The Graduate Women's Project can help!
In honor of Love Your Body Day, The Graduate Women’s Project invites you to
SEX AND DESSERT
A Workshop on Sexual Communication &
Asking for What You Want
with Good Vibrations
WHEN: Thursday October 22nd
TIME: 5pm to 7pm
WHERE: ANTHONY HALL
WHAT: This workshop will be facilitated by sex education experts from Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations is a diverse, woman-focused retailer providing access to sex-positive products and accurate sex information in order to promote healthy attitudes about sex.
WHO: This program is designed for graduate women in mind but all are welcome
WINE AND DESSERT: will be served
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS: Contact gwp@ga.berkeley.edu
BBRG PRESENTS: Traces of In-Betweenness
Lecture, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
presider:
Trinh T. Minh-ha, UC Berkeley professor, filmmaker and visual artist
panelists:
Dalida Maria Benfield, filmmaker, art educator and coordinator of the "Visuality and Alterity" Townsend Working Group.
Michelle Dizon, artist, filmaker, visiting scholar at the California Institute of the Arts, in the Photography and Media program.
Laura Fantone, visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Co-sponsored by: Visuality and Alterity Townsend Center Working Group and Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media and Chair of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz
Erik Loyer, an interactive media artist whose internationally-exhibited award-winning work uses tactile and performative interface in the service of audiovisual storytelling
Film Screening & Discussion, BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Artist/activist/scholar Sharon Daniel and interactive media designer Erik Loyer will present two database-driven interactive documentaries, Public Secrets [http://publicsecrets.net] and Blood Sugar [http://bloodsugararchives.net] as case studies of alternative media activism. In Public Secrets incarcerated women reveal the secret injustices of the Criminal Justice System and the Prison Industrial Complex. Blood Sugar examines the social and political construction of poverty, alienation, addiction and insanity in American society through the eyes of those who live it. The online interfaces and extensive audio databases compiled for these two projects emerge out of the hybrid public art practice in which information and communication technologies are employed in the service of social justice and social inclusion. This talk will address both how these two interactive documentaries were created, and how they transcend the boundaries between art and political activism by engaging the question, “what can art do?” in relation to some of our most troubling social problems.
Gender and Women's Studies, Blum Center for Developing Economies, Li Ka Shing, Berkeley Center for New Media, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, October 8, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Lawyering in the Shadow of War: A Study of Attorneys Representing Guantánamo Detainees
Prof. Laurel Fletcher, Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Women at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
Prof. Diane Amann, UC Davis Law; Director, CA International Law Center
Detailed info:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/lawyers-wartime
A Closer Look at the IOM's Recommendation to Loosen Restrictions on Using Prisoners as Human Subjects
Professor Osagie Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Francisco; Senior Fellow, Center for Genetics and Society
Lecture
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
20 Barrows Hall
Professor Obasogie received his B.A. with distinction from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor for the National Black Law Journal. He also received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a fellow with the National Science Foundation.
Obasogie’s research looks at the complex interplay between law and society with regard to American race relations. His most recent work involves developing regulatory schemes for reproductive and genetic technologies that encourage innovation, protect vulnerable communities, and promote the public good. His writings have spanned both academic and public audiences, with journal articles in the Law and Society Review (forthcoming), Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (forthcoming), Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics along with commentaries in outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and New Scientist.
Professor Obasogie and the Center for Genetics and Society recently published a report on race and human biotechnology entitled Playing the Gene Card? The report focuses on three biotech applications that may have particular risks for African-Americans and other minority communities: race-specific drugs, genetic ancestry tests, and DNA forensics. For more information, please visit www.thegenecard.org.
Sponsored by: Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
CONTACT ZONES: CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ENCOUNTERS ACROSS LINES OF RACIALIZED ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CLASS
The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California
Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology
More info coming soon...
Negotiating "Otherness": Exploring the Contact Zone of University-Community Partnerships in an Urban Context
Emily Gleason, Education
This presentation reflects a portion of a larger qualitative study of two models of university-community collaborations. Each collaboration created “contact zones” between undergraduates from a prestigious urban university and local high school youth from the surrounding inner city environs. The research explores the engagement between young people from disparate social and cultural backgrounds, with an eye on how they make sense of each other, their own identities, and their “place” in the world. Magnifying tensions around racial, class, ethnic, geographic, and cultural differences, these partnerships produce spaces in which relations of power are negotiated and contested. This presentation focuses on one of the study’s larger questions: How do youth and university students theorize about “Others” and “Otherness” through the course of program involvement, and how are constructs of “difference” negotiated in the “contact zone”?
centerrg@berkeley.edu, 510-643-8488
When: October 12, 2009, 06:00 PM -- 08:00 PM
Where:
North Gate Hall Library
121 North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
In this modern age, planning your life course is a tricky balancing act between career and family that often involves re-planning. Based on her own experience and the stories she gathered in her book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, about women looking for the best age at which to have a child, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt will speak about the consequences and dilemmas surrounding modern motherhood and fatherhood, infertility, and the new array of choices that we have from “instant families” to “egg freezing” to “single motherhood” to "the donor egg economy" to living "child free." She will address the changing attitudes towards later motherhood and the uses of and advances in reproductive medicine.
Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, will speak about the global battle for control of women's fertility, a battle that pits coalitions of religious fundamentalists against a cosmopolitan array of feminists, reformers and doctors. Goldberg will show the surprising ways that women's rights, and their access to reproductive choice, is central to combating global poverty, maternal mortality, political instability and even collapsing birth rates in Europe, and she'll discuss the profound effect that American abortion politics have on women all over the planet.
BIOS:
Michelle Goldberg, MJ '98, is a journalist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. Her most recent book is The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, which was published in April by Penguin Press and won last year's J. Anthony Lukas Work in Progress Award. Researched in four continents, The Means of Reproduction tells the story of the global battle for reproductive rights, and argues that the oppression of women is the great human rights issue of our time. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote that the book is "full of wonderful insights and stories...Goldberg is exactly right." Goldberg is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, Glamour, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, MJ '97, is an author, essayist and journalist living in the West Village of Manhattan. She writes about social trends, media, business, gender politics and the influence of science and technology on culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York, Vogue, O magazine, Self, Glamour, Outside, Wired, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Salon.com, Business Week, and MSN Money. Her first book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, was published in The United States, England and The Netherlands. First and second serial excerpts were published in Newsweek, The London Times, The Daily Mail, and The Irish Independent. Lehmann-Haupt appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and NPR’s Talk of the Nation. The book received positive reviews in both The New York Times and The Washington Post, where the reviewer wrote, “Lehmann-Haupt is a skilled, empathetic writer and an excellent researcher, alert to the absurdities and ethical ambiguities of her quest, and she has written a valuable guide.”
Event contact:
Julie Hirano
(510) 642-3394
E-Mail
Tickets: This is a free event.
Gender Consortium Reception
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
691 Barrows Hall
A World Premiere Musical
Written and directed by Joe Goode
Music and musical direction by Holcombe Waller
A multi-disciplinary mash-up of dance, music, and theater inspired by this new era of hope and apathy. Dead Boys is a freak folk musical about trust, gay activism, gender identity, talking to the dead, and the privileged culture's pursuit of happiness.
Presented Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm (October 9-18, 2009).
The 2pm performance on Sunday, October 11 will be followed by a post-performance discussion with director/choreographer Joe Goode and composer Holcombe Waller.
$10.00 Students, Seniors, UC Faculty/Staff, $15.00 General Admission
Group discounts and subscriptions available. Purchase tickets online 24/7, or by phone/in-person during TDPS Box Office hours: Fridays from 1-4pm. Tickets go on sale August 14. Buy tickets online, or by calling TDPS Box Office at 510-642-8827, or by emailing TDPS Box Office at tdpsboxoffice@berkeley.edu.
TDPS Box Office, Zellerbach Playhouse, tdpsboxoffice@berkeley.edu, 510-642-8827
Transgressing and Policing: the Laws and Limits of Desire
Discussion Group
Monday, September 21, 2009 to Monday, May 10, 2010
bi-weekly: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
190 Barrows Hall
Does desire by definition break its own laws? Is the policing of its limits itself an erotic act? How do these varied forms of violence and pleasure work together to (re)define social spaces, community bonds, and bodies, as
both the subjects of enjoyment and those subjected to the limits of enjoyment?
We will investigate the combined themes of transgression and policing as they play out in a multiplicity of forms, rhetorics, and media. Topics to consider include, but are certainly not limited to:
• the historical phenomena of libertinage and decadence
• the game that cops and robbers play with the spectator's identification, in various genres such as detective stories, film serials, and noirs
• transgressions of the boundaries between the human and the mechanical, the human and the animal
• arguments over the contested criminality of pornography as they have played out in various theoretical contexts, from existentialism to feminism
• feminist utopias and anti-utopias
• the relationship between law and punishment as experienced both by the torturer and by the subject of torture
• the "law of genre" and the force it brings to bear upon the (gendered?) pleasures of the text
• the biopolitics of the criminal and the genius detective from fin-du-siècle criminology and degeneration theory to CSI.
Readings may draw from authors as diverse as Diderot, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Queneau, Conan Doyle, Poe, Ballard, Wittig, Millett, Kracauer, Lacan, Borges, Ginzburg, Lombroso, Asad, and Ferguson. We will also continue to investigate a variety of other sources, such as films including Feuillade's "Fantômas" or "Les Vampires," as well as TV shows, comic books, and opera.
For a list of scheduled meetings and topics, go to http://gender.berkeley.edu/event_detail.php?id=232
For more information, please contact Simon Porzak, porzak@gmail.com
porzak@gmail.com, 510-643-3040;
Kara Young, Coordinator
Graduate Women's Project
Graduate Assembly, 4500 Anthony Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-4500
Phone: (510) 642-2876 ext. 5
Fax: (510) 642-7721
Email: gwp@ga.berkeley.edu
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