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Monday, September 23, 2019

GWSS Newsletter 9/23/19


Events
1. Detours in Postwar U.S. Marxism: Remapping Yoshimasa Yukiyama’s Itineraries
2. Renovation for Women 
3. AMES Colloquium: "Sinless Fathers: Palestinian Masculinity and its Metropolitan Reception in Three Anglophone Novels"
4. The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma Lecture & Book Signing
5. CSPW Writing Hunker
6. Because 2019 Workshop
7. The Critical Disability Studies Collective (CDSC) Reading Group
8. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Program's 50th Anniversary Concert with Ms. Bettie Mae Fikes
9. FREE FILM SCREENING + Q&A with the director
10. Spotlight Series: Grasping at the Roots
11. Gender Liberation as Healing Justice by Dr. Alex Iantaffi
12. Discussion on Carceral Feminism,Women's Prison Resistance, and Feminist Prison Abolition.  
13. Progressive Education Network National Conference 2019
14. Feminist Friday


Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
1. Miriam K. Chamberlain Award Applications
2. Full time Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Public and Community Service and Black Studies opportunity at Providence College
3. Tenure-track Position in the Department of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University (TCU)
4. Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist Biology
5. 2020 CREATE Scholars Program
6. Campus Climate Micro-Grant
7. Assistant Professor of Transnational Feminism/Digital Studies at the University of Louisville
8. American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
9. Graduate Research Opportunities at DOE National Laboratories
10. Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Fellowships

Call for Papers/Proposals
1. The Black Midwest Initiative

Recognitions/Awards


Miscellaneous






Events

1. Detours in Postwar U.S. Marxism: Remapping Yoshimasa

Yukiyama’s Itineraries

The Political Theory Colloquium is very pleased to announce that the following Friday, September 27th, Professor Yuichiro Onishi (Associate Professor of African American & African Studies here at the University of Minnesota) joins us to workshop his paper, “Detours in Postwar U.S. Marxism: Remapping Yoshimasa Yukiyama's Itineraries."

Friday, September 27th, 2019
1:30-3:00
Social Sciences 1314 (Lippincott Room)


2. Renovation for Women 
If women are purchasing homes at twice the rate of men why are we so hesitant to take on home improvement and maintenance projects?

Created in response to a rising demographic of single women homeowners, this workshop is for all individuals (all welcome!) who want to gain a better understanding of home improvement and construction management, with a focus on making residential renovation and rehab more approachable and affordable for women. 

Renovation for Women (open to all) - Minneapolis
Saturday, September 21 - 9:00AM - 12:30PM
2015 Lowry Ave N; Minneapolis, MN

30% Discount Code for GWSS network: Enter "Homemaker30" at Checkout  
3. AMES Colloquium: "Sinless Fathers: Palestinian 

Masculinity and its Metropolitan Reception in Three 

Anglophone Novels"

Since the Palestinians’ loss of their homeland in the Nakba of 1948, Palestinian women’s writing has been as invested in leveling an internal critique of Palestinian society, including its attendant patriarchy and misogyny, as it has been in advancing the cause of Palestinian liberation and the reclamation of the Palestinian homeland. This paper examines how three recent novels by Palestinian women anticipate and attempt to navigate the politics of their western, and particularly American reception through the figure of the Palestinian father. 

The AMES Colloquium is free and open to everyone. Sincere thanks for the sponsorship from Pat Hui Fellowship.

Joseph Farag, Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota 
Thursday October 3, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

112 Folwell

4. The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma Lecture & Book Signing

Join us for a lecture and discussion on The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma by James S. Gordon, M.D., in which the world-recognized authority on post-traumatic stress and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first comprehensive, evidence-based program for reversing the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.

The Transformation represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon’s fifty years as a practitioner, teacher, and advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. Offering eye-opening research, innovative prescriptive support, and inspirational stories, The Transformation for the first time gives the reading public clear guidance in the methods that Dr. Gordon has developed and that he and his team have used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of children and adults around the world.

Monday, October 7, 2019
3:30 PM Doors; 4:00 PM Program
5:15 PM Reception and book signing

Cowles Auditorium
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
301 19th Avenue S; Minneapolis, MN 55455

5. CSPW Writing Hunker
Graduate students are invited to join us on Saturday, September 28 for an all-day writing hunker, sponsored by the Consortium of the Study for the Premodern World. We will meet in Hanson Hall, Room 111 beginning at 9:00 AM. Coffee, tea and lunch provided. 

