Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gender: New Works, New Questions Panel, featuring "PearlStitch" by Petra Kuppers (November 29, 2017 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46079 46079-10387188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:10pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This panel of U-M faculty members will discuss Petra Kuppers’ recent poetry collection, PearlStitch (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016) as part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series.

Participants:
Petra Kuppers (Author), Professor of English, Women's Studies, Art and Design, and Theatre
Naomi Andre, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Director for Faculty at the Residential College
Melanie Yergeau, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature

“A pearl stitch is a chain stitch, also known as the basque knot. In this garlandy chain of poems, Petra Kuppers interknits a mythology of heroines, natural wonders, marvelously slippery identities, personal struggles and exultations, but also acknowledges the violence by which text-making and life-making takes place in our world, whereby the “endless piston that drives the needle into the skin,” looping and connecting, is also the mechanism of our most elaborate cultural efflorescence. A beautiful meditation on the labor of making at all levels, PearlStitch stabs out a love letter to the love that fuels our creative surges in spite of all urges toward its perversion by capital” - Maria Damon“A pearl stitch is a chain stitch, also known as the basque knot. In this garlandy chain of poems, Petra Kuppers interknits a mythology of heroines, natural wonders, marvelously slippery identities, personal struggles and exultations, but also acknowledges the violence by which text-making and life-making takes place in our world, whereby the “endless piston that drives the needle into the skin,” looping and connecting, is also the mechanism of our most elaborate cultural efflorescence. A beautiful meditation on the labor of making at all levels, PearlStitch stabs out a love letter to the love that fuels our creative surges in spite of all urges toward its perversion by capital” - Maria Damon

* Book sales provided by Common Language Bookstore *

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:58:45 -0400 2017-11-29T15:10:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Cover of "PearlStich" but Petra Kuppers
Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism (January 23, 2018 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46694 46694-10581050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:10pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?

In his new book, Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism (Stanford University Press, 2017), Jeffrey R. Dudas, pursues these questions through a cultural study of three iconic conservative figures: National Review editor William F. Buckley, Jr., President Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Examining their papers, writings, and rhetoric, Dudas identifies what he terms a "paternal rights discourse"—the arguments about fatherhood and rights that permeate their personal lives and political visions.

For each, paternal discipline was crucial to producing autonomous citizens worthy and capable of self-governance. This paternalist logic is the cohesive agent for an entire conservative movement, uniting its celebration of "founding fathers," past and present, constitutional and biological. Yet this discourse produces a paradox: When do authoritative fathers transfer their rights to these well-raised citizens? This duality propels conservative politics forward with unruly results. The mythology of these American fathers gives conservatives something, and someone, to believe in—and therein lies its timeless appeal.

Jeffrey R. Dudas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliate Faculty of American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He specializes in the areas of American law, politics, and culture and focuses, in particular, on the many facets of the American politics of rights.

Cosponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of Women's Studies, and History Department

Event Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). Power doors are at every accessible entrance. Gender neutral restroom on 1st floor. Questions? Contact irwg@umich.edu

Book sales provided by Common Language Bookstore

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Jan 2018 09:32:12 -0500 2018-01-23T15:10:00-05:00 2018-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Book cover with faces of Clarence Thomas, Ronald Reagan, and William F. Buckley
DQSN Workshop: Lauren Benjamin & Richard Reinhardt (January 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48701 48701-11294859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Doing Queer Studies Now

Please join Doing Queer Studies Now for a joint workshop of shorter pieces by Lauren Benjamin (Comp Lit & English) on "Feral Reading and Djuna Barnes"
and Richard Reinhardt (History & Anthropology) on "Francis of Assisi's Perfect Jouissance: Material and Affective Fragments from Early Franciscan Sources."

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:31:25 -0500 2018-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Doing Queer Studies Now Workshop / Seminar
Reading Workshop on Melanie Yergeau's Authoring Autism (January 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47978 47978-11159801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Language and Rhetorical Studies Group and the Disability Studies Group invite you to a reading workshop on Melanie Yergeau's book Authoring Autism, on Friday January 26th, 2018 from 2-4pm in Lane Hall #2239. Please RSVP (see attached link), starting on January 4th at 12pm if you plan to attend so we can plan for food and other logistics. The first 18 students to RSVP on January 4th at noon (who can commit to attending the workshop) will receive a free copy of Dr. Yergeau's book, thanks to generous funding from the Institute for the Humanities.

Accessible eBooks and downloadable chapter PDFs will be available for free through the University of Michigan library system from late December to early January if you need an accessible digital copy. Books are also available for purchase through Duke Press.

