Events
Angie Cruz's Soledad: A Diasporic Response to Dominican Migration
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Bradley Hall, Room 410
2:30- 4:00 PM
Speaker: Juanita Heredia, Northern Arizona University
Film: Afghan Women: A History of Struggle
Screening, followed by Q&A with the director, Katheen Foster
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Paul Robeson Campus Center, Room 255-257
5:00- 8:00 PM
Feminism for the Planet: Annual Rutgers-Newark Women's Studies Symposium
March 26, 2009
Paul Robeson Campus Center, Room 232
9:00 AM- 4:00 PM
Reception and Sisterhood Dinner featuring an original choreography by Kory Saunders and performances by JOSH, 5:00- 8:00 PM
Making Money Business with the Guerilla Girls
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Paul Robeson Campus Center, Room 231
6:00- 7:30 PM
"Feminist masked avengers" wearing gorilla masks will show slides, perform satirical skits and discuss their clashes with the mostly male art establishment. RSVP: galleryr@andromeda.rutgers.edu or 973. 353.1610.
Alternate Paths to Women's Health: Free Yoga Class
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Paul Robeson Campus Center
11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Yoga Class led by certified instructor and discussion of approaches to women's personal and public health. No experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes.
Instructors: Ciru Karanja, Lotus Yoga, Montclair , Theresa Tantay-Wilson, Director , Health Promotion
Women's Leadership in Politics and Culture
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Paul Robeson Gallery, 1st Floor
2:30-4:00 PM
Discussion of current and historic women's leaders in the arenas of politics and culture.
Speakers include: Assemblywoman Annette Quijano , Dr. Elizabeth Horan, Arizona State University , Dr. Vanessa Perez, Brooklyn College.
"Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide": A Lecture by Sally Engle Merry
Part of the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, February 26, 2009
4:00-6:00 PM
Art History 100 Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
Women's human rights expose the conflict between culture and rights with particular force. However, a close analysis of the processes by which ideas of women's human rights are remade in the vernacular by NGOs in Peru, China, India, and the USA suggests that in practice, these differences are handled less by confrontation than by negotiation and translation. Instead of viewing human rights as a philosophy located on the cusp of culture and rights, it is preferable to see it as a form of social action. With this conception in mind, Professor Merry will discuss human rights in practice as an uneasy symbiosis of law and social movements. She will also talk about how these two forms of human rights activism can be complementary but also differ in approach, ideology, and strategy, in hopes that examining these differences wil provide a new perspective on the apparent opposition between culture and rights.
Film Screening and Discussion: "Inside the 1969 Conklin Hall Takeover"
Bradley Hall Theater
Thursday, February 12, 2009
4:00-6:30 PM
Guest Speaker: Dr. Robyn C. Spencer, Lehman College
Her areas of interest include black social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. She is completing a book on the Black Panther Party and teaching courses on twentieth-century African American history.
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Film Screening: Who Does She Think She Is?
Directed & Produced by Pamela Tanner Boll
NJC Lounge
Douglass Campus Center
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
7:00 PM
In a half-changed world, women are often forced to choose: Mothering or working? Your children's wellbeing or your own own? Responsibility or self expression? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. Along the way, the film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can't even name a handful of female artists. In the end, the diverse women in the film demonstrate that our creativity and our caregiving are not mutually exclusive, but deeply connected. In fact, their co-existence might just be the key to finishing the job.
For more information: 732-932-2900 ext. 123
"Missing Pakistanis: Gendered Political Economy, Culture and the War on Terror," A Lecture by Ethel Brooks
Part of the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, January 29, 2009
4:00-6:00 PM
Art History 100 Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
What are the effects of the war on terror on the Pakistani diaspora, and on immigrant communities more generally? The targeting of South Asians and Muslims in the wake of September 11, 2001 is part of a larger redrawing of the boundaries of citizenship, the labor market, the family and community that has been mirrored by increased activism around immigration policy by both immigrants' rights groups and anti- immigration advocates. How can we understand the effects of these dynamics on community and citizenship, and on the meanings, practices and boundaries of the nation-state? In this project, Professor Brooks explores the complexities of everyday life among Pakistani and other immigrants. This entails an interrogation of essentializing projects that focus on the subjects, or targets, of the war on terror, and of immigration and labor market policies more generally.
Ethel Brooks is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers Her fields of interest include gender and labor, critical political economy, globalization, social movements, post- colonialism, and critical race theory. She has also conducted research on a host of communities around the world. Brooks is the author of Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and has contributed articles to a number of journals. Her current projects include a book focusing on her personal interest in Romani communities and discursive formations of "gypsiness."