Never participated in a hunker before? The CSPW Writing Hunker is an uninterrupted space for productive writing of dissertations, theses, articles, term papers, etc. It is also an opportunity to connect scholars focusing on the premodern period across the humanities and social sciences.  We ask that participants commit to the majority of the day and come and go on breaks, if necessary. We limit the number of participants to provide adequate work space during writing sessions and friendly and relaxed interaction during breaks.

Lunch will be provided (some gluten free, vegetarian or vegan options available). We encourage group conversation during lunch breaks.

Please direct questions and RSVPs to Jen K. Hughes hughe453@umn.edu by September 25 for the first hunker. RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a 15-person cap per event. 
The day’s schedule will be as follows:
9:00-10:30 – SESSION 1
10:45-12:15 – SESSION 2
      12:15-1:00 – LUNCH
1:00-2:30 –  SESSION 3
2:45 – 4:00 – SESSION 4

Can't Make this Hunker?: We will host additional hunkers on the following Saturdays this year: October 26th, November 16th, February 15th, March 21st, and April 18th. Calls for participation will be made several weeks in advance of each hunker and RSVPs will be accepted at that time.

6. Because 2019 Workshop


Are you ready for BECAUSE 2019?

October 11 - 13, 2019
St Paul, MN
Join us for BECAUSE 2019, the oldest and largest gathering for bi, pan, fluid, queer, and unlabled (bi+) folks in the country.  Our space is by, for, and about people attracted to more than one gender with all allies welcome.  Pay more if you can, less if you can't and free registration options.

Meet old friends and new while we build community with meals, social receptions, and shared activities, Participate in our workshops and enjoy our full conference sessions for entertainment and provocative speakers. Registration includes meals and snacks throughout the conference.

7. The Critical Disability Studies Collective (CDSC) Reading Group

Please join us for our first reading group of the school year!

12pm - 2pm in the Crosby Room of Northrop.

We will be reading and discussing the 2017 Lateral Forum conversation between Julie Avril Minich, Jina B. Kim, and Sami Schalk to help us explore what we mean when we say "Critical" Disability Studies.

There are four short pieces to this conversation:
1. Julie Avril Minich's - "Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now"
2. Jina B. Kim's - "Toward a Crip of Color Critique: Thinking with Minich's 'Enabling Whom?'"
3. Sami Schalk's - "Critical Disability Studies as Methodology"
4. A Response by Minich

Light refreshments will be provided (feel free to bring your lunch).

If you think you may make it to the event, please RSVP via the link below (not just the FB event) to let us know so that we can plan for both food and access. We know life with a disability can be unpredictable sometimes so if you end up not making it, thats okay too.

RSVP:
https://forms.gle/cWSxpcj1FaCNoGCG7

8. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Program's 50th Anniversary Concert with Ms. Bettie Mae Fikes

Re-scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM 
Doors Open at 5:30 PM, Tickets required

Concert plus a proceeding Reception with MLK Staff and Ms. Bettie Mae Fikes
Speaking Truth to Power - Reconciliation and Healing Series 

Presents Ms. Bettie Mae Fikes - "Touching Hearts While Healing Mine: Storytelling and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement" 

Featuring: The Wayman A.M.E. Church Men's Prophets of Praise, Minneapolis, MN - Batume Gingery, Black Panther Chicago 1969 & Jazz Drummer,  & Kirk Brown, Keyboardist - Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

University of Minnesota
Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium
Parking - 19th Avenue Ramp or 21st Avenue Ramp $10


9. FREE FILM SCREENING + Q&A with the director
Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond collaborative are hosting a film screening and discussion of the documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue directed by Miki Dezaki. Watch the trailer or visit the Facebook event page for more information.

Date: October 2, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: 100 Ralph Rapson Hall  
 
The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery, and the definition of coercive recruitment.Credibility, legitimacy and influence serve as the rallying cry for all those involved in the battle. In addition, this largely domestic battleground has been shifted to the international arena, commanding the participation of various state and non-state actors and institutions from all over the world.This film delves deep into the most contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women?



