The Center for Research on Women and Social Justice · Eileen Boris,
Director · Department of Feminist Studies
University of California · Santa Barbara, CA 93106 · Tel
805.893.2727, line 2 · Fax 805.893.8676
Women's Studies, Disciplinarity, and Interdisciplinarity:
Conversations for Change
This series of lectures and workshop "conversations" explores the past
and future of Women's Studies, interrogating issues of disciplinarity
and interdisciplinarity to Women's Studies, and the relationship of
the study of women and gender to disability studies, critical race
theory and ethnic studies, transnationalism and postcolonial studies,
legal studies, queer studies and science studies. For more information
contact Beth Currans at [log in to unmask] or Eileen Boris, Hull
Professor of Women's Studies at 893-2727.
2008-2009 Speakers
Upcoming Workshop:
Feminist Theory and Feminist History
A Workshop Discussion
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
4:00 pm
Center for Black Studies Research
4th Floor, South Hall
With Eileen Boris
Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, UCSB;
Ellen Carol Dubois
Professor of History, UCLA
Barbara Tomlinson
Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSB
Berteke Waaldijk
Historian and Professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht and Visiting
Professor in Film and Media Studies, UCSB
... and others
The workshop is a follow up of the project "Feminism and Equal
Citizenship: Historical Perspectives", funded by a UC-UU COLLABORATIVE
GRANT 2007-2008.
The workshop is sponsored by:
· Department of Feminist Studies and Center for Research on
Women and Social Justice, UCSB
· Department of History, Comparative Gender Program, UCSB
· Research Center History and Culture (OGC), Utrecht University
· Graduate Gender Programme, Faculty of Humanities, UU
· Department of History, UCLA
Suggested Workshop Readings:
· Sue Morgan, "Introduction: Writing Feminist History:
Theoretical Debates and Critical Practices," in THE FEMINIST HISTORY
READER, ed. Sue Morgan (Routledge, 2006): 1-47
· Clare Hemmings, "Telling Feminist Stories," FEMINIST THEORY
6, no. 2 (2005): 115-39
· Rachel Torr, "What's wrong with aspiring to find out what
has really happened in academic feminism's recent past? Response to
Clare Hemmings," FEMINIST THEORY 8, no. 1 (2007): 59-67
· Clare Hemmings, "What is a feminist theorist responsible
for? Response to Rachel Torr," FEMINIST THEORY 8, no. 1 (2007): 69-76
For more information, email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
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Wednesday, March 4
12:15-2:15 pm
Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631 South Hall
Takyiwaa Manuh
Director Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
Interdisciplinary Semimar: "Transnational Feminisms in Africa"
co-sponsorred with the African Studies RFG
Participants are encouraged to read the following chapter: Takyiwaa
Manuh,"Doing Gender Work in Ghana," in AFRICA AFTER GENDER? ed.
Catherine Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan Miescher, pp. 125-49
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007)
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Thursday, Feb. 12
1:00 pm
South Hall, Room 4631A
Lila Abu-Lughod
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science
Columbia University
"The Critical Analysis of Social Difference: A Research Agenda"
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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008
4:00 to 5:30pm
South Hall, Room 4631A
Karen Brodkin
Anthropology, UCLA
"The Micropolitics of Activism"
A distinguished anthropologist and feminist studies scholar,
Professor Brodkin specializes in social movements, gender,
work and kinship, political economy, theory, migration,
race and contemporary North American cultures. Among her
other books are How Jews Became White Folks And What That
Says About Race In America and Caring By The Hour: Women,
Work And Organizing At Duke Medical Center. In the early
1980s, she was Eileen Boris’s jogging partner.
Come discuss chapter three of her recent book,
Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles
This book introduces us to a new generation of immigrant
activists, especially women of color, and their struggles
for social justice.
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Political Identity Starts at Home
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2007-2008 Speakers
Judy Rohrer
"The Marrying Kind?"
Intersectional Ambivalence in the Borderlands of Gay Marriage
Friday, May 2, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
Women's Studies Conference Room
As coincidence would have it, I was living in Honolulu in 1996 when
public debate over gay marriage flared up, in the San Francisco Bay
Area in 2004 when Mayor Newsom opened the floodgates of queer
marriage, and in
Europe in 2005 when Civil Partnership was legalized in the UK.
Unwittingly caught in media storms and political campaigns that demand
a response from my queer-activist self, I am sucked from the
borderland by the increasing strength of a twisting pink vortex. This
paper weaves together my experience with an analysis of intersectional
ambivalences to gay marriage. What historical conditions,
intersectional positionings, and political discourses produce these
anxieties? This paper asks not just how it is that marriage has come
to monopolize gay politics, but also how that phenomenon is productive
of certain ambivalences among particular queers. What might we learn
by centering those anxieties, by beginning to think through the
questions they raise and taking them seriously rather than discounting
or denigrating them? In other words, what can we learn by leaving the
limiting binary framework of the dominant discourse and investigating
the borderlands of gay marriage?
Can Marriage Be Saved? A Forum from The Nation, July 5, 2004: 16-26
Claudia Koonz
Department of History, Duke University
"The Right to Cover: The Muslim Headscarf debates in Britain, France,
and Germany"
Monday, February 25, 2008, 1-2:30 p.m.
Women's Studies Conference Room
South Hall 4631A
Come continue the conversation we began last quarter on France but
expand the discussion to consider Britain and Germany through noted
Women's and German historian Koonz's analysis of transnational
reactions to the hijab as a kind of thermometer for national culture.
Reading: "Hijab/Headscarf: A Political Journey"
Dana L. Barron
Associate Director, Institute for Public Affairs at Temple University
"Double Days or Opting Out: The Work and Family Dilemma"
Friday, February 15, 2008, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Women's Studies Conference Room
South Hall 4631A
Join Temple University's Dana Barron for a wide ranging discussion of
current research on work and family, including policy recommendations
being promoted during this election year and concrete actions proposed
under the legal rubric of family responsibilities discrimination.
Click here for the readings: "Opting Out"? The Effect of Children on
Women's Employment in the United States and Psychology at the
Intersection of Work and Family: Recommendations for Employers,
Working Families, and Policymakers.
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Judith Ezekiel
University of Toulouse-le-Mirail
and Professor-in-Residence, Wright State University
"Unraveling the Hijab: Race and Gender in the French Republic"
November 15, 2007, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
South Hall 4631A
Brown Bag discussion. Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Judith Ezekiel is author of: Feminism in the Heartland, and the editor
of a special issue of the European Journal of Women's Studies on “The
Traffic in Feminism: Contemporary Women’s Movements in Europe,”and an
editor of the web-based "The ‘Second Wave’ and Beyond."
Click to read Ezekiel's articles: French Dressing: Race, Gender, and
the Hijab Story and Le Women's Lib: Made in France.
Join us to discuss feminist responses to the use of the veil in
contemporary politics.
Initial Sponsors:
A Project of the Hull Chair in Women's Studies and its Center for
Research on Women and Social Justice, with support from:
UC Humanities Research Institute
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Women's Center
Center for Chicano Studies
English
American Cultures Center
History
Sociology
Dramatic Arts
Women's Studies
Center for Black Studies
Women, Culture and Development Program of Global and International
Studies
German, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Law and Society
Asian American Studies
Anthropology
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