January 2009
Lessons from the Great Depression: Shifting Contours of Race, Racism and White Privilege Among Working Class Women
Lois Helmbold, BBRG Scholar, Professor & Chair, Women's Studies Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Monica McDermott, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University
Ula Y. Taylor, Asst. Professor, Dept. of African-American Studies, UCB
Panel discussion, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall
Thursday, January 22, 2009
3:00 PM
Based on interviews with and letters by Black and white working class women during the 1930s, this research analyzes commonalities and differences within class and gender, across race, age, and familial and marital situations in the urban north and Midwest. Crisis unlocks contradictions. The harsher experiences of Black women resulted from institutionalized racism, but contributed to white women’s assumption of whiteness, whether they were immigrants or American born.
A CLGS Special Event
Luncheon, PSR, D'Autremont
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
LGBT Activism as Ministry A CLGS Special Event Tuesday, January 27 12:00 Noon Join the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry during PSR’s Earl Lectures Conference for a special luncheon on LGBT activism for social justice as a form of Christian ministry. The luncheon will feature the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and Director of the Institute for Welcoming Resources of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Rebecca has been working on the front lines of faith-based organizing for LGBT social justice for years, is an engaging and compelling speaker, and brings fresh insights into the work of Christian ministry. To make your reservation for this special event, go to: http://www.psr.edu/2009-behold%E2%80%A6-new-thing-emerging-expressions-faithfulness.
CLGS
The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces
Ashraf Zahedi
Barbara Goldman Carrel
Jennifer Heath
Panel discussion, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall
Thursday, January 29, 2009
3:00 PM
The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces
The veil, vastly misunderstood, is a multi-layered, multi-situated sign. Veiling of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects has existed in countless cultures and religions through history. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, framed as a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East. This panel will explore and examine some of the cultures, politics and histories of veiling in varying societies.
Speakers:
Jennifer Heath: Revelatio: Behind the Male Veil.
Barbara Goldman Carrel: Shattered Vessels: Unveiling Hasidic Women's Dress Code
Ashraf Zahedi : Desexualization of Public Spaces: Taming the Wild Gaze
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Muslim Identities and Cultures Townsend Center Working Group
February 2009
Professor Linda Williams
Professor Linda Haverty Rugg
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, February 5, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Professor Linda Williams, Film Studies
Hyperblack: Sweet Backs and Glimpsed Fronts in American Blaxploitation
Professor Linda Haverty Rugg, Scandinavian Department
Hyperwhite: Race and Gender in the Coen Brothers' Fargo
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Professor Emeritus, Cal State East Bay
Silvia Fererici, Professor Emerita, Teaching Fellow, Hofstra University
Paola Bacchetta, Associate Professor, UCB; Director, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Laura Fantone, Researcher, University of Padua; BBRG Visiting Scholar
Film Screening & Discussion, Free Speech Movement Cafe
Thursday, February 5, 2009
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
What do the issues raised in the 70s by the feminist movement mean for gender struggles today? The legacy of the late '60s and early '70s is often simplified and transmitted as a revolutionary, univocal narration, full of male leaders and workers. But it is important to remember actively how sexual liberation and the feminist movement enriched ideas of freedom, starting to speak publicly not just of politics in an abstract sense, but of everyday life. The idea of freedom and liberation of women needs to be discussed frankly, in its limits and co-opted forms. Video clips from recent Italian films will be shown to connect 70s feminism in the US and in Europe, bringing three generations of scholars and activists from different backgrounds and generations - North American on the 60s, anti-colonial Marxist on the 70s, transnational contemporary perspectives - to the same table to discuss.
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group,
How to Feel As Bright and Capable As Everyone Seems to Think You Are
Valerie Young, Internationally Known Speaker
Lecture and Discussion, Sibley Auditorium at Bechtel
Monday, February 9, 2009
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Do you attribute your success to luck or charm? Are you afraid that you will be found out, discovered, or unmasked? Do you have vague feelings of self-doubt, angst, intellectual fraudulence despite external proof of intelligence and ability? You may be experiencing the Impostor Syndrome. Come hear about this career derailing syndrome, how to internalize your accomplishments, and how to move beyond the self limiting philosophies and patterns. For more information on the Impostor Syndrome, see < http://impostorsyndrome.com/>. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! Dr. Valerie Young is an internationally known speaker who has presented to such diverse audiences as Daimler Chrysler, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, American Women in Radio and Television, and Society of Women Engineers. Her work has been cited in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune. Her doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst focused on understanding and addressing internal barriers to women's academic and occupational success and satisfaction. This event is brought to you by the Gender Equity Resource Center. Sponsored by Career Center, College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, Graduate Division, Staff Diversity Initiative, Student Learning Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, Women in Science and Engineering Theme Program Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu. For accommodations, access.berkeley.edu. Gender Equity Resource Center, Career Center, College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, Graduate Division, Staff Diversity Initiative, Student Learning Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, Women in Science and Engineering Theme Program
Nadje Al-Ali
Lecture, 691 Barrows Hall
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
4:00 PM
Nadje Al-Ali is Reader in Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora mobilization; war, conflict and reconstruction.
Gender & Women's Studies, Center for Race & Gender, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Townsend Center working group on Muslim Identities & Cultures
Lavender Lunch
CLGS
Luncheon, PSR, Mudd 100
Thursday, February 12, 2009
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
“Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk”
Thursday, February 12, 2009
12:30-1:30 pm
Pacific School of Religion
Mudd 100
Bring your lunch; CLGS will provide dessert and drinks. David Kundtz, a former Roman Catholic priest and currently an author and psychotherapist, and Bernie Schlager, Deputy Director of CLGS, talk about their book, Ministry Among God's Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care, a practical handbook on the basic skills needed by religious caregivers and ministry students to be effective and supportive in their work among LGBTQ people, both within and outside their faith communities.
Both David and Bernie teach courses in the CSR program at PSR. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott "strongly recommends this work of love to everyone...who has ever felt a nudge toward ministry among God’s queer people". Come join the discussion!
CLGS
Rachel Michelin, Executive Director/CEO, California Women Lead
Workshop, Gender Equity Resource Center, 202 Cesar Chavez, 202 Cesar Chavez
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
This training from California Women Lead will walk through process of how to apply for an appointment at a local, city, county or governor’s office, including a personal inventory of what you want to do and the time and reporting commitments. Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu
Gender Equity Resource Center
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Minoo Moallem
Lecture, 201 Moses Hall
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
5:00 PM
A conversation between Fatemeh Keshavarz, the author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, and Minoo Moallem.