10. Spotlight Series: Grasping at the Roots

Thursday, September 19, 2019 | 3:30 p.m. | Best Buy Theater, 4th Floor, Northrop

At this event, Fayola Jacobs (UMN) traces the origin and history of the terms "environmental justice" and "intersectionality," arguing that contemporary usage is superficial and betrays the concepts' origins and power.


11. Gender Liberation as Healing Justice by Dr. Alex Iantaffi 

On October 7th the School of Nursing, in collaboration with the Office of Equity and Diversity and the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, is hosting a talk for the entire university. The guest speaker is Dr. Alex Iantaffi and they will be speaking about Gender Liberation as Healing Justice. They will help us rethink gender and gender roles so that all of us can be liberated from old ways of thinking that limit our ability to reach our full potential.

The talk will be in Mayo Auditorium from 12:15-1:15 and it will be followed by a book signing. We are making arrangements to record the presentation for those unable to attend.


12. Discussion on Carceral Feminism,Women's Prison Resistance, and Feminist Prison Abolition

Join Victoria Law, freelance journalist and author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women and the forthcoming Prison By Any Other Name (July 2020), for a discussion on carceral feminism, women's prison resistance, and feminist prison abolition.  

How do we address sexual assault and gender-based violence without turning to police and prisons? How do jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers act as further sites of violence and assault? How can we avoid turning to a violent system to curb sexual violence? How do we take this gender-based violence seriously without expanding criminalization? How can we fight against both gendered violence and mass criminalization at the same time?

Join us in Walter 402 on Wednesday, October 9th from 3:00PM-4:30PM.


13. Progressive Education Network National Conference 2019


Join us in the Twin Cities for the Progressive Education Network National Conference 2019

When: Thursday, October 3 to Saturday, October 5
Where: In and around the University of MN Campus in the Twin Cities of Minnesota
Surrounded by abundant lakes, ponds and wetlands and by the shores of the Mississippi River, we will re-imagine progressive education for the 21st Century. This year's conference will be jam-packed with energetic workshops led by passionate educators who are ready to engage with colleagues from all around the country to introduce, renew, affirm and create progressive practices – creating a mighty current that will transform education.

PROGRAM STREAMS
Rising To the Surface: These workshop sessions will amplify past and present voices & experiences in progressive education that take us beyond the traditional canon of progressive education.
Navigating the Current: These workshop sessions will provide participants with stories, experiences, and practical wisdom for negotiating a variety of challenges and opportunities in progressive education. Workshop sessions will explore areas such as Wellness; Social & Emotional Learning; Restorative Justice, Equity & Activism; Identity & Allyship.
Channeling the Future: These workshop sessions provide participants with practical, “oars-in” strategies to “do” progressive practice in any school, any classroom, anywhere; visioning strategies for implementing changes; strategies for sustaining the work, even in choppy waters.

Please follow this link for ticket information.



14. Feminist Friday
This conversation will be an opportunity for participants to explore personal, professional, 
and community finance intersectionally while uplifting social justice values; and will provide
 resources of financial hubs, tools, media, and books created by and for Native people, people of color, 
women, and LGBTQ individuals, as well as resources for exploring alternative economics and practices.
 It is part financial tools workshop, part ideas-launchpad for thinking beyond: how we can ultimately
 use these resources for liberation and the good of our people?

Presented by Luna Allen-Bakerian (she/her/hers), Women's Center Alum & Supporter.

Appleby Hall is accessible through two north side power door entrances. Adapted restrooms and 
gender neutral restrooms are available within the building.

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities


1. Miriam K. Chamberlain Award Applications 


We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Mariam K. Chamberlain Award, honoring the legacy of a visionary leader whose contributions to the feminist and social justice movements are evident across the world. The $10,000 award ($8,500 for the student and $1,500 to the student’s advisor) will be given to a doctoral student who is the first in her or his family to pursue a Ph.D. The graduate student’s dissertation must be related to ICRW’s mission to advance gender equity, inclusion and the alleviation of poverty worldwide and fall within ICRW’s main thematic focus areas, which include violence, rights and inclusion, women’s economic empowerment, and global health, youth and development. The student must be enrolled at an accredited institution based in the U.S. and pursing a Ph.D. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, October 8th at 11:59pm ET, and we hope to notify the recipient in early November.