A formal book talk with Melanie Yergeau will follow the workshop in early February. Save the date: February 6th, 2018 from 5-7pm in Angell 3222!

Please reach out to Luke Kudryashov at xenw@umich.edu or Elizabeth Tacke at etacke@umich.edu with any questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:20:43 -0500 2018-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Programmed Dispossession: Gender Transition, Technologies of Risk Detection, and the Threat of Fraudulent Bodies (February 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49606 49606-11484663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Lars Mackenzie is a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. He earned a Master’s degree in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College. His research examines the associations between fraud and gender non-conformity, analyzing how trans subjects’ incompatibility with information systems, laws, and social epistemologies about sex and gender produce their marginalization. Mackenzie has been awarded the Informatics Institute “Critical Data Studies: Where is the Human in the Data?” Fellowship, Susan Geiger Fellowship, Gender Policy Report Fellowship, and a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for this research. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly. Mackenzie’s broader research and teaching interests include critical data studies, surveillance, social movements, media and culture, law, health, science studies, and digital humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:33:44 -0500 2018-02-05T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Lars Mackenzie
“The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History” by Rita Chin (February 6, 2018 3:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47425 47425-10898851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:10pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Discussants:
- Rita Chin, Professor of History
- Kristin Dickinson, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Damani Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

In 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But what do these ominous proclamations, from across the political spectrum, mean? From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about refugees and terrorism, "The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe" examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception. She shows that today's crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn't new but actually has its roots in the 1980s.

Chin looks at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the public furor over the publication of "The Satanic Verses" and the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school. While many Muslim immigrants had lived in Europe for decades, in the 1980s they came to be defined by their religion and the public's preoccupation with gender relations. Acceptance of sexual equality became the critical gauge of Muslims' compatibility with Western values. The convergence of left and right around the defense of such personal freedoms against a putatively illiberal Islam has threatened to undermine commitment to pluralism as a core ideal. Chin contends that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, particularly for the left, and she considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population.

Challenging the mounting opposition to a diverse society, "The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe" presents a historical investigation into one continent's troubled relationship with cultural difference.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

Book sales provided by Common Language Bookstore.

Event Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:24:31 -0500 2018-02-06T15:10:00-05:00 2018-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe"
DQSN: Kadji Amin Lecture (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49693 49693-11498709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

Please join us for a lecture by Kadji Amin, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:32:22 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) Lecture / Discussion
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space (February 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47571 47571-10950473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement.

Elizabeth Currans blends feminist, queer, and critical race theory with performance studies, political theory, and geography to explore the outcomes and cultural relevance of public protest. Drawing on observation, interviews, and archival and published sources, Currans shows why and how women utilize public protest as a method of participating in contemporary political and cultural dialogues. She also examines how groups treat public space as an important resource and explains the tactics different women protesters use to claim, transform, and hold it. The result is a passionate and pertinent argument that women-organized demonstrations can offer scholars a path to study the relationship of gender and public space in today's political culture.

Marching Dykes was published in 2017 by the University of Illinois Press.

"This book is a much-needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing."--Kath Browne, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power

"As we enter a new era of public protest, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing, the ways that witnessing, marching, lobbying, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics."-- Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

Book sales provided by Common Language Bookstore.

Event Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:40:07 -0500 2018-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover with photograph of protestors carrying umbrellas and wearing purple t-shirts with the word "dyke". Photo appears to be a city, such as New York. The book title reads "Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space by Elizabeth Currans"
DQSN Workshop: Josh Morrison (SAC) (February 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48703 48703-11294861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Doing Queer Studies Now

Please join Doing Queer Studies Now for a dissertation chapter workshop with Josh Morrison (Screen Arts & Cultures).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:33:18 -0500 2018-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Doing Queer Studies Now Workshop / Seminar
Labors of Love and Loss - Artist Talk and Reception (February 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49134 49134-11375520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Labors of Love and Loss is a collection of mixed media pieces that explore themes of gender and race and considers the intertwined lives of caregivers, their dependents and charges. Historically, in both southern African American life and in the tenuous strivings of the 19th century working underclass, the primary care and comfort of others fell to women. Beyond impersonal household chores, these responsibilities entwined with sweetness and hope, heartache and loss, assured the wellbeing of those around them. How did they balance the tangle of necessity and demand against their own emotional involvements and aspirations? Labors of Love and Loss is a tribute to the resolve, commitment and fortitude of women’s love and labor.