Gender and Women's Studies, Institute of European Studies
Women in Sports at Cal
Panel discussion, 56 Barrows
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Come hear women students and alumni talk about their experiences in sports at Cal!How did the passage of Title IX in 1979 affect women’s sports here at Cal? What was it like before Title IX? Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu or see geneq.berkeley.edu.For accommodations see access.berkeley.edu.
Gender Equity Resource Center
Leo Bersani (UCB Professor Emeritus)
Daniel Boyarin (UCB Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies)
Judith Butler (UCB Rhetoric, Comparative Literature)
Terry Castle (Stanford, English)
Melinda Chen (UCB Gender and Women’s Studies)
Whitney Davis (UCB History of Art)
Tim Dean (SUNY Buffalo, English)
Teresa de Lauretis (UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness)
Didier Eribon
Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz, Literature)
Jonathan M. Hall (UC Irvine, Comparative Literature/ Film & Media Studies
David M. Halperin (U. Michigan History and Theory of Sexuality)
Heather K. Love (University of Pennsylvania, English)
Michael Lucey (UCB Comparative Literature, French)
Dana Luciano (Georgetown University, English)
David Marriott (UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness)
Robert McRuer (George Washington University, English)
D.A. Miller (UCB English)
Adam Phillips
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia, Anthropology)
Jasbir Puar (Rutgers, Women's and Gender Studies)
Juana Rodriguez (UCB Gender and Women’s Studies)
Darieck Scott (UCB African American Studies)
Kaja Silverman (UCB Rhetoric and Film Studies)
Linda Williams (UCB Rhetoric and Film Studies)
Conference, Berkeley Art Museum
Thursday, February 19, 2009 to Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Queer Bonds conference brings together a community of Berkeley, UC, and outside scholars from a wide range of Humanities disciplines whose work in the broadly defined field of queer studies has, in recent years, moved in exciting new directions. One impetus of this work is to explore queer forms of sociability, in the attempt to rethink the relational structures which organize our experience of the social. A second impetus - a counter-trajectory - insists rather on the forces of disarticulation always at work in any instantiation of the social. These two ways of thinking about bonds mark two divergent trajectories in queer studies; in this symposium, we shall attempt to think them together. Running over three days, Queer Bonds will provide a forum for critical dialogue among faculty members, invited speakers, community members, and students. For full schedule details and pre-registration information, go to
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Arts Research Center, Townsend Center for the Humanities, John F. Hotchkis Chair, Division of Arts & Humanities, Graduate Division, Maxine J. Elliot Chair, Student Opportunity Fund, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Rhetoric, Department of French, Department of Italian Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, Graduate Assembly, Film Studies, Disability Studies, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Trevor Gardner
Molly Babel
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, February 19, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Trevor Gardner, Sociology,
Black-on-Black Policing: African-American Police and the Negotiation of Marginalized Identity in American Criminal Justice
The study finds African-American police officers at the overlap of two groups in opposition – police officers and low-income African-American city residents. How do African-American police reconcile the tension between racial-group and professional-role identity? In articulating their bond with the African-American community and the police institution, do African-American police challenge or conform to the "other-izing" culture of the police institution? Using the sociological insights of social boundary work, and the social psychological frameworks of identity theory, the study examines how African-American officers articulate their position at this unique social location. Data derives from 17 in-depth interviews with African-American police officers in Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. -- two cities with substantial African-American authority in the police department and in local government. The study concludes that in managing two identities ostensibly in conflict, African-American officers cast themselves as the protagonist in two disparate "justice narratives," both of which appeal to the notion of "black progress." The findings supplement sociological work on the utilization of symbolic boundaries and the malleability of racial identity, while also complicating sociolegal scholarship and policy work endorsing racial diversity as a promising avenue to police reform.
Molly Babel,, Linguistics
The Effect of Talker Race on Spontaneous Phonetic Imitation
March 2009
A Conversation with Niki Karimi
Niki Karimi
Film screening, Pacific Film Archive
Sunday, March 1, 2009
3:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Two films will be shown, with English subtitles. 3:30 Yek Shab (One Night) Yek Shab is the story of a young girl who decides to spend the night walking around the streets of Tehran so her mother can have some privacy at home with a guest. She subsequently meets three men with different stories to tell. 6:00 Chand Rooz Ba'd (A Few Days Later) Chand Rooz Ba'd explores the life of Shahrzad, a famous graphic designer living in Tehran who is consumed by her work and daily life. She is faced with a hard decision as she contemplates leaving her boyfriend with whom she is raising a disabled son.
Gender & Women's Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Pacific Film Archive, Institute of European Studies, Townsend Center working group on Muslim Identities & Cultures
A Documentary on Reproductive Politics in Iran
Niki Karimi, Film Maker
Charis Thompson, Commentary
Minoo Moallem, Moderator
Film screening, Stern Hall, Main Lounge
Thursday, March 5, 2009
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Niki Karimi, the Iranian actress and film maker in person! Commentary by Professor Charis Thompson Moderated by Professor Minoo Moallem
Gender and Women's Studies, , Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media, Li Ka Shing, Townsend Center working group on Muslim Identities & Cultures, Institute of European Studies
Gender, Migration and African Women
Dr. Takyiwaa Manuh
Roundtable, 190 Barrows Hall
Thursday, March 5, 2009
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Dr. Manuh research interests are in women's rights and empowerment issues in Ghana, Africa, African development issues, The State, Gender and Women in Ghana, Contemporary African Migrations and higher education in Africa. Copies of 3 of her articles are available for copying at 616 Barrows Hall.
