Women's and Gender Studies Newsletters

The WGS newsletter is released bi-annually and covers program updates, events, faculty and student achievements, and other related information. If you have information or achievements you would like considered for inclusion in the newsletter, please contact Catherine Medici-Thiemann.

Spring 2009 Newsletter
• Welcome to Our New Faculty
• Colloquium Series - Rose Holz and Sarah Rodriguez "Meet Dr. Dickson: Probably the Most Influential Sexologist of the 20th Whom You've Never Heard"
• Colloquium Series - Virginia Braun (Psychologist), "Questioning 'The Desinger Vagina': A Crtical Analysis of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery"
• Carrie Walker Represents Our WGS Program at the UN Commission on the Status of Women
•No Limits 2009, "Feminisms, Enviroments and New Media", University of Nebraska at Omaha,
March 6-7
• Rwanda Summer Program: "An Interdisciplinary Study of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath" Summer Study Abroad, July 12-25, 2009
• 1st Interdiscoplomary Conference on Human Trafficking,"What We Know and What We Need to Know", University of Nebraska—Lincoln, October 29-30
• No Limits 2010, " Global Issues; Local Voices; No Limits 2010", University of Nebraska—Lincoln, March 5-6

Fall 2008 Newsletter
• Welcome to Our New Faculty
• WGS Career Workshop
• Colloquium Series - Marty Klein (Sex Therapist & Author), "America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust & Liberty"
• Colloquium Series - Alexandra Basolo (UNL School of Biological Sciences), "Biases in Female Mate Choice: What Biologists Have Learned from Swordtail Fishes"
• Colloquium Series - Dorothy Allison, "Context & Contradiction: Standing in a Place I Did Not Know How to Imagine"
• New Doctoral Field in Feminist Economics at UNL
• Rwanda Summer Program: "An Interdisciplinary Study of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath" - Summer Study Abroad, July 12-25, 2009

Spring 2008 Newsletter
• Colloquium Series - Roundtable, "Studying Nature and the Environment: Why Gender Matters"
• 30-Year Anniversary Banquet
• WGS Founders Inverview: Dr. Linda Pratt

Fall 2007 Newsletter
• Colloquium Series - Roundtable, "Feminism then and Now: An Intergenerational Exchange"
• Colloquium Series - Roundtable, "A Conversation with Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathmatics"
• First Annual WGS Career Workshop
• SAGE (Students Advocating Gender Equity) Body Image Exhibit
• WGS Faculty Around the World

Spring 2007 Newsletter
• No Limits 2007: A Fond Look Backwards
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Nthabiseng Motsemme (International Ford Fellow and Visiting School of Sociology at DePaul University), "Loving in a Time of Hopelessness: On Township Women's Subjectivities in a Time of HIV/AIDS"
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Dr. Carleen Sanchez (Anthropology & Geography, and Ethnic Studies), "Producing Docile Bodies: Indigenous Women and Eurocentric Feminism"
• Colloquium Series - Activist Roundtable
• A SAGE Perspective on "No Limits" and Amy Miller (Legal Director of the Nebraska ACLU)
• "No Limits" Keynote Speakers: tatiana de la tierra

Fall 2006 Newsletter
• North Star Internship
• Colloquium Series - Roundtable, "Women, Gender, and Globalization"
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Ann McGrath, "Polygamy and Interracial Marriage in Colonial History: Cases from the Cherokee Nation and Queensland, Australia
• Poetry Reading, "Pink Icing and Island Blues': A Reading by Pam Mordecai"

Spring 2006 Newsletter
• "No Limits": Two Perspectives (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• Women's Studies Research in Action: DeVoted Women Project
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Dr. Stephen Lahey, "Jesus and Mary Magdalene: The Opposing Orthodoxies of Thomas Aquinas and Joseph Smith and Their Curiously Consonant Anti-Feminist Results"
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Debbie Krahmer (UNL Libraries), "Doing Transgender Research"
• Colloquium Series - Lecture, Dr. Sarah Rodriguez, "A 'Veritable Sheep in Wolf's Clothing': Medicine, Intersexuality and the Role of Clothing in Sex Identity in America 1935-1950"