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Events/Conference Archives
2008
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New Knowledge Seminar - Gender and Citizenship in the post-Cold War World
Click here to go to the webpage for more information.
The New Knowledge Seminar Gender and Citizenship in the post-Cold War World explores the institutional and cultural shifts that have shaped citizenship regimes from a gender perspective in different world regions since the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War.
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Diane Negra, University College, Dublin, will speak on “Failing Women: Hollywood and Its Chick Flick Audience.” Her presentation will take place in Ballantine Hall, Room 244, on Tuesday, April 21st, at 5:30 p.m., 2009 Professor Negra’s visit is sponsored by Gender Studies, Communication and Culture, and American Studies.
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Carolyn Merchant will be a Branigin Lecturer from March 29 to 31, 2009. Her lecture, Partnership with Nature: Women and the Environment, will be held on Monday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.
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On Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Marlon Bailey will discuss The America Play, Suzan-Lori Park’s suggestive, poetic, and dramatic riff on ritual, memory, history, language, ethnicity, and the acts of viewing and performing. The talk will be in the Wells-Metz Theatre.
This March, the history department's field of gender and sexuality is organizing an international film festival to celebrate women's history month.
Gender Studies Conference Presenters Archives
2008-09
In January, Colin Johnson was invited to present a talk entitled “ 'Community Standards: ‘Village Mentality,’ Queer Eccentrics and the Writing of Lesbian and Gay History” at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In June, he is scheduled to present two talks. The first is a working version of new essay entitled ““Sexual Conventions: Prostitution and the Culture of Commerce in 20th-Century Chicago” which he will present in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Eastern and Midcontinent Regions Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. The second is an invited lecture entitled “Queer Cosmopolitanism; or, Southern Sex on the ‘Low Down’,” which will presented at the “Region, Class and Culture: New Perspectives on the American South” conference talking place at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Rick Wilk gave a series of four lectures on gender and consumer culture at the Pontifical University of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil between March 31 and April 3.
Bill Yarber presented at HIV/STD Prevention in Rural Communities: Sharing Successful Strategies VI held at IU on April 16-18, 2009
Lessie Jo Frazier will present two papers this summer 2009.
Ø “Sex and socialist revolution” at the Tepoztlan Institute for Transnational History of the Americas July 2009 (Mexico)
Ø “Police, state, and desire in Chile” and roundtable presentation "Transnational feminist scholarship on the Americas" Latin American Studies Assoc. June 2009 (Rio de Janeiro).
Bradley Lane has presented or will be presenting the following papers at national conferences this semester:
Colin Johnson
Ø International Communication Association [Chicago, IL 2009], he will be presenting "Digital (In)Justice: Mediating Sex Panic and Online Predation" in their Popular Communication Division; to the American Culture Association / Pop Culture Association [Albuquerque, NM, 2009]
Ø He also presented “All in the Family? The Queer Intimacies of Sex with Mom and Dad” in the Reality Television Division. I also organized a panel series on Gender and Reality Television for the PCA/ACA this year, and next year, I am co-Chair of the Reality Television Division for PCA/ACA
Ø He will be presenting materials associated with his dissertation, A Visual Politics of the Perverse: Sexual Predation and the 'Perversion' of American Visual Culture, as part of the "New Research in Cultural Studies" Seminar at this year's national meeting of the Cultural Studies Association [Kansas City, MO, 2009].
Melissa Stein was one of four fellows selected by Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin and Marshall College for its inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars, held March 6th and 7th and focusing on the theme of “Resonance.” The fellows were chosen “based on their research, which embodies the ideals of liberal arts scholarship and the values of liberal learning, including inter- and trans-disciplinary practice, critical thinking, and broad relevance to fundamental human questions.” As part of the symposium, she gave a public lecture entitled “‘Nature is the author of such restrictions’: Science, Medicine, and Segregation, 1877-1915.”
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams will present her paper "Is there a Native American and Indigenous Diaspora?" at the Herman C. Hudson Graduate Research Symposium on the IUB campus, Saturday April 4th at 9:15-10:45am in a panel entitled: Rebirth of a Nation: Navigating Political & Racial Identities in the U.S. The conference begins Friday April 3 and concludes Saturday evening with a keynote address from Chuck D. Please visit AAADS website (www.indiana.edu/~afroamer) for more information.
