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Friday, November 8, 2019

GWSS Newsletter 11.08.2019

Events

1. AFRO|50 Teach-In 303: Afro-Infinity Student Symposium (11.22)
2. Native American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon (11.09)
3. A History of Xenophobia (12.03)
4. Critical Disability Studies Collective Final Reading Group (12.06)
5. The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theories and Far-right Mass Violence in the Trump Era (11.13)

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. SMC Internships
2. Mayoral Fellowship Program
3. Assistant Professor - Social Work and Women's and Gender Studies Program
4. Chicano and Latino Studies - FT Instructor
5. Fellowship -  Critical Black Studies -  University of Minnesota’s American Studies PhD Program


Call for Papers/Proposals

1. 2020 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Recognitions/Awards

1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - New SheDecides Champions and the Beijing 25x25

Miscellaneous

1. Study Abroad Spring Break in Costa Rica studying Environmental Communication
2. Premodern Courses being offered in Spring 2020
3. Grad Student Thesis Research Travel Grants
4. AAS Spring Courses
5. BTHX Spring 2020 Course





Events

1. AFRO|50 Teach-In 303: Afro-Infinity Student Symposium
We have shared a powerful journey of commemorating 50 years of Black Studies at the University of Minnesota. The Department was born through creative resistance. On November 22nd we will imagine the next 50 years and beyond, share student research, and engage with communities for solidarity and change.
RSVP using this link. 

2. Native American Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Join us in honoring Native American artists whose work is represented in Mia’s collections by writing or enhancing Wikipedia articles. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, this event is a great way to make new friends, have fun, and learn something new, while adding content about Native American artists to Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia.
No Wikipedia experience necessary. Social hour with refreshments begins at 11 a.m., edit-a-thon at noon. Brief training session at 12:20 p.m. for newcomers. Library resources will be on hand. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas.
Presented by the Library Affinity Group.
Free, tickets available October 1. Click here to register.

3. A History of Xenophobia

"AMERICA FOR AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF XENOPHOBIA IN THE UNITED STATES"
Congratulations to Dr. Erika Lee on her super buzzed about book! You are invited to the Book Launch on December 3rd! Also, please take a look at some of the articles (and lists!) that's highlighted her book:

BOOK LAUNCH
The book launch of #AmericaForAmericans and a symposium on xenophobia in the US today with two amazing policymakers and activists will be on Tuesday, December 3 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Cowles Auditorium (Humphrey, West Bank). Find out more and rsvp at: z.umn.edu/icwmigration-fall19

ARTICLES
Ms. Magazine
Time Magazine
The Atlantic

4. Critical Disability Studies Collective Final Reading Group

Date: Friday December 6th
Time: 12pm - 2pm 

Light refreshments will be provided (feel free to bring your lunch).
We'll be discussing "Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is our People" a Disability Justice Primer written by Patricia Berne and Sins Invalid.
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer
Please RSVP by Dec 4th. Readings will be provided upon RSVP!
RSVP: https://forms.gle/deLXEnxrQGsPmdx86
Access requests can be made through the RSVP link.
We welcome all access requests! Please submit requests as early as possible, ideally a week in advance so that we have time to make arrangements. Interpreting and captioning requests may take up to two weeks to arrange. We welcome requests even if you are not sure if you'll attend!
Access information:
There are elevators on the East and West ends of the Northrup building and power door openers on the ground floor. There are single use, accessible restrooms on the ground floor and right next to our room, the Crosby room.
Parking information for Northrup here.
To generate direction or transit options, use this Google Maps link.

5. "The Great Replacement": Conspiracy Theories and Far-right Mass Violence in the Trump Era

Wednesday, November 13, 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall 
"'The Great Replacement': Conspiracy Theories and Far-right Mass Violence in the Trump Era" panel discussion with UMN faculty Riv-Ellen Prell, American studies, Bruno Chaouat, French and Italian, Joseph Gerteis, sociology, and Malinda Linquist, history and African American studies. 

Description:
The election of Donald Trump could be described as both a symptom and cause of an uninhibited public discourse based on cultural/nationalist racism at best, biological racism at worst. In a world and age in which borders are collapsing --due to the market economy, the Internet, the Climate Crisis, demographic mutations, and mass migration -- racist, antisemitic and xenophobic rhetoric bears witness to a collective identity crisis that has historically led to mass violence. Presenters will discuss white supremacism and the so-called “great replacement” theory from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. Panel Discussion with Riv-Ellen Prell (Professor Emerita, American Studies), Bruno Chaouat (Dept. of French and Italian), Joseph Gerteis (Dept. of Sociology), Malinda Linquist (Dept. of History and African American Studies).



Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. SMC Internships
Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week Internship program. The Social Media Collective (SMC), a network of social science and humanistic researchers, spans several Microsoft Research labs. The SMC PhD interns work in the MSRNE Lab located in Cambridge, MA, with Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, Mary L. Gray, and current postdoc Elena Maris. Learn more about us here.
The Social Media Collective (SMC) includes full-time researchers, postdocs, interns, current and alum visitors, and research assistants. Our primary purpose is to provide a rich, contextual understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that underpin social media technologies. Our work spans several disciplines: anthropology, communication, economics, information, law, media studies, women’s studies, science & technology studies, and sociology.
Current projects in New England include:
  • How do social media platforms, digital assistants, bots, and datafication affect personal and professional relationships? (Nancy Baym)
  • How do social media platforms, through algorithmic design and content policies, shape public discourse? (Tarleton Gillespie)
  • What are the cultural, political, ethical, and economic implications of on-demand, cloud computing as ecosystems of information, labor, and social exchange? (Mary L. Gray)
  • How do media/tech industries and users try to know and influence each other? What are the roles of technology and identity in these interactions? (Elena Maris)
For more information about the Social Media Collective, and a list of past interns, visit the About page of our blog. For a complete list of all permanent researchers and current postdocs based at the New England lab, see: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/people/bios.aspx

