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FEMINIST STUDIES UPDATE 10/7/09: * Link to 2009-10 course lists * GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? CONTACT YOUR STUDENT REP* The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later featuring Bettina Aptheker, Wilma Marcus et al. - Oct. 12 * Co-sponsored Events: Lata Mani - The Politics of Indivisibility: Rethinking the Sacred-Secular Divide - Oct. 12 Angela Davis - Legacies in the Making: Recognizing the Academic, Activist and Cultural Interventions GENERAL: * Monique Truong, the Living Writers Series - Oct. 7 * UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Diversity Day Luncheon - Oct. 9 * Poet Lucille Clifton, The Living Writers Series - Oct. 21 ONGOING/MULTIPLE DATES: * SC Walnut Avenue Women's Center Internship Training - Oct. 7 to Nov. 21 * Women's Health Talks - Oct. 7, 10, 14, & 17 * Radical Women Art as Propaganda Workshop Series in San Francisco - Oct. 10, Nov. 14, and Dec. 12 * Progressive Campaign Job Opportunities – Nationwide! * UCSC Queer Happenings Calendar * How to remove yourself from this list =========================================================== FMST NEWS... =========================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pisces Moon & Cantú Center PRESENT with support by the Equality Action Project of the Diversity Center Of Santa Cruz County and assistance by Porter College The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later - Oct. 12 - one night only! The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later featuring Bettina Aptheker as Beth Loffreda and Wilma Marcus Chandler as Judy Shepard. Pisces Moon Productions will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to "The Laramie Project," the highly acclaimed play about the the repercussions from a gay hate crime--the murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard--on a community and ultimately, the world. The epilogue includes new interviews with Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard, and Mathew's murderers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, who are serving two consecutive life sentences. Pisces Moon was invited, along with 100 other theaters in all fifty states, as well as Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia, to participate in the play's debut, an international ONE NIGHT ONLY event of simultaneous stage readings that will be linked via live webcasts and an interactive online community. The Santa Cruz performance includes returning cast members of Pisces Moon's 2008 production of The Laramie Project, as well as acclaimed theater artist Wilma Marcus, renowned activist Bettina Aptheker and others to be announced. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lata Mani - The Politics of Indivisibility: Rethinking the Sacred-Secular Divide - Oct. 12 The Sociology Department, in conjunction with Feminist Studies and LALS, presents Lata Mani who will discuss her new book SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique (Routledge, 2009). The Politics of Indivisibility: Rethinking the Sacred-Secular Divide What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach yield in analyzing neoliberal globalisation or Hindu fundamentalism? Is secularism the only progressive response to religious authoritarianism? In today's charged atmosphere many believe that the sacred is best kept firmly apart from the realm of the secular. In this presentation, Lata Mani draws on her latest work, SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique, to offer a contrasting view. She argues that the two are indivisible and can productively interweave in illuminating key contemporary issues. Mani proposes a conceptual approach in which body, mind, heart, nature, matter and spirit are not merely equals, but equally crucial to crafting an inclusive vision and practice. Dr. Lata Mani is a feminist historian and cultural critic. In addition to articles in feminist, cultural and postcolonial studies, she is the author of, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 1999; Interleaves: Ruminations on Illness and Spiritual Life, 2001 and most recently SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critque, Routledge, 2009. She also collaborated with Dr. Ruth Frankenberg to compile The Tantra Chronicles, 2007, an online resource. Lata Mani has also written books for children, The Tamarind Tree and The Spider's Web, (Tulika Press: India, 2009), with two more titles forthcoming in 2010. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making - Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social transformation. Few professors have had such a broad impact in their fields of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. This gathering of her former students, in conversation with scholars nationally, maps the impact of her vision on issues such as democratic theory, philosophy, Marxism, cultural studies/popular culture, social policy, race, class, and feminisms. Professor Davis has also trained students as activist scholars for almost four decades in both university systems in California. We thus convene this conference to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Davis’s pedagogy in California over the past forty years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an activist-scholar-teacher bridges the academy/community divide and dismantles the false dichotomy of theory/praxis. One focus of the event will be to highlight cultural production that has emerged in conversation with the writing and theorizing that Angela Davis has facilitated and inspired. We are inviting Professor Davis’ colleagues, friends, and family to provide video messages recognizing her considerable on-going contributions to academic and activist work; these will be compiled into a montage to be screened at the symposium. The event, as a whole, will be recorded, and we plan to liaise with the California Documentary Fund to translate those records into a multi-media resource for education. There will also be an evening of music and poetry in honor of Professor Davis and her contributions to cultural “legacies in the making.” Saturday, October 31 10:00 am – Panel 1: Voices of Resistance 11:30 am – Panel 2: Race, Gender, and Politics 2:00 pm – Panel 3: Cultural Legacies 3:45 pm – Panel 4: Are Prisons Obsolete? Evening Event: TBA Sunday, November 1 9:30 am – Legacies in the Making Panel Event Sponsored by: UCHRI, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment, the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC Faculty Against the War, History of Consciousness, UCSC Vice Chancellor for Research, UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Chief Diversity Office, Community Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Merrill College, Oakes College, Philosophy, Porter College, Literature, Cowell College, American Studies, Languages, Politics, Psychology, and Stevenson College. =========================================================== 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley is hosting a Diversity Day Luncheon on Friday, October 9th from 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM. This event is designed for prospective applicants from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in finding out more information about the Goldman School and the admissions process. This is an excellent opportunity for prospective applicants to meet with staff and current students, and to familiarize themselves with the Master's degree program in Public Policy. This event is open to all. Diversity Day Luncheon Agenda: Additional information about our Diversity Day Luncheon can be found at our website at: http://gspp.berkeley.edu/admissions/events.html#general Reservations are required. RSVP on-line at : http://gspp.berkeley.edu/admissions/events.html Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this event. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Poet Lucille Clifton - Oct. 21 Living Writers Series Wednesday, October 21 7:00-9:00pm - Humanities Lecture Hall 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 Resource Center. =========================================================== ONGOING/MULTIPLE DATES: SC Walnut Avenue Women's Center Internship Training - Oct. 7 to Nov. 21 Internship Opportunities: Advocacy on our 24-hour crisis hotline ** CREATE SOCIAL CHANGE ** Rewarding field experience *Develop interpersonal skills *Gain experience in family law *Great social work foundation *Give back to the community **EARN CREDITS** In only 7 weeks you can be certified as an Advocate and contribute to empowering the lives of families impacted by domestic violence as an intern with Walnut Avenue Women’s Center TRAINING HELD OCTOBER 7 to NOVEMBER 21, 2009 Saturdays 10:00am-5:00pm and Wednesdays 5:30pm-9pm For more information on internships attend an orientation Thursday, October 1 from 4pm-5pm or Tuesday, October 6 from 5pm-6pm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's Health Talks - Oct. 7, 10, 14, & 17 Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut Street - Santa Cruz, CA 95060, 831.477.1377 Oct. 7 - Enhancing Fertility Naturally - Free Oct. 10 - Fall 21-day Cleanse - $345 Oct. 14 - Relieving Anxiety Naturally - Free Oct. 17 - Barefoot Medicine - $40 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Radical Women - Art as Propaganda Workshop series in SF - Oct. 10, Nov. 14, and Dec. 12 Saturday, October 10th, 2-4pm Radical Media: The Heresies Collective + Political Zines Join activists, artists, and revolutionaries for the first session of the Art as Propaganda Workshop series. The Heresies were a feminist collective began in the 70’s who published groundbreaking magazines devoted to social change through art and politics. Come learn about their work from two organizers of Art XX Magazine - Paulina McFarland and Lex McQuilkin - who are also committed to radical media, and learn to make zines for your organization or project! The workshop will take place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin St, Suite 202 in SF. Workshop fee is $10-20 sliding scale, materials included. For more information, please call Rachel at 415-864-1278 or emailbaradicalwomen@earthlink.net About the Art as Propaganda Workshop: Radical Women hosts a revolutionary workshop series that explores the interconnections between art and activism. Each month we’ll learn a different skill and history of a radical movement, then create art for a specific community action. Newbie and experienced artists and activists all welcome. Let’s get together and make art to push the revolution, and celebrate the beauty we can create outside of the capitalist gallery system! Fall 2009 Series: Nov. 14: Fashion as Protest and Inspiration: Queer, Punk and Freak Fashion (Rachel Hospodar and Rachel Steinbeisser of Pandora’s Trunk) Dec. 12: Communal Craft and the Suffrage Movement: Banners for Protest and Public Space (Hannah Blair) www.radicalwomen.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Progressive Campaign Job Opportunities – Nationwide! History was made 1 year ago, and now is the time for the change to really happen! Grassroots Campaigns, inc. has joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Equality California, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the Sierra Club, Save the Children, and other progressive and humanitarian organizations to drive forward a progressive agenda and get ready for the 2010 midterm elections. Grassroots Campaigns is coming to UC Santa Cruz to interview top student leaders to join our teams as Assistant Canvass Directors! There is no better time or place to get involved and help to shape the new generation that will take this country in a more progressive direction. Students who are interested should apply directly to: Nicole Edwards at 510.435.9204 or nedwards@grassrootscampaigns.com Nicole will be holding an Information Session on Thursday November 5th, contact Nicole for more details. This is an excellent way for you to learn more about the opportunities before your interview and hear about the positions available first-hand. Nicole encourages all to attend, and bring a friend! Assistant Canvass Director Job Responsibilities: Qualifications: Strong communication and motivational skills, work ethic, and desire for political change are essential. Candidates must be able to work within a team, have proven leadership ability and an orientation Training: Newly hired directors will typically spend three weeks doing field training, working intensely alongside experienced directors and will also attend a week-long national classroom training. Additionally, Expectations: Positions are through August of 2010, and we’re building towards the mid-term elections. Campaign hours can run 80-100 hours per week, including work on weekends. Salary/Benefits: Annual salary for Assistant Canvass Directors begins at $24,000. Staff may opt into our health care plan (PPO). Paid training, vacation and sick days are included; student loan assistance is available. Timing and Location: Positions are available beginning post-graduation, in cities nationwide. Ask NAME for details. To Apply: Nicole Edwards at 510.435.9204 Please visit our website, www.grassrootscampaigns.com, for more information about current and past campaigns. Grassroots Campaigns past and current clients include: Democratic National Committee, MoveOn.org Political Action, League of Conservation Voters, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause,, Working America, Amnesty International, Center for American Progress, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and Save the Children (Save the Children is an independent organization and is not religiously or politically aligned. Save the Children has no direct affiliation with the organizations Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.). UCSC QUEER HAPPENINGS CALENDAR
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