2007-08 Gender Studies Conference and Events
The IU Gender Studies Program will show unprecidented representation at the annual National Women's Studies Association conference, June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. This year's theme "Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire" is explored by the work of presenters: Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, Bradley Lane, Joselyn Leimbach, and Yu-Ying Hu, Stacy Weida, Jessica Wall, Aimee Shand, Laura Harrison, Sarah Rowley, and Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier.
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, Bradley Lane, & Joselyn Leimbach, Gender Studies PhD students present their work on a panel entitled " theorizing visual culture" at the University of Chicago, Illinois, "Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latino/a Sexualities," conference on April 11-12, 2008. Follow this link: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rsp2008/
Laura Harrison & Bradley Lane, Gender Studies PhD students presented at the UCSRT Inaugural Conference, "The Future of Sexuality Research: Methodological to Social Policy Innovations" April 9-11, 2007 Held at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Follow this link: http://kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/
Cierra Thomas-Williams, Yu-Ying Hu, & Bradley Lane, all Gender Studies PhD students, are presenting at The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 18-21, 2007. Follow this link:
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/index.php?cf=4
Gender Studies Hosts Conferences
Big Ten & CIC Women & Gender Studies 2007 Meeting at IUB
Thursday - Saturday, October 25-27, 2007 at the Kinsey Institute. By invitation only. For more infomation contact gender@indiana.edu
CANCELLED - Homeland Insecurities 2008
Thursday - Saturday, May 8-10, 2008 at Indiana University Bloomington.
Click Here for the conference website
Click Here for conference flyer
On October, 23, 2007, join us for an evening with Bettina Aptheker, professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the acclaimed memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel. The title of her talk is "Civil Rights, Black Power, and Women's Liberation: the politics of memory and history."
Gender Studies
Indiana University
Memorial Hall E., 130
Bloomington, IN * 47403
(812) 855-0101
(812) 855-4869 (fax)
gender@indiana.edu
Important Links
Page Links
Mark Your Calendar Archives
Events/Conference Archives
2008
-
New Knowledge Seminar - Gender and Citizenship in the post-Cold War World
Click here to go to the webpage for more information.
The New Knowledge Seminar Gender and Citizenship in the post-Cold War World explores the institutional and cultural shifts that have shaped citizenship regimes from a gender perspective in different world regions since the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War.
-
Diane Negra, University College, Dublin, will speak on “Failing Women: Hollywood and Its Chick Flick Audience.” Her presentation will take place in Ballantine Hall, Room 244, on Tuesday, April 21st, at 5:30 p.m., 2009 Professor Negra’s visit is sponsored by Gender Studies, Communication and Culture, and American Studies.
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Carolyn Merchant will be a Branigin Lecturer from March 29 to 31, 2009. Her lecture, Partnership with Nature: Women and the Environment, will be held on Monday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.
-
On Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Marlon Bailey will discuss The America Play, Suzan-Lori Park’s suggestive, poetic, and dramatic riff on ritual, memory, history, language, ethnicity, and the acts of viewing and performing. The talk will be in the Wells-Metz Theatre.
This March, the history department's field of gender and sexuality is organizing an international film festival to celebrate women's history month.
Gender Studies Conference Presenters Archives
2008-09
In January, Colin Johnson was invited to present a talk entitled “ 'Community Standards: ‘Village Mentality,’ Queer Eccentrics and the Writing of Lesbian and Gay History” at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In June, he is scheduled to present two talks. The first is a working version of new essay entitled ““Sexual Conventions: Prostitution and the Culture of Commerce in 20th-Century Chicago” which he will present in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Eastern and Midcontinent Regions Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. The second is an invited lecture entitled “Queer Cosmopolitanism; or, Southern Sex on the ‘Low Down’,” which will presented at the “Region, Class and Culture: New Perspectives on the American South” conference talking place at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Rick Wilk gave a series of four lectures on gender and consumer culture at the Pontifical University of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil between March 31 and April 3.
Bill Yarber presented at HIV/STD Prevention in Rural Communities: Sharing Successful Strategies VI held at IU on April 16-18, 2009
Lessie Jo Frazier will present two papers this summer 2009.
