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Women's and Gender Studies sponsors a colloquium series in which local and national scholars present their research. Because of the personalized nature of our program, students have an opportunity to interact with these scholars both formally and informally. In addition, Women's and Gender Studies cooperates with other departments and groups to co-sponsor poetry readings, films, concerts, panel discussions and art exhibits of women’s work. Recent visitors and performers include Patricia Hill Collins, Janice Gould, Jean Fagin Yellen, Mahnaz Afkhami, Londa Schiebinger, Toi Derricotte, Darlene Clark Hine, Beth Brant, Manjira Datta, Gloria Steinem, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nomy Lamm, Leslie Feinberg, Barbara Smith, bell hooks, and the Guerrilla Girls.
Spring 2012 Series: “Masculinity” Wednesday, January 18, 5:30pm Camboni’s lecture will explore the curious use and abuse of “manliness” as translators remade Whitman to advance fascism. Camboni’s work on poetry translation places issues of women and gender in a transnational and multilingual perspective. In addition to her talk, a Brown Bag Lunch with Marina Camboni will be held on Friday, January 20 from 12:00-1:00pm in 316 Seaton Hall. _______________________ Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm In 1950, most Americans had completed the transition from adolescence to adulthood by age 21 or so. Today, it's more likely to be by age 30. Kimmel explores this new stage of development in his presentation based on his best-selling book, Guyland. Based on interviews with more than 400 young people across the country, Kimmel offers a glimpse of why so many guys are adrift through their 20s, and offers a road map towards a more conscious adulthood. You can read more about the event in the Daily Nebraskan. A podcast of Kimmel's talk can be listened to here. _______________________ Tuesday, April 3, 12:30pm In 2004, the Women’s Studies Program voted to change its name to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, embracing the idea that gender is not just about the study of women and changing notions of femininities but also the study of gender more broadly, including the study of men and changing notions of masculinities. Join us for a discussion with three UNL Faculty members about what it means to incorporate masculinities into Women’s Studies Programs. We will talk about the new intellectual insights this shift in focus has yielded, the effect it has on the types of courses taught and the students to whom it can appeal, and the controversies about this shift that remain. Jan Deeds is the director of the Women’s Center and is on the board of directors of the American Men’s Studies Association and developed the “Introduction to Men's Studies.” IIker González-Allende is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages whose work has focused on masculinity and nationalism. James Garza is Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and has examined masculinity in modern Mexico. _______________________ Fall 2011 Series Wednesday, September 28, 7:00pm: _______________________ Monday, October 10, 5:30pm: Hildegard von Bingen was an extraordinary 12th century abbess, visual and musical artist. Dr. Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy and Co-Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program at the University of Notre Dame. _______________________ Wednesday, October 26, 4:00pm: Founded in the 1987 at the height of the AIDS crisis, ACT-UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was the transformative direct-action movement that forced our country to change its policies and attitudes towards People With AIDS. Looking to preserve the history of this fundamental movement, Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbardco-founded of the ACT-UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org), an archive of long-form interviews with 128 surviving members of ACT UP, New York. In this multi-media presentation, Schulman will discuss ACT-UP's history and her work associated with the organization. She will also show a sneak preview sample of the upcoming feature film UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP, directed by Jim Hubbard and produced by Hubbard and Schulman. Sarah Schulman’s novels, nonfiction books, journalism, films and plays reflect people whose points of view and experiences are rarely represented in the mainstream arts. Sarah has been involved in foundational movements for social change. Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island, and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Spring 2011 Series Monday, January 24, 7:30pm: Brain-related sex differences are real and clinically important, but often grossly distorted in public discourse. In this talk, Lise Eliot debunks several popular myths about sex differences in the human brain and their hormonal basis. For example, for most mental traits, male-female differences are smaller than the popular “Mars/Venus” perception and few have been linked to reliable differences in brain structure or activity. Another common misperception is that neural sex differences in brain anatomy, activation, or neurochemistry are necessarily innate or “hardwired.” These notions are dangerous, as they validate stereotypes, bias clinical judgment, and dictate sex-selective educational policies. Eliot is the author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps—And What We Can Do About It. Video of Lise Eliot's Colloquium talk "Brain Sex: Truth, Tall Tales, and Time for a Developmental Perspective" is available here. _______________________ Tuesday, March 15, 3:30-5:00pm Drawing upon her experience editing essays from 34 women scientists who struggled to negotiate family and the rigors of being a “good scientist,” Monosson explores what some describe as “the leaky pipeline,” the trickle of women scientists out of traditional scientific domains. While addressing why women in particular are pushed/pulled out of scientific communities, Monosson simultaneously calls for new understandings of what it means to be a scientist and do scientific work, highlighting the many ways scientist-parents still contribute to the scientific community. A review of the talk from the Daily Nebraskan is available here. _______________________ Monday, April 4, 7:30om In this talk, Schiebinger will set out three distinct levels for analyzing issues concerning women and gender in science, efforts to increase the number of women in science, programs to remove bias and barriers from the institutions of science, and analyses of sex and gender in knowledge or research results. She will give special attention to the third level—the knowledge level, what she calls Gendered Innovations, or the use of methods of sex and gender analysis as a resource to create new knowledge. Schiebinger will present several concrete examples of how gender analysis can profoundly enhance excellence in science and engineering.
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