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A New Workshop

"Feminisms, Nationalisms, Transnationalisms"

Providing a supportive, feminist environment for scholars writing about intersections of race, class, sexuality, gender and nation in a transnational world

Women's Studies core and affiliate faculty, Women's Studies graduate certificate students and other gender/sexuality scholars across campus are invited to participate

Meeting Schedule 2008

Date Time Location Readings/Guests
Feb. 1 4:30pm Benson Amy Ross, Geography, on Genocide in Guatemala
Feb. 15 4:30pm Benson Marita Gronnvoll, PhD candidate in Speech Comm, "Gender (In)Visibility at Abu Ghraib." (this is a published paper that will be integrated into her dissertation)
Apr. 4 4:30 Benson Allison Bruey, University of North Florida, "Defying Dictatorship in Pinochet´s Chile: Organizing Opposition in Working-Class Santiago, 1973-1983" Abstract & Ch. 4 & 5
Apr. 10-12 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, Georgia Center http://www.instituteofnativeamericanstudies.com/NAIS-2008/NAISindex.html for more info
Apr. 18 4:30pm Benson Nichole Arnault, Sociology PhD student, on maternal activism
Apr. 25 4:30pm Benson We'll read and discuss Cindi Katz's Growing up Global (We have 8 copies of the book, which we'll make available to those interested at the February workshops.)
 
 
2006-2007 Meeting/Event Schedule
Sept. 15 4:30pm Benson Organizational Meeting
Oct. 6 4:00pm Benson Readings: Mohanty, Kim-Puri, Grewal & Kaplan, Ong, and Mahmood
Oct. 20 4:00pm Benson Readings: Revisit Ong and Mahmood; new readings by Lugones (Antistructure) (World Traveling)
Nov. 3 4:00pm Benson Reading: Oyêwùmí: Visualizing the Body
Nov. 10 4:00pm Benson Maria Lugones (Binghamton U, Comparative Literature)
Feb. 23 4:00pm Benson Readings: Dellinger: "Gender and Catfish in the Global South: Transnational Tendencies in a Regional Industry"
Moreton: "The Soul of Neoliberalism"
Mar. 2 3:30pm 348 SLC Kirsten Dellinger (U of Mississippi, Sociology) "Gender and Catfish in the Global South: Transnational Tendencies in a Regional Industry"
Mar. 23 4:00pm 214 SLC Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz, History)
Bananeras
April 20 4:00pm 214 SLC Michelle Stephens (Mt. Holyoke, Colgate)
Reading

 

For more information contact Dr. Patricia Richards or Dr. Susan Thomas

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