnings of things emerge piecemeal or are layered over each other to create meaning. The exhibit is co-hosted by Women's Studies Department and IRWG and is open to the public in the Lane Hall Gallery from 8 - 5, Monday through Friday, through July 31, 2008.
Roundtable Discussion on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Historical and Cultural Perspectives with Janet Golden and Elizabeth Armstrong, moderated by Peter Jacobson
3:00 - 5:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Janet Golden, professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, is a specialist in medical history, women's history, children's history and American social history. She is the author or editor of several books, including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Harvard University Press) and A Social History of Wet Nursing: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge University Press). She currently co-edits the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series at Rutgers University Press. Elizabeth M. Armstrong is a professor of public affairs and sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder (Johns Hopkins Press). Her research interests include sociology of medicine, history of medicine and public health, biomedical ethics, population health and sociology of pregnancy. Her current research includes a longitudinal study of agenda setting around disease in the United States and a study of fetal personhood and obstetrical ethics. Peter D. Jacobson is a U-M professor of public health. His current research interests focus on the relationship between law and health care delivery and policy, law and public health systems, and health care safety net services. This event is part of IRWG's Addiction and Gender Program.
This event is co-sponsored by UMSARC, Center for the History of Medicine, Department of History, Science Technology and Society.
Louise W. Knight: Imagining Female Power: One Woman's Path from Obedience to Leadership Obedience to Leadership
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Like many of us today, women in the nineteenth century faced daunting obstacles to living a full, freely chosen life. Jane Addams (1860-1935) became one of the nation's most influential social reformers, and the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her path to leadership was far from easy. Knight's talk will trace Addams' psychological and intellectual struggles to convert her understanding of women's possibilities into an authorization to break society's rules and establish a career and an independent life. Speaker Louise W. Knight is the author of "Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy."
This event is co-sponsored by School of Social Work.
Louise Fitzgerald: Sexual harassment in higher education and the workplace
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Sexual harassment research entered its second generation with strong evidence of negative victim consequences, including job, health, and psychological damage. One area that remains unexamined, however, is the process that leads to that harm. Fitzgerald, Swan, and Magley (1997) have proposed a "Model of Harm" specifying critical influences on the consequences of sexual harassment, each partially mediated by the victim's subjective appraisal of her experience. These include (a) objective or stimulus factors (e.g., frequency, intensity, duration of the harassment), (b) individual factors (e.g., victimization history, victim's resources, attributions), and (c) contextual factors (e.g., organizational climate). Fitzgerald (2001) subsequently outlined influences on the recovery process, examining these in a 5-year longitudinal study of over 1000 women involved in a nation-wide class action against their employer. This presentation summarizes the longitudinal program of research designed to examine these models, focusing in particular on (1) the relative contribution of individual and objective influences on psychological distress following sexual harassment; and (2) the factors that influence recovery. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Perry Silverchanz: Sticks and Stones (and Queer Jokes): What are the Consequences of Heterosexist Harassment?