2. Mayoral Fellowship Program
Are you interested in becoming a Mayoral Fellow within Mayor Jacob Frey’s Office? We offer a robust Fellowship program over the course of three times a year. Part-time paid fellowships are available (8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. or 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) with a minimum of 15 hours a week. Available for undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Winter (January – April)
  • Summer (May – August)
  • Fall (September – December)
If you are interested in a future career in politics, journalism, public relations, or similar then a Mayoral Fellowship may be for you!
Interested candidates should submit a 500 word essay, a resume, available hours (part time), and three references.
Details are provided on our website and the application deadlineis Friday, November 29:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/contact/fellowship

3. Assistant Professor - Social Work and Women's and Gender Studies Program


We are seeking candidates with a well-developed research agenda in one or more of the following broadly defined areas: Research and/or practice focus in areas of health disparities related to gender or sexuality; indigenous women’s health and/or services; indigenous and/or feminist epistemologies and health research practices; maternal and family health policy; health issues among indigenous or global gender nonconforming, queer, and trans populations. 
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong potential for high level achievement in scholarship, teaching and related community engagement; a commitment to social justice and demonstrated capacity mentoring undergraduate and graduate-level students.   A successful candidate will bring a strong interdisciplinary approach to integrate gender and feminist theories with their application in social work, health research, policy, and practice.  They may have experience working in indigenous or global health fields related to gender and sexuality, such as domestic violence, sexual assault prevention and counseling, family services, and LGBTQIA services and advocacy.  Candidates are expected to have the capacity to contribute teaching to the core curricula in social work and women’s and gender studies.
The Northern Arizona University Social Work Department offers a CSWE-accredited BSW degree and has a MSW program in candidacy. The Women’s and Gender Studies Program offers a bachelor’s degree, two minors in WGS and Queer Studies, and graduate certificate.  This is a nine (9) month position that includes teaching social work and women’s and gender studies, and potentially interdisciplinary health courses; student mentoring in both social work and women’s and gender studies, as well as in the Interdisciplinary Health PhD Program.   This position is tenure eligible, at the rank of Assistant Professor. For more information: click here.

4. Chicano and Latino Studies - FT Instructor
The Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota is hiring a Full-Time Instructor for the 2020-21 Academic Year; we are looking for concentrations in Latinx Studies, particularly US Central Americans and Carribean Americans and experience teaching Latinx literatures. We have started taking applications and will begin reviewing them in February of 2020. For more information, please visit our website at: https://z.umn.edu/clshire

5. Fellowship -  Critical Black Studies -  University of Minnesota’s American Studies PhD Program
The Ph.D. program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota along with its partners the Department of African American and African Studies and the Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIGS) Initiative received six graduate fellowships through the Creating Inclusive Cohorts (CIC) Training Program in the area of Critical Black Studies.  These fellowships provide a stipend of $25,000 plus tuition in the first year of graduate school followed by four additional years of funding.  We encourage students interested in critical black studies to apply to the American Studies PhD program.  The deadline for graduate admission is December 1st, 2019.  For details about admission, go to:
https://cla.umn.edu/american-studies/graduate/how-apply

If you have questions, please direct them to bran0487@umn.edu


Call for Papers/Proposals

1. 2020 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (USA)
    Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    May 28-May 30, 2020
    Final Deadline for Submissions: Monday, Dec 9, 2019
    SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Proposals are submitted through EasyChair. For best results, sign into EasyChair before clicking submit above.
This Year's Theme: Bodily Sovereignty and Collective Action
The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals for participation in its eighteenth annual meeting. Proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to proposals that engage this year's theme of Bodily Sovereignty and Collective Action. Membership of the CSA is not required to submit a proposal for this year’s conference, but membership is required in order to present at the conference.
    The notion of sovereignty is up for serious epistemological debate. We encourage proposals that investigate and consider how the framework of sovereignty informs the re-mappings, re-zonings, and regressions of the current conjuncture, and how ideas of sovereignty inform cultural productions and resistance to these changes. At the same time, we invite critical perspectives on sovereignty’s appropriations and strategic deployments in contemporary and historical contexts. We take inspiration, in particular, from the conference’s location in the city of Chicago, which has a long history of resistance to violence and has been a key site in the fight for bodily sovereignty, whether in the significance of the Haymarket riot in the struggle for global labor rights, the legendary Jane Collective’s work restoring women’s bodily sovereignty before Roe v. Wade, the ongoing collective resistance to police brutality, and the still countercultural notion that Black Lives Matter. We encourage proposals that draw on these legacies and illuminate paths in which they prefigure sovereign futures.
    Furthermore, we welcome proposals that consider who can lay claim to sovereignty, as well as the formations of power, knowledge, and capital that circumscribe such claims. Proposals might, for example, question which bodies--human and non-human--“count” as sovereign, and at which historical, political, socio-ecological, and cultural points. We invite theoretical interventions that situate these emergent questions around self-determination with respect to critiques of (racial) capitalism, biopolitics, hetero-patriarchy, and white supremacy.  https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=csa20200


Recognitions/Awards

1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - New SheDecides Champions and the Beijing 25x25

To mark the next exciting phase of the Movement’s growth, SheDecides is looking for bold and dynamic change makers to join the ranks of SheDecides Champions. Could you be one of them?

