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GeNDer Studies Announcements March 24, 2011
The Department of Africana Studies presents the 2011 Erskine Peters Fellowship Symposium:
The Power of Image - Black Women in Memory, Protest, and History
Thursday, March 24, 2011 6pm reception
7pm symposium
Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public
The Erskine Peters Fellows will explore the depiction of black women in history - and how that depiction has
been constructed, manipulated, and co-opted to serve multiple social and political ends.
Sponsors: Department of History, Multicultural Student Programs and Services, Center for Social Concerns,
Department of American Studies, Gender Studies Program, Center for Social Movements.
Catherine A. MacKinnon – Trafficking, Prostitution & Inequality
Catherine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
March 25 (Friday)
3:00pm
McCartan Courtroom – Eck Hall of Law
Sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (Henkels Lecture Series), Gender Studies
Program, Department of Philosophy, and the Law School
For more information, contact Jim Sterba: Sterba.1@nd.edu
Annual Gender Studies Undergraduate Thesis Prize - $150 – Deadline Friday 3-25-11
The next session of the ISLA-Mellon "Myth and Fairy Tales: Defining the Nation" Graduate/Faculty
workshop will take place on Friday, March 25th, at 10AM in the Dooley Room of La Fortune.
Please join us for Dr. Lissa Paul’s talk "Springing the New: Children's Poetry and the Colonial Encounter" and
our discussion of the Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature for our session on Contemporary British
Poetry.
FREE copies of the (AMAZING!) text are available in advance. Contact Jacqui Weeks (jweeks@nd.edu) to
reserve your copy.
We still have a couple of breakfast/lunch spots left, if you want to meet with our visiting speaker! (Contact
jweeks@nd.edu asap to reserve a spot.)
At the height of Victorian Imperialism, fairy tales were used to distinguish between low, colonial culture
(people who believe in fairy tales) and high, imperial culture (people who translate fairies into the exquisite
poetry of Spenser and Shakespeare). So when contemporary, trans-Atlantic poets like Grace Nichols and John
Agard turn to fairy tale themes to reconcile their split English-Caribbean cultural inheritance in poetry, it is a
very powerful political move.
For this session, we’ll be looking at poems by much-loved authors like A.A. Milne and R.L. Stevenson in
content of British Imperialism, and comparing their motifs and language use with that of the very popular
contemporary poets. In an age where few people can identify themselves as having only one cultural heritage,
what can these poets tell us about nationality, identity, and the narratives through which we construct both?
I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old one
a new one has sprung
--Grace Nichols
Asian Film Festival & Conference
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
March 25–26, 2011
Showcasing the creativity of contemporary Asian filmmaking, the annual Asian Film Festival will bring five
contemporary films to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Browning Cinema in March. This year's festival
will showcase recent animated films from Japan, including a tribute to internationally acclaimed director
Satoshi Kon, who passed away in 2010. As a contrast to Kon's work, we will also screen more recent films that
suggest future directions for serious, feature-length animation from Japan.
Undergraduates can receive credit for participating in the Asian Film Festival and Conference.
For more information
2011 ND Women Writers Festival
You are cordially invited to attend the 2011 Notre Dame Women Writers Festival. This year the focus is on
nonfiction and its interplay with journalism, biography, memoir, fiction, and film. The subjects range from
poverty, immigration, and gender to orchid thieves, the body, and Rin Tin Tin.
The writers are MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Edwidge Danticat, whose Brother, I’m Dying, a wrenching
account of her elderly uncle’s death while in the custody of U.S. Immigration, won the National Book Critics
Circle Award; Susan Orlean, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief, the basis for the
film Adaptation; Jenny Boully, poet and experimental essayist, whose prizewinning The Body: an Essay, is
widely taught; and Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread, a memoir of poverty awarded the AWP Nonfiction
Prize from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
Monday, March 28.
7:30 p.m. Readings by Edwidge Danticat and Jenny Boully. McKenna Hall Auditorium.
Tuesday, March 29.
2 p.m. Nonfiction panel with Danticat, Boully, Orlean, and Livingston. 100 McKenna Hall.
7:30 p.m. Readings by Susan Orlean and Sonja Livingston. 100 McKenna Hall.
Rally for Diversity
Monday, March 28
7pm
Geddes Andrews Auditorium
Speaking on LGBT Athletes & Allies – Featuring Brian Sims
Brought to you by the Progressive Student Alliance
A Time to Write Workshop
Saturday, April 2; 10am to 3pm Coleman Morse Lounge Continental breakfast and lunch are provided.
RSVP required at grc.nd.edu.
