2012 - 2013 Archive
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Screening of "Stonewall" Movie |
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Sex Work and Personal Agency: Is it better to be a prostitute or a porn star? January 23rd, 5pm, in the Faculty Center. She will be talking about different elements that go into being an "agent" (having some form of control over the conditions of one's labor, having exit options, having direct interactions with those who would contest one's ideas and rights, etc.). Prostitution and pornography provide two concrete examples of these elements of agency in material practice. The Great Conversation is sponsored by the Dept of Philosophy and Phi Sigma Tau. Any questions, please get in touch with Maggie in the Philosophy Department. |
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UNCG and NCA&T MLK Day Celebration with Dick Gregory
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Gender, War & Culture: Remembering the 1990s Balkans
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Diversity Forum Breakfast: Women Leaders, Removing Barriers to Success @ UNCG
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Working Group on Feminism and History "The Working Group in Feminism and History is pleased to announce an exciting program for the spring semester! Our first meeting will be held on Friday, January 25th from 4:30-6:30 at the home of Emily Burrill in Carrboro. Rachel Hynson will present "Champagne and Senna Leaves: The Transnational Culture of Cuban Abortions, 1952-1960." All who are interested are welcome to attend. We will begin each meeting with a presentation by the author and then open the floor for discussion. We will conclude the meetings with refreshments and plenty of time for continued discussion and socializing." |
Working Group on Feminism and History"Champagne and Senna Leaves: The Transnational Culture of Cuban Abortions, 1952-1960."
For address, directions & a copy of the paper, please e-mail Emily Burrill at eburrill@email.unc.edu.
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Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Grant Recipient Christine Woodworth on... |
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Food for Thought Series presents... |
African American Studies Week: Feb. 11-15, 2013 Monday, Feb. 11: 4-6 pm in 349 Curry
Tuesday, Feb. 12: 6-7:30 pm in Kirkland, EUC Wednesday, Feb. 13: 11:00-11:50, Auditorium, EUC
Thursday, Feb. 14
Friday, Feb. 15 For more info contact: afs@uncg.edu | |
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WGS Salon 334 Curry Building |
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Peace & Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A World of No Nukes? February 15-16, 2013 Greensboro, NC, Guilford College |
Deadline 2/15: SEWSA Dissertation Grants This award is designed to assist graduate students who are members of SEWSA with research and professional development. Research should be consistent with the research mission of SEWSA to foster scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. The award is $1,500 and can be used for travel, books, supplies, and/or equipment. | |
Fall 2012 | |
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Community Conference: |
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Community Speak-Out on the Conviction of Jorge Cornell Thursday, December 6, 2012, 7:00 PM |
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Book Reading and Discussion from "Democracy, Dialogue, and Friday, December 7, 5-7 p.m. Glenwood Coffee & Books Author Spoma Jovanovic will read from her new book detailing how people in Greensboro convened the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States. In this holiday season, the discussion that follows will invite questions and comments on how forgiveness and apologies can usher in new possibilities for community building and justice. |
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Fall Events at the Stone House! Mindfulness & Leadership, shifting our relationships to money, the history of the race construct and more! |
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Sexual Assault 101: An Introduction to Sexual Violence Victim Advocacy December 5th - 6th, 2012 Shelby, NC |
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UNCG and NCA&T MLK Day Celebration with Dick Gregory
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Guilford Green Foundation |
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Peace & Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A World of No Nukes? February 15-16, 2013 Greensboro, NC, Guilford College |
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Women NC Student Fellows "Local to Global" Dinner
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"When Did Indians Become Straight?" |
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Black Feminist Film School Celebrates Audre Lorde, Ada Griffin and Michelle Parkerson Join the Black Feminist Film School Crew for a special screening of Ada Griffin and Michelle Parkerson's crucial film on the life and legacy of Audre Lorde in preparation for February (or as Alexis likes to call it..."the month of our Lorde"). Also be the FIRST to learn about Lex's new Lorde Concordance traveling performance through an interactive exercise! See you there!!!! |
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1/31 & 2/1: Guilford College's Bayard Rustin Center - Events Honoring MLK Jr.
