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| View News Home Biweekly FMST Update 9/21/09 October 14, 2009 FEMINIST STUDIES UPDATE 9/21/09: * FMST Orientation Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 11am in 134 Cowell* Link to 2009-10 course lists * GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? CONTACT YOUR STUDENT REP GENERAL: * Monique Truong, the Living Writers Series - Oct. 7 * Poet Lucille Clifton, The Living Writers Series - Oct. 21 ONGOING/MULTIPLE DATES: * Women's Health Talks - Oct. 7, 10, 14, & 17 * UCSC Queer Happenings Calendar * How to remove yourself from this list =========================================================== FMST NEWS... =========================================================== FMST ORIENTATION - TUESDAY, 9/22 @ 11AM, 134 Cowell Please attend FMST Orientation on Tuesday, 9/22 at 11:00am-Noon in 134 Cowell. ------------------------------------------ Link to 2009-10 course lists http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/courses/ ------------------------------------------ GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? CONTACT YOUR STUDENT REP Your student representative attends FMST Executive Committee meetings to voice your comments, questions, and concerns. Please feel free to contact Lun Wang <swang@ucsc.edu>, undergraduate student representative, or Jasmine Syedullah <jsyedull@ucsc.edu>, graduate student representative, anytime. =========================================================== GENERAL =========================================================== A Reading by Monique Truong - Oct. 7 The University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents In Collaboration with UCSC’s Living Writers Reading Series: A Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong Wednesday, October 7, 2009 7:00 p.m. Humanities Lecture Hall University of California, Santa Cruz Free and Open to the Public Monique Truong is the author of the “poetically rendered and literally savory” 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who worked for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris during the 1920s and 30s, and his previous life in Vietnam. Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the U.S. at the age of six. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. The Book of Salt among other honors received the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, and was given an Award of Excellence from the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University. Truong is also the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Truong’s new book, Bitter in the Mouth, will be published by Random House in 2010. The UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities. The UCSC Living Writers Reading Series is hosted by the Creative Writing Program of the Literature Department. In addition to the Miguel Contreras Fund, this event was generously supported by a Diversity Fund Grant from the UCSC Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, and by Poets & Writers, through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center, the East Asian Studies Studies Program, the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund. For more information or accommodations, contact the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, ihr@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. For maps, maps.ucsc.edu. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Poet Lucille Clifton - Oct. 21 Living Writers Series Wednesday, October 21 7:00-9:00pm - Humanities Lecture Hall Lucille Clifton has played an important role at many universities, including Coppin State College, Columbia University, George Washington University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Dartmouth, and UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of thirteen works of poetry over the span of forty years, from her first work, Good Times, to her most recent, Voices. She has also penned a memoir, Generations: A Memoir. Clifton was Maryland's Poet Laureate from 1979-1985 and has been the recipient of countless awards. For more information about this presentation, contact Erin Schmalfeld, Creative Writing Program Coordinator, (831) 459-2167, cwintern@gmail.com, or eschmalf@ucsc.edu. Sponsored by the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund, the Center for Cultural Studies, the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, the James Irvine Foundation, the Chancellor's Diversity Award, Poetry Santa Cruz, and the Asian American/Pacific Islander =========================================================== ONGOING/MULTIPLE DATES: Women's Health Talks - Oct. 7, 10, 14, & 17 Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center Oct 7 - Enhancing Fertility Naturally - Free Oct 10 - Fall 21-day Cleanse - $345 Oct 14 - Relieving Anxiety Naturally - Free Oct 17 - Barefoot Medicine - $40 ------------------------------------------ UCSC QUEER HAPPENINGS CALENDAR To join the UCSC Queer Happenings calendar, produced by The Lionel Cantu GLBTI Resource Center, send an email to q-admin@ucsc.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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