Inexperienced and experienced writers alike are encouraged to reflect on the nature of violence, how to prevent
it, and how to build a more just and humane society.
The Writing Workshop is a joint collaboration with the Creative Writing Program, with Courtney McDermott,
an MFA candidate in Creative Writing serving as a co-leader along with GRC staff. Additional MFA students
will facilitate small groups.
Project Mom 2011
Joining the campus-wide CommUniversity Day on April 4th, Notre Dame Right to Life will be hosting a baby shower for 6-8 pregnant women-clients of the Women’s Care Center in Lewis Hall. The Women's Care Center provides pre-natal care for women who are not able to cover basic financial needs.
Contact: Kellie Raddell of Notre Dame Right to Life. Your help would be appreciated through donation of your time, money or specific items. Project Mom is co-sponsored by the Institute for Church Life and the office of University Life Initiatives.
2011 Undergraduate Library Research Award http://guides.library.nd.edu/subject-guide/77-2011-Undergraduate-Library-Research-Award This year’s submission deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2011.
The Global Studies Association Annual Conference
The Global Crisis through the Lens of Class, Nationality, and Gender
May 20-22, 2011
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO
(downtown Chicago)
Featuring 3 days of workshops, keynote speakers and films.
All papers relating to globalization will be reviewed.
To submit a panel proposal or an individual abstract of 100 words (deadline April 15),
send to: Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net
For more information go to: http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal
NEW -- AAUW-Michiana Area Award for Excellence in Graduate Research for Women.
Submission deadline, April 15, 2011.
AAUW, the American Association of University Women, is a nationwide network of more than 100,000
members and donors, 1,000 branches, and 500 college/university institution partners. For more than 128 years,
the AAUW has sustained a mission to advance women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and
research. To support burgeoning female scholars in our own community, three local branches of AAUW –
South Bend, Goshen, and Elkhart – are launching a new annual $100 writing prize for graduate students, the
AAUW-Michiana Area Award for Excellence in Graduate Research. We warmly invite women who are
currently enrolled as graduate students in the Michiana area to participate.
Eligible participants should submit one conference-length paper (not exceeding 14 pages) within one of these
three categories: Science/ Social Science/Humanities, and a completed cover sheet verifying eligibility. For
application materials and a sample evaluation rubric, contact April Lidinsky, President of AAUW-South Bend:
alidinsk@iusb.edu.
Submissions due April 15, 2011. Announcement of winners in each category (up to one $100 winner in each
category: Science/ Social Science/Humanities) expected in early June.
http://gsu.nd.edu/assets/35719/aauw_grad_prize_advertisement_2011.pdf
Gender Studies Research Grants - $1,000
The Genevieve D. Willis Endowment for Excellence has been established to promote excellence in
undergraduate research in Gender Studies at Notre Dame through the following initiatives:
*Undergraduate Writing Prizes in Gender Studies
*Summer Research Grants for Senior Theses/Essays in Gender Studies
Application Process for the Genevieve D. Willis Senior Research Grant:
1) Junior majors in Gender Studies have priority in the application process for these grants. Junior minors,
sophomore majors, or sophomore minors who plan to undertake research for their senior theses/essays in either
Gender Studies or their primary major over the course of the next two summers may also apply for these grants;
the research must have an explicitly gendered-component. All junior and sophomore majors and minors are
notified by email of this opportunity in the Spring semester. Interested students should meet with the Director of
Undergraduate Studies and their chosen faculty advisors about their grant applications.
2) Junior majors and minors in Gender Studies who are interested in applying for these grants or have received
one in the previous year may elect to enroll in the Gender Studies Senior Capstone Essay course for the Fall
semester, after consultation with the Director of Undergraduate Studies and their senior essay advisor.
3) To apply, submit the following application materials to the Director of Undergraduate Studies by April 15:
i. 2-page prospectus (summary) of the research project, including a statement of the topic, hypothesis, method,
projected conclusions, and rationale for the receipt of a summer research grant to advance the project.
ii. 1-page budget (up to $1000) for archival or field research and/or books and materials for the summer portion
of the research project. The amount of funding awarded will be determined by the number and quality of
applications received.
iii. A completed copy of the Grant Application (pdf).
4) A major or minor who wins a grant will be awarded the funds by the last day of the Spring semester.
5) The major or minor conducts research over the summer months, and then submits to the Director of
Undergraduate Studies and the senior essay advisor a 5-page summary of the results of the research by
September 1st.