Cosponsor Graduate Program in Performance Studies
Professor Na'ilah Suad Nasir
Professor Daniel Perlstein
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, March 5, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Professor Na'ilah Suad Nasir, “Always a Threat: The Construction of Black Masculinity and Identity in School and Society”
Stereotypes about what it means to be black and male in America are widespread and remarkably persistent. This talk examines how African American male high school students contend with such stereotypes, and the ways that they construct identities as students (or choose not to) in relation to prevalent stereotypes. I also explore the ways that the school provides differential opportunities for identity construction. Professor Daniel Perlstein, "A Monstrous Grace: Schooling and Black Youth at the Intersection of Criminality and Resistance"
The late 1960s marked a pivotal moment in the racial history of American schooling when the association of schooling and prison took on particular significance in the African American freedom struggle and in the lives of Black youth. This paper traces the intersecting trajectories of radical nationalism, black gangs and secondary schools. The discourse of schooling-as-prison and criminality-as-resistance contributed to new, oppositional definitions of Black identity even as it reflected evolving political, cultural and economic relations as well as long-standing elements of African American life. These developments marginalized young black women, who had played a central role in campaigns to integrate the schools, suggesting the ambiguities of invocations of resistance in the educational lives of black youth.
CLGS
New Spirit Community Church of Berkeley
Lecture and Discussion, Bade Museum, PSR, Berkeley, CA
Saturday, March 7, 2009
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) and New Spirit Community Church of Berkeley join together to celebrate the publication of John McNeill’s new book, Sex As God Intended. You are invited to join John McNeill and guest speakers Bill Glenn, Christina Hutchins, and Jim Mitulski at 6:00pm on Saturday, 7 March 2009 in PSR’s Bade Museum for a reading from the book followed by a panel discussion on McNeill’s understanding of sex for LGBT Christians. Admission is free. For more than 35 years, John McNeill, an ordained Jesuit priest and psychotherapist, has been devoting his life to spreading the good news of God’s love for LGBT Christians. McNeill presents a simple and straightforward answer to the question: What did God invent sex for? The answer, derived from an incisive investigation of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, is that God intended sex as a source of pleasure, joy and love. Sex As God Intended represents a concise summary of the wisdom culled over a lifetime. McNeill’s ideas have enriched the faith of thousands, including fellow teachers, religious scholars, ministers and lay folk. This volume includes a Festchrift to John McNeill, celebrating his life and work in a series of essays by students, friends, and activists, honoring him for his lasting contribution and spelling out how he touched their lives and work. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709-1323 # (510) 849-8206
CLGS, New Spirit Community Church of Berkeley
A Lavender Lunch with Monica Cross & Jakob Hero
CLGS
Brown-bag lunch discussion, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
CLGS Presents: Teaching Transgender in Faith Communities
and Beyond
A Lavender Lunch with Monica Cross & Jakob Hero Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:30-1:30 pm Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic, Berkeley, CA Room Mudd 100 Bring your lunch; CLGS will provide dessert and drinks.
Join CLGS for the second Lavender Lunch of the semester as we welcome our own PSR students Monica Cross and Jakob Hero, who will offer their own reflections on how to teach about transgender issues, people, and communities, both in faith communities and beyond. They will also consider and assess the new curriculum on transgender concerns put out by the Human Rights Campaign.
Come join the discussion!
The Center For Lesbian And Gay Studies In Religion And Ministry At Pacific School Of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709 510 849 8206 For more information, please visit our website at www.clgs.org .
CLGS
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Rhae Lynn Barnes, History
"All Smiles on Stage: Print Culture and Gender Relations of Amateur Minstrelsy, 1865-1965"
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Near Eastern Studies
"Colonial Overtones: British Orientalist Art of Cairo via Arabic Text and Islamic Design"
Eva Holt-Rusmore, Interdisciplinary Studies Field
"Shifting Identities? Moving Past Post-conflict and Gender in Sierra Leone"
A National Dialogue with the National Black Justice Coalition
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry
Bay Area Coalition for Welcoming Congregations
National Black Justice Coalition
Lecture and Discussion, Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, March 28, 2009
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
The Coalition of Welcoming Congregations and the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry Proudly Present... Moving Beyond History: LGBT Civil Rights in a Post-Racial America? A National Dialogue with the National Black Justice Coalition The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) and the Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations (CWC) will host a National Town Hall focusing on the intersection of race and sexual orientation. Moving Beyond History will be a conversation between African American lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people and mainstream LGBT organizations. This groundbreaking discussion will be held on March 28th, 2009 at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. The Annual Black Church Summit will be held from 9am to 2pm (lunch is included) and the Town Hall Meeting will be from 3pm to 6pm. This event is open to all and everyone is welcomed! Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coordinator of the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations (CWC) is co-chairing this event. Renowned comedienne and social critic Karen Williams will bring her considerable experience to the event as the moderator. Panelist include NBJC founding Board member Jasmyne Cannick a well-known blogger and political commentator, Jon Hoadley, executive director of Stonewall Democrats, longtime LGBT activist and leader Dr. Marjorie Hill, CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) national Board member the Rev. Amos Brown who has been a leading African American voice for equality. African-American LGBT people find themselves at the center of a controversial action taken by the NAACP—but this time, the nation's oldest civil rights group is advocating on their behalf. The passage of California's Proposition 8 has forced the realization of the gay rights struggle as central to the goal of civil rights for all Americans, and last week this resulted in action, with the groundwork in place for meaningful progress. In a historic action the NAACP wrote California legislators asking them to overturn Prop 8. This national dialogue is particularly important given the racial tensions revealed in the aftermath of the passage of Proposition. “We look forward to a lively, timely, and sorely-needed conversation on race and the state of the LGBT movement, said NBJC CEO H. Alexander Robinson “What will be the future dialogue between mainstream civil rights groups and LGBT African Americans? What is the role for LGBT organizations in bring change in the Black community?” Please view the attached flyer for more consist information and please share with others. For more information, please contact Rev. Roland Stringfellow at 510-849-8943 or rstringfellow@clgs.org. ___________________________________________________________________________ Rev. Roland Stringfellow Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations Coordinator Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 Office - 510-849-8934 Fax - 510-849-8212
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry, Bay Area Coalition for Welcoming Congregations, National Black Justice Coalition
Rene Almeling, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, UC Berkeley/UCSF, and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Lecture, 340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Rene Almeling received a B.A. in Gender Studies and Religious Studies from Rice University in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2008. Her research interests include gender, economics, and medicine, and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material".