12:00 - 1:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Heterosexist harassment includes behaviors meant to telegraph hostility toward or denigration of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (sexual minority) individuals or groups. More extreme kinds of harassment (such as being threatened or assaulted) do indeed affect sexual minority persons in harmful ways, but little is known about the effects of more commonplace, less-extreme events, such as overhearing queer jokes. These behaviors create a climate of negativity which can be experienced by anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, similar to how workplace climates hostile toward women can affect men's job satisfaction. This research explores the psychosocial and academic effects of heterosexist harassment on sexual minority college students, and breaks new ground in examining the effects on heterosexual students as well. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Community of Scholars: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality in Literature, Dance and Work
1:00 - 3:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
1:10 - 1:40 Carla Pfeffer, Women's Studies and Sociology : Women's Work? Emotion Work in the Narratives of Women Partners of Transgender and Transsexual Men
1:45 - 2:15 Sridevi Nair, English and Women's Studies: 'Junglee' Girls: Sex, Class, and Lesbian Prototypes in Indian Women Writers
2:20 - 2:50 Allison Abra, History: From Flapper to Good-Time Girl: Women, Respectability, and Public Dancing in Britain, 1919-1945
Community of Scholars: Panel II
3:00 - 5:20 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
3:10 - 3:40 Elizabeth Meier, Social Work and Biopsychology: Learning to engage in cross-identity dialogues
3:45 - 4:15 Tamara Bhalla, English Language and Literature: Readerly Desires and Feminist Interpretation in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
4:20-4:50 LaMont Egle, English Language and Literature: The Problems for Male Love in Pre-Victorian Popular Fiction
4:50-5:20 Sharon Heijin Lee, American Culture: Lessons from Around the World with Oprah: Neoliberalism, Race, and the (Geo)Politics of Beauty
Nina Totenberg: The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You
7:00 - 8:30 PM, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
IRWG and the Women's Studies Department present Nina Totenberg (NPR), discussing the U.S. Supreme Court and its impact on women. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Provost's Office, and Rackham Graduate School, with support from AAUW Ann Arbor, Michigan Branch, Inc.; Departments of American Culture, Communication Studies, and Psychology; Center for Law, Ethics, and Health; Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies; Michigan Radio; and the Schools of Public Health and Social Work. A dessert reception will follow in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. This event is free and open to the public--no tickets are required.
Collaborations in Art, Creative Activity & Increasing Community Resilience and Empowerment
8:30 - 10:00 AM, 3752 School of Social Work Building
Kim Berman, UJ; Janie Paul, UM; Mark Creekmore, UM, Jane Hassinger, UM; Michael Spencer, UM. In this working session, panelists and participants will address how students and faculty from UM School of Social Work and School of Public Policy might develop international research in general and participatory action research (PAR) in particular with peer schools in South Africa. Breakfast will be provided. Reservations required by March 3 - please email Ziehyun Huh at ziehyun@umich.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Art & Design, Arts at Michigan, Arts of Citizenship, Center for the Education of Women, Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Practice, National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Social Work, Department of Women's Studies, Office of the Vice President for Research.
Art Saves Lives: The Creative Arts, Community Engagement, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
12:00 - 2:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Kim Berman, Visiting Scholar/Artist/Activist, University of Johannesburg, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, discusses her work. Respondents: Janie Paul, Social Work/Art & Design; Jane Hassinger, Women's Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Claire DeCoteau (doctoral candidate), Sociology; Julie Ellison, American Culture and English Language and Literature
This event is co-sponsored by School of Art & Design, Arts at Michigan, Arts of Citizenship, Center for the Education of Women, Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Practice, National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Social Work, Department of Women's Studies, Office of the Vice President for Research.
LGQRI event: "Defying Gravity": or, How "Wicked's" Witches Queered the Broadway Musical
5:00 - 6:30 PM, 3222 Angell Hall
Stacy Wolf (University of Texas-Austin) is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles on theatre spectatorship, performance pedagogy, and musical theatre in many journals, including Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Women and Performance. She was the editor of Theatre Topics in 2001-2003. Her talk comes from a chapter for her current book project, Defying Gravity: How Women and Girls Feminized, Queered, and Radicalized Broadway Musical Theatre.
This event is co-sponsored by Drama Interest Group.
LGQRI event: A Performance Studies Workshop with Stacy Wolf
12:00 - 2:00 PM, 3184 Angell Hall
In a workshop open to graduate students and faculty, we will be looking at Wolf's book proposal for her current work-in-progress, Defying Gravity: How Women and Girls Feminized, Queered, and Radicalized Broadway Musical Theatre. The proposal covers the project, the issues, the state of musical theatre studies, and Wolf's intended feminist and queer intervention. Lunch will be provided, and the proposal will be pre-circulated. Please RSVP to Katie Brokaw at brokaw@umich.edu if you plan to attend.
This event is co-sponsored by Drama Interest Group.
Race & Gender in Presidential Politics
3:00 - 4:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
In this panel discussion, Vince Hutchings (U-M), Nicholas Valentino (UT-Austin) and Kathleen Frankovic (CBS News) discuss the intersections of race and gender in the current U.S. Presidential campaign. Nancy Burns (U-M) will moderate the panel.
