1999
- 1999 RIG-A-Fair: Border Lies: Race, Identity and Citizenship.
- Main speakers were Lydia Chavez (associate professor of journalism, University of California, Berkeley), Patricia Penn Hilden (professor of ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley), and Dorothy Roberts (professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law). Also included were four roundtable sessions on affirmative action and beyond, border crossings- subjectivity and identity, opening/closing borders - immigration, globalization, and capitalism; and decoding citizenship and the reproduction of whiteness. The conference ended with a penary session on the (re) imagined community - research and policy directions.
Winter 2000
Noon Talks:
- January 19th – Alison Snyder, Assistant Professor of Architecture, “Women and Placemaking in Traditional and Modern Turkish Villages.”
- February 2nd – Amalia Gladhart, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, “Gender and Memory in Contemporary Latin America Women’s Fiction.”
- March 15th – Anne DePrice, Graduate Student, Psychology, “Testing Betrayal Trauma Predictions: Memory and Emotional Meaning for Traumas among Women.”
- March 29th – Helen Caliantos, Graduate Student, Anthropology, “Eating for Two: A Biocultural Analysis of Food Consumption during Pregnancy.”
- April 5th – CSWS Grants Workshop: S. Marie Harvey, Research Director, CSWS.
Teaching and Tea:
Jane Grant Room, 4:00 PM, sponsored by the Feminist Humanities Project
- January 12th – Barbara Altmann, Associate Professor, Romance Languages, “Christine de Pizan, First Lady of the Middle Ages.”
- February 9th – Gina Psaki, Associate Professor, Romance Languages, “The Maiden Knight: The Roman de Silence and the Romantic Tradition.”
- April 12th – “Kate Chopin: A Feminist Voice at le Fin de Siecle” by South Eugene High School teacher Florence Alvergue
Events:
- January 10th – Shirley Marc, “The Psychology of Health, Immunity, and Disease,” 12PM-1:30PM, Jane Grant Room
- January 13th -14th – Professor Marisa Belaustegoiguitia, University of Mexico, and Normal Alarcon, University of California, Berkeley, Third Woman Press. Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program.
- January 20th – Professor Esther da Costa Meyer of Princeton University, “Ladies’ Paradise? Consumption, Gender, and Pathology in Nineteenth-Century Paris”, 4PM. Sponsored by the (Post-) Modernities section of the Reclaiming the Past RIG.
- TBA – Discussion of “Maria’s Disease: A National Novel (con)Founded” from Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions. Sponsored by the Jewish Feminist RIG.
- February 28th-29th – “Work, Welfare, and Politics” conference co-sponsored by CSWS and the Labor Education Research Center, with a grant from the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics.
- The book that grew out of the conference is Work, Welfare and Politics: Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform, edited by Frances Fox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock, Sandra Morgen. The conference was supported, in part, by a grant from the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. The keynote speaker was Frances Fox Piven.
- March 3rd – “Transformations: Women in History,” a one-day conference for high school students and teachers to celebrate Women’s History Day and learn about women past and present who have shaped history. Sponsored by Teaching the Past in the Present.
- Ecological Conversations Seminars: January 13th and 20th, February 10th and 24th, March 9th, 10AM-12PM
Summer 2000
- June 1st – Ecological Conversations Seminar – Kamala Plat: “Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India,” 3PM-4:50PM, 201 Villard Hall