The nomination process is open to the public, and individuals can nominate themselves, or anyone else that they believe has what it takes to become a SheDecides Champion.
Please click here for more information on the nomination process and share this call widely amongst your networks!
Nominations of young people are particularly encouraged, as are nominations of people working in the following regions: Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, The Middle East and North Africa as well as South East Asia and Asia Pacific. We are looking for Champions from diverse contexts, including those working in fragile, or conflict affected situations, refugees and internally displaced persons, and individuals living with disabilities.

Note: the deadline for Champion nominations is Monday 25 November.

Miscellaneous

1. Study Abroad Spring Break in Costa Rica studying Environmental Communication
Looking for an exciting COMM course where you can tailor the course project to your personal and career interests? Consider COMM 4250, Section 2. After meeting for the first 8 weeks on campus, we will fly to Costa Rica for spring break to study environmental communication. 
The course ends at the end of spring break and there is no language requirement. Interested in learning more? Visit the Learning Abroad Center to learn how to submit your application and watch https://vimeo.com/338162935 for more information about the course. Total cost of the course, including flight and food, will be between $4,000-$5,000. Talk to Maria Mantey mant0023@umn.edu or Roslyn Udairam udair001@umn.edu at the LAC to answer your questions, to learn how to apply for scholarship support, and regarding the use of financial aid to study abroad.

2. Premodern Courses being offered in Spring 2020


3. Grad Student Thesis Research Travel Grants

Here is some information on the Grad Student Thesis Research Travel Grants offered by the U:

4. AAS Spring 2020 Courses
Direct link: https://cla.umn.edu/asianamerican/undergraduate/courses

AAS 1101 -- Imagining Asian America
AAS 1930 -- Democracy under Threat in Times of Populism and Racial Nationalism
AAS 3211W -- Race & Racism in the U.S.
AAS 3251W -- Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender
AAS 3271 -- Learning in the Asian American Community
AAS 3301 -- Asian America Through Arts and Culture
AAS 3341 -- Asian American Images
AAS 3409W -- Asian American Women's Cultural Production
AAS 3486 -- Hmong Refugees from the Secret War: Becoming Americans
AAS 3503 -- Asian American Identities, Families, & Communities

Learn more about the AAS Minor here: https://cla.umn.edu/asianamerican

5. BTHX Spring 2020 Course

The Center for Bioethics is offering the following course Spring 2020 that maybe of interest to you.  For a complete description, visit our website.





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Friday, November 1, 2019

GWSS Newsletter 11.01.2019

Events

1. Women & Gender: International Opportunities
2. The Self-Help Clinic as 'the self-destruct mechanism': The Case of the Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center" (11.04)
3. Women’s History Trivia Night (11.07)
4. Summer Gender Studies Opportunity in Buenos Aires, Argentina
5."Maria Theresa and the Love of her Subjects" 35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (11.05)
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability (11.01)
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording (11.06)
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
9. Design Challenge: Choose Accessible Learning Content webinar (11.14)
10. Toni Morrison Tribute (11.19)
11. Brigitte Weltman-Aron " Into Whales: Hélène Cixous Rewrites the Book of Jonah." (11.05)
12. Dr. Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor on Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (11.07)
13. Diverse Returns? Race and Nativity Differentials in Computer Science’s Gender Wage Gap (12.05)

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. CWGS and English, with emphasis on Queer Theory, joint instructor position
2. CSU Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant
3. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
4. CLAgency Job Positions - Spring 2020
5. Winter 2019 funding: Laura Bassi Scholarship


Call for Papers/Proposals

1. National Questions, International Possibilities: Democratic Revival in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
2. Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry
3. Grad Journal CFP
4. November Open Reading Period

Recognitions/Awards

1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award

Miscellaneous

1. WomenBeing Conference and Magazine





Events

1. Women & Gender: International Opportunities

Have you always wanted to work on women & gender issues in other countries? You are needed in many places:

SEX TRAFFICKING: Nepal
~7,000 women and girls are trafficked from Nepal into India's sex trade per year.
Sex traffickers prey on young women in remote, remote parts of Nepal that want out of poverty.
Traffickers promise them a job; instead girls are tricked into prostitution and sexual exploitation in India. Are you a rugged hiker? Come help in the remote villages: teach English and literacy to create another life for these girls. Or work in their legal program teaching women their rights. Grant writers also needed.
ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Cameroon
When a social worker from Canada asked an audience of 50 men, how many of them beat their wives. 48 hands went up! "Why" "How else would you get them to mind?" You will also see corporeal punishment in schools and homes. Are you comfortable with public speaking? Come teach positive reinforcement and other ways of interacting. It would be especially helpful to have male Gender Studies students who can help shift attitudes and behavior.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Costa Rica  - Spanish fluency required
Work in the shelter; do community education; help women become economically independent
so they can leave abusive relationships; and/or help develop counseling programs for women, men and kids. If you have background in counseling, help with crisis, individual and group therapy. If you have volunteered in a shelter (and can also speak Spanish) then you are also qualified for this placement. Men who have backgrounds in Social Work or Psychology are needed to help start their men's program.
FAMILY PLANNING: Uganda & Cameroon
For women who have 10 kids, they will tell you that contraception is life changing. African women realize that if they had fewer kids, they would have fewer mouths to feed and be less poor. Now there is a groundswell in Africa and they are asking for help with this. We need: people who can teach about various kinds of contraception that are within their reach; people that help with a shift in consciousness - a woman is considered property of her husband; a woman is often told by her mother to "do (sexually) anything he wants" - so that women see their body as their own. Most African men want many children and their wife to bear children at age 15. We need men helping with this!
EMPOWERING WOMEN: Morocco
Morocco is making important inroads, like changing their rape law - but still most women have not been allowed an education or to take jobs. To gather for a women's group is unheard of - so come teach English and in the course of conversation practice, discuss with Moroccan women their lives, families, situations and what they want to change.
WOMEN & LITERACY: Uganda & Cameroon
Teach adult women who were excluded from an education how to read & write.
Most women over 30 were told by their fathers "I only have enough money to pay your brothers' school fees. You are only going to be a wife." These women hunger to learn to read & write. Work in the remote, rural villages in tropical Cameroon or the breath-taking mountains of Uganda.
GIRL CHILD EDUCATION: Uganda & Kenya
In most parts of Africa, fathers told their daughters "I only have enough money for your brothers' school fees. Besides, you are just going to be a wife." It is only in the last 5-10 years that girls are allowed an education. Now that girls are included in schools, we need your help: Uganda secondary school: teach or tutor in English (writing, literature & grammar), Math, Chemistry, Physics or Biology. Kenya primary: tutor kids who have been orphaned by AIDS. Scrabble is the rage. You need not have special credentials for these placements. Just a desire to help with "girl child education."
BEGINNING STEPS re WOMEN & GENDER: Peru
This organization does many, many things: nutrition, education, health and farming. They would also like to start discussions at their center and in remote villages about women and gender:
discussing women's roles and rights. Their aim is to begin to shift attitudes. Like in Africa, a women's body is not considered her own. A women's role is very constricted. Thus not radical but gentle steps in the beginning. Spanish is essential; and if you can speak Quechua, a real plus. This site is a great location for exploring Machu Picchu/ the Sacred Valley, Cuzco, Lake Titicaca and the Amazon.
INDIGENOUS WOMEN: Ecuador
Ecuador's indigenous people have gained more clout in the last 20 years. Come teach farming or join indigenous women in the fields to help feed their families. This is a beautiful part of Ecuador: volcanoes and colorfully clothed indigenous women. Spanish is a must; Quechua a plus.
EMPOWERING GIRLS: India
This organization provides an positive alternative to alcoholic or abusive environments. Come help with homework, assist in the school, help with vocational and mentor girls about future choices. If you want to see the lives of females improved n the world, this is a good fit! Come help! This is in a part of India that has almost 100% literacy: known for bright, very friendly people and a beautiful coast!
MICRO-FINANCE & INCOME GENERATION: Costa Rica, India, Ecuador
Most women in the poorer parts of the world would say empowerment is earning money for the family. Micro-finance and "livelihood" skills are an important ticket out of poverty. The most important part of MF is not the loan but helping micro-enterpreneurs succeed. Costa Rica has an extraordinary dynamic female director: hilarious and gracious. India is much more like the Grameen model - helping the poor in many ways. Ecuador reflects the model that grew out of Liberation Theology: forming cooperatives.
SEXUAL ABUSE: Kenya & Lebanon
While physical abuse/ domestic violence is beginning to be addressed throughout Africa, sexual abuse is still taboo and unaddressed. This program is an exception. Experienced in trauma, sexual abuse, gender based violence, EMDR and/or PTSD? We need you in Kenya! In Lebanon, help with trainings in community about physical, sexual and child abuse.
LEGAL LITERACY: Cameroon
Throughout most of Africa, most citizens do not know their legal rights or how the legal system works. They do not know how to make a complaint or testify in court. Empower common citizens
by teaching them labor, family and inheritance law and how the legal process works. Enact it with them. Throughout most of Africa, women are considered property of their husband.
If husband dies, the wife is dispossessed of the land that feeds her and the children and is inherited by husband's brother. Thus inheritance law is perhaps the most crucial legal and human rights issue.
Are you an attorney, or do you have a background in law or are even pre-law? Come empower & teach!
FISTULA PREVENTION: Uganda
A fistula is formed when a baby gets stuck in labor and contractions push the uterus into rectum or bladder and make tear. Fistulas usually result in lifelong incontinence or leaking feces and societal rejection. Fistulas are difficult to repair so best intervention is prevention. In Nov 2019 a MHP will teach about delaying childbirth as most fistulas happen to 13, 14 or 15 year old mothers. The community is organizing ways endangered moms can get a C section when baby is stuck. But this will be long "sensitization" campaign to persuade men to have wives use birth control until their bodies are ready for childbirth. Willing to help with this attitude shift? We especially welcome men and fathers.
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: Jordan - currently on hold
This organization is doing ground-breaking work with women: 1. economic empowerment - teaching job skills & entrepreneurship, including helping women work in the trades (which is really, really unusual for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region); 2. social empowerment - launching discussions about women's & men's roles - which is also very unusual - and expanding what women can do and how they see themselves; 3. building leadership skills & political participation. 4. reproductive & sexual health. They would like people who can work with women at one of their 50 centers around country. You do not need to be able to speak Arabic but clearly it is great if you can. Jordan has earned its reputation as very friendly & safe. 50% of women who work with are Syrian refugees.