This event is co-sponsored by Center for Political Studies.
Isis Settles: Women working in a man's world: Sexual harassment, workplace climate, and work outcomes for women in male-dominated fields
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Sexual harassment has been linked to negative psychological, work, and academic outcomes for women. Further, women are more likely to experience sexual harassment in highly masculine, male-dominated environments. This presentation examines additional factors related to women's experience of sexual harassment in two distinct male-dominated contexts. The first study of 135 female faculty members in the natural sciences considers perceptions of workplace climate and organizational leadership as mediators of the relationship between sexual harassment and job satisfaction. The second study of 4,494 Black and White women in the U.S. military examines race and rank as predictors of the type of sexual harassment women report experiencing (e.g., negative comments about women's abilities vs. unwanted sexual touch). Findings across these studies suggest that aside from the increased risk of working in a male-dominated environment, factors such as the leadership and climate of the workplace, as well as status variables (e.g., race, organizational status), influence women's likelihood of being harassed and their outcomes once harassed. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
IRWG cosponsored event: Sexual and Labor Trafficking in the Soviet Successor States: How the former USSR became a Global Center of Illegal Migration
4:00 - 5:00 PM, 1636 International Institute
This talk by Louise Shelley is hosted by the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies.
This event is co-sponsored by IRWG.
David Herzberg, Mother's Little Drug Habit? The Valium Panic and the Cultural Politics of Addiction in the 1970s
3:00 - 5:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
David Herzberg discusses the valium panic of the 1970s. David Herzberg is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Buffalo specializing in medicine, gender, and popular culture in post-1945 United States. His book, (very) tentatively titled Happy Pills: Psychiatric Medicines and the Other Drug Wars in American Culture from Miltown to Prozac, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. This talk is part of IRWG's Addiction and Gender Program.
This event is co-sponsored by UMSARC.
Amy Young: The Silent Epidemic in Women's Health: Adolescent Sexual Assault
3:00 - 4:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Sexual assault is associated with various physical health problems, psychological diagnoses, long term disturbances in cognitive functioning and social relationships, and an increased likelihood of engaging in health risk behaviors. With approximately one in four women reporting being sexually victimized at least once in their lifetime, sexual victimization is arguably one of the most salient health concerns for women.
Young argues that an effective health promotion agenda for women must recognize and address sexual victimization of adolescent girls. Despite the fact that adolescent girls have the highest rate of sexual assault among all age groups, assault during this developmental period remains largely overlooked, with research and press attention directed towards childhood sexual assault or sexual victimization during adulthood.
In addition to discussing the politics impeding the study of adolescent sexual assault, Young uses a developmental psychological framework to understand how adolescent girls' experiences of sexual victimization differ from their older counterparts and reflect their stage of emotional, social, and personal development. Focusing specifically on her research on adolescent peer-on-peer sexual assault, she describes the nature, risk factors, and social context of adolescent sexual victimization. She also discusses her longitudinal work on the implications of peer-on-peer sexual assault on adolescent girls' depressive symptoms and substance use. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
Status and spectacle: Stagings of gender, race and class in modern U.S. popular culture
4:00 - 6:00 PM, Michigan Union Kuenzel Room
Nadine Hubbs, Michael Bertrand and Sherry B. Ortner discuss the intersections of gender and class in popular music. Hubbs will present the paper "Musical Cross-Dressing as Class Rebellion: Gretchen Wilson and the Country Rhetoric of the 'Virile Female.'" Bertrand will present "It Was Only Rock 'n' Roll...Wasn't It? Southern Culture, White Manhood, and the 1956 Assault of Nat 'King' Cole." Ortner will present "Indie Producers: Class and Gender in the Making of a Social Field." Kevin Gaines will moderate.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Art & Design, Department of Anthropology, Center for World Performance Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of History, Department of Women's Studies, School of Social Work, Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies.