Gender and Women's Studies, Science, Technology and Society Center, Li Ka Shing, Berkeley Center for New Media, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
April 2009
Lunch with Women Faculty
Prof. Isha Ray
Brown-bag lunch discussion, 202 Cesar Chavez, Gender Equity Resource Center
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Noon-1pm Gender Equity Resource Center – 202 Cesar Chavez Bring your Lunch! Everyone welcome! An opportunity to talk with Professor Isha Ray about her current work, career path, and more! Professor Ray’s research interests are water and development; technology and development; common property resources; and social science research methods. In addition to research and teaching, she has extensive past and ongoing experience in the non-profit sector on sustainable rural development in India, and international development- and freshwater-related issues. Isha Ray joined the faculty of the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley in January 2002. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Somerville College, Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from the Food Research Institute at Stanford University. For more information about Professor Ray: http://erg.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/ray.shtml Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu.
Gender Equity Resource Center
Queer Awareness Days Planning
Planning Meeting, Gender Equity Resource Center, 202 Cesar Chavez
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Queer Awareness Days is April 20th-May 1st – help plan this great community project!! We’ll continue working on the QAD KickOff (April 20th at Noon on Sproul) and talk about other events happening throughout the two weeks. Come if you want support for an event you're planning!
Free food!
Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu.
Gender Equity Resource Center
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, April 9, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Professor Mel Chen, Gender and Women's Studies
"Racialized Toxins and Sovereign Fantasies: Lead Panics in Transnational Toys" Funie Hsu, Education
"Maternal Soldiers of Empire: Domesticity, English Instruction, and the Thomasites in American Philippine" Drawing from archival materials from the U.S. colonial period in the Philippines, the primary aim of this paper is to delineate the manner in which the first American teachers, “Thomasites,” illuminate a broader socio-political entanglement of race, class, sex, and gender through colonial domesticity. In particular, I argue that they demonstrate the U.S. colonial administration’s reliance on a complex transnational family formation. The imperial work of the Thomasites evidence that colonial domesticity was fundamentally embedded in American education in the Philippines; revealing what Vicente Rafael describes as, “the ways in which gendered and racialized ideas about national agency became instrumental in the elaboration of globalized relations of power on the level of individuated, localized bodies.” These various relations of power were articulated, through English instruction, upon different colonial bodies so that they would assume the necessary colonial roles in a dependent bourgeois family dynamic.
Secondly, I explore how the Thomasites, as the embodiment of the gendered labor of education, offer more than a demonstration of white, middle class, female intersectionality. Rather, they provide an interesting lens by which to capture a more clear and focused examination of the manichaenistic imperial dichotomy of colonizer/colonized that blurs the superficial nature of its premise. Using Rafael’s concept of being “doubly positioned,” white, middle class, female Thomasites can be understood as both “subaltern” and “yet privileged.”
Finally, I argue that the Thomasites operated as a crucial, gendered military force carrying out the colonial administration’s imperial directive of benevolent assimilation. Their educational mission complemented the physical, masculinized conquest of land by attempting to pacify the cries for Filipino independence through a program of infantilizing English language disciplining. As the colonial laborers of the administration’s English instruction policy, the Thomasites attempted to instruct the Filipinos not merely in the language of the colonizer, but more importantly, into the consented mindset of their colonial condition. In this manner, the Thomasites operated in the role of maternal soldiers and served their patriarchtic duty, carrying the American flag of democracy into the ideological battlefield of the U.S. established public schools in the Philippines.
Greg Niemeyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley - Introduction
Ilse Ruiz-Mercado, Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Designated Emphasis in New Media, UC Berkeley - Comment
Beatriz da Costa, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine - Lecture
Lecture, 340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Beatriz da Costa will present her new work: Who Lives on Times Square?, an investigation into the possibilities of relating between humans and members of the lived non-human worlds that we are least likely to recognize as social actors within urban environments: microbes.
Gender and Women's Studies, Li Ka Shing, Science, Technology and Society Center, Berkeley Center for New Media
Beatrice Bain Research Group Presents
The Meaning of Motherhood in the 21st Century: Changing Reproductive Stakes
Michele Pridmore-Brown, Panelist, BBRG Scholar
Jacqueline Adams, Panelist, BBRG Scholar
Rene Almeling, Panelist, Asst. Professor, Sociology, Yale
Charis Thompson, Discussant, Assoc. Prof., GWS
Panel discussion, 254 Barrows Hall
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Near Eastern Studies Department, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Perverse Ethics, Secularism and the Problem of Sex
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, April 23, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Professor Cybelle Fox, Sociology and Public Health
"The New Nativism?: Federal Citizenship and Legal Status Restrictions for Welfare and Medicaid"
Roxanna M. Altholz, International Human Rights Law Clinic
"Identities Denied: The Right to a Name and a Nationality in the Dominican Republic"
“What’s Queer About Christian Couples? Engaging Augustine’s Theology of Marriage”
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, CLGS
Lecture, The Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Badè, PSR
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
The Second Annual John E. Boswell Lecture Professor Virginia Burrus April 29, 2009 “What’s Queer About Christian Couples? Engaging Augustine’s Theology of Marriage” The Badè Museum Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709 5:30 pm Reception 6:30 pm Lecture This lecture is free and open to the public. The earliest Christians showed little interest in developing a theology of marriage; it was, rather, and anti-marital asceticism that captured their erotic imaginations. It took more that four centuries for the understanding of marriage as a sacrament to appear, rather famously articulated by Augustine. It is rather queer that Christianity should ever have developed a sacramental view of marriage at all, but Augustine’s doctrine can itself be queered. Augustine’s turn toward textual pleasures seems to orient desire toward a radically promiscuous all-love. Where does this leave marriage? Where does it leave sexuality? The very failures in Augustine’s sacramental theology of marriage demonstrate the limits of both of these concepts, while also showing us why they don’t just go away. ____________________________________ Virginia Burrus is Professor of Early Christianity at Drew University’s Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion, where she has taught since 1991. Her interests in the field of ancient Christianity include: gender, sexuality, and the body; martyrdom and asceticism; and ancient novels and hagiography. Among her publications are: “Begotten, Not Made”: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000); The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004); and Seducing Augustine, co-authored with Mark Jordan and Karmen MacKendrick (forthcoming in 2010). The John E. Boswell Lectureship was established in 2006 at PSR’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry to honor Dr. Boswell’s pioneering scholarship in LGBT religious studies and to promote today’s leading scholars and their academic work for the full thriving of LGBT people. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion advances the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people by taking a leading role in shaping a new public discourse on sexuality and religion through education, research, community building, and advocacy. For more information, look at our website at www.clgs.org, or contact us at 510-849-8206. ____________________________________________________________
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709 Email: clgs@clgs.org Phone: 510-849-8206 Fax: 510-849-8212 To learn more about CLGS, visit our website at www.clgs.org.