Ø “Sex and socialist revolution” at the Tepoztlan Institute for Transnational History of the Americas July 2009 (Mexico)
Ø “Police, state, and desire in Chile” and roundtable presentation "Transnational feminist scholarship on the Americas" Latin American Studies Assoc. June 2009 (Rio de Janeiro).
Bradley Lane has presented or will be presenting the following papers at national conferences this semester:
Colin Johnson
Ø International Communication Association [Chicago, IL 2009], he will be presenting "Digital (In)Justice: Mediating Sex Panic and Online Predation" in their Popular Communication Division; to the American Culture Association / Pop Culture Association [Albuquerque, NM, 2009]
Ø He also presented “All in the Family? The Queer Intimacies of Sex with Mom and Dad” in the Reality Television Division. I also organized a panel series on Gender and Reality Television for the PCA/ACA this year, and next year, I am co-Chair of the Reality Television Division for PCA/ACA
Ø He will be presenting materials associated with his dissertation, A Visual Politics of the Perverse: Sexual Predation and the 'Perversion' of American Visual Culture, as part of the "New Research in Cultural Studies" Seminar at this year's national meeting of the Cultural Studies Association [Kansas City, MO, 2009].
Melissa Stein was one of four fellows selected by Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin and Marshall College for its inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars, held March 6th and 7th and focusing on the theme of “Resonance.” The fellows were chosen “based on their research, which embodies the ideals of liberal arts scholarship and the values of liberal learning, including inter- and trans-disciplinary practice, critical thinking, and broad relevance to fundamental human questions.” As part of the symposium, she gave a public lecture entitled “‘Nature is the author of such restrictions’: Science, Medicine, and Segregation, 1877-1915.”
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams will present her paper "Is there a Native American and Indigenous Diaspora?" at the Herman C. Hudson Graduate Research Symposium on the IUB campus, Saturday April 4th at 9:15-10:45am in a panel entitled: Rebirth of a Nation: Navigating Political & Racial Identities in the U.S. The conference begins Friday April 3 and concludes Saturday evening with a keynote address from Chuck D. Please visit AAADS website (www.indiana.edu/~afroamer) for more information.
2007-08 Gender Studies Conference and Events
The IU Gender Studies Program will show unprecidented representation at the annual National Women's Studies Association conference, June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. This year's theme "Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire" is explored by the work of presenters: Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, Bradley Lane, Joselyn Leimbach, and Yu-Ying Hu, Stacy Weida, Jessica Wall, Aimee Shand, Laura Harrison, Sarah Rowley, and Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier.
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, Bradley Lane, & Joselyn Leimbach, Gender Studies PhD students present their work on a panel entitled " theorizing visual culture" at the University of Chicago, Illinois, "Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latino/a Sexualities," conference on April 11-12, 2008. Follow this link: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rsp2008/
Laura Harrison & Bradley Lane, Gender Studies PhD students presented at the UCSRT Inaugural Conference, "The Future of Sexuality Research: Methodological to Social Policy Innovations" April 9-11, 2007 Held at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Follow this link: http://kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/
Cierra Thomas-Williams, Yu-Ying Hu, & Bradley Lane, all Gender Studies PhD students, are presenting at The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 18-21, 2007. Follow this link:
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/index.php?cf=4
Gender Studies Hosts Conferences
Big Ten & CIC Women & Gender Studies 2007 Meeting at IUB
Thursday - Saturday, October 25-27, 2007 at the Kinsey Institute. By invitation only. For more infomation contact gender@indiana.edu
CANCELLED - Homeland Insecurities 2008
Thursday - Saturday, May 8-10, 2008 at Indiana University Bloomington.
Click Here for the conference website
Click Here for conference flyer
On October, 23, 2007, join us for an evening with Bettina Aptheker, professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the acclaimed memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel. The title of her talk is "Civil Rights, Black Power, and Women's Liberation: the politics of memory and history."
Gender Studies
Indiana University
Memorial Hall E., 130
Bloomington, IN * 47403
(812) 855-0101
(812) 855-4869 (fax)
gender@indiana.edu
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