GWSS Newsletter 10.11.2019

Events

1. Professor Gary Wilder (CUNY),  "Black Radical Humanism  and the Problem of Freedom" (10.18)
2. Funny Asian Women Kollective (10.26)
3. Hungry Translations: GWSS Colloquium (11.01)
4. Speculative Fabulations: Enter the Archive or Beneath Yaba’s Garden (11.19)
5. Principled Voices: Indigenous Peoples Need a Say on the Environment, The 3rd Annual Scallen Lecture in Human Rights (10.22)
6. Unknown, a play by Alexis Clements (10.18-10.27)
7. Consoling the Soul: Abortion, Family Planning, and the Transnational Population Regime in South Korea (1974-2019) (10.25)
8. What's Good, Man? Live Podcast Recording (11.06)
9. Book celebration for Professor Chris Pexa (11.12)
10. Just Write!
11. Press, Protests, and the People: Unraveling the protest paradigm's effect on Black civil rights protests  (10.21)
12. Pro Bono Legal Clinic for Transgender Employees (10.19)

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. Full-time Lecturer UNT Women’s & Gender Studies
2. Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University full-time tenure track position
3. Tenure Track Position in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies San Francisco State University

Call for Papers/Proposals

1. Call for Papers: Thinking Gender 2020, Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice

Recognitions/Awards

1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award

Miscellaneous

1. Spring 2020 Course: "Education, citizenship, and belonging in times of populism and nationalism"
2. Ghana's Business of Doing Good: Social Startups & Public Affairs   
3. LGBTQ activism and human rights in Jamaica - special discount for University of Minnesota
4. Report on Black Women and Girls in Minnesota 
5. Graduate Student Travel Award
6. Administrative policy updates

Events

1. Professor Gary Wilder (CUNY),  "Black Radical Humanism  and the Problem of Freedom"

Friday, October 18 at 4pm, President's Room in Memorial Student Union

With a reception to follow

Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Inquiry into Global Change and ICGC

Since the inception of Atlantic slave system, the degree of systemic violence that Western societies have perpetrated upon African and Afro-descended peoples is astonishing. Its staggering scope, intensity, and chronicity have been intrinsic to the making of the modern world. Attention is often called to how this violence has been mediated by European conceptions of humanism, humanity, and the human. Yet central to many of this community’s most important radical thinkers -- inseparable from their reflections on racism, domination, and emancipation -- is a commitment to what can only be called radical humanism. Scholars often treat this as a puzzle to be solved or problem to be explained. In contrast, I am interested in examining precisely the humanism of their radicalism and the radicalism of their humanism. Doing so, I believe, will illuminate a particular current or tradition of 20th century black radicalism that developed in the U.S., the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts. It may help us to better engage the issues with which they grappled – not only the color bar, racial capitalism, and colonial imperialism, but the very problem of freedom, the meaning of emancipation, and the possibility of a good life under modern conditions. 

Running through this study is an argument about the parallels, intersections, and productive tensions between this form of black radical humanism and 20th century heterodox Marxism. Central to the project are close readings of W.E.B. Dubois, CLR James, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Stuart Hall, and Paul Gilroy in relation to their insurgent or maroon predecessors and their feminist, postcolonial, or Afro-Pessimist successors.

2. Funny Asian Women Kollective

The Ordway on Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 8 p.m. 

Our show will address many issues of interest to students in your program such as patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism, and issues of sexual health. Please let interested students and colleagues know about our show. Information and tickets are available at https://ordway.org/event/funny-asian-women-kollective/

3. Hungry Translations: GWSS Colloquium

A conversation with the book author, Professor Richa Nagar and afterword author, Sara Musaifer. (Flyer to be distributed next week)

4. Speculative Fabulations: Enter the Archive or Beneath Yaba’s Garden (GWSS Colloquium)

A talk by the U.K.-based activist/artist/scholar Ama Josephine Budge (Flyer to be distributed soon).

5. Principled Voices: Indigenous Peoples Need a Say on the Environment, The 3rd Annual Scallen Lecture in Human Rights

Kathleen is a leading advocate for the human right to water for First Nations communities in Canada. For decades, the water supplied to many First Nations communities has been contaminated, hard to access, or at risk due to faulty treatment systems. The Canadian government has taken some steps to address the water crisis, but far too many First Nations communities continue to face a daily struggle to access safe, clean drinking water. Kathleen will highlight her innovative work on this issue, and her broader work championing the meaningful participation and leadership of Indigenous peoples on environmental policies and implementation. 

