“Men and Family Work: What’s Changing, What’s Not”

Place: Gumwood Room, Erb Memorial Union

Scott Coltrane is dean of the UO College of Arts and Sciences. He has a new article coming out in the journal Sex Roles (Mexican American men and housework/childcare), an article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences on social policy and men’s family work, and a chapter in a book in the Real Utopias series at University of Wisconsin that asks how gender equality could be promoted via leave and childcare programs. Read an interview with Coltrane in the 2009 CSWS Annual Review.

EMU Ballroom

UO Campus

Film poster for “Finding Face”

This event will feature the film “Finding Face” with filmmaker Patti Duncan.

From the Finding Face website: “‘Finding Face’ details the controversial case of Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia in 1999. At 16, Marina was a rising star in Phnom Penh’s karaoke music scene. She was coerced into an abusive relationship with Cambodia’s Undersecretary of State, Svay Sitha, and subsequently doused with a liter of nitric acid—allegedly by his wife—that disfigured her face. A decade later, despite the fact that there were multiple witnesses to the crime, no charges have ever been filed in the case.”

Patti Duncan

An associate professor of Women’s Studies at Oregon State University, Patti Duncan specializes in transnational feminist theories and movements, women of color in the United States, and Asian and Asian Pacific American women’s writings and experiences. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

This film event is sponsored by CSWS and the Women of Color Project.

Gina Dent

Browsing Room, Knight Library

UO Campus

Gina Dent is associate professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at UC Santa Cruz, and also Chair of the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department. She received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

This talk is sponsored by CSWS and the Women of Color Project.

Call for Papers

Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism

April 22-24, 2010
University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship and other creative work on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality in television and related media. Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have supported new research on a myriad of feminist perspectives related to the study of television, digital, and aural media.

The 2010 Console-ing Passions conference invites paper and panel proposals that consider the breadth of feminist issues on television, audio and new media, including—but not limited to—race and ethnicity, post-colonialism, queer studies, globalization, national identity, television genres, the social and cultural study of new media, the historical development of media, and ongoing feminist concerns with gender dynamics in the production and consumption of media.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (Pacific) on Monday, November 2, 2009.
Conference convenes April 22-24, 2010

Guideline for Proposal Submission:

Both individual papers and panel submissions should be submitted through the Console-ing Passions website via the online form available at www.cptv.uoregon.edu/registration. We will begin accepting submissions on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

Individuals submitting paper proposals will be asked to provide an abstract of 500 words, a short bio, and contact information.

Coordinators proposing Pre-Constituted Panels will be asked to submit a 150-word rationale for the panel (3-4 papers) as well as the following information per contributor: 500-word abstract, short bio, and contact information.

Workshop coordinators will be required to submit a 150-word rationale for the workshop along with the following information per contributor: 200-word abstract, short bio, and contact information. Workshops are intended to encourage discussion; contributors should plan on a series of brief, informal presentations on a related topic so as to facilitate conversation.

Proposals for video, audio, or new media screenings will consist of a 500-word abstract, a short bio of the producer/director, and contact information.

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2010 Console-ing Passions conference at the University of Oregon. For more information about Console-ing Passions and the 2010 conference, please visit our website http://cptv.uoregon.edu.  You can direct specific questions about the conference and the submission process to: cptv@uoregon.edu

Conference Co-Chairs:

Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Film and Media Studies, Department of English, University of Oregon

Carol Stabile, Department of English; School of Journalism and Communication; Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

The Teaching Race and Gender Beyond Diversity conference will draw scholars from across the country with a shared interest in novel approaches to teaching and learning about race and gender in the university classroom.

The two-day conference will include a series of collaborative workshops rooted in teaching race and gender from an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework. The workshops will provide a setting from instructors at all levels and backgrounds to share innovative syllabi, frameworks and exercises covering a range of topics.

The conference will also include a public plenary and discussion on Friday, May 7, 12-1:30 p.m. featuring:

• Rusty Barceló, Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota
• Inés Hernández-Avila , Professor of Native American Studies and Director, Chicana/Latina Research Center, UC Davis
• Angela B. Ginorio, Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington and Director of Rural Girls in Science Program, University of Washington

Registration for the conference is free and will be available through a conference website to be launched in January, 2010. For more information on the conference, contact Daniel Hosang (dhosang@uoregon.edu).

The conference is sponsored by the UO Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of Women and Gender Studies with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the Graduate School, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Place: 330 Hendricks Hall, the Jane Grant Conference Room.

Bryna Tuft, East Asian Languages and Literatures (graduate student and GTF), “A Fine and Private Place: Literary Privacy and Feminist Politics of the Self in the Works of the Advant-Garde Women Writers.”

In the period of economic expansion and increasing openness to personal expression and individuality following Deng Xiaoping’s “Open Door” reforms, the avant-garde women writers engaged in a project of resistance to the traditionally appropriated use of the female body, image, and voice.  This resistance can be seen in the ways they consciously construct a private space in their fiction, by presenting alternate forms of female sexuality (in contrast to the heterosexual wife and mother) and by adding details of their own personal histories in their writing.  Critics of this literature often oversimpify it, attacking it as being self-exploitative and trivial, while feminist supporters often take an over-naturalized view of the descriptions of female sexuality.  While I am certainly motivated by the feminist project of the relocation and revitalization of women’s writing, in this study I will focus on the somewhat more complex issues of privacy in these women’s works, and in this way respond to both critics and advocates of these women’s writing.