Trailer of film:
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Duke's 7th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop Registration now open! The Seventh Annual Feminist Theory Workshop offers a unique opportunity for scholars to engage in sustained dialogue about feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. The "workshop" approach of this conference requires active participation of both presenters and attendees. | |
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Innovations in Domestic and Sexual Violence Research and Practice Conferences |
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Outrage! SEWSA 2013 |
The white caucus of the Guilford Anti-Racism Alliance offering presentations on "What is Whiteness?" ...about whiteness, racism and the race construct.
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Topics include: We would be glad to arrange a single presentation or, if you would be interested in more than one topic, to work with you and your group to structure a mini series that is of particular interest. Contact: Claire Morse, cmorse@guilford.edu |
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Call for Papers: Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow CFP Deadline: Monday, December 3, 2012 Confrence: Friday and Saturday March 1-2, 2013 Featuring: The keynote address by women's historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and author of Difficult Women: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Round table discussion about the life and work of Amy Swerdlow moderated by Blanch Weisen Cooke, author of The Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt Volumes 1 and 2. Amy Swerdlow (1923-2012), graduate and former director of the women's history graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College was a scholar, activist, teacher, mentor and mother. She was a founding member and a significant force in Women Strike for Peace, a grassroots movement that greatly influenced the end of above ground nuclear weapons testing, especially emphasizing the effect this had on children's health. The organization went on to protest the Vietnam War. Amy Swerdlow sat on the national board of the antiwar group known as Clergy and Laity Concerned, chaired the steering committees of two antiwar coalitions of women's groups, the Jeannette Rankin Brigade and the Women's Emergency Coalition, and was a member of the New York State coordinating council of the National Women's Political Caucus. Amy Swerdlow was the quintessential activist scholar. Send proposals to: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu |
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Call For Papers: Gender Matters Conference CFP Due Date: 12/3/12 Conference Dates: April 12-13, 2013 Governors State University and Please direct inquiries to: gendermatters@govst.edu |
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Call for Proposals "Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity" Submission Deadline: 12/7/12 Conference Date: 3/9/13 Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251 The Women's and Gender Studies Program at Morgan State University, in We invite submissions in the following subject areas: Submission Guidelines: Abstracts and proposals should be submitted via email to A cover page that contains the following information for abstracts and |
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Call for Submissions: Outstanding Student Papers Call for Papers Due: Friday, December 7, at 5:00 p.m. Symposium: Friday, February 22, 2013 UNCG, Elliott University Center The Honors Symposium offers outstanding undergraduates the opportunity to participate in an academic conference with concurrent sessions. Each student presents a ten-minute paper, after which a faculty respondent offers commentary. The 2012 Symposium featured 44 student paper presentations, and we look forward to an equal number of exceptional presentations this year. Presentations are followed by a keynote speaker and reception For more information about the Symposium, students and faculty may contact Dr. Angela Bolte in Lloyd International Honors College at (336) 334-4734 or akbolte@uncg.edu. |
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1/1: Call for Papers "Joss in June" | |
Rethinking Work: The 15th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group CFP Deadline: 1/11/13 Conference Dates: March 21-23, 2013 at the University of Florida Since the economic downturn of 2008, rhetoric about work has permeated political discourse in the United States, the European Union, and elsewhere. However, the notion that "work" has inherent, positive value regardless of its content, consequences, or level of compensation is seldom challenged. Instead, politicians on both the right and the left are confident that repeating the word "work" as a kind of incantation will conjure a safe and shared, if ultimately nebulous, set of assumptions. In turn, these assumptions are used as a means to manufacture political consensus, even as work (or its absence) is a primary determinant of economic and cultural division. Thus, this conference proposes to follow Marx's imperative to exit the "noisy" public sphere "where everything takes place on the surface and in full view of everyone" and instead enter "into the hidden abode of production" so that we may better understand the political power of the word "work," the concept it signifies, and its material consequences for workers and non-workers around the world. | |
Call for Papers: Beyond the Binaries Call for Papers Due: January 31st, 2013 In a 1993 article in *Sciences*, biologist and historian Anne Fausto-Sterling provocatively argued that human sex could not be neatly |
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Opportunities | |
Ongoing: Beatrice Bain Research Group Affiliated Scholars Program The BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley's critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms. Among the BBRG programs and activities is the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program, designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from one month to six months. | |
