Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Professor Ivy Ken
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Pictured: Professor Ivy Ken
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WGSS' latest Brown Bag Seminar had a full house this past Wednesday, December 4th for a discussion with Associate Professor of Sociology and TSPPPA, Professor Ivy Ken, who shared her new work on researching the roots of the term "intersectionality" in the scholarship of The Memphis School. Dr. Ken discussed how the feminist scholars of The Memphis School like Bonnie Thornton Dill, Lynn Weber, and Evelyn Nakano Glenn offered cutting-edge intersectional analyses of how race, class, and gender shaped “power relations of dominance” in the 1980's. These scholars conducted and offered intersectional analyses, as well as mentored the next generation of scholars like Crenshaw and Collins. The discussion addressed the need the recognition of the original, if neglected, contributions of The Memphis School. Dr. Ken also convincingly argued for a shift in scholarship about intersectionality that attends to structural oppression and power relations, to complement the conventional approach focused on identity.
Thank you to all that came to take part in this riveting discussion and a very big thanks to Professor Ivy Ken on sharing her upcoming research with us!
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Pictured (left to right): Kavita Daiya, Ivy Ken, and Cynthia Deitch
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Pictured (left to right): Niacka Carty, Ivy Ken, and Kavita Daiya
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Pictured (left to right): Niacka Carty, Bridget Duggan, and Ivy Ken
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Pictured: Audience at Brown Bag Seminar: "The Missing Memphis School"
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Building Our Community: Faculty News
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Professor Dr. Xiaofei Kang
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Xiaofei Kang (Associate Professor of Religion) as the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program’s Executive Committee member. Dr. Kang has a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing University (1983 and 1987), a M.A. in Asian Studies from University of California at Santa Barbara, and a PhD in Chinese History from Columbia University (2000). Her areas of expertise include
religion, gender studies, ethnicity, and China.
She has published several articles and the book
The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
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She is a co-editor of
Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity and Body
(with Jia Jinhua and Ping Yao, SUNY Press, 2014), and is now working on
Gender, Religion and the
Twentieth-Century Communist Revolution in China
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We are also pleased to welcome
Dr. Nicole Ivy (Assistant Professor of American Studies) as the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program's newest affiliated faculty. Professor Ivy's areas of expertise range from histories of science and medicine, Black visual culture, feminist theory, social and cultural history, and Black studies. Nicole Ivy holds a B.A. in English from University of Florida, a M. Phil in American Studies, M.A. in African American Studies, and a PhD in American Studies and African American Studies all from Yale University. She is currently working on two manuscripts entitled
Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology
and
Probable Futures: Risk, Management and the Financialization of Foresight.
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Practicum in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
CRN: 77089
WGSS 6283 (Graduate) ; WGSS 4183 (Undergraduate)
3 Credit Hours
Professors Janine Moussa and Zarizana Abdul Aziz, JD
Each Spring, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program offers a nationally recognized
Practicum
in advocacy, policy, and community organizations working on women's and gender issues for Graduate and select undergraduate students, usually seniors. This 3-credit course is also open to graduate students outside the WGSS program. Placement arrangements in an appropriate organization must be made and approved before the Spring semester starts. This Spring the course will be co-taught by international women’s human rights advocates Janine Moussa and Zarizana Abdul Aziz, co-founders of the
Due Diligence Project
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W
GSS 6225: Contemporary Feminist Theory
CRN: 77929
3 Credit Hours
Professor Kavita Daiya, Ph.D
This course explores key works of feminist theory in an international context, with attention to race and ethnicity, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focalizes its exploration of feminist theory through three organizing rubrics: The Classics; Citizenship; and Migration and Nationalism. Students will begin by discussing some key essays by feminists across the disciplines that have been foundational in transforming feminist thought internationally since the late 20th century—Professor Daiya calls these the classics, even as she invites students to consider what makes particular essays “classic” within the U.S. institution. Students will then move on to a range of feminist readings that address formations of citizenship and subjectivity, as well as address the impact of modern migration and nationalisms. Included in this archive will be some film and literary works that allow the class to expand their discussion of the issues at hand. Taken together, readings raise questions for understanding identity, subjectivity, and power relations in a historicized way for the contemporary moment we find ourselves in, and with attention to the role of institutions, capital, and ideology in shaping lived experience, activist solidarities, as well as political struggle. The class concludes by considering some feminist reflections on the labor we do as scholars, critics, and thinkers, in the academy and outside, through an engagement with selections from Sara Ahmed’s
Living a Feminist Life
and
On Being Included
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Meets Tues. 4:10 - 6:00pm!