Women's Studies Faculty Networking Event
315 Hill Hall
Monday, December 8, 2009
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
All Faculty are invited; Come meet your new colleagues!
Refreshments will be served. For more information call the Women's Studies Program at (973) 353-1026/1027
"Suspicious Centerings: Third World Women, The Rhetoric of Rights and the Politics of Rescue and Empowerment," A Lecture by Uma Narayan
Cancelled
Part of the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, December 4, 2009
4:00-6:00 PM
Art History 100 Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
The feminist injunction to put the problems of poor and marginalized women at the center of analysis has been arguably co-opted by some disturbing contemporary agendas, and such agendas will be the focus of Professor Narayan's talk. Professor Narayan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Vassar College, will examine two distinct phenomena -- the movements in various countries to "rescue" Muslim women from the veil and the enthusiasm for economically empowering Third World women through microcredit. She will talk about how the rhetoric of rights functions to obscure various deeply problematic aspects of these "suspicious centerings."
Conflict and Comfort-2nd Annual WGS Film Series: Coming Out Under Fire (Arthur Dong, 1994)
Cosponsored by Douglass Residential College and the Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
6:30-8.30 PM
Art History 100, Douglass Campus. New Brunswick.
For more information: http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu
"The Hypersexuality of Race," A Presentation by Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Presented by The Collective for Asian American Scholarship and the Office of the Douglass Dean
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
5:30 PM
Art History 100 Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
Professor Shimizu will present from her recent book. In The Hypersexuality of Race, Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions.Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative and argues for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure, pain, and power in performances of race and sexuality. The talk will include clips from early Hollywood cinema, stag films, gonzo pornography and independent Asian American feminist film and video.
"Our Rights, Our Cultures: Muslim Women in West Africa and Struggles over Definitions, Entitlements and Power," A Lecture by Dr. Ayesha Imam
Part of the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, October 23, 2008
4:00- 6:00 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane
Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
The IRW Distinguished Lecture Series continues on Thursday, October 23 with "Our Rights, Our Cultures: Muslim Women in West Africa and Struggles over Definitions, Entitlements and Power," a talk by author, scholar, and women's/human rights activist Dr. Ayesha Imam ,which will consider the struggles of Muslim women in West Africa over rights and entitlements.
An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed, Author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00- 6:00 pm
Dana Room, John Cotton Dana Library, Newark Campus
The Hemingses of Monticello brings to life not only Sally Hemings and her intimate relationship with Thomas Jefferson but the entire Hemings family in what Joseph J. Ellis says is "the most comprehensive account of one slave family ever written."
Professor Rutgers-Newark History Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, who will speak about her stunning new book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and be interviewed by Rutgers-Newark professor Jan Ellen Lewis , herself a noted Jeffersonian scholar. Professor Gordon-Reed will sign copies of her book, which will be available for sale. A reception will follow. This free event is open to all.
Gender, Ethnicity and Race: Global Perspectives, A One Day Forum on Cross-Cutting Faculty Scholarship at Rutgers University
Friday, October 10, 2008
8:30 am-1:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crocket Building, Rutgers, New Brunswick Campus
Faculty and graduate students are invited tor a half day forum to hear Rutgers faculty share their work on the interplay of gender, ethnicity and race in order to promote interdisciplinary exchange and intellectual collaborations.
The event is co-organized by the Institute for Research on Women and the Center for Race and Ethnicity.
Calls for Papers
Call for Papers: Trauma and Mothering
At last fall's Association for Research on Mothering conference on "Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and Social Justice," Lisa Chiu shared her responses to the plight of Mariane Pearl while Chiu covered Daniel Pearl's murder in early 2002. (Like Mariane, Chiu was a pregnant journalist at the time of Daniel's death.) After that presentation, some conference attendees got into a conversation about how 9/11 had impacted their feelings about being mothers, what it took to deal with those feelings, and what that might mean about us as mothers.
If you know someone whose experience you think merits inclusion, please pass this call along. We hope to get as diverse a selection of perspectives as possible, and we are willing to consider less personal pieces in order to accomplish that (studies or interviews conducted by someone less personally impacted by the event, for instance). Please keep to the focus of the emotional impact on mothering; beyond that, narrative, theoretical, and combinations of both approaches to the topic are welcome.
1-2 page abstracts; mail, e-mail, and telephone contact information; and a 1-page CV due May 1, 2009 to burstrem@email.arizona.edu ; please put "Trauma and Mothering" in the subject line.
Full essays, 4500-6000 words in length, will be due 1 December 2009. We reserve the right to decline any submission at any point, even after requesting the full essay based on the abstract or after receiving sought revisions.