Opportunity to Update book titled "Women of Guilford County, NC" A book entitled "Women of Guilford County, NC" from 1740-1979 was written and published in 1979 as a fundraiser for Women of Guilford, Inc., the fundraising arm of Greensboro's Commission on the Status of Women. Women of Guilford, Inc is considering editing and updating the book in time for the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women in about three years. Anyone interested in editting, researching, writing, printing, fundraising.... | |
UNCG's Progressive Library Guild Book Drive |
Contact April Parker aprilparker83@gmail.com |
12/17 Deadline: Dawn S. Chaney Award for Outstanding Woman Serving the LGBTQ Community Guilford Green Foundation is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2013 Dawn S. Chaney Award. This award is given to an outstanding woman (lesbian or straight ally) in recognition of her contributions to the Triad community for her work with the area LGBT community. Women who have helped foster a better community or helped create positive social change for the LGBT community are the ideal nominees for this award. |
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship In The Humanities Due: 1/7/13 The Women's and Gender Studies Department, in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University, is pleased to announce a two-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The selected fellow will receive a stipend of $50,000 each year as well as an annual research allocation of $2,000 and Rutgers University health benefits. The fellow will pursue research and teach three courses in the Women's and Gender Studies Department during the two-year term of her/his appointment and will participate in seminars, and other IRW activities. For more information on the programs available for the Mellon fellows at the IRW, please see: | |
Office of Multicultural Affairs Roots Institute Deadline: 2/1/13 The R.O.O.T.S. Institute is an interactive, educational and fun retreat focusing on engaging in deep dialogue on topics of diversity in the service of social justice. The aim is to use our different experiences in an increasingly multicultural society to both understand how the dynamics of power and privilege affect our lives at the personal, group and systemic levels and to develop strategies to deal with oppression in our own lives. Participants are encouraged to bring their whole selves to the experience: all identities, experiences, interests, political affiliations and spiritual traditions are welcome! We believe true learning involves the body, mind and spirit, therefore we encourage a holistic learning experience. | |
Paid Internships Advocating for Farmworkers One day, all farmworkers will have dignity in their work and livelihood. Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has 20-years experience providing opportunities for students and farmworkers to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills and build diverse coalitions working for social change.SAF interns & fellows come from diverse backgrounds and about half are from farmworker families. In addition to working full-time with a farmworker agency, program participants can perform in our Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers using photography and audio recordings. Participants also organize community awareness projects and community health projects. Applications due February 4, 2013 Qualified applicants are current college students or recent graduates (within 1 year) and must speak high-intermediate to advanced Spanish. SAF preferences students from the Southeast and students from farmworker families- especially those involved in the CAMP program. SAF also preferences applicants who will have use of a vehicle for the duration of the program. Into the Fields Internship: 10-week summer program June 3-August 11, 2013 Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship: 6-month program June 3-November 15, 2013 | |
Summer 2013 Research Fellowships at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston Fellowships are open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students. The Library's collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science, offer scholars countless opportunities for original research. | |
SBS Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships All materials must be received by February 15, 2013, and should be submitted to SBSPostdocs@asc.ohio-state.edu. Questions can be directed to Professor Osei Appiah (appiah.2@osu.edu). The Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to prepare those scholars to enter tenure track faculty positions. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been underrepresented in the American professoriate. Fellows will be affiliated with one of the eight academic units of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Communication, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Speech and Hearing Science. The Division also houses six interdisciplinary research units: the Cognitive Science Center, the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Imaging, the Criminal Justice Research Center, the Center for Human Resource Research, the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, and the Initiative in Population Research. Fellows may also have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity, a multidisciplinary center founded jointly by the Divisions of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Humanities; and the College of Law. | |
Beatrice Bain Research Group Scholars-In-Residence Program The BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley's critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms. Among its programs and activities, the BBRG has a Scholars-in-Residence Program. Under the auspices of this Program, each year the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year. | |