Marianetta Porter is Professor of Art and Design at Stamps School of Art and Design. Her work is grounded in the study of African American history, culture, and representation, drawing on ethnography, religious traditions, folklore, visual culture, and language to investigate the consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the vernacular art of the black church, the politics of visibility, and the poetics of color.

Lisa Olson is a mixed media artist and alumna of the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. Her work takes a variety of forms---books, prints, collage, drawing and sculptural objects. Olson often uses text in combination with visual components to create meaning. Her interests include studies surrounding the fragility of the individual within historically harsh or oppressive class related social structures and the resulting tools and systems created as strategies to navigate through.

An artist talk will take place in Lane Hall (Room 2239) on Thursday, February 22 at 4:00pm. Each artist will speak individually about her work with time for audience questions. Following the talk, there will be an opening reception in Lane Hall Gallery (1st Floor) to enjoy the artwork and light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.

This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Women’s Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Residential College, Department of American Culture, Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

Exhibit will be on public display January - July 2018

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Exhibition Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:38:44 -0500 2018-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Artwork from Labors of Love and Loss
Research Talk: "Intersectional Challenges in Re-Mobilizing the Women's Movement" (March 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48228 48228-11191409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Panelists:
Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Women’s Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Health Management and Policy
Lisa Disch, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies

In this research talk, Professor Michael Heaney will discuss findings from his surveys of participants at the 2017 Women’s March in DC, and the Women’s Convention in Detroit in October 2017.

After the candidacy and election of Donald J. Trump as President, there have been renewed efforts to organize women in the United States under a single, unified umbrella. The most visible effort is the Women’s March, which organized a massive march in Washington, DC and around the world on the day following Trump’s inauguration. The Women’s March also organized a convention, held in Detroit in October 2017.

This study examines these organizing efforts to assess the extent to which this nascent women’s movement is mending divisions among women and the extent to which divisions still represent challenges to the movement.

Panelists Anna Kirkland and Lisa Disch will offer commentary. A Q&A with the audience will follow the discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:53:40 -0500 2018-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo courtesy of Michael Heaney
Building Capacity for Women’s Health: Peer Reviewer Training (March 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49683 49683-11495913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

- Registration for this training is now closed -

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

Apply to become a peer reviewer for Dr. Ella August’s “Building Capacity for Women’s Health” program. You’ll receive training on how to be an effective peer reviewer for manuscripts targeted for scientific journals. After your training, you’ll provide follow-up writing support to faculty and researchers in low-income countries who have undergone initial training on scientific writing and publishing.

Requirements to participate in the training:
- You must be a doctoral level student or MPH student in public health or other related discipline
- You must have some scientific writing experience

Requirements to become a peer reviewer for Building Capacity for Women’s Health:
- You must attend a short orientation and a separate one-day training session
- You must agree to review at least one scientific manuscript after you complete training
- You must agree to protect confidentiality of the material that you review

2-Day Training Session:
Friday, March 16 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Friday, March 23 10:00am - 3:00pm

Apply online at tinyurl.com/umich-qualtrics

Graduate student peer reviewers will be paid a small stipend for participating. Lunch provided on 3/23. For more information, contact Ella August at eaugust@umich.edu.

Workshop Instructor:
Ella August, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. August has nearly two decades of experience in research, and has been teaching scientific writing for over a decade. She specializes in helping STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) faculty, scientists and students to effectively and persuasively communicate scientific ideas. Her teaching approach encourages writers to reflect on the connection between their discipline’s values and modes of communication, and to consider how these forces shape writing in their field. She teaches publication, writing and critical thinking courses and workshops internationally and domestically.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:55:48 -0400 2018-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar globe with abstract medical symbols
Histrionics of the Pulpit: Disability, Trans-Tonality, and Religious Enthusiasm (March 20, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50498 50498-11782503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

Early Evangelical cultures – the radical revivalists of the 18th century who sought to feel, sensibly, their new birth and warming of the heart – offer a surprising chapter in trans histories. While few of these religious radicals claimed explicit experiences that would fit any definition of contemporary “trans” identity, they nonetheless embraced a new transformed tone of sensation and expression that transformed gender in revival spaces and devotional practices. The fever pitch of inspired preaching inflamed the passions, and disordered the mind and the senses. Even the “Father of American Evangelicalism,” George Whitfield, described his conversion and preaching as a trans-gendering labor: he was a woman in travail, “crying out” and “delivering” the New Birth to his hearers. Female preachers – especially women of color -- were deemed masculine in their visage and vocal tone as they exhorted and responded to spiritual conviction. Some specifically claimed spiritual genderlessness, and performed this transformed divine identity through "grum and shrill" preaching tones.

