GWS Co-Sponsored Events

Enrique Dussel on "The Politics of Liberation in Latin America"

Cinema Across Media: The 1920s

A lecture by philosopher Enrique Dussel for the Chancellor's Colloquim. Click here for more information.

Co-Sponsored by The Department of Gender & Women's Studies and The Li Ka Shing Foundation

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The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema

Cinema Across Media: The 1920s

An international, interdisciplinary conference that will include plenary speeches, roundtables, concurrent panels, and a series of silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment at the Pacific Film Archive.

Plenary speakers:
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Gertrud Koch, Free University of Berlin
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Haghefilm Foundation
Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union

Presented by The Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley

Co-Sponsored by The Department of Gender & Women's Studies and The Li Ka Shing Foundation

For a full list of sponsors and more details, please visit the conference website or contact theconference@berkeley.edu for more information.

9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Conference, Berkeley Art Museum Theatre and Pacific Film Archive Theatre, UC Berkeley

26th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC)

The 26th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) entitled: Building Across Difference: Inciting a Movement of Our Own, returns on February 19, 2011 to the UC Berkeley Campus to honor the legacy of women of color in the U.S., celebrate the struggles of women of all ages, and provides a space for growth, empowerment, and practical tools for everyday life.

This year, the nation's oldest and largest women of color conference will focus on mental health awareness and strengthening our internal and external bonds. The one-day conference will be dedicated to issues affecting women at every stage of their lives with workshops, speakers, panels, performances, networking, and vendors of interest to all age groups.

The conference will host educators, activists, and authors Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins, and Dylcia Pagan as keynote speakers.

• Davis is an author, educator and activist who has conducted extensive research on issues related to race, gender, and imprisonment. Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?. She is currently completing a book on prisons and American history.
• Huggins is a human rights activist, poet and scholar and was the longest running female leader of the Black Panther Party. For the past 25 years, she has spoken on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women and children, incarceration, education and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change.
• Pagan is a social and political activist, teacher, former political prisoner, author, poet, visual artist and healer. She is also one of the first Latina television producers in the United States.

We will have a host of live performances including area DJs, spoken word artist, and musical ensembles.The conference will take place on Saturday, February 19, 2011 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Conference events will be held in the Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Student Union Building on the UC Berkeley campus. MLK is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Telegraph Ave. and Bancroft Ave. Admission to the conference includes access to all workshops, speakers, breakfast, lunch and snacks, and live performances.

For more information and registration, please visit the conference website.

On-site registration will also be available at the conference.

For disability accommodation requests and information please visit http://access.berkeley.edu.

Sponsored by the Graduate Assembly and the Graduate Women's Project, UC Berkeley.

Co-Sponsored by The Department of Gender & Women's Studies and The Li Ka Shing Foundation

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Conference, MLK Student Union Building, UC Berkeley

The 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

The Annual Meeting of BLS is a two-day linguistics conference featuring invited speakers and selected talks, and is considered the premier conference of its kind in the field. This year's conference includes a Special Session on "Languages of the Caucasus" and a Parasession on "Language, Gender, and Sexuality." The invited speakers include Mary Bucholtz and Robert Podesva, two of the foremost scholars in linguistic approaches to gender and sexuality.

More details on the conference can be found at http://linguistics.berkeley.edu.BLS/index.html

Hosted by the Berkeley Linguistic Society

Co-sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and The Li Ka Shing Foundation

7:45 AM - 6:30 PM
Conference, 371 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Chancellor's Colloquium for 2009-10

The Chancellor's Colloquium this year will feature the work of Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor, Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University.