Additional information, FAQs, and a link to the application form can be found at https://www.icrw.org/news/accepting-applications-2019-2020-mkc-award/

2. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Public and Community Service and Black Studies opportunity at Providence College

The Department of Public and Community Service Studies and the Black Studies Program at Providence College invites applications for a full-time joint tenure-track assistant professor position beginning August 2020. 

Applicants should apply online at the College’s career site at https://careers.providence.edu and submit a cover letter, curriculum vita, and teaching statement/philosophy. For additional information, please contact Dr. Zophia Edwards, search chair, at zedwards@providence.edu 

To ensure full consideration, please submit all application materials by October 15th, 2019. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Providence College is a Roman Catholic four-year liberal arts institution conducted under the auspices of the Dominican Friars and seeks candidates who can affirm and contribute to its Mission. 

3. Tenure-track Position in the Department of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University (TCU)

The Department of Women & Gender Studies (WGST) at Texas Christian University invites applications for a tenure track professor at the assistant rank. We are a newly created department building on 25 years as an innovative interdisciplinary program. Housed in the new School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS), we serve a community of faculty, staff, and students from across the TCU campus and the North Texas region.

While areas of research and teaching specialization are open, we are most interested in candidates whose expertise would add to our department’s courses. Focus areas may include women of color feminisms, transnational feminisms, and intersectional activism and social justice. Successful candidates will demonstrate evidence of dynamic and effective teaching centered on women, gender, and/or sexualities, as well as an active research agenda. We especially seek scholars who employ intersectional analysis in their teaching and research. The successful candidate will be integral in the building of this new department.

The teaching load is 5 courses per year, which includes teaching lower- and upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate courses in our graduate certificate program. 
Required qualifications:
  • A doctoral degree in hand or ABD at the time of application in an interdisciplinary field or a traditional humanities or social science discipline with significant demonstrated background and experience related to the field of women, gender, and/or sexualities studies. Doctorate must be completed by start date.
  • To apply, upload all application materials to https://tcu.igreentree.com/CSS_faculty. Include a letter of application, complete CV, statement of research, a 1-page statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching excellence, syllabus for one proposed upper-division WGST course (junior- or senior-level), and a 1-page statement explaining how the applicant will contribute to diversity and inclusion in WGST and at TCU. At least three confidential letters of recommendation should be sent by recommenders or dossier service to hrtalentacquisition@tcu.edu. All questions regarding the application process may be directed to Human Resources at hrtalentacquisition@tcu.edu or 817-257-7790. Questions about the Department of Women & Gender Studies can be emailed to wgst@tcu.edu. Review of applications begins October 1, 2019, and will continue until the position is filled. The position start date is August 2020.
4Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist Biology

The Wittig Postdoctoral Fellows Program in Feminist Biology offers the opportunity to
combine research in a Fellow’s specific area of interest with teaching at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. We seek a highly motivated new or recent PhD in one of the biological
sciences or public health or MD, who wants to develop research skills in an area of biology
related to gender and teaching skills in feminist approaches to biology. Research can be
conducted in any hosting faculty lab at the University; the agreement to host should be
specified in the research proposal. During the two-year fellowship, the Fellow will also
teach one undergraduate course per semester for the Department of Gender & Women’s
Studies (GWS) such as GWS 530, Biology and Gender. GWS will provide mentorship in
teaching as well as in feminist theory and methods. The second year of the postdoc is
contingent on satisfactory performance in the first year.

To apply for this position, please submit a cover letter, CV, 5-page research proposal,
signed agreement from a hosting lab, and contact information for three references (one of
whom is head of the hosting lab) to: Elizabeth Morris, emorris@wisc.edu. Please use
“Postdoctoral application – your name” in the subject line. The deadline for applications for
2020-22 is February 12, 2020.

For more information: https://jobs.wisc.edu/research#gws

5. 2020 CREATE Scholars Program

The CREATE Initiative seeks applications from graduate students from across the University to join a 12 month fellowship program in environmental leadership and community engaged scholarship. Learn more at create.umn.edu.