These cultural debates over the “trans-ing” of religious tone persisted through the nineteenth century, with fears of religious madness, “feminizing” devotional practices, and the political masculinization of evangelical women. In this sense, trans-tonality helps investigate trans/gender history beyond contemporary questions of identity, and poses new relationships between trans histories, disability studies, and religious cultures.

SCOTT LARSON is a Lecturer III of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research and teaching focus on transgender studies, history of gender and sexuality, and early American culture. He is a scholar of religion, secularity, and sexuality with a focus on the early Anglophone Atlantic world. His work has appeared in the Journal of Early American Studies and on Notches history of sexuality blog. He received a M.A. in Theology at Yale Divinity School and received his Ph.D. in American Studies at George Washington University in 2016.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:09:31 -0500 2018-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) Lecture / Discussion poster image with etching "Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism" by William Hogarth, 1762
Building Capacity for Women’s Health: Peer Reviewer Training (March 23, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49683 49683-11495914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

- Registration for this training is now closed -

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

Apply to become a peer reviewer for Dr. Ella August’s “Building Capacity for Women’s Health” program. You’ll receive training on how to be an effective peer reviewer for manuscripts targeted for scientific journals. After your training, you’ll provide follow-up writing support to faculty and researchers in low-income countries who have undergone initial training on scientific writing and publishing.

Requirements to participate in the training:
- You must be a doctoral level student or MPH student in public health or other related discipline
- You must have some scientific writing experience

Requirements to become a peer reviewer for Building Capacity for Women’s Health:
- You must attend a short orientation and a separate one-day training session
- You must agree to review at least one scientific manuscript after you complete training
- You must agree to protect confidentiality of the material that you review

2-Day Training Session:
Friday, March 16 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Friday, March 23 10:00am - 3:00pm

Apply online at tinyurl.com/umich-qualtrics

Graduate student peer reviewers will be paid a small stipend for participating. Lunch provided on 3/23. For more information, contact Ella August at eaugust@umich.edu.

Workshop Instructor:
Ella August, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. August has nearly two decades of experience in research, and has been teaching scientific writing for over a decade. She specializes in helping STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) faculty, scientists and students to effectively and persuasively communicate scientific ideas. Her teaching approach encourages writers to reflect on the connection between their discipline’s values and modes of communication, and to consider how these forces shape writing in their field. She teaches publication, writing and critical thinking courses and workshops internationally and domestically.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:55:48 -0400 2018-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar globe with abstract medical symbols
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (March 26, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45514 45514-10198012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a lecture by C. Riley Snorton, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University.

Lecture Abstract:
Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—in this talk, Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:49:03 -0400 2018-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster describing the details of the event, including a photograph of two black trans people.
Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse (March 27, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49965 49965-11608310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Sociologists and socio-legal scholars have explored how social fields transform social problems, but have largely overlooked how social problems transform social fields. This research uses the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis as a case for examining how efforts to address a shared social problem have transformed the fields of healthcare and criminal justice. Based on interviews with healthcare providers and enforcement agents in California, findings demonstrate how the use of shared technology in the form of prescription drug monitoring programs paired with the encroachment of institutional logics from adjacent fields helps to reshape workers’ roles, routines, and relationships in ways that create opportunities for field-level change.

Elizabeth Chiarello, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University. She is a medical sociologist and socio-legal scholar who focuses on institutional influences on frontline work, intersections among organizational fields, and social movement consequences. Her work has been published in several top sociological and socio-legal journals and she has received awards from multiple sections of the American Sociological Association.

Event Accessibility:
Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor. Questions? Contact irwg@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:11:28 -0500 2018-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion color photo of Elizabeth Chiarello
DQSN Workshop: Andrea Rottman (German) (April 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48704 48704-11294862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Doing Queer Studies Now

Please join Doing Queer Studies Now for a dissertation chapter workshop with Andrea Rottmann (German).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:35:24 -0500 2018-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Doing Queer Studies Now Workshop / Seminar
Building Capacity for Women's Health: Peer Reviewer Training (July 10, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52697 52697-12959223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

Apply to become a peer reviewer for Dr. Ella August’s Building Capacity for Women’s Health Program. You’ll receive training on how to be an effective peer reviewer for manuscripts targeted for scientific journals. After your training, you’ll provide follow-up writing support to faculty and researchers in low-income countries who have undergone initial training on scientific writing and publishing.

Requirements to participate in the training:
- You must be a doctoral level student in a health-related discipline
- You must have some scientific writing experience

Requirements to become a peer reviewer for Building Capacity for Women’s Health:
- You must attend a short orientation and a separate one-day training session
- You must agree to review at least one scientific manuscript after you complete training
- You must agree to protect confidentiality of the material that you review

2-Day Training Session:
Tuesday, July 10 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Tuesday, July 17 10:30am - 3:30pm

Apply online at https://tinyurl.com/y8yel7dj

Lunch provided on 7/17. For more information, contact Ella August at eaugust@umich.edu.

Workshop Instructor:
Ella August, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. August has nearly two decades of experience in research, and has been teaching scientific writing for over a decade. She specializes in helping STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) faculty, scientists and students to effectively and persuasively communicate scientific ideas. Her teaching approach encourages writers to reflect on the connection between their discipline’s values and modes of communication, and to consider how these forces shape writing in their field. She teaches publication, writing and critical thinking courses and workshops internationally and domestically.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:03:09 -0400 2018-07-10T15:00:00-04:00 2018-07-10T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar illustration of a globe with interconnecting lines
Building Capacity for Women's Health: Peer Reviewer Training (July 17, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52697 52697-12959224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:30am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Are you a U-M graduate student in a health-related field? Do you want to support faculty and researchers in low-income countries who work in women’s health?

Apply to become a peer reviewer for Dr. Ella August’s Building Capacity for Women’s Health Program. You’ll receive training on how to be an effective peer reviewer for manuscripts targeted for scientific journals. After your training, you’ll provide follow-up writing support to faculty and researchers in low-income countries who have undergone initial training on scientific writing and publishing.

Requirements to participate in the training:
- You must be a doctoral level student in a health-related discipline
- You must have some scientific writing experience

Requirements to become a peer reviewer for Building Capacity for Women’s Health:
- You must attend a short orientation and a separate one-day training session
- You must agree to review at least one scientific manuscript after you complete training
- You must agree to protect confidentiality of the material that you review

2-Day Training Session:
Tuesday, July 10 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Tuesday, July 17 10:30am - 3:30pm

Apply online at https://tinyurl.com/y8yel7dj

Lunch provided on 7/17. For more information, contact Ella August at eaugust@umich.edu.

Workshop Instructor:
Ella August, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. August has nearly two decades of experience in research, and has been teaching scientific writing for over a decade. She specializes in helping STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) faculty, scientists and students to effectively and persuasively communicate scientific ideas. Her teaching approach encourages writers to reflect on the connection between their discipline’s values and modes of communication, and to consider how these forces shape writing in their field. She teaches publication, writing and critical thinking courses and workshops internationally and domestically.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:03:09 -0400 2018-07-17T10:30:00-04:00 2018-07-17T15:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar illustration of a globe with interconnecting lines
Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53563 53563-13407925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Fran Antmann’s photographs, taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2017, evoke the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The photographs speak to the close relationship of these communities with the natural and spiritual worlds. They record the daily lives of the Maya but also evoke their underlying world of mystical and religious experience -- the rituals that give continuity and permanence in a world of disposable culture. The work focuses on indigenous healers, many of whom are women believed to have connections with the supernatural. They use ancient Maya practices and derive theirpower and knowledge from dreams. These rituals survive despite the genocide of the Maya people perpetrated over several decades until 1996. The resurgence of Maya identity in the renewal of formerly suppressed Maya practices celebrates the endurance of indigenous cultures.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Maya Healers will be on display in Lane Hall from September to December 2018, with an exhibit opening taking place on September 28 from 3 to 5 pm in the Lane Hall Gathering Space.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:11:41 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Reception / Open House Fran Antmann, Maya Healers
Community of Scholars Symposium (October 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52888 52888-13107798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Community of Scholars is comprised of recipients of 2018 summer fellowships from IRWG and the Rackham Graduate School for graduate students pursuing research, scholarship, or creative activities focusing on women and/or gender.

To encourage cross-disciplinary exchange, the fellows participated in a weekly seminar in May and June, during which they discussed their work-in-progress. In July and August, they dispersed for research and writing. They reconvene for the annual Community of Scholars Symposium, to share the product of their summer’s work with each other and a broader audience.

