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Consortium for Women and Research

 
 
 

2007-2008: Genders, Bodies, Politics

 
Fall 2007:  Rethinking Bodies

October 11
"Mapping Emodiment in the Early Modern West: The Prehistory of Normality"
Valerie Traub, Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, University of Michigan

October 18
"I Am Not a War Photographer"
Lynne Sachs, Adjunct Lecturer, Film Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

October 31
"How We Look: Public Images of People with Disabilities from Freak Shows to the Portrait Gallery"
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of Women's Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Emory University

November 7
"Strong! Taking Up Space in the USA"
Film Screening and Discussion
Julie Wyman, Associate Professor, Technocultural Studies, UCD


November 15
"Performing Disabled Masculinities at Walter Reed from World War Two to the War in Iraq"
David Serlin, Associate Professor of Communications and Science Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Critical Gender Studies, UC San Diego Studies, UCD

November 16
Gender and Immigration Panel
Rhacel Parrenas, Professor, Asian American Studies, UCD
Luz Maria Gordillo, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington State University
Judith DeGroat, Associate Professor of History and Chair of Gender Studies, St. Lawrence University

November 27
"Going Stealth:  Transgender Bodies and Surveillance Practices in the U.S."
Toby Beauchamp,  Cultural  Studies, UCD

December 6
"You Can GET IT ON ebay:  Selling Gender and Sexuality Sterotypes through the Interface"
Michele White, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University


 
Winter 2008:  Bodies, Politics, Technologies

January 16
Distingushed Women in Science Series
Women in Science Lecture:
On Being a Woman in Science

Research Lecture:
Mechanisms of Steroid Hormone Signaling in Plants

Joanne Chory, Professor, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, The Salk Institute

January 31
Bodies, Politics, Revolution:
How the Women's Health Movement Changed and is Changing Perception, Policies and Medical Treatment

Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Our Selves, cofounder of the Boston Women's Health Collective

Carole Joffe, (moderator) Professor, Sociology, UCD

 



February 13
Eggs and Embroys:
How the Fertility and Stem Cell Research Industries Take Women to Market

Lisa Ikemoto,  Professor, School of Law, UCD

Who's In and Who's Out?  Same Sex Couples and Assisted Reproductive Technology
Courtney Joslin,  Professor, School of Law, UCD

February 27
The New Politics of Reproductive Justice
Eveline Shen, Executive Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice

Natalia Deeb-Sossa, (moderator) Assistant Professor, Sociology, UCD

 

 

 
Spring 2008: Bodies, Performances, Pleasures

April 3
Performing Disabled Masculinities at Walter Reed from World War Two to the War in Iraq
David Serlin, Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego
Organized by Cultural Studies

April 13
The Empyrean Ensemble Performs:  "The 51% Majority: Modern Works by Female Composers"
Sandra Graham, Professor, Department of Music, UCD
Organized by the Department of Music

April 17
Feminist Public Intellectuals in the Arts:  The Case of Playwright Wendy Wasserstein
Jill Dolan, Head of the Graduate Program in Performance as Practice, University of Texas
Organized by the Davis Humanities Institute






April 30
Women, Wine, and Music:
A Celebration
Co-Presented with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science

Welcome:
Margrit Biever Mondavi, Vice President of Cultural Affairs, Robert Mondavi Winery

Barriers and Breakthroughs:  What It's Like to be a Women in the Wine Industry
Michela Rodeno, CEO, St. Supery Winery & Vineyards
Heidi Barrett, Winemaker, La Sirena Wines
Mary Hall Maher, Vineyard Manager, Harlan Estate and Napa Valley Reserve

Guided Wine Tasting:
Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible.

Guided & Informal Wine Tasting:
Featuring wines from Robert Mondavi Winery, St. Supery, Merry Edwards Wines, Corison Winery, Cakebread Cellars, Cedarville Vineyards, David Girard Vineyards, Fiddlehead Cellars, Spottswoode Estate, and Honig Vineyard.

Music, Food, and Chocolate:
UC Davis Music Department Students perform live.