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
May 2009
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry, CLGS
LGBT Religious Archives Network, LGBT-RAN
, D’Autremont Hall on PSR's campus
Saturday, May 2, 2009
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
LGBT-RAN Anniversary Dinner May 2, 2009 at 6:30pm to 9:00pm The Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw will be the featured speaker at the 7th Anniversary Dinner of the LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) on the PSR campus in Berkeley on Saturday evening, May 2, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. LGBT-RAN is a unique educational and research venture that utilizes digital technology to preserve the history of LGBT religious movements around the world. LGBT-RAN is, in essence, a “virtual” archive, and CLGS was delighted to add this important resource as a programming unit in 2008. (The LGBT-RAN can be accessed here.) The Rev. Dr. Shaw will speak on “Homosexuality and Millenarianism in Early 20th Century England and America." Jane Shaw is Dean of Divinity at New College, Oxford. She was educated at Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. This spring she is back in the Bay Area as a Visiting Professor in the History Department at UC Berkeley where she is working on a Mellon-funded research project on religion and sexuality with Professor Tom Laqueur. She is the author of Miracles in Enlightenment England and is currently completing the history of an early twentieth-century millenarian community in England. Her talk will be taken from that ongoing research.The evening’s program will also include a report of recent developments in LGBT-RAN’s historical preservation work as well as news from CLGS This anniversary celebration is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the LGBT-RAN Advisory Committee, which includes prominent LGBT religious historians, archivists, and activists from around the world. The dinner and program will begin at 6:30 p.m. in D’Autremont Hall on PSR's campus.
RSVP with names of persons planning to attend and contact info to jgall@clgs.org or 510-849-8208 by Monday, April 27, 2009. A donation of $15 to cover the dinner costs is suggested.
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry, LGBT Religious Archives Network
Socialisms and Sexualities Symposium
Susan Stryker, Gender Historian
Anne Nesbet, Slavist and Film Historian
Makers of the film "Maggots and Men"
Socialisms and Sexualities Collective
Film Screening & Symposium, 142 Dwinelle, Nestrick Room
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
As an extension of the intellectual labor done in the Townsend Center Working Group, Socialisms and Sexualities, we are curating a screening and symposium around the local independent film, “Maggots and Men.” The movie offers a stylized historical account of the Kronstadt Rebellion in revolutionary Russia, and is uniquely “cast with actors from a range of masculine gender expressions.” This provocative conjuncture situates the undoing of normative gender within a broader challenge to the dominant political-economic order. We are inspired by the movie’s mission statement regarding the film’s “[bringing] together both transgender and queer communities as well as audience members attracted to the political and historical content of the film creating opportunities for cross-community dialogue .” In response to its challenge, we have arranged a panel discussion following the screening with the filmmakers and Berkeley scholars of Soviet film and gender theory respectively. The event will be free and open to the public. Featuring:
Gender Historian, Susan Stryker
Slavist and Film Scholar, Anne Nesbet
Discussion Panel with the filmmakers
Plus talks on socialism, sexuality and silent film by members of the S&S collective
Refreshments provided by Leninade and Happy Girl Kitchen Co.
For more info: socialismsNsexualities@gmail.com
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Post-Communist Politics and Societies Working Group, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, May 7, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Emine Fisek, Performance Studies
"Breaking Character: Women's Theater Workshops and the Incorporation of
Immigrants in France"
Scholarship on the French state’s twentieth century approach to integration emphasizes the issue of bodily conduct as key to the figure of the “integrated immigrant”. For example, much of the debate surrounding the 2004 law banning veiled women from entering public primary and secondary schools concerned the question of proper integration. This oft-cited case begs the question: are the corporal habits of this “integrated immigrant” linked to specific cultural and gendered norms? What then is the relationship between bodily life and citizenship? This paper approaches these questions by way of the recent turn to theatrical practice in the work of Parisian organizations ranging from humanitarian groups working with asylum seekers to neighborhood-based community centers catering to recent immigrants. Suggesting that the alternative forms of bodily activism and aid offered by these groups remain in conversation with present-day discourses on integration and cultural incommensurability, I ask what dynamics result from theater workshops designed to aid non-French women. My goal is 1. to understand how varied notions of “female empowerment” are theatrically negotiated and their rapports with ongoing debates regarding secularism and gender equality and 2. to identify the capacities attributed to theatre practice in different pedagogical, artistic and activist contexts.
Juan Herrera, Film Studies
"Producing Fruitvale: Latinidad, Immigration, and the Development of a 'Village'"
Memorial, 254 Barrows Hall
Thursday, May 7, 2009
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
An open house in memory of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Come talk and reminisce about our friend, colleague and mentor. Wine and cheese will be served.
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
August 2009
Work with a dynamic and diverse team to foster social change!
Informal Conversation, Gender Equity Resource Center
Monday, August 31, 2009
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Work with a dynamic and diverse team to foster social change! Become a BEAM Peer Educator at GenEq! Eliminating homophobia Stopping hate crimes Subverting sexism Ending violence against women Toppling transphobia Redefining masculinities Positions: *Lavender Action: Intern at nonprofit working for equity and justice *Prism: For leaders of LGBT and Women’s organizations *Program Assistants: Assist with education, marketing and events *Spectrum: Facilitate peer education workshops ****For full information and to download an application visit: geneq.berkeley.edu Or attend the infosession Monday, August 31st, 2009 from 4-5pm in GenEq (202 Cesar Chavez) Applications are due on or before Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 4pm to the Gender Equity Resource Center, 202 Cesar Chavez, or by email to Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu. Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu.
Gender Equity Resource Center
September 2009
Open house, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, September 3, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
The Center for Race & Gender welcomes the UC Berkeley community to attend our annual Open House event.
Learn about the Center’s programs and events for the coming year, including:
- Student grants for up to $2,000 for undergrads and grads
- Biweekly forums featuring forward-looking research
- Announcements about distinguished lecturers, the fall symposium, and our spring conference
- Exciting working groups for the coming year
Come enjoy refreshments and meet our staff. We look forward to seeing you!
