Transsexual and Transfeminine Perspectives on Sexism
A public lecture by Julia Serano
... presented by the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board
Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women. Her other writings have appeared in anthologies (including BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and Word Warriors: 30 Leaders in the Women’s Spoken Word Movement) and in feminist, queer, pop culture and literary magazines and websites such as Bitch, Out, Feministing.com, Clamor, Kitchen Sink, make/shift, other, LiP and Transgender Tapestry. In recent years, Julia has gained notoriety in transgender, queer, and feminist circles for her unique insights into gender. She has been invited to speak about transgender and trans women’s issues at numerous universites, at queer, women’s studies, psychology and philosophy-themed conferences, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States.
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Thursday, May 15 , 2008
5:30 PM
University Hall 122
Northwestern University
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Gender Studies Spring Open House
Fall Quarter Course Descriptions, Live Music, Major/Minor Declarations, Talk with Professors/Students, Information about the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board, Video Projects by Cyberqueer Students, Pizza, and more!
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
4:30-6:00 PM
Kresge Hall 2-360
Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive
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Black Student Revolt at Northwestern: Reflections After 40 Years
a lecture by John Bracey
Dr. John H. Bracey, Jr. has been a member of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1972. He previously taught Afro-American history at Northern Illinois University and the University of Rochester. While completing graduate work at Northwestern, Bracey was a student organizer of the occupation of the Bursar's Office to demand the founding of a Black Studies program.
This event is co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department, the Department of Art Theory and Practice, and the Gender Studies Program. It is co-endorsed by the Peace Project.
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Thursday, May 8 , 2008
5 PM
University Hall 102
Northwestern University
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Actor Slash Model
... presented by the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board
Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art-making process.
They will present their documentary chronicling gender identity and performance as it surrounds musicianship, followed by their "indie-grass" music performance.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
7 PM
Kresge Hall 2-380
Northwestern University
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Narrating Identity
Michelle Citron will give an artist's talk about her films, which illustrate the relationship between narration, identity formation, truth, and fiction.
A Gender Studies Undergraduate Board event, co-sponsored by the departments of Performance Studies, RTVF, and Art Theory and Practice.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
5 PM
McCormick Tribune Center 3-127
Northwestern University
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If Brokeback was Black
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. writes about and teaches popular culture, critical race/gender/sexuality theory, masculinities, whiteness studies, and 20th-century African American literature and culture. McCune, a Northwestern Performance Studies Ph.D., has been a Frederick Douglass Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, as well as a faculty associate in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, at the University of Rochester. He is currently working on a book entitled Quaring the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing, a project centered on the "Down Low," interrogating traditional notions of the closet, and emphasizing minoritized experiences and constructions of queerness/quareness.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
4 PM
University Hall 102
Northwestern University
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Troubadour Poems from the South of France
A Reading and Discussion with translators
William D. Paden and Frances Freeman Paden
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Monday, January 28, 2008
4:00 P.M.
University Hall 201
(The Hagstrum Room)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Refreshments and book signing to follow
Sponsored by the French and Italian Department, the Writing Program, the Gender Studies Program, the Center for Writing Arts, and the Medieval Colloquium
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"BUILDING ACTIVIST COMMUNITIES"
A Lecture by Angela Davis
Thursday, November 29th
7:00 pm
Cahn Auditorium
Northwestern University
The event is free and open to the public, but advance tickets will only be available to students. If you have questions, please email Marissa Faustini at m-faustini@northwestern.edu.
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Undergraduate Board Fall Colloquium
Autonomy and Solidarity: Gender and the Zapatista Movement
A Presentation by the Mexico Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
5:30 P.M.
Kresge Hall 2-380
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Dinner Provided
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The Consolidation of Democracy in South Africa: What Prospects?
Amanda Gouws
Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor
of Political Science and Gender Studies
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
4 P.M.
Harris Hall
Room 108
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
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Chicago Area Women's and Gender Studies
Job, Internship, and Volunteer Fair
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Friday, October 26, 2007
12-4 P.M.
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL
Contact gender@northwestern.edu if you are
interested in traveling to the fair with other students.
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“Bridget Jones, Girls’ Zines,
and the Problem of the Future:
Gender, Narrative, and Subjectivity
in the Nineties”
Jan Radway
Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities and Professor of Literature
Duke University
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Monday, May 14, 2007
4:30 P.M.
1897 Sheridan Road
Hagstrum Room
University Hall 201
reception to follow
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The Limits of Solitude: Swedish Masturbation Today
Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender, New York University
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
4:00 PM
Norris University Center
Northwestern Room #202
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Senior Thesis Showcase
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
5:00 PM
African-American Studies Conference Room
Kresge Hall 2-425
1880 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
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Undergraduate Board Spring Colloquium
Queer in High School: The Integration Question of the 21st Century
a panel discussion
Panelists include:
Shannon Sullivan, Executive Director, Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
Stacey Horn, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development, the University of Illinois at Chicago
Bill Farmer, Faculty Sponsor, Gay-Straight Alliance of Evanston Township High School
Matt Loper, School of Education and Social Policy '07, Northwestern University
Leslie Gittings, Co-president of Rainbow Alliance, McCormick School of Engineering '07, Northwestern University
Joan Lampert, Coordinator, The Family Center and Freshman Advising Programs, Maine East High School
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
6:30 PM
Swift Hall 107
Northwestern University
2029 Sheridan Road
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Jane Roberts
co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA
34 Million Friends of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) is a grassroots campaign that resulted from the Bush Administration's 2002 decision to withhold $34 million from UNFPA, the world's largest source of international assistance for the rights and health of women.
Co-sponsored by the Women's Center, the College Feminists, and the Gender Studies Program
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
7:00 PM
Fisk Hall 217
Northwestern University
1845 Sheridan Road
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Out in the Academy
A panel of out Northwestern faculty discussing their experience as lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer in academia.
Co-sponsored by the Queer Pride Graduate Student Association
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
5:00-6:30 PM
Harris Hall 108
Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road
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Jerusalem Women Speak:
Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision
The tour will feature the voices of Huda AbuArqoub, Tal Dor, and Amal Nassar. These three women - Musulim, Jewish, and Christian - are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They come to the United States to call for an end to war and suffering in the Middle East and share their experiences and hopes for a just peace with American audiences.
Co-sponsored by the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Gender Studies Program
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
5:00-7:00 PM
McCormick Tribune Forum
Northwestern University
1870 Campus Drive
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Women Ordinary and Extraordinary
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Along with the English Department and the American Studies Program, the Gender Studies Program is sponsoring Soprano Alicia Berneche with pianist Philip Morehead in an evening of song-texts by and about women.
Exploring texts by and about women “ordinary and extraordinary,” this recital begins with several early and recent songs by Lita Grier. The program then contrasts two famous and very different song cycles: Schumann’s “Woman’s Love and Life” (1842), which sets to music a group of poems written from the depths of the Victorian patriarchal bourgeoisie, and Argento’s narrative cycle of eight prose excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s Diaries. One cycle ends with the speaker’s suicide note, the other with the husband’s death. Both stretch the emotional limits of the musical idioms in which they were composed.
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Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural Through Politics
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The Gender Studies Program is co-sponsoring the event series: "Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural Through Politics." Click on the following link for more details: http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/secondnature/index.html
Fall 2006 Speaker Series features keynote speakers Bruno Latour, Thomas Laqueur, and Peter Euben.
Winter 2007 Graduate Student Conference features keynote speakers Jane Bennett and Michael Warner.