Speaker: Kathleen Padulo, Environment Director for the Chiefs of Ontario  

Date: October 22, 2019  

Time: 4:30 - 6:00 lecture, followed by a reception

Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455

This event is free and open to the public. Register today!

6. Unknown, a play by Alexis Clements

Unknown is the story of a small intergenerational community of lesbians revolving around an idiosyncratic archive of lesbian lives. Inspired by the 45-year old Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, Unknown asks how we come to know a person as something more than the role they play in our lives or the labels society applies to them. I've included more information below. 

Unknown runs October 18-27th at The Crane Theater in NE Minneapolis. We have an ASL-interpreted performance on the evening of Saturday, October 26th. The venue is accessible and there are single-stall all-gender bathrooms and free parking on-site. 

We would love to offer you a discount, but all of our performances are already sliding scale $5-$25! Please consider joining us for this very special production and help spread the word.

Tickets can be purchased and reserved HERE. We hope to see you soon!

7. Consoling the Soul: Abortion, Family Planning, and the Transnational Population Regime in South Korea (1974-2019) October 25th, 2019 - 12:00 p.m. 537 Heller Hall Presented by Jade Ji, PhD candidate, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies This is a study about contested meanings of abortion across secular social debates and religious practices anchored in South Korean modernization experiences. In April 2019, the Constitutional Court of Korea made a ground breaking decision that abortion criminal codes were unconstitutional. Even though South Korean criminal codes banned all abortions beginning in 1953, after the military coup in 1973, dictatorial regimes supported 1. 7 million abortions for population control between 1974 and 1990. My dissertation explores how diverse South Korean women accept, negotiate, and resist the paradox of abortion. This project examines women’s religious agency to mark life as sacred and worth grieving amid biopolitics that arrange women’s reproductive capacities for achieving demographic goals. South Korea has been celebrated as one of the most ‘successful’ population control cases in Third World. Yet, over the last 20 years, thousands of women have attended Buddhist abortion death rituals, “Chun Do Je (遷度祭)”, which is currently provided at 158 temples located in both Seoul and rural areas. The sites are cultural and historical entanglements of gendered bodies, memories and trauma. These women’s collective acts revive an old concern yet again: Religion is “the opium of the people (Marx; 1843).” My dissertation analyzes the evolving terrains of reproductive politics across secular-religious sites in South Korea. 8. What's Good, Man? Live Podcast Recording Wednesday, November 6, 6 pm - 8 pm The Whole in the Union   With episodes on men’s role in the feminist movement, how masculinity is portrayed in pop culture, healthy sexuality, and more, “What’s Good, Man?” is a soon-to-be-released podcast hosted by artist/activists Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre and Tony the Scribe. This LIVE EPISODE RECORDING will focus on the future of masculinity: what might it look like in 10 years? Will it even exist in 100 years? What lessons can we learn from science fiction? What will it take for men to meaningfully contribute to a future free from gender violence, misogyny, and the kind of controlling, insecure masculinity that hurts so many people of all genders? Join us to discuss these topics and more. All are welcome - free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged: z.umn.edu/WhatsGoodMan  9. Book celebration for Professor Chris Pexa You are invited to a book celebration for Professor Chris Pexa. Join us for a book reading by Professor Pexa followed by a reception. Please RSVP using this google form.  Where: Humphrey Forum in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs When: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 from 5:00PM-6:30PM 10. Just Write! Do you have a writing project or need to make progress on your thesis or dissertation? Bring your laptop and come write with other graduate students in a quiet space. See links below to register, or visit our website for more information. Friday, October 18, 9 am - 12pm St. Paul Campus--Ruttan Hall B35 East Bank--Coffman Union, Presidents Room (3rd Floor) West Bank--Mondale Hall 30 Friday, November 1, 9 am - 12 pm St. Paul Campus--Ruttan Hall B35 East Bank--Coffman Union: Rooms 301, 304, 305 and 321 West Bank--Hanson Hall 1-108 Friday, November 15, 9 am -12 pm St. Paul Campus--Ruttan Hall B35 East Bank--Coffman Union, Presidents Room (3rd Floor) West Bank--Hanson Hall 1-108 Sponsored by The Graduate School 11. Press, Protests, and the People: Unraveling the protest paradigm's effect on Black civil rights protests   Danielle Kilgo (Assistant Professor, Indiana U) will be presenting: Press, Protests, and the People: Unraveling the protest paradigm's effect on Black civil rights protests   Public attitudes about Black racial injustice and activism have a profoundly resilient trend of being substantially divided. In this talk, I will discuss digital news media’s contribution to this divide. Unlike the overtly coerced, deceptive media coverage of civil rights protests called out by the Kerner Commission almost 50 years ago, the marginalization of Black Lives Matter in traditional news and digital media has been, in most cases, more covertly employed. I illustrate patterns in media narratives that ultimately contribute to existing hierarchies of power that oppress Black social movements and people. I also discuss how this paradigm’s effect can be unraveled.  The presentation will take place in Murphy 100 at 11:00 a.m. on October 21st.  12. Pro Bono Legal Clinic for Transgender Employees