Questions? Please contact us at:
centerrg@berkeley.edu
510.643.8488
Center for Race and Gender
Open house, 602 Barrows Hall
Thursday, September 3, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Join us for the beginning of the semester Meet and Greet. Get re-acquainted with faculty, staff and students! Come to the GWS Conference Room in Barrows to welcome new students or to find out more about activities for the new academic year. All welcome! Refreshments served!
Women give and men receive? Exploring gender issues in living organ transplantation
Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz, Lecturer
Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Discussant
Lecture, BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Organ transplantation is seen as one of the leading technologies in life science and biomedicine. Since the last decade, in many countries the donation of living organs, such as kidneys, has become an important part of the legal and medical practice. For example, in Germany, Netherlands, and Austria, the donation of such a "living gift of life" is only permitted between close social partners. In general, organ transplantation could be understood as complex web of ethical, social, legal, and medical imperatives regarding the body, social norms as reciprocity, responsibility, and right to health care. Interestingly, the statistical analysis of transplantation practice in many European countries and U.S.A. shows that women are significantly more often living organ donors than men, while men are more often recipients. A theoretical approach to explain these differences in a behavior refers to the Gilligan-Kohlberg-debate about the 'two moralities' (which is that that there are differences between men and women on the level of moral thinking). In this talk I want to discuss this 'gender imbalance' from various angels. First, the empirical databases as well as its restrictions will be discussed. Second, I explore socio-empirically in how far such differences in moral attitudes can actually be found in European citizens' discussions about organ transplantation by analyzing Focus Group discussions in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. Third, I want to discuss the practical and ethical implications of an approach which is more sensitive to gender-roles in organ transplantation.
Science, Technology and Society Center, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Berkeley Center for New Media, Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Panel discussion, 220 Stephens Hall, The Townsend Center
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Panelist/Discussants: Tulsi Patel, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University; Sunita Puri, MD Candidate, UCSF School of Medicine Moderator: Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Director, Beatrice Bain Research Group A panel exploration of why South Asians seem to prefer male over female children regardless of whether they are in India or in the US. What highlights the contrast between India, especially North India and the immigrant Indian community in the United States of America is that female fetus abortion is illegal in India in contrast to it being free in the US. While freedom of choice and legal offense are attributed to the same act in the two countries, the panel will explore fieldwork based narratives and experiences showing that the "meaning of being a daughter" and raising one remains more or less the same between the two countries. While the nuanced material and contradictory legal experiences may differ, the deep down prejudices and their real consequences are not just skin deep. Organized by: Center for South Asia Studies Co-sponsored by: Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Beatrice Bain Research Group, NARIKA
Center for South Asia Studies
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, September 17, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Made in Chitaly
Dr. Laura Fantone, Beatrice Bain Research Group 'Opening Doors': The Domestic Worker's Support Group and Performing Migrant Women's Labor in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Charlotte McIver, Performance Studies Detailed info:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/foreign-bodies Cosponsored by Beatrice Bain Research Group
Center for Race and Gender, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Rejiggering the Scholarly Imagination
Tara McPherson, Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts and Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Lecture, BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
This presentation is designed to foment discussion about the future of publishing in electronic formats. While several journals have gone virtual in the past decade, very few have moved beyond the “text with pictures” style of traditional print publishing. I will survey the current state of the digital humanities while also imagining what other forms digital scholarship might take. Taking up as a provocative illustration the online journal, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, I will demonstrate how scholarship in the humanities might utilize new technologically- mediated forms of authorship to produce different modes of academic work and reach new audiences. Each issue of Vectors fosters deep collaboration between academics, artists, programmers, activists, and independent scholars, pushing toward new modes of scholarly reading and writing. Some questions I’ll consider include: What happens when scholarship looks and feels differently, requiring different modes of engagement from the reader/user? What happens to argument when scholarship goes fully networked and multimedia? How do you “experience” an argument in a more immersive and sensory-rich space? Can these new modes of scholarship engage pressing issues of social justice, power, and globalization?
Gender and Women's Studies, Li Ka Shing, Berkeley Center for New Media, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
EVENT POSTPONED: NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Panel discussion, Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
With Panelists:
Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
Paola Bacchetta
Blackberri
Dagenya
Barbara Ruth
Merle Woo
Panelists will consider: what were some of the most critical analyses and
activisms of the period immediately prior to, during and after Stonewall?
How have these been erased or inscribed in history? Where are we today?
What possible futures for lgbttiq analyses and activisms?
This event is conceptualized as an inter-generational discussion with the
concerns of students at the center.
The panelists are contributors to the recent book Smash the Church, Smash
the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli
Mecca. Organized by Free Speech Movement Cafe
Co-Sponsored by: Beatrice Bain Research Group, Center for Race and Gender, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, Gender Equity Resource Center, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Free Speech Movement Cafe
Performance, Multicultural Resource Center, 516A Eshleman Hall
Monday, September 28, 2009
7:00 PM
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her first book, Consensual Genocide, was published by TSAR Books in April 2006. She is the 2009-2010 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's June Jordan's Poetry for the People, the co-founder and artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists, and a 2009 performer with Sins Invalid, the queer disability cabaret. Her work has recently appeared in Visible: A Femmethology, Yes Means Yes and We Don't Need Another Wave. She believes in the power of the written and spoken word to heal, decolonize and change the world. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies,
the Beatrice Bain Research Group and the Center for Race and Gender.
Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
Film screening, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
"Muslim Women of Minang" is a twenty-six minute documentary about a young Muslim-American woman, Amna Shiekh from the San Francisco Bay Area who takes a trip to West Sumatra, Indonesia to learn about Minangkabau--the largest matrilineal society (4-6 million people) in the world, which also happens to be Muslim. Shot digitally in high definition, the documentary is a reflective personal narrative in which Amna shares her experience of visiting Minangkabau culture where women are regarded highly for being women, and how this experience changes her perceptions about the social construction of gender. This film is a "work in progress" and will be introduced by director and producer Irum Shiekh and followed by a panel discussion with Amna Shiekh, Professor Jeffrey Hadler, and others. Co-sponsored by: Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Center for Southeast Asia Studies; Townsend Center working group on Muslim Identities and Cultures; Department of Ethnic Studies; Asian American Studies Program; and Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Beatrice Bain Research Group
October 2009
symposium, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Thursday, October 1, 2009
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Scholars & artists reflect on the legacy of Michael Jackson on performance & artistry, racial & sexual politics, and cultural representations. The symposium features the following two panels: Don't Stop Til You Get Enough: Artistry, Legacy, & Performance
Man in the Mirror: Race, Sexuality, & Representation Also featuring Blair, an award winning Urban Folk, Afro-Punk, Poet, Singer, Songwriter from Detroit who is completing a collection of poetry reflecting on Michael Jackson. Join us for this exciting multimedia event! More info here:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/mj-symp
Center for Race and Gender, Department of Rhetoric, Gender and Women's Studies, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, African American Studies, Department of Music, Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies
A Closer Look at the IOM's Recommendation to Loosen Restrictions on Using Prisoners as Human Subjects
Professor Osagie Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Francisco; Senior Fellow, Center for Genetics and Society
Lecture, 20 Barrows Hall
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Professor Obasogie received his B.A. with distinction from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor for the National Black Law Journal. He also received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a fellow with the National Science Foundation. Obasogie’s research looks at the complex interplay between law and society with regard to American race relations. His most recent work involves developing regulatory schemes for reproductive and genetic technologies that encourage innovation, protect vulnerable communities, and promote the public good. His writings have spanned both academic and public audiences, with journal articles in the Law and Society Review (forthcoming), Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (forthcoming), Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics along with commentaries in outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and New Scientist. Professor Obasogie and the Center for Genetics and Society recently published a report on race and human biotechnology entitled Playing the Gene Card? The report focuses on three biotech applications that may have particular risks for African-Americans and other minority communities: race-specific drugs, genetic ancestry tests, and DNA forensics. For more information, please visit www.thegenecard.org.
Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, October 8, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Lawyering in the Shadow of War: A Study of Attorneys Representing Guantánamo Detainees
Prof. Laurel Fletcher, Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic Women at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
Prof. Diane Amann, UC Davis Law; Director, CA International Law Center
Detailed info:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/lawyers-wartime
Center for Race and Gender
Reception, 691 Barrows Hall
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
You are welcome to attend the Gender Consortium reception!
Connect with the UC Berkeley community working on critical studies in gender, sexuality, and feminism.
Learn about exciting events and announcements for this academic year.
Partake in delicious refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Questions? Please contact CRG at:
centerrg@berkeley.edu
510.643.8488
New Media Documentary: Digital Art and Activism
Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media and Chair of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz
Erik Loyer, an interactive media artist whose internationally-exhibited award-winning work uses tactile and performative interface in the service of audiovisual storytelling
Film Screening & Discussion, BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Artist/activist/scholar Sharon Daniel and interactive media designer Erik Loyer will present two database-driven interactive documentaries, Public Secrets [http://publicsecrets.net] and Blood Sugar [http://bloodsugararchives.net] as case studies of alternative media activism. In Public Secrets incarcerated women reveal the secret injustices of the Criminal Justice System and the Prison Industrial Complex. Blood Sugar examines the social and political construction of poverty, alienation, addiction and insanity in American society through the eyes of those who live it. The online interfaces and extensive audio databases compiled for these two projects emerge out of the hybrid public art practice in which information and communication technologies are employed in the service of social justice and social inclusion. This talk will address both how these two interactive documentaries were created, and how they transcend the boundaries between art and political activism by engaging the question, “what can art do?” in relation to some of our most troubling social problems.
Gender and Women's Studies, Blum Center for Developing Economies, Li Ka Shing, Berkeley Center for New Media, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
Panel discussion, CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street San Francisco, 94103 (at 9th Street in SoMa)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7:30 PM
Michelle Dizon, Filipino-American artist from LA, screens her installation "Civil Society", a video
comparing the 2005 riots in France and the 1992 riots in LA, illuminating political issues of marginal
citizenships, migration and exile, media and the erasure of memories of historical violence. The
discussion will be centered around a criticism of the current predominance of video realism/activism
as a limited politics and poetics, mimicking mainstream media. By bringing examples of experimental
forms of political installations we look for possibilities of reconfiguring political subjects and actions.
Discussants: Dalida Maria Benfield, filmmaker, art educator and scholar,
Laura Fantone, visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley, Beatrice Bain Research Group.
Katherine Wallerstein will moderate the discussion.
Co-sponsored by: the Global Commons Foundation and Beatrice Bain Research Group
Lecture, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
presider: Trinh T. Minh-ha, UC Berkeley professor, filmmaker and visual artist panelists: Dalida Maria Benfield, filmmaker, art educator and coordinator of the "Visuality and Alterity" Townsend Working Group. Michelle Dizon, artist, filmaker, visiting scholar at the California Institute of the Arts, in the Photography and Media program. Laura Fantone, visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley, Beatrice Bain Research Group Co-sponsored by: Visuality and Alterity Townsend Center Working Group and Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
A New Framwork for Women's Activism in the 21st Century
Anisha Desai, Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center
Lecture, Multicultural Center at Heller Lounge (MLK)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Social Justice Feminism: A New Framework for Women’s Activism in the 21st Century with Anisha Desai, ED of the Women of Color Resource Center Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 5-6:30pm Multicultural Center at Heller Lounge (MLK) Social justice feminism centers those who are especially marginalized and vulnerable and consistently promotes an approach to women's issues that integrates race, class, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, age, ability and other markers of social inequity. Come hear more and join the dialogue! Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu. Sponsored by the Gender Equity Resource Center and Cross-Cultural Student Development For more information, see the Facebook Event. For disability-related accommodations see http://access.berkeley.edu.
Gender Equity Resource Center, Cross Cultural Student Development
Notes from Italian Intersex/DSD Patient Groups
Daniela Crocetti, Science, Technology and Society - University of Bologna, Italy
Eric Plemons (Discussant), Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Lecture, Gifford Room, Krober 221
Thursday, October 22, 2009
5:00 PM
Since 2006 there has been an international move to change terminology fromIntersex to DSD (Disorders of Sex Development). This syndrome-orientedterminology hopes to refocus attention towards a patient-centered care modelthat illuminates physiological issues, thereby creating greatercommunication between doctors and patients. However, there is still muchdebate as to how this further medicalization standardizes the treatment ofthe exquisitely social dynamic of gender identity. Since 2000 Italian hospitals have increased their use of molecular genetictesting, provoking a shift in diagnose and gender assignment. Through workwith two Italian patient groups, Klinefelter Italia Onlus and AISIA(Associazione Italiana Sindrome Insensibilita agli Androgeni), I hope toinvestigate the shift in practice from gender theory to disability theoryand the implications of increased genetization. Daniela Crocetti is a doctoral student at the University of Bologna's program in Science, Technology and Society. Her research looks at Intersex/DSD in Italy and the shift from patient organizing to genetization.