Interested?
HOW TO APPLY
Please read NGOabroad website
http://www.ngoabroad.com/
and send answered Questionnaire and resume to:
info@NGOabroad.com

These are volunteer opportunities.
Both students & experienced professionals needed.
In all of these placements, both women and men are needed.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Most placements can fit to your schedule and for how long you can go.


WHEN TO APPLY
*People are already beginning to apply to volunteer in June, July & August.
We send this first announcement in Oct or Nov for those that like to get a leap on their summer plans.
We will send a 2nd, sometimes slightly revised, announcement in Jan or Feb.
It is smart to finish application process by March so you have time to prepare to go to another country.

Our volunteer programs do not just run in June, July & August - that is simply when the most people can go.
Except primary & secondary schools that have school schedules to adhere to, most of our programs run year round.



2. The Self-Help Clinic as 'the self-destruct mechanism': The 

 Case of the Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center

Speaker: Angela Hume, Ph.D., Dept. of English, University of Minnesota-Morris

Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
Time: 12:20-1:10pm
Location: 555 Diehl Hall

Abstract: In 1971, at Everywoman's Bookstore in LA, Carol Downer climbed on top of a desk and demonstrated for a group of women how to insert a plastic speculum into one’s vagina and view the cervix with the help of a mirror and flashlight. In doing so, she effectively launched the gynecological self-help movement, an anti-institutional offshoot of the rising Women’s Health Movement that sought to “put women’s health in women’s hands." A year later, Downer's teenage daughter moved to Oakland to start a Feminist Women's Health Center, the first feminist clinic in the country to offer legal abortions. This talk, which grows out of original archival research and oral-history interviews, provides an account of the evolving radical feminism that suffused both the literal and figurative space of the Oakland self-help clinic for nearly 40 years and argues, moreover, that the "self-help clinic concept" was key to the feminist imagination of a post-capitalist, post-patriarchy world.

Bio: Angela Hume is assistant professor of English at University of Minnesota, Morris. She earned her PhD in English at University of California, Davis in 2017. Hume is currently at work on a monograph, titled “Lyric Self-help: The Ecological Poetics of Women’s Health Writing and Activism, 1970s-Present,” in which she historicizes the health writings and activism of a multiethnic group of American women and queer poets. Hume situates her research within the environmental humanities; her work intervenes in environmental justice, the history of medicine, and the emerging research area of health justice. She is co-editor of the book Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field and has published articles in Contemporary Literature, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and elsewhere 

3. Women's History Trivia Night 

Thursday, November 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An evening of fun, laughter, drinks and irreverent political history.

$5.00 per person; food available for purchase; cash bar
Poor Richard’s Common House
8301 Normandale Blvd
Bloomington, 55438

4. Summer Gender Studies Opportunity in Buenos Aires, Argentina

FLACSO ADELA, a study abroad program based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, affiliated with the international education department at FLACSO, the Latin American School for Social Sciences. As a recent graduate (Oberlin College 2018) and gender studies major myself, I completed a semester program with the ADELA team in 2017, in which I was exposed to the history of feminist activism in Argentina. This experience led me to a Fulbright research grant, which focused on reproductive justice in Buenos Aires. 

Because of University of Minnesota's strong Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program, I am writing to you to tell you about our new month-long program: “Gender, Diversity, and Social Justice in Latin America”, available as both a J-Term and summer opportunity. This program offers an intensive learning opportunity for students interested in gender studies, cultural immersion, and Spanish language learning. This 4-credit course (60 hours), offered in English, will bring students inside and outside the classroom, exposing them to the rich tradition of feminist social movements in Argentina. Some activities include, but are not limited to, visiting and analyzing queer tango spaces, joining the world-famous Madres de Plaza del Mayo on their weekly marches outside of the President’s House, and visiting the first high school in the world designed for trans students. The class will consist of rigorous study and lecture to accompany these experiences, culminating in a final paper. Additionally, students can take a Spanish class (15 total hours+ 1 elective credit) to facilitate their navigation and daily life in the city. 

With over 20 years of experience in international education, the team at FLACSO ADELA will work to match students with homestay families and facilitate the safe and seamless transition into life in Buenos Aires. I have attached the newsletter for this program that includes additional information such as dates and fees. If this sounds like something students would be interested in, feel free to forward this information to student listservs, or send me a message and we can talk more. We also offer the possibility of customized programs and are always excited about the idea of working directly with faculty to create innovate new programs for students and/or professional development in Buenos Aires.


5. "Maria Theresa and the Love of her Subjects" 35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

To the present day, Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780) is a legend, a mythical character of Austrian historiography as well as a popular heroine, a fairy queen. She seems to be totally well-known -- on the first glance. Professor Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, will have a closer look at this myth and show that her image has been shaped by 19th century historiography and the ideals of governance and gender roles of that time.

In this lecture, Stollberg-Rilinger will analyze Maria Theresa’s reputation as the “loving mother of her lands.” One prominent feature of that myth is that she was always accessible to everyone, even the “lowliest of her subjects.” The question raised is just how did this general view of the empress arise? What was meant and not meant by “accessibility”? How did personal access really work in every day practice at court? What lies behind this mythos and how did Maria Theresa’s charisma come into being?

Join us for coffee at the start and reception to follow.


6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability

Friday, November 1, 2019
1:30-3:00 PM
Reception and book signing to follow
Bruininks Hall 432
 
"Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theater artists, writers, and students over the last two decades, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Unlearning and relearning from her journeys with the Sangtin movement, Parakh Theatre, and students at UMN, she argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle."
 