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. Full-time Lecturer UNT Women's and Gender Studies 

The Women’s & Gender Studies Program at the University of North Texas seeks applicants for a full-time Lecturer starting in Fall 2020. We seek teacher-scholars, who can demonstrate their ability to teach introductory, upper-division, and graduate level courses in Gender & Women’s Studies, who will add to our curriculum, and who will maintain a vibrant research agenda. A Ph.D. with at least 18 graduate credit hours in women’s, gender, or sexuality studies, and/or related fields is required at the time of appointment; a Ph.D. in women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies is preferred.

Applicants must submit: (1) cover letter describing their qualifications related to this position, (2) curriculum vita, (3) teaching statement and evidence of teaching effectiveness (maximum 2 pages), (4) diversity statement (maximum 2 pages), (5) unofficial academic transcripts (official transcripts due upon hire), (6) the names and contact information of three references. These application materials will all be submitted via UNT’s Faculty Jobs portal at https://facultyjobs.unt.edu.   Please direct any questions to the search committee chair: Dr. Suzanne Enck (Suzanne.enck@unt.edu).

Review of applications will begin Nov. 1, 2019 and continue until the search is closed.

2. Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University full-time tenure track position

http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/faculty_openings/arts.html

Applications are being sought by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of Associate Professor, to be housed in GSWS with dedicated workload in the Global Asia Program, starting July 1, 2020. Discipline and methodological approach is open.

Applicants will electronically submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a one-page vision statement for the Global Asia program (including plans for community outreach), a teaching portfolio (including a statement of teaching philosophy, selection of course evaluations, and sample syllabi for GA 101 and an upper division course in GSWS), and a sample of written work. Each candidate must arrange for three academic reference letters to be forwarded to the search committee, one of which must address administrative experience. Only those eligible to be appointed at the Associate Professor rank will be considered. The position is subject to the availability of funding.

All materials should be addressed to the GSWS/GA search committee and sent to: gswspost@sfu.ca

Applications will be reviewed starting November 2, 2019. Preference will be given to applications received by December 2, 2019.

3. Tenure Track Position in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University’s Department of Race and Resistance Studies offers an exciting
opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position focused on Queer Ethnic Studies
and/or Trans Ethnic Studies beginning August 2020.
We seek a colleague whose teaching and research focus on queer and/or trans communities of
color, whose work is based in the arts and humanities (including history), and who specializes in
queer and/or trans of color theory, practice, and resistance. We encourage candidates who focus
on Black, Arab Diasporic, and/or Muslim communities but are open to other areas and broader
comparative analyses. We seek a scholar who can teach the foundational course of our Queer
Ethnic Studies Minor, “Coloring Queer: Imagining Communities,” and build curriculum for this
minor as well as the minor and major in Race and Resistance Studies. We also encourage

candidates who can teach courses for our minor in Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas.

Submit the following materials via email to: queerethnic@sfsu.edu by November 18, 2019: (1)
letter of intent/interest, (2) current CV, (3) sample of scholarly work, (4) statement of teaching
philosophy, (5) description of research interests; (6) three letters of recommendation, and (7) a
statement on how your teaching and scholarship align with the commitment of the Race and
Resistance Studies Department to foster an inclusive and diverse academic community. Teaching
evaluations will be requested at a later date. Review of applications will continue until the

position is filled.

Call for Papers/Proposals

1. Call for Papers: Thinking Gender 2020, Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice

Submission Information

We invite proposal submissions for the following categories:

• Panel Presentations
• Posters
• Roundtable Sessions

Registered graduate students from any institution are eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions, including the panel, poster, and roundtable presentations.

Registered undergraduate students from any institution are eligible to submit proposals for poster presentations only.

Full details – including proposal length requirements and additional specifications – are available in the attached call for proposals and on our website.

To participate in Thinking Gender, successful applicants will be required to pay a registration fee of $50, the entirety of which will go towards covering conference costs.

