Huntington Women's Studies Seminars

Announcing..."California Women Win the Vote"

2012-01-30T12:39:00.000-08:00

If you were at our fall seminar on the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in California, you may be interested to hear that the documentary that Martha Wheelock was making, "California Women Win the Vote," is now available in 29-minute and 39-minute edits (to accommodate various classroom needs). To order, visit WildWestWomen.org .

February 18: "Seeking Transcendence: Women's Spirituality as Liberatory Practice"

2012-01-10T10:41:00.001-08:00

Seeking Transcendence: Women's Spirituality as Liberatory Practice
February 18, 2012
10:00 am to noon

"Paradoxes of Female Independence: Beguines and Anchoresses as Early Women Readers and Writers"
Jennifer Andersen
Professor of English
Interim Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Letters, CSU-San Bernardino

"Dying Readers: Evangelical Girls' Religious Empowerment in the Nineteenth Century"
Brenda Glascott
Assistant Professor of English
CSU-San Bernardino

"Muslim Women's Activism as Spiritual Practice"
Zayn Kassam
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Pomona College

Moderator: Mary Boland, Associate Professor of English, CSU-San Bernardino

Registration: 9:30-10:00 am
Program: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lunch: 12:00 pm

THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED.
You are invited to bring a lunch and join the speakers on the patio following the seminar. There will be no box lunches available for purchase. Attendees will receive complimentary admission to the grounds and museums. Parking is free.

Heading into 2012

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You may be visiting this blog wondering when the next seminar will be held. Here are the dates for the next three seminars:

February 18
March 17
May 12

Program details as they become available, watch this space.

Another item of note for 2012 is that we will no longer be offering box lunches for purchase. This change is being made for various reasons. If you have enjoyed lunching on the terrace after our seminars, consider bringing your own lunch (some folks already do that anyway), or picking up a few items at the Huntington's cafe to eat with us. We will still have tables and chairs and trash cans set up on the terrace for gathering and chatting.

October 1: Votes for Women! Celebrating a Century of Woman Suffrage in California

2011-09-08T22:03:00.000-07:00

VOTES FOR WOMEN!

Celebrating a Century of Woman Suffrage in California

October 1, 2011

10:00 a.m. to noon

Martha Wheelock

Creating the Story of California Woman Suffrage

Filmmaker, Ishtar Films and Wild West Women, Inc.

Co-producer, director and co-writer, California Women Win the Vote!

Barbara Babcock

The Suffrage Struggle in California – as Lived by Clara Foltz

Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford Law School

Author, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (Stanford University Press, 2011)

Founder, Women’s Legal History website

Eileen V. Wallis

Strategies for Success: The Suffrage Campaign in Southern California

Associate Professor, History Department, California Polytechnic University, Pomona

Author, Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 (University of Nevada Press, 2011)

Moderator: Donna C. Schuele

Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

Registration: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Program: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Lunch: 12:00 p.m.

Bring a sack lunch or buy a lunch ