GeNDer Studies Announcements November 1, 2012

Join us for a panel discussion to commemorate the 40

th anniversary of coeducation at

Notre Dame

Paving the Way: Reflections on the early years of coeducation at Notre Dame

Thursday, November 8, 2012

7:30 p.m.

Eck Visitors Center Auditorium

Reception to follow

Our panel includes former students, a rector, and an administrator who will speak about their own experiences,

as well as a historian who will offer context about this significant milestone in the life of the university.

Panelists include:

Father Thomas Blantz, C.S.C. ‟57, ‟63 MA, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and former

vice president for student affairs

Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand, '73 JD, attorney for the South Bend City Council and one of the first women‟s

hall rectors (Badin Hall 1972-‟73, Breen-Phillips Hall 1973-„74)

Ann Therese Darin Palmer ‟73, ‟75 MBA, editor of Thanking Father Ted: Thirty-Five Years of Notre Dame

Coeducation

Susan Poulson, professor of history at the University of Scranton and co-editor of Going Coed: Women’s

Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000

Dan Reagan ’76, principal of D.G. Reagan & Associates LLC and former associate vice president for university

relations at Notre Dame (2003-‟12)

Jeanine Sterling ‟76, chair of the ND Women Connect steering committee

This event is free and open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, the Department of American

Studies, the Gender Studies Program, and Badin Hall.

Visit cushwa.nd.edu for more information.

Research Workshop

In order to advance the program‟s commitment to inter-disciplinary research and inquiry into the subject of

gender, the Gender Studies Program is pleased to announce an upcoming series of research workshops. The

events will include presentations by advanced undergraduates majoring in Gender Studies as well as graduate

students and faculty members from a variety of departments who work in the area of gender and sexuality. The

workshop will begin with the week‟s presenter giving a brief lecture on his or her current research in the field,

followed by a seminar-style discussion.

Workshops are held on Fridays from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in 339 O’Shaughnessy unless otherwise specified below.

If you would like to reserve a date for a presentation at one of the Research Workshops please contact either of

our Research Workshop coordinators: Meagan Simpson or Robinson Murphy.

Abstract: African Women and Psychology of Oppression

African Women and Psychology of Oppression Poster

For additional information please go to Gender Studies Research Workshops

FROM STREET TO SCREEN: A FESTIVAL OF NORTH AFRICAN FILM

November 15 at 6:30 pm, Browning Cinema

Neither Allah nor Master! / Secularism inch’Allah! (2011)

Directed by Nadia El Fani Not Rated, 71 minutes

Arabic with English subtitles

Click here to purchase tickets

Director Nadia El Fani is scheduled to appear in person

Made at the height of the recent revolutions in North Africa, Ni Allah ni maître, retitled Laïcité, inch’Allah!, offers a cinematic exploration of secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the deposition of President Ben Ali. While the Arab Spring sparked an unprecedented era of freedom and optimism, filmmaker Nadia El Fani also considers the impact of a resurgent Islamism which potentially threatens these political gains. El

Fani is casual and outspoken; she introduces viewers to Tunisians, including many women, in their own spaces – sprawled across a living room couch, gathered together on the front steps of a building, enjoying a cup of coffee in the garden – and discover just how much they have to lose. Neither Allah, Nor Master! documents Tunisians resisting religious ideology and fighting for a secular state in their everyday lives.

More information

The University of Illinois at Chicago is proud to announce the third annual Engendering Change conference.

It would be much appreciated if you could forward the Call for Papers (please see attached) to the graduate students in your department and any other interested parties. We hope that this conference will appeal to some of you in Gender Studies at Notre Dame.

CALL FOR PAPERS Engendering Change: The Third Annual Graduate Student Gender and Sexualities Conference

Friday, March 15th, 2013 University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago is proud to announce the third annual Engendering Change conference. This annual interdisciplinary graduate student-led conference provides a venue through which graduate students can share their scholarship on gender and sexualities with one another and get feedback from faculty based in the Chicago area. This year's conference will be held on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus on Friday, March 15th, 2013. The conference is free and open to the public.

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in all academic disciplines are invited to present their original research related to the study of gender and sexualities broadly defined. Papers can be based on any aspect of gender and sexualities, including but not limited to: activism, bodies, families, feminisms, identities, health

and medicine, masculinities and femininities, media, religion, sexual subcultures, transnationalism, and the workplace.

This year's conference theme, “Thinking Intersectionally about Gender and Sexualities,” focuses attention on theorizing and researching gender and sexualities through an intersectional lens. In addition to the above noted topics, graduate students are encouraged to submit papers that bring intersectional theory in conversation with gender and sexuality studies, reflect on the state and future of intersectionality in gender and sexualities studies, and consider innovative methodological strategies for studying these intersections.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: To submit an abstract, please complete the online submission form available at https://engenderingchangeconference.wordpress.com/cfp/submit-an-abstrac. The submission form will ask for an extended abstract with a minimum of 350 words as well as keywords.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 15th, 2013. All presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 1st, 2013. Participants will be asked to submit their full papers to the conference committee by March 1st, 2013.

Please visit the conference website at http://engenderingchangeconference.wordpress.com for additional information and updates.

Spring 2013 Gender Studies Courses

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses

That’s what she said! In commemoration of 40 years of women on the campus of Notre Dame, Gender Studies Program reveals their

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