Deadlines

The deadline for all submission proposals is October 27, 2019. Submissions must be made online via the link on the CSW website. Once submissions are reviewed and accepted, all participants in the paper panel sessions will be required to submit a draft of their paper by February 10, 2020, for pre-circulation among their co-panelists and faculty moderator.

Recognitions/Awards

1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced this week that AAS staff Saymoukda Vongsay will receive a Sally Award in the Initiative category which "recognizes bold new steps and strategic leadership undertaken by an individual or organization in creating projects or artistic programs never before seen in Minnesota that will have a significant impact on strengthening Minnesota’s artistic/cultural community." The prestigious award recognizes individuals and organizations who strengthen and enrich Minnesota through their commitment to the arts and arts education. Recipients of this year's award include Kao Kalia Yang (Social Impact), Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop (Arts Learning), Lake Area Music Festival (Arts Access), and Janis Lane-Ewart (Commitment). The awardees will be celebrated and honored at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov 4 in the Concert Hall at the Ordway. 

The event is free but RSVP required. 

https://ordway.org/support/special-events/sally-awards/

You can learn more about the award and the awardees in the Pioneer Press article. 

Miscellaneous

1. Spring 2020 Course: "Education, citizenship, and belonging in times of populism and nationalism"

ICGC will offer a 1 credit 7 week course in Spring 2020 entitled:

"Education, citizenship, and belonging in times of populism and nationalism" 

More information on schedule and course description forthcoming 

Taught by: Professor Roozbeh Shirazi, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development 

2. Ghana's Business of Doing Good: Social Startups & Public Affairs   

Global Seminar Winter Break 2019-2020: Learn how public policy and social enterprises are shaping Ghana into West Africa’s most stable emerging countries. 

Academics:
• Meet a diverse range of entrepreneurs, policymakers, and public servants while learning about Ghanaian diplomacy.
• Examine the opportunities and challenges of social entrepreneurship in an emerging developing country.

Receive Credit for:
• 3 weeks, 3 Credits
• PA 3852 or 5880 (graduate students)
• Fulfills Global Perspectives & Social Sciences Core Liberal Education requirements.
• Elective in the Public and Nonprofit Management co-major, an elective in the Entrepreneurial Management major/minor, and a depth course in the International Business co-major

https://umabroad.umn.edu/programs/africa/entrepreneurship-diplomacy-ghana/academics

3. LGBTQ activism and human rights in Jamaica - special discount for University of Minnesota

We want to share a special discount on a resource to support the work you are doing at University of Minnesota. Many Loves, One Heart tells the story of courageous members of the LGBTQ movement in Jamaica and their allies. Challenging an often one-sided depiction, the film presents brave Jamaicans who are seeking to transform their island into a space of inclusivity. Scenes of Jamaica’s second ever PRIDE week depict the safe spaces carved out by the movement. Read what educators and experts are saying about this film on our website and request a full preview of the film here. 

University of Minnesota Discount
Receive 25% off through 11/1 with code 
25%MLOH*11/1

4. Report on the state of Black women & girls in Minnesota

A report with GWSS alumane and leading housing researcher, Dr. Brittany Lewis, on the state of Black women & girls in Minnesota. The Minnesota Trust Black Women and Girls Report is the result of the Minnesota Trust Black Women and Girls Town Hall held at the Walker Art Center in April 2019. The town hall brought together over 200 community participants to amplify the voices of Black women and girls around key issues (such as housing, education, criminal justice, and health & wellness) and to highlight the policy solutions that facilitate change. Black women and girls were given unprecedented opportunities to share their stories and experiences with local decisionmakers and leaders, and the event provided platforms for African American female vendors and performing artists.

Report Link: http://www.tcaalf.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/19039-MN-Trust-Black-Women-and-Girls-Report984.pdf  

5. Graduate Student Travel Award

Deadlines: November 1, 2019 for Fall travel and March 6, 2020 for Spring travel

The University of Minnesota Asian American Studies Program will be awarding a limited number of travel awards of $400 each for graduate students presenting papers at Asian American Studies-centered conferences (such as the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association) or for research relating to dissertation projects. (guidelines attached)

6. Administrative policy updates

A new administrative policy, Equity and Access: Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Names, and Pronouns, helps promote a respectful University community free from discrimination based on gender identity or expression. The Outside Consulting and Other Commitments policy has new sections on summer appointments, authorship disclosures, and summer camps. The Campus and Building Closing policy now covers the University system, includes a new appendix on weather thresholds, and expands the policy to address reduced operations. Using Vehicles for University Business incorporates new requirements pertaining to handheld devices, lowers the minimum driver age from 19 to 18, and specifies a self-reporting requirement. Review and comment on the policies.

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