Please join us for a reading where Richa Nagar will be joined by Sara Musaifer, one of the co-authors of the ‘Closing Notes’ of the book. 

7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording

The Women's Center is excited to announce a live podcast recording of What's Good, Man?, a new podcast exploring healthy masculinity. Event details, a blurb, flyer, and links to social media posts are included below. Please share with your networks as appropriate. 

This event is co-sponsored with Asian Pacific American Resource Center, The Aurora Center, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Program, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

What's Good, Man? | Live Podcast Recording
Wednesday, November 6, 6 - 8 pm
The Whole - Coffman Union
All are welcome - free and open to the public.
RSVP encouraged: z.umn.edu/WhatsGoodMan

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 (and a few very special guests) to discuss these topics and more.

8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI

Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Room 184
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455

Join organizers at this info session to learn more about the Humanitarian Crisis Simulation which will occur on May 15 to 17, 2020. In this 48-hour immersive learning experience, participants play the role of humanitarian aid workers or volunteer responders in a simulated international humanitarian crisis. They learn the foundations of humanitarian response and apply concepts in the simulation through active teamwork, intense interaction with role-players, and on-the-spot decision-making. Graduate students can register for PubH 6719 (1 credit, spring semester) which is offered in conjunction with the simulation. Special Crisis Mapping track available for GIS students. Undergraduate students can register for PubH 6719 with instructor permission.

This information session is aimed at students planning their Spring 2020 registration. Additional information sessions will be scheduled for early 2020. This info session will cover:
  • History and goals of the simulation
  • Content, learning objectives, and the methods of instructions
  • What is a simulation and what to expect if you participate
  • Registration options and fees
  • Logistics
There will be ample time for questions as you explore this unique learning opportunity. 

9. Design Challenge: Choose Accessible Learning Content webinar 

Join Academic Technology Support Services and LATIS and register for this webinar to learn how to foster an inclusive online learning environment. Being intentional and choosing to make Canvas courses accessible minimizes barriers to learning, reduces the need for individual accommodations, and works to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to succeed. 2:30-3:30 p.m.

10. Toni Morrison Tribute

November 19, 4:00 PM
Elmer L Andersen Library, room 120
Join University professors and Twin Cities writers in celebrating the work of the late Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and essayist. University Professors Zenzele Isoke (GWSS), Terrion Williamson (AAAS), and Professor Emeritus John S. Wright (AAAS/English), as well as community writers, will share their thoughts about the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. University students will read excerpts from Morrison's work. Free and open to the public, no tickets necessary.

11. Brigitte Weltman-Aron " Into Whales: Hélène Cixous 
Rewrites the Book of Jonah."

Join us on Tuesday, November 5th at 4:30pm in Nolte 140 for a wonderful talk by Dr. Brigitte Weltman-Aron on: "Into Whales: Hélène Cixous Rewrites the Book of Jonah."

Abstract:
When Hélène Cixous published her first book, she considered using the pseudonym Jonas, which is the way prophet Jonah is called in French. One of the stories of the book, "Jonah's Whale," is a powerful rewriting of the Biblical Book of Jonah, in which Jonah is asked to prophesy the end of Nineveh. Cixous examines what links a name to a living being, and the implications of being sent for and called into action. In the belly of the whale, an incorporation that is both a punishment and a preservation, Jonah reflects on the significance of mastery when it aims to obliterate others, and on his responsibility to others. 


12. Dr. Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor on Race for Profit: How 
Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black 
Homeownership

The Richard A. Brustad Lecture | Center for Urban and Regional Affairs

Thursday, November 7: 5:30–7 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Free to attend; please register in advance

In her most recent book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion.

As new housing policies came into effect in the 1970s, the real estate industry abandoned its aversion to African Americans, especially Black women, precisely because they were more likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure.

Taylor narrates this dramatic transformation in housing policy, its financial ramifications, and its influence on African Americans. She reveals that federal policy transformed the urban core into a new frontier of cynical extraction disguised as investment.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.

The Richard A. Brustad Lecture, established in 2017, commemorates Dick Brustad's 53-year career in affordable housing development. He led creation of affordable housing in the city, suburbs, and outstate regions of Minnesota. The lecture series serves as a forum for discussing housing issues facing the Twin Citeis region and brings in experts from around the country.

Contact hhhevent@umn.edu or 612-301-2102 with questions.

13. Diverse Returns? Race and Nativity Differentials in Computer Science’s Gender Wage Gap

While the gender wage gap narrowed over the course of the 20th century, progress has largely stalled since the 1990s. One reason may be women’s underrepresentation in well-remunerated, in-demand occupations such as computer science--a field where women’s representation has actually decreased over time. One possible explanation for that trend? The wage gap. Sharon Sassler, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, will examine three key factors in this persistent gap: gender, race/ethnicity, and nativity. Cosponsored by the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy.

Thursday, December 5, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Ellie and Tom Crosby Seminar Room
240 Northrop, 84 Church Street SE
Free and open to the public

14. Violence Against Women: How Colonial Korean Literature Imagined Racial and Class Equity

As colonial Korea transitioned to capitalism, intellectuals embraced the idea of gender equality as well as equality among economic classes and ethnicities. Yet canonical works of Korean literature
from the early 20th century remasculinized colonized men through portrayals of violence against women. Jin-kyung Lee, Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature at UC San
Diego, will argue that literary representations of violence against women were deployed as a strategy of imagining racial and class equality.