The fellows have designed the panels for this symposium to showcase the conversations across disciplines and fields about scholarship on women and gender that emerged during the summer seminar.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:

9:00 am | Welcome
Victor Román Mendoza, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies

9:10 am - 10:50 am | "Regulating Desires"
Panel Chair: Jennifer Dominique Jones, Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, History
- Joseph Gamble, PhD Candidate, English and Women's Studies | "Racializing Sex in Early Modern England"
- Sonia Rupcic, PhD Candidate, Anthropology | “'It was just boyish': Sexual violence beyond crisis in South Africa"
- Sunhay You, PhD Candidate, English and Women's Studies | "In the Shadows of U.S. Empire: love and queer interracial formations in 'Bitter in the Mouth' by Monique Truong"
- Tugce Kayaal, PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Studies | “Twisted Desires:” Boy Lovers and Cross-Generational Sexual Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire (1914-18)

10:50 am - 12:10 pm | "Willful Subjects"
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Cole, LSA Dean, Professor of Women's Studies and Psychology
- Jallicia Jolly, PhD Candidate, American Culture | "Abject Desires: The Politics of Black Female Sexuality, HIV, & Dancehall in Jamaica"
- Meagan Chuey, PhD Candidate, Nursing | "Developing a Refugee-Informed Theory of Migrant Decision-Making"
- Sara F. Stein, MS, LMSW, PhD Candidate, Psychology and Social Work | "Longitudinal predictors of women’s engagement with multiple violent partners over eight years"

12:10 - 1 pm | LUNCH BREAK
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/mo76HFKscbsCzFsq2

1 pm - 2:50 pm | "Taking Up Space"
Panel Chair: Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English
- Andrea Rottmann, PhD Candidate, Germanic Language and Literatures | "A butch behind bars. The prison as a site of queer worldmaking in 1960s West Berlin"
-Bri Gauger, PhD Candidate, Architecture and Urban Planning | "From the Women’s Movement to the Academy: Feminist Urban Planning, 1970-1985"
-Peggy Lee, PhD Candidate, American Culture | "On Noisy Asians: Yoko Ono, Lisa Park, and Tina Takemoto"

Event Accessibility:
Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by loading dock). Accessible restrooms on south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. Gender neutral restroom on first floor.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:09:15 -0400 2018-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Conference / Symposium group photo of Community of Scholars fellows on steps of Lane Hall
Mothering Across Borders and the Children Left Behind: Zimbabwean and Mexican Immigrant Female Domestic Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa and San Diego, United States (October 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52887 52887-13107796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This comparative study, illustrates how motherhood materializes through the often emotionally-heavy choices that female immigrants make as they strive to take care of variably vulnerable populations often located simultaneously in different locations. In so doing, this project illustrates how domestic labor takes shape along with women’s strategies for navigating the most intimate relationships across a global stage fraught with economic and political challenges. This research is situated in relationship to transnational feminist thought by highlighting the strategies that women use to navigate motherhood within a larger context that connects their experiences and strategies across places. As such, by focusing on the employment experiences and choices of immigrant domestic workers who are part of transnational motherhood flows, furthers understandings of how emotions are entangled with understandings of personal economic failure, that are often invisible and unpaid, while relationally shaping the everyday experiences of these women. The material for this analysis is based on oral histories of female Zimbabwean immigrants working in Johannesburg, South Africa and ten in-depth interviews with Latina domestic workers in San Diego, California, including their children left behind in Mexico.

Lorena Munoz is an assistant professor in gender women and sexuality studies and American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the intersections of place, space, gender, sexuality, health, and race. Her transdisciplinary research agenda has been focused on Latinas/Latinos in the global south, particularly in the areas (in)formal economy, labor, health, and productive/transformative agency.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:37:11 -0400 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T15:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion
My Butch Career: A Memoir (November 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52889 52889-13107799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

Join LGQRI in celebrating Esther Newton’s forthcoming memoir.

During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she “became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders,” and that her “child body was a strong and capable instrument stuffed into the word ‘girl.’” Later, in early adulthood, as she was on her way to becoming a trailblazing figure in gay and lesbian studies, she “had already chosen higher education over the strongest passion in my life, my love for women, because the two seemed incompatible.”

In her new memoir, Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century.

Affecting and immediate, "My Butch Career" is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of only how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.

SPEAKER BIO:
Esther Newton, one of the pioneers of gay and lesbian studies, is formerly Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of several books, including "Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas" and "Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town," both published by Duke University Press, as well as the groundbreaking "Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America."

Event Accessibility:
Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by loading dock). Accessible restrooms on south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. Gender neutral restroom on first floor.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:14:13 -0400 2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) Lecture / Discussion Book cover: "My Butch Career"