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Various Courses in LGBT Health Policy & Practice and Others
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PSYD 6221: LGBT International Health Policy
CRN: 77874
2-3 Credit Hours / Meets Online
Professor Melissa Stone, PhD
Students will learn about the key elements influencing global health policy related to LGBT populations, including some of the most impactful case-studies of health policy changes that in the international arena. The objective of the lecture is to demonstrate the nature of change in health policy priorities and the fundamental influences driving such change, including but not limited to political commitment, single-country agendas, multi-stakeholder partnerships (global development actors, private sector, and civil society) – and how the interplay of multiple factors impact the health and well-being of LGBT individuals by country and region to make up global averages that encompass a plethora of extremes.
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PSYD 6221: LGBT Youth
CRN: 76300
2-3 Credit Hours / Meets Online
Professor Stephen Forssell, PhD
This course will provide students with an overview of the medical, psychological, and social health issues that face lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and other sexual minority youth. This course will examine approaches for intervention an interaction with the LGBT youth population aimed at improving access to culturally competent care and health outcomes for youth. This course will examine current policy issues regarding sexual minority youth and provide strategies and skills to prepare students to be thought leaders and change agents on LGBT youth health issues in mental health, health policy, and related professional settings.This course will specifically examine the intersection of racial, ethnic, and other disempowered identities within the youth population, topics in LGBT psychological and identity development; mental health issues specific to LGBT youth communities. Students will develop skills in leading change projects related to LGBT sexual minority health issues in work settings.
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PSYD 622: Lesbian Health
CRN: 73109
2-3 Credit Hours / Meets Online
Professor Kat Carrick, PhD
This course will provide an intersectional analysis of health care barriers encountered across the lifespan by Lesbians. We will examine how claiming a lesbian identity can affect human development exploring lesbian themes of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. We will discuss how isolation and lack of lesbian specific communities affects coping methods for navigating complex and often conflicting macro social identities (race, ethnicity, social class, religion, and other important social identities). A lifespan approach will help guide discussions of public health policies or healthcare practices that may reinforce barriers to culturally competent lesbian healthcare.
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PHIL 6294:
Topics in Continental Philosophy: Lacan in Context
CRN: 77883
3 Credit Hours
Professor Christopher Venner, PhD
In this course, students will examine the work of
Jaques Lacan, one of the major intellectual figures of the 20th century. No previous background in Lacan or in psychoanalysis is required. Enroll with a willingness to engage with texts that are often difficult, but always rewarding.
Please contact Professor Venner at
cvenner@gwu.edu for any questions that you have about the course.
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Black Women's Dialogue: A Social Experience
Join GW students, faculty, and staff this
Thursday, December 5th
from 6-8PM for "Black Women's Dialogue: A Social Experience." This event will be held in Gelman 702. Black Women's Dialogue aims to create a community for those who identify as a Black woman. This event will include a space for discussions and a network
for
Black women created
by
Black women. All students, faculty, and staff members of The George Washington University are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.
This event hopes to bring more awareness on campus and having people of color, specifically Black women, feel more connected and comfortable at GW. Check out the event's Facebook page
here
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Cultural Factors in Neuropsychiatric Disease: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
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The GW Department of Philosophy is co-organizing a workshop with the goal of identifying gaps in research and patient care, and raising awareness about the many cultural factors impacting neuropsychiatric disease within America and around the world. The event will be held on
December 13, 2019
from 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Find more information & register your visit
here
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International Feminist Perspectives: Womanbeing
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WomenBeing is a magazine of international feminist perspectives that aims to act as an alternative to mainstream women’s magazines, as well as a connection to lived change in intersectional equalities. They aim to support women from developing countries researching or working in fields related to women’s rights, struggling to make their voices heard internationally.
Check out the first digital issue of Womanbeing, which focuses on women, work, and activism,
here
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Upcoming D.C. Events on Gender
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The Chinese American Museum’s mission is to advance the understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of the Chinese American experience by highlighting shared cultural exchanges and stories of the spirit, resilience, and contributions of Chinese Americans throughout their past, present, and future. Head down to view their featured exhibits on Chinese American Women and the Shanghai Jewish Refugees.