6. Campus Climate Micro-Grant

Campus Climate Micro-Grants are an opportunity to be awarded funding for new or existing projects to advance campus climate. Applications are due Friday, October 25th.

7. Assistant Professor of Transnational Feminism/Digital Studies at the University of Louisville

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Louisville invites applicants for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Transnational Feminism, with an emphasis in Digital Studies, to begin August 1, 2020. The ideal candidate will have an active record of research and teaching in transnational gender/sexuality studies, with expertise in cultural analytics/data studies/digital technologies, focusing on such areas as gender, sexuality and racial justice, environmental justice, migration and mobility, online identity and representation, digital activism, community engagement, and/or structural inequalities in emergent digital cultures and media. Preferred candidates will hold a PhD in Women's, Genders and Sexuality Studies or a related field and be experienced with methods such as digital text analysis, data curation and mining, data visualization and design, network analysis and social media, image processing, and/or GIS.

For more information: click here

8. American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships

The AAUW will be offering a multitude of different awards for women in graduate education, including but not limited to:
  • American Fellowships (various areas)
  • Career Development Grants
  • Community Action Grants
  • International Fellowships
  • International Grant Projects
For more information, please visit the AAUW website.

9. Graduate Research Opportunities at DOE National Laboratories

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. Applications are due 5:00pm ET on November 14, 2019.

The SCGSR program provides doctoral dissertation/thesis research opportunities for graduate students at DOE national laboratories. Details about the program, research areas, and online application can be found at the SCGSR website.

10. Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Fellowships 
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for our 2020 Summer Seminars (June 7 - 13, 2020). Advanced graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due December 15, 2019.

2020 Faculty and Seminars
NOAM CHOMSKY (University of Arizona/MIT)
Teetering on the Brink: Will Civilization Long Survive?

SASKIA SASSEN (Columbia University)
Expulsions:
The Rise of Extractive Logics in Our Economies and Societies


EYAL WEIZMAN (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Forensis


11. Assistant Professor of WGSS, with a focus on Queer and/or Trans of Color Studies

Minimum Qualifications
1) An earned Ph.D. in Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies or a relevant discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences is required; however, applicants nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered. For appointment, the doctorate must be completed by the date of appointment (8/20/2020).
2) Evidence of successful teaching at the University level.
3) Evidence of scholarly expertise in Queer and/or Trans* of Color Studies.

For more information: Click here. 

Call for Papers/Proposals

1. The Black Midwest Initiative


The Black Midwest Anthology: Call for Submissions
 
Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 1, 2019
 
Belt Publishing, in conjunction with the Black Midwest Initiative, is developing an anthology of essays, poems, and artwork to be published in 2020. Submissions are encouraged by participants of the inaugural Black Midwest Symposium being held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities from October 17-19, 2019, as well as members of the wider public.
 
This anthology is meant to explore the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the greater Midwest and Rust Belt regions of the United States. We’re looking for compelling narratives, thought-provoking analyses, and impactful commentaries that are able to render the complexities of the region meaningfully to a broad audience and will be relevant for years to come. While we anticipate the stories of major cities like Detroit and Chicago will be represented, we’re also looking to represent the stories of people living in smaller cities and rural areas where the lives of black residents have more often gone unacknowledged by traditional news and media outlets. We also especially encourage submissions that explore issues around immigration, queerness and sexuality, religious difference, and disability.
 
We will consider nonfiction personal essays and critical commentaries between 300 and 2000 words, as well as poetry and artwork that is directly related to the region. We are not accepting fiction.
 
Authors can submit multiple pieces. Original pieces will be given priority, but we will consider previously published pieces if the author has the rights to the piece and provides the original publication information. Accepted submissions will be edited in coordination with the author. Contributors will each receive a small honorarium.
 
The anthology will be edited by Peoria-native Terrion Williamson. She is author of Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life, associate professor of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota, and director of the Black Midwest Initiative.
 
To submit a piece for consideration, please:
  • Include the author’s full name, contact information (email, phone number, and address), and a short bio of 50-100 words in the body of the submission email.
  • Provide a short abstract or explanation of the piece of 50-100 words.
  • Write “Submission” in the subject line of the email.

Submit contributions and questions to: blackmidwestanthology@gmail.com
 
For details about the Black Midwest Symposium: theblackmidwest.com/symposium

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