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

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