The museum is open from
10:00 AM-5:00 PM every Wednesday-Saturday
through the end of the year.
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The Summer Institute is an immersive two-week creative writing and cultural exchange program held in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S., a UNESCO City of Literature, for participants age 18-22 from Pakistan, India, and the U.S. Students from all disciplines – the arts, humanities, sciences, and everything in between – are welcome to apply! This program is free for accepted applicants, and will focus on creative writing and the power of narrative. Attendees take part in master classes in the craft of writing, in collaborative workshops focused on their creative work, and in activities designed to forge new lines of understanding and shared purpose among its community of writers. The Summer Institute is an opportunity to see writing as a form of action – a personally-empowering skill that can be employed for social change.
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Call For Essay Submissions
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The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida (USF) is hosting the 2020 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference in Tampa Bay, Florida. The theme—Embodying Disobedience, Crafting Affinities—figures embodiment and diverse lived experiences as the lifeblood of resistant politics and the livelihood of building alliances across our many differences.
They invite proposals that envision and examine diverse ways of embodying disobedience and crafting affinities
across a wide range of theories, practices, and contexts. All disciplines, methodologies, and styles of presentation are welcome, and from students and scholars at all levels.
Proposal submission is due by
December 6, 2019
. Click
here
for more information.
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The 5th Annual Symposium on Human Trafficking: Immigration, Child Protection, and Domestic Violence will hold its annual conference on June 10-11, 2020 at Wilmington University, New Castle, DE. Join practitioners in the field as well as interested community members to learn and share knowledge about human trafficking and related issues.
This call for papers, presentations, and posters welcomes academic works that enhance knowledge of human trafficking and related areas. 400-600 word abstracts are due on or before
December 15, 2019
and may be sent to johanna.p.bishop@wilmu.edu.
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The George Washington University's English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for their upcoming symposium on
February 28, 2020.
Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for the symposium, and there will be a panel specifically for undergraduate presentations. Faculty are also invited to the event.
All abstracts are due on
January 21st, 2020.
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Deadline:
February 7, 2020
The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) invites applications for a 10-week summer research fellowship for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program will be held from May 20th to July 24th, 2020 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To apply, students must complete an online application, which will be available starting November 4, 2019. The application deadline is
February 7, 2020
. For more details about the program, please see the attached announcement and flyer. For more information, click
here
or contact
murap@unc.edu
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Scholarly Award Opportunities
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The
GW
Undergraduate Research Award
supports students pursuing well-defined research projects under the guidance of faculty members in their chosen fields of study. All research projects must be undertaken with ongoing input and direction from the faculty mentor. It is expected that students and their mentors will discuss their expectations regarding the time commitments of both parties, scope of research, and anticipated results (e.g., papers, presentations, performances, etc.). Student applicants must be full-time undergraduate students at GW and recipients must be enrolled at GW throughout the tenure of the award. GW undergraduate research fellowships provide an award of $5,000 meant to support the student’s research-related expenditures, which may include living expenses, travel, materials, and equipment.
The deadline to apply is
Thursday, December 5.
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The
Sustainability Scholars Award
supports students pursuing faculty-mentored research projects that address GW’s vision for sustainability to create resource systems that are healthy and thriving for all. This includes: environmental issues; social issues that can be applied to sustainable development such as human welfare, social equity issues or social / organizational/behavioral change; economic issues that can be applied to sustainable development; the interconnection of world resources and the human condition from a long-term perspective; policy and communications issues that can be applied to sustainable development.
The deadline to apply is
Thursday, December 5.
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Woman Warrior is an organization that hosts yoga workshops that create a gentle and powerful healing space for women who have experienced sexual trauma. They are seeking student volunteers who are available one to two hours per week to help manage social media accounts.
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Job and Internship Opportunities
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Advocacy and Communications Intern, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
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The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association is looking for an Advocacy & Communications Intern for the Spring 2020 semester. The intern will have substantial responsibilities related to NFPRHA’s Hill Education Day, as well as other advocacy & communications roles as assigned. NFPRHA staff rely on interns to make substantive and supportive contributions to their work.