Thursday, November 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Ellie and Tom Crosby Seminar Room
240 Northrop, 84 Church Street SE
Free and open to the public


Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. CWGS and English, with emphasis on Queer Theory, joint instructor position


Florida International University is Miami’s public research university. FIU is focused on student success. According to U.S. News and World Report, FIU has 35 programs in the top 100 in the nation among public universities, including 15 in the top 50. FIU is a top U.S. research university with more than $200 million in annual expenditures and is designated as an “Emerging Preeminent State Research University” by the Florida Board of Governors. FIU ranks 15th in the nation among public universities for patent production, which drives innovation, and is one of  the institutions that helps make Florida the top state for higher education. The Next Horizon fundraising campaign is furthering FIU’s commitment to providing students Worlds Ahead opportunities. Today FIU has two campuses and multiple centers, and supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA, with more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. The university has awarded more than 330,000 degrees to many leaders in South Florida and beyond. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of English (units in the College of Arts, Sciences & Education) at Florida International University (FIU) seek applications for one non-tenure track full-time, twelve-month Instructor or Sr. Instructor. Instructor positions are in-unit faculty positions that are benefits eligible and eligible for promotion opportunities that mirror those of tenure-track faculty.  Teaching assignments are face-to-face and/or online.  Prior teaching experience is desirable, and applicants should provide evidence of their ability to teach introductory and upper-level courses in Women’s and Gender Studies as well as English.


The ideal candidate will possess a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in Women’s and Gender Studies, English, or related disciplines with an emphasis on Queer Theory, Black Queer Studies and/or Women’s and Gender Studies. Successful candidates will show a strong record or evidence of promise for quality undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to Job Opening ID 519706 at facultycareers.fiu.edu. and attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and statement of teaching philosophy in a single pdf file. Candidates will be requested to provide names and contact information for at least three references who will be contacted upon submission of application. Applicants are also requested to send an electronic copy of their application materials and the three letters of recommendation to the Director of the Center for Women and Gender Studies, Dr. Yesim Darici. (dariciy@fiu.edu). To receive full consideration, applications and required materials should be received by December 10, 2019.  Review will continue until position is filled.

2. CSU Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant

Colorado State University Morgan Libraries is now accepting applications for its Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant.  A grant will be awarded for up to $1500 to enable visiting scholars and graduate students to pursue research in original sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, along with multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoirs, and essays by feminist publishers.

If you know of any individuals who may be interested in applying or any groups or listservs you are on that may want to spread the word, feel free to share this information.  

The deadline for application is January 21, 2020. More information about the grant is available at: https://libguides.colostate.edu/SpecialCollections/FriedmanResearchGrant.

3. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
The Women’s and Gender Studies program at the College of Charleston invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. We seek an innovative scholar of women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies with a comparative or transnational focus, and a rigorously interdisciplinary and intersectional approach. Specific areas may include, but are not limited to, migration/immigration, transnational feminisms, gender and conflict, reproductive health, or LGBTQ+ policies.

The Assistant Professor will teach at the undergraduate level contributing to the existing curriculum, including Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as developing lower- and upper-level courses in their areas of expertise. The successful candidate will advise undergraduate students, participate in program-building, and otherwise contribute to the intellectual and administrative life of the program while maintaining an active research agenda.

Candidates should address in the cover letter their experience with and commitment to mentoring, advising, teaching, and/or development of undergraduate research projects with students who are well represented in our program and at the College: historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, LGBTQ+, and first-generation college students.

A Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender and/or Sexuality Studies or in a closely related field with a minimum of 18 graduate credit hours in women’s, gender, or sexuality studies, and/or related fields is required by the time of appointment beginning August 16, 2020

Applicants should submit 1) a cover letter 2) copies of unofficial transcripts 3) curriculum vitae 4) a statement of teaching and research interests 5) a sample of their scholarship (25 pages or less), and 6) contact information for three references.

Apply online: https://jobs.cofc.edu/postings/9464   Visit the College of Charleston website and the Women's and Gender Studies Program site. We will begin reviewing applications on 01/04/2019.

4. CLAgency Job Positions - Spring 2020
CLAgency is a brand communications agency based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. We specialize in several areas of communication including brand development, design, and photography. Founded in 2014 with the intention of accomplishing communication goals for the College of Liberal Arts, our agency brings much-needed exposure to the stories of its outstanding students, faculty, and alumni. We are carving the path for the next generation of problem solvers, creatives, and leaders.

Open positions:
Content Creators (7)
Graphic Designers (2)
Account Manager (1)

Would you be able to pass on this opportunity to interested students? I've included an image and a few blurbs with more information for your use. 

Our priority deadline for the positions is Nov. 21 at 11:59 p.m. More details on how to apply can be found at Z.umn.edu/CLAgencyApply. Questions? Feel free to contact clagencymanagement@umn.edu.

5. Winter 2019 funding: Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship, which awards a total of $8,000 thrice per annum, was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in December 2019:
Winter 2019

Application deadline: 25 November 2019

Results: 15 December 2019

All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of their employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi


Call for Papers/Proposals

1. National Questions, International Possibilities: Democratic Revival in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Conference & Special Issue Call For Papers
Organizers: Carlo Fanelli, York University; Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo; Marco Marrone, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Alfredo Ferrara, University of Bari; Giuseppe Cascione, University of Bari
When: Wednesday July 15th to Friday July 17th, 2020
Where: University of Bari
Piazza Umberto I, 1, 70121 Bari BA, Italy

        Alternate Routes and the University of Bari, Italy invites individual paper and panel submissions for our latest conference and journal special issue. Liberal democratic capitalism is increasingly losing legitimacy but what might replace it is increasingly unclear. It has become almost an orthodoxy to argue that the great divide in world politics today is between nationalists and globalists, left- and right-wing populists, and identity and class politics. Despite talk of a new world order, the end of history and an era of post-truth politics, these divisions also reflect profound political limitations.

