2009 Gender Studies Upcoming Events

"Globalization and Its Impact on Cultural Diversity"
Purnima Bose, Associate Professor, English Department
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time:  7 p.m.
Venue:  IU Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street.

Professor Bose research interests include globalization, the role of corporations in public life, anti-globalization resistance, and the Indian diaspora. She is the author of "Organizing Empire," the co-editor with Laura E. Lyons of  "Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation," and has published essays on colonialism, globalization, and activism in GENDERS, boundary 2, and the GLOBAL SOUTH.

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“Transgender Day of Remembrance” services in Bloomington, Indiana, are being hosted by the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) at Indiana University and IU’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services (GLBTSSS).  This is the eleventh annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR).  This day (November 17) is being set aside to memorialize those people who have died due to violence and hate crimes inflicted upon them by others who took exception to their gender expression.  The event begins in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA 015) at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, November 17, where five leaders will speak for about 45 minutes total.  The scheduled speakers include our own Dr. Aren Aizura, Visiting Lecturer of Gender Studies, Indiana University.

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Doctoral Student Betsy Jose's film "Beyond Boundaries" is scheduled to be screened at the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival on Sunday, 15th November 2009 at 6pm. Please visit the URL below for details.

Classroom Climate Discussion, Friday, November 13th, 10-11:15am, in Ballantine Lounge 008 (lower level). 

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 Conferences

• Marlon Bailey presented at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD) Conference in Accra, Ghana on a roundtable, "Sexualities in the African Diaspora."

•  Colin Johnson has presented at several conferences.

• The annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study Sexuality (Eastern and Midcontinent Region) in Tampa, Florida.

• The seventy-second annual meeting of the Rural  Sociological Society in Madison, Wisconsin. 

• He was invited to present a paper at the “Region, Class and Culture: New Perspectives on the American South” conference held on the campus of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. 

• He traveled to the University of Michigan where he was invited along with fellow IU queer rural studies scholars Mary Gray and Scott Herring to speak at a day-long symposium on Nonmetropolitan Perspectives in LGBTQ Studies sponsored by the U of M Institute for  Research on Women and Gender and the Lesbian/Gay/Queer Research Initiative, a queer studies research initiative that he co-founded with U of M Professor David M. Halperin back in 2000 during his time as a graduate student in Ann Arbor. 

 

• Four of our fourth year doctoral students will present a paper at the interdisciplinary conference “Gender, Place and Space: An Interdisciplinary Conference” at The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana on March 25-27, 2010.  The presenters are:

• Laura Harrison and her paper is called "Picturing the Fetus:  Fetal Personhood, Surrogacy and Surveillance"

• Cierra Thomas-Williams with her paper entitled "The Cosmopolitan Effect: Popular Culture, International Market Development, and ‘Incommensurable’ Feminisms”

• Jessica Wall's paper title is  "Silent Spaces: In Search of a History of Pleasure"

• Stacy Weida's paper is entitled "McMansions and Empty Cul-de-sacs: Contemporary Representations of Suburbia."

 

• Karma Lochrie was invited to give a lecture at Wake Forest University in September.  The title of her lecture was "Queer Souvenirs."

• In October Susan Stryker was at Wesleyan University to present a master class to faculty on how to begin institutionalizing a transgender studies curriculum. She is also an invited speaker at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law on November 13th, for a  symposium called "ReProducing Justice," where she will speak on the concept of "wrong embodiment." She will attend the 4th biennial somatechnics conference at Macquarie University in Sydney in late November.

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