Elsa Dorlin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Lecture, Geballe Room, The Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
Monday, October 26, 2009
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Elsa Dorlin is Associate Professor in philosophy at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1). She received her Ph.D in Philosophy from Sorbonne University (Paris 4) in 2004. Her main field of research is political theory and the relation between body, violence and subjectivity, the historical epistemology of sex and race in medical thought and queer and feminist studies. She is the author of La Matrice de la race : généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la Nation Française, Paris, La Découverte, 2006, Sexe, genre et sexualité : Introduction à la théorie féministe, Paris, PUF, 2008 (translation in Spanish, Buenos Aires, 2009), the editor of Sexe, race, classe : pour une épistémologie de la domination, Paris, PUF, 2009 and numerous articles on Foucault, Fanon, French colonial mythology and intersectionality. She is working on an essay on Black philosophy and self-defense. All are welcome. A small reception will follow the talk. Organized by: Department of Rhetoric
Co-sponsored by: Department of French, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Gender & Women's Studies, Beatrice Bain Research Group, Center for Race and Gender
Lecture, Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
Thursday, October 29, 2009
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LIFE IN HELL ...Or, How Capitalism Saving Capitalism From Capitalism
Should Fire Our Political Imagination Prof. Ruthie Gilmore, USC The world is in economic, political, military, and ideological crisis. Were California a sovereign nation-state it would rank in the top ten of global economies -- and yet the public treasury is broke. What are the origins and consequences of the series of political economic actions leading to this moment? How do sexism and racism organize displacement of people and resources over and over again? If crisis is fundamental to how capitalism works, then why are we consistently surprised? What is to be done? ~~~ Thursday, Oct 29th, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA Refreshments served. ~~~ Ruthie Gilmore is a professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, a national anti-prison organization. She is the author of Golden Gulag.
Center for Race and Gender, Department of Geography
November 2009
Salvation Army (L'armee du salut)
Reading, 4229 Dwinelle Hall, French Dept Library
Monday, November 2, 2009
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Abdellah Taia, Novelist reads from his novel "Salvation Army" and talks on the invention of the Moroccan "I" and gay writing.
French Department, Gender and Women's Studies, Rhetoric Department, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Sexuality and Rights: Uneasy Bedfellows?
Dr. Alice Miller, Lecturer in Residence; Senior Fellow, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley
Lecture, 20 Barrows Hall
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Dr. Miller will speak about contemporary global conversations on sexuality and formal human rights, and the multiple political valences of nation neo instantiations of national culture that are shaping the impulse to make rights claims as well
as the posture and scope of these claims in the UN settings. She will
consider how health has been both a safe and constraining site for these
developments, as exemplified by the 2004 report of a UN Special Rapporteur
on the Rights to Health who attempted to limn out sexual rights as including
but not limited to sexual health [health, he thought, having been made safe
because of HIV/AIDS] and yet found himself the target of major attacks from
both the US and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Previously, Ali Miller was an Associate Clinical Professor of Population and
Family Health & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,
teaching in the Columbia's Schools of Law, Public Health and International
and Public Affairs. Miller's past work includes co-Directing the Center for
the Study of Human Rights and the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia
University, School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia
University from 1989. In 1998-1999, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in the
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the
School of Public Health. She is a visiting professor at the Sexuality and
Rights Institute, Pune, India, for two weeks each year, and at the
International School, Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for one week each July.
Professor Miller has over 20 years of policy and advocacy experience with
non-governmental organizations, including directing the women's rights
program at the Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights) [at the Law Group,
1993-98]; Amnesty International USA's Program against the Death Penalty
[1991-1993], and co-founding AIUSA's programs on women's rights, and LGBT
rights programs. She continues to work with local and international NGOs,
including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and local and national
NGOs such as the Women's Institute for Leadership Development (USA), and
CREA and TARSHI (India) on human rights issues in the US and globally.
Her scholarship and policy work has addressed gendering humanitarian law,
safe migration and anti-trafficking policies, criminal law, and specifically
abolition of the death penalty, women's rights, sexual rights, sexual and
reproductive health and LGBT rights.
Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, November 5, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California
Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology Negotiating "Otherness": Exploring the Contact Zone of University-Community Partnerships in an Urban Context
Emily Gleason, Education
Detailed info:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/contact-zones
Center for Race and Gender
A Conversation with India's Supercop, Dr. Kiran Bedi
Lecture, 220 Stephens Hall, The Townsend Center
Friday, November 6, 2009
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking woman police officer. She joined the Indian Police Service in 1972 and retired in 2007. She is renowned for her innovative yet effective approach to law enforcement, through which she achieved extraordinary success in tough environments. She has worked as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and she has represented India at the United Nations and in numerous international forums.
Since retiring from active police duty, Dr. Bedi has also become an international activist on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reform, women’s issues, and human welfare. She founded and runs two nonprofit organizations: Navjyoti and the India Vision Foundation, which provide education, vocational training, and treatment for drug addiction to women and children living in India’s slums, rural areas, and prisons.
For her work, Dr. Bedi has received dozens of international awards and commendations, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service (also known as the Asian Nobel Prize), the United Nation’s Serge Sotiroff Memorial Award for drug abuse prevention, the Joseph Beuys Award, and the Asia Region Award for Drug Prevention & Control by the International Organization of Good Templars. Dr. Bedi is probably the most decorated police officer in the world. She is consistently voted one of the most admired women in India.
Dr. Bedi’s activities straddle a staggering range of interests. She holds both a law degree and a doctorate, writes columns for leading newspapers and magazines, and anchors several radio and television shows. She has also been the subject of various books and films, including the 2009 film “Yes, Madam, Sir,” which has won accolades at several international film festivals. Dr. Bedi is an active public speaker, addressing social, professional, and leadership issues. She is also an Asian tennis champion. Organized by: Center for South Asia Studies Co-sponsored by: Global Fund for Women, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, UC Berkeley Police Department, Beatrice Bain Research Group
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