Patricia Rieker: Constrained choice: Gender and health in the 21st Century
3:00 - 4:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Patricia Rieker examines how men's and women's lives and their physiology contribute to the perplexing differences in their physical and mental health. Although individuals are increasingly aware of what they should do to improve health, competing demands for time, money, and attention discourage or prevent healthy behavior. Drawing on research and cross-national examples of family, work, community, and government policies, she develops a model of constrained choice to address how decisions and actions at each of these levels shape men's and women's health-related opportunities. Understanding the cumulative impact of these choices can inform individuals and decision-makers at each of these levels how to better integrate health implications into their everyday decisions and actions. Modern societies' health problems ultimately involve a combination of policies, personal behavior and choice. Thus, the platform for prevention she advocates calls for a radical reorientation of health science and policy to reduce barriers and create a new realm of possibilities to improve women's and men's health. Dr. Rieker's talk is adapted from on her recently published book (with Chloe E. Bird), Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies published by Cambridge University Press in Janaury, 2008. This important book is a thoughtful synthesis of diverse literatures and the first of its kind to examine both men's and women's health and address the question: Whose Responsibility is Health?
This event is co-sponsored by U-M Dearborn Women's Studies.
Lilia Cortina: Harassment and incivility at work: Peering into the dark side of organizational behavior
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
Sexual harassment and incivility represent two of the many ways in which people are subordinated, violated, and relegated to the margins of organizational life. This talk will show that these abuses are prevalent across diverse workplace contexts, particularly in the lives of women. It will also demonstrate how hostile work experiences can accumulate over time to undermine employees' personal and professional health. The talk will close with findings on how people typically respond to harassment and incivility at work, raising questions about what constitutes a "reasonable" response. The overall aim of this research is to bring these negative behaviors into the light, in order to better equip individuals and organizations to combat them. This event is part of the Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment series, which is presented with the following co-sponsors: U-M ADVANCE, the Office of Institutional Equity, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Violence Across the Lifespan, Horace Rackham Graduate School, Multi-ethnic and Student Affairs, School of Social Work, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), U-M Dearborn Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Women's Studies Department.
IRWG cosponsored event: Julia Serano: Transsexual and trans feminine perspectives on sexism
3:00 - 4:00 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
This event is hosted by the Queer Studies Workshop. Julia Serano is a writer, performer, trans activist, and biologist, and the author of the book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that examines the ways in which misogyny frames popular stereotypes and assumptions about transsexual women.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Women's Studies, IRWG, Lesbian Gay Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI).
Motorola Lecture: Amira Hass: Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed
4:00 - 5:30 PM, Rackham Assembly Hall
The Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender present Amira Hass, delivering the 2008 Motorola Lecture. Hass is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hass was the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute in 2000, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, and the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004.
Gina Ulysse: Alter(ed)natives
12:00 - 1:30 PM, 2239 Lane Hall
When "native" subjects have talked to one too many researchers, they know. They know that researchers arrive to collect information and stories about their lives, which will be reorganized and interpreted in a document with which the ethnographers will build their careers. It is a document that various scholars, who have sought to "reinvent," "decolonize" or "recapture" anthropology, claim has the potential to intellectually, socially and politically incarcerate subjects within yet another "Savage slot" (Trouillot, 2003). In this presentation, Ulysse proposes an alter(ed)native approach that pluralizes the native and, in the process, destroys the Savage slot.
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Department of Women's Studies.
IRWG cosponsored event: Who Cares for Our Children? The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
12:00 - 1:30 PM,
The Center for the Education of Women hosts Dr. Valerie Polakow, who has written extensively about women and children in poverty, and family and child care policies in national and international contexts. Author and editor of seven books, Valerie Polakow's latest book, Who Cares for Our Children? The Child Care Crisis in the Other America (with a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich) is an urgent call to action to address the growing child care crisis in the nation. Dr. Polakow presents the compelling stories of diverse low-income mothers from across the nation and chronicles their resilient struggles in the face of ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is an incisive critique of public policy that points to the shameful record of the United States in caring for its children. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Professor Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system. Please register online at www.cew.umich.edu or by calling 734-764-6005. Deadline to register: Monday, March 17th
This event is co-sponsored by Department of Women's Studies, IRWG.
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