Professor Oliver is the author of numerous articles, editor or co-editor of 19 anthologies of essays, and the following books:

Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to be Human, 2009
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media, 2007
The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression, 2004
Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, 2002
Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, 2001
Subjectivity Without Subjects, From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers, 1998
Family Values, Subjects Between Nature and Culture, 1997
Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to "the feminine", 1995
Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind, 1993

Plans for the Colloquia:

A) April 19: a three-hour seminar with Professor Oliver (2-5 pm 315 Wheeler Hall, followed by a reception). Respondents: Abdul JanMohamed (English), Minoo Moallam (Gender and Women's Studies). Reception: 5 - 6.
   Discussion will focus on:
      Animal Lessons
      The Colonization of Psychic Space
      Witnessing: Beyond Recognition

B) April 20: Kelly Oliver, Lecture: "Women: Secret Weapons of Modern Warfare?" (5-7 pm, 315 Wheeler Hall)

Colloquium and Lecture Co-Sponsored by Townsend Center's "Humanities and the Public World" series, Gender and Women's Studies Department, and Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory.

For further info contact: abduljm@berkeley.edu

Feminist Studies meeting Cultural Studies: What does the nexus look like now in the U.S.?

Two-part Round Table Panel Discussion in conjunction with Cultural Studies Conference March 18-20, UC Berkeley, Friday March 19, Wheeler, Maude Fife

Organized by Inderpal Grewal and Minoo Moallem

Part One: The Colonial and The Postcolonial - 2 - 3:45 PM

Chair: Minoo Moallem, Professor and Chair, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Panelists:
- Caren Kaplan, Professor and Director of Cultural Studies at UC Davis
- Mimi Nguyen, Assistant professor, Asian American Studies and Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
- Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, UC Irvine
- Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Part Two: Beyond Area Studies - 4 - 5:45 PM

Chair: Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Panelists:
- Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
- Charis Thompson, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
- Tani Barlow, Professor of History and Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
- Laura Kang, Professor and Chair, Women's Studies, UC Irvine
- Minoo Moallem, Professor and Chair, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

BBRG PRESENTS: BBRG Annual Keynote Lecture - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Situating Feminism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

 NEW DATE!!

This presentation will attempt to situate feminism geographically, in terms of the triumph of the Euro-specific (even Anglo-specific) model, in terms of the history of both of Marxism and Capitalism. It will trace feminism's itinerary through both coloniality and globalization. It  will also attempt to situate feminism historically in terms of the provenance of what we at radical U.S. universities call feminism and see how it reflects on the development of mobility among women in terms of not only capital but also the great engines of world governance.

Organized by: Beatrice Bain Research Group

Co-sponsored by: Department of Gender and Women's Studies - Li Ka Shing; Department of Comparative Literature,  Department of Rhetoric, Department of Sociology, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, English Department, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Geography, and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Gender and Science Lecture

Women give and men receive? Exploring gender issues in living organ transplantation

Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz

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.

Sponsored by Science, Technology and Society Center, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Berkeley Center for New Media

4:00 - 6:00 PM
BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt

"Women's Memoirs: Eye Witness Accounts in the Courts of a Humanitarian Empire"

Fatemeh Keshavarz
Minoo Moallem

A conversation between Fatemeh Keshavarz, the author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, and Minoo Moallem.

Sponsored by Gender and Women's Studies and Institute of European Studies

5:00 pm
201 Moses Hall

CO-SPONSORED BY: Sociology Dept.; Gender and Women's Studies Dept.;
the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture; the Beatrice Bain
Research Group; and the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality.

"CITY CENTER: SAN FRANCISCO AND THE STRUGGLE FOR GLBT SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP"

Sonya Michel, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

In earlier work (e.g. the books Children's Interests / Mothers'
Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy and Mothers of a
New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States,
Sonya Michel has compared the role of middle-class ["maternalist"]
women's movements in early welfare states in North America, Western
Europe, and the Antipodes; she has also traced the history of child
care policy in the U.S. Her current study has a dual focus: the
development of a "public/private" system of social provision
(specifically pensions and old-age insurance) in the U.S. since
World War II, and its implications for white women, people of color,
and sexual minorities.

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Graduate School Workshop

3335 Dwinelle
12:00-3:00pm

Applying to graduate school? Considering graduate school in your future? Hear from graduate students and professors about applying to graduate school and the grad school experience! There will be faculty/speaker presentation, Career Center Services presentation, a panel discussion, and Q&A.

For more information, contact Althea Grannum-Cumming at (510) 642-8513.

Sponsored by the Career Center, Gender & Women's Studies, and the Gender Equity Resource Center.

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