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Intern, Smithsonian Libraries Education Department
The Smithsonian Libraries' Education Department is seeking an intern to assist in the creation of an interactive classroom resource funded by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Through this internship, a student will have the opportunity to learn about working with historic materials to tell diverse stories. The student will learn how to collaborate within a cohort of peers and work alongside experience professionals. Learn more on their
website
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Various Full-Time Positions, Institute For Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is the nation’s leading and only think tank squarely focused on achieving economic equity and equality for women and families. They are working to build a dynamic and brilliant team of researchers, advocates, and practitioners who are committed to leveraging our original and groundbreaking research for policy change at the local, state and federal levels.
Open positions include Vice President of Research, Multiple directorships, and Research Assistant positions. Learn more
here
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Various Internships, Vital Voices
Vital Voices is an international women’s leadership non-profit that empowers and champions women leaders changing their communities around the world.
Their interns conduct research, draft proposals and social media content, support office management and budget development, help execute internationally renowned programs and much more. Internships at Vital Voices require a commitment ranging between 20-40 hours per week and are unpaid, but provide academic credit. Learn more
here
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Research Intern, A Wider Circle
In this internship you will develop and hone research skills by collecting and analyzing investigative qualitative and quantitative data, which will inform research team members, staff, volunteers and contributors about issues that relate to poverty. These issues may include federal, state, and local programs and policies that relate to poverty, as well as the state of economic opportunity for low-income Americans.
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Summer Intern, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
This is a paid graduate level full-time summer intern position at the NIH. This intern will work on the project entitled Built and Sociocultural Environmental Risk Factors of Cigar Smoking among African American Young Adults. The project involves using online survey and in-depth interview techniques to investigate the pressing environmental risk factors that trigger and escalate cigar smoking among African American young adults. The intern, together with other team members, will assist with recruiting and interviewing participants as well as organizing and analyzing qualitative interview data. Learn more
here
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Political Intern, NARAL Pro-Choice America
The Political Intern will support NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Political Department by conducting targeted research including: federal, gubernatorial, statewide, and local candidates and campaigns for the 2018 election cycles.
As the nation’s leading pro-choice advocacy group, NARAL Pro-Choice America is dedicated to protecting and expanding reproductive freedom for all Americans, including abortion access.
Learn more about this opportunity
here
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Outreach and Prevention Intern, FAIR Girls
Join the FAIR Girls team and make a difference in the lives of survivors of human trafficking. As a Outreach and Prevention Intern you will be responsible for spreading the word about human trafficking to professionals, community members, and at-risk youth in Washington, DC.
Learn more about the position
here
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Gender and Development Intern, Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization in Washington, DC seeks a paid intern to start in January 2020 for a period of 6 months to support research, writing, and outreach work focused on gender and development.
The intern will spend 6 months from January through June 2019 working closely with CGD staff listed above to support research on women’s economic opportunities and agency, and other gender equality and international development-related topics as needed. For more information, click
here.
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Have you checked out our new
blog
yet?This is your go-to spot for gender related Spring 2020 courses, a database of the most recent news digests, and much more!
Stay constantly updated with WGSS
here!
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Join Our LinkedIn Network!
Our brand new WGSS Alumni page is here! Follow this page to receive the latest updates on alumni news, opportunities, and WGSS events! Connect with our alumni, faculty, and current students. Add us to your network today!
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November 2019 WGSS "Envisioning Change" Alumni Speaker Series (left to right): Susan Markham, Gina Chirillo, and Trey Johnston
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Contribute to the WGSS News Digest
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Would you like your event, announcement, or news to be featured in our news digest? There is a process! Please fill out the below form by
Thursdays at 4:00 PM
to have your event featured in our upcoming digests.
Find the form
here
. We look forward to hearing from you!
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The Same-Sex Marriage in China Edition
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Hu Mingliang (left) and Sun Wenlin (right) were among the first to test China’s marriage laws.
Photo: South China Morning Post
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Nearly 200,000 people have appealed to the Chinese authorities to recognize same-sex marriage, in a month-long push sparked by a review of the country’s civil law provi
sions.The country’s LGBT community and its supporters have been writing to legislators and leaving comments in favor of a change to China’s marriage laws during a public comment period which ended on Friday with more than 190,000 people responding.
Although same-sex marriage is not banned in China, there are no laws granting it legal status. The Chinese legal definition of marriage states that it is between one man and one woman. A review of the marriage and family section of the civil law reached its third and final stage last month.
Learn more about the fight for same-sex marriage in China
here
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