Our speakers are drawn from recent awardees of CSWS Research Grants as well as CSWS faculty or visiting scholars. We invite you to join us for these interesting presentations. (Seating limited to 28.)
Call 346-5015 if you have questions. Talks are subject to change. All talks are scheduled from 12-1:00 p.m. 330 Hendricks Hall unless otherwise noted. The schedule is updated fall through spring terms; please check back.
April 16
"Family and the State in the New Generation of Chilean Women Writers," by Yossa Vidal-Collados, graduate student, Department of Romance Languages (Spanish)
April 30
“The Self between Languages and Places as part of Diasporic Seephardic Identities: a Transnational Poetics of Jewish Languages,” by Monique Balbuena, assistant professor, R.D. Clark Honors College
May 14
"Love and Blood: Petty Urbanites Write Emotion in 1920s Shanghai," by Bryna Goodman, professor, Department of History
Recent attention to the modern history of emotion in China has focused on the connection between political transformations and new discourses of feeling. This talk examines petty urbanite love letters, preserved and published in 1928, to consider how literate but not literary figures found words for their emotion. The letters raise issues of the democratization of exalted feelings, conflicts between the morality of love and family duty, and the interplay of multiple registers of passion.
May 28 (rescheduled from May 7)
"Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields," Shannon Bell, graduate teaching fellow, Department of Sociology
In the coalfields of Central Appalachia, many controversial coal mining practices have intensified over the past twenty years, affecting the health, livelihoods, safety, and peace of mind of many residents. There is a growing network of grassroots activists fighting to hold the coal industry accountable for the numerous environmental and social injustices it inflicts on Appalachia. What is notable about this movement is that women are at the fore, stepping out of their traditional Appalachian gender roles to take an active leadership position in fighting the coal industry. Many of these women have never worked outside the home or spoken out politically before their activism, and many have had to overcome tremendous obstacles to their political involvement: family members or friends working for the coal industry, husbands or other family members who are opposed to their speaking out, and years of socialization into the gender ideology of the “proper” way for women to behave, an ideology particularly prevalent within rural Appalachia. Despite these obstacles, there is a dominant presence of women in the leadership and membership of the resistance movement against the injustices of the coal industry. This interview study seeks to explore what social factors have led to a women-dominated movement in such a traditional social context.
June 4
“Gender Identification, Sex Roles, and Gender Role Conflict Measurement: Development and Refinement of the Gender Traits and Behaviors Scale and the Gender Role Conflict and Traditionalism Scale,” Sean M. Laurent, graduate student, Department of Psychology
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