       This Call for Papers interrogates these divisions and more, including: What role for social democratic and socialist politics today? How to challenge the authoritarian/anti-democratic politics of the right and the debilitating post-politics of “the centre”? What role for national self-determination in international contexts? How to organize social and political conflict? How are labour and other social movements responding?

Additional topics may include but are not limited to:

• Income Transfers and Pre/Redistributive Public Policies
• The Neoliberal State and Alternatives
• Precarious Work, Digital Technologies and Labour Market Restructuring
• Ideological Struggle, Political Parties and Political Representation
• Unions, Equity and Affirmative Action
• Inter/Nationalism and Alt-Populisms
• Transnational Actors and Global Governance
• Imperialism and Neocolonialism
• Climate Change and ‘Green’ Capitalism
• Human Rights and Global Equity
• New forms of Organization, Social and Political Resistance

To submit your proposal, please click HERE or visit www.alternateroutes.ca. CFP available as a downloadable PDF. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is December 31st, 2019. A selection of papers will be considered as part of a special issue publication of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. Conference Registration Fees: Permanent Faculty €200; Contract Faculty and Graduate Students: €150.

2. Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry

Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry is seeking submissions for our next volume.  Penumbra is an online journal of Union Institute and University's Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies.  Penumbra aims to promote social change through theoretically informed engagements with concrete issues and problems. We publish socially engaged innovative, creative, and critical scholarship with a focus on ethical, political, and aesthetic issues in education, humanities, public policy, and leadership.

Submissions
We seek submissions from graduate students, junior scholars, and emerging artists in addition to more established critical and creative voices. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review. Penumbra invites academic papers as well as creative and critical works that address any aspect of the journal's mission and scope.

Submission guidelines can be found at https://unionpenumbra.org/guidelines/. 

Penumbra accepts submissions on a rolling basis throughout the year; however, the deadline for the next volume is February 15, 2020.  

Email submissions to: penumbra.editor@myunion.edu

For more information about Penumbra, please visit: www.unionpenumbra.org

3. Grad Journal CFP


4. November Open Reading Period
Black Lawrence Press seeks innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicating manuscripts that ensnare themselves in our hearts and minds and won’t let go. During our June and November Open Reading Periods, we accept submissions in the following categories: novel, novella, short story collection (full-length and chapbook), poetry (full-length and chapbook), biography & cultural studies, translation (from the German), and creative nonfiction. We are now also accepting proposals for anthologies.

Black Lawrence Press accepts submissions exclusively through our online submission manager, Submittable. We are not able to accept submissions via email or postal mail.
 
Submissions are now open.

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. WomenBeing Conference and Magazine
WomenBeing is now back to work, and our designer and illustrator Narcisa Gambier started designing the magazine. I’m pleased to tell you that we can now confirm we’re launching our digital and online (blog) magazine in November.
It’s also time for news about the event in March 2020. The event in the afternoon of the 8th of March, will be a celebration of International Women’s Day. We’ll have talks, film, an art installation, a digital exhibition, some refreshments and hopefully some time for networking. I’ll reveal more about the content of this small festival, but for now, it you could pin it down in your agenda, it would be great. We will really need your support.
From the 9th to the 11th of March, the conference will be focused on feminist research. In October 2017 we gathered in Edinburgh almost 100 delegates from 32 different countries, and this year I can already confirm that the conference will open with a talk by Anders Eriksson and Katarina Fehir, who work at the executive office of Malmö’s City Council (Sweden).

They are responsible for leading and coordinating the city’s departments activities with gender mainstreaming. The city council in Malmö adopted a development plan for gender mainstreaming in 2011 and has since worked extensively with this.
Their talk will be titled “Gender mainstreaming in practice – the local context”
The contents of the talk will be:
– Swedish national gender policy and a brief history;
– Gender mainstreaming in practice in the city of Malmö and how this affects the citizens of the city;
– lessons learned about what works and what is difficult.
Katrina and Anders will also deliver a workshop on gender mainstreaming.The city of Malmö has participated in a project funded by the Swedish government called “Model municipalities” – the aim was that the city of Malmö would serve as a model for how to work successfully with gender mainstreaming. In the project a checklist for gender mainstreaming was developed and is now being used in different cities in Sweden.
The checklist has also been translated into English and has been tested in workshops in Lithuania. The aim of the workshop is to:
· Find out where the participants organisations rate themselves according to the checklist
· Give the participants a rough guide on how to proceed next.

Regarding the magazine, WomenBeing will be filled up with poetry, art, interviews, research articles, and opinion articles, all from a feminist perspective. It will mostly feature women based in Scotland, but women in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other countries in Europe also contributed with their great work. This magazine reached an international audience before the launch of the first issue. This has helped WomenBeing to become an international and interdisciplinary feminist publication, that sits at the intersection of work, research, and activism.
We are now making a selection of articles to launch on the online magazine (blog). But to access all the content, please download our digital magazine (PDF).
That’s all for now. I’ll be back soon, when we launch the first articles in the online magazine, with more about the festival and conference, and will also let you know about how we will support women in need / our social mission.
You can subscribe to our mailing list on: https://www.womenbeing.co.uk/newsletter-signup/



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