6) All recipients of a Genevieve D. Willis Senior Research Grant will also be expected to submit their senior
theses/essays for consideration for the annual Genevieve D. Willis Gender Studies Senior Thesis Prize
competition or Philip L. Quinn Essay Prize competition.
All documentation (Application, Prospectus, Budget Sheet and 5-page Summary) should be submitted
electronically to gender@nd.edu.
“Food Networks: Gender and Foodways”
An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Notre Dame
Organized by the Gender Studies Program
January 26-29, 2012
This conference seeks to address gender issues as they relate to food. We welcome papers from all
disciplines – Anthropology, Literary Studies, Film Studies, Sociology, Theology, Cultural Studies, Visual
Culture, Gender Studies, Food Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, History, Agriculture, and more. We
seek a wide range of papers dealing with food in all its variety and complexity, as it relates to gender, sex, and
sexuality. Possible topics and areas of interest include:
Gender and food figures: the gourmet chef, the housewife, the family, the writer, the food critic, Julia
Child, Martha Stewart, Michael Pollan, Mark Bitman, Rachel Ray, Iron Chefs, Top Chefs, etc.
Gendered food spaces: The kitchen, the grocery store, the dining room, the farmers market, the café, the
restaurant, etc.
Gendered representations of food: in literature, in film, in television, in magazines, in ephemera, in
metaphor, etc.
Food and Gender/Sex Identities: queer food, feminist food, masculine food, food and family, food and
singles culture, race and gender, national and transnational cultures, ethnic cultures
Gender and: eating, diets, starvation, foodies, localism, sustainability, cookbooks, fat, sexuality, gastro-
porn, disgust, shame, pleasure, sensuality, food communities, slow food, raw food, cleansing, Weight
Watchers, Whole Foods, fast food, calorie counting, lunch boxes, bento boxes, vegetarianism, veganism,
hunger, nostalgia
Proposals should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper, a list of three keywords, and a brief
biographical statement listing your title, the name of your college or university, and your areas of
research and writing. Please indicate technology needs, such as powerpoint or DVD. Proposals are due
by 30 June, 2011
Preconstituted panels will not be considered.
Submit proposal electronically to
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/spa/spa_p1_authors.aspx?oc=10&cc=111021403651
Questions can be addressed via email to: Pamela.Wojcik.5@nd.edu with subject header “Food Networks”
Proposals are invited for our second, biannual interdisciplinary conference:
"Gender, Bodies & Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames” April 26-28, 2012
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2011
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering
and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies
and technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the internet. In keeping with the conference theme,
we are asking contributors to include specific reference to the ways in which their own particular disciplinary frameworks
shape their approach to their sites of research.
Our confirmed keynote speakers include:
Dr. Judith Halberstam Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Dr. Judy Wajcman Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science
Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and public/private spaces
Disability and technologies of intervention
Feminist theorizing of the intersections between technology and constructions of embodiment,
identity and selves
Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions
of embodiment and technology
Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects, design, pasts/futures
Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments
Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body constructions
Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality
Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship
As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome
innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well
as traditional paper presentations. We are committed to the integration of scholarship from the Arts as well as more
traditional forms of scholarship and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might
present logistical challenges.
Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made by October 15, 2011. We are pursuing
publication outlets for selected papers from the conference. Final drafts of papers received before April 26, 2012 will be
eligible for consideration. The Gender, Bodies & Technology website, online submission form, as well as the full program
from the 2010 conference can be viewed at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/
For more information or questions please contact:
Sharon Elber GBT Coordinator
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Department of Sociology
Virginia Tech
408 McBryde Hall (0137)
Blacksburg, VA, 24061 USA
selber@vt.edu http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/
Scholarships for Women
For information, go to: Scholarships for Women
Join our group on Facebook: GeNDer Studies Program at University of Notre Dame! Did you know that the Gender Studies Program has a Facebook page? Find us and friend us! Use the site to
make announcements about upcoming courses, visits by gender-relevant lecturers, or your own publications.
Put links to topics and conversations that might interest our Gender Studies students and faculty.
Students (Graduate & Undergraduate) – Share your Story The Gender Studies Program is about understanding people, both yourself and others. Gender Studies teaches
us how human identities are shaped by gender and related traits such as sex, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class,
religion and nationality. Through Gender Studies, we not only strive to understand people better, but because of
this endeavor, we hopefully become more understanding people.
Add your story to our website “Spotlight” by filling out the following: share your story
Fall 2011 Gender Studies Undergraduate & Graduate Course Descriptions On Line
Fall 2011 Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Fall 2011 Graduate Course Descriptions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To view complete copies of previous Announcements for current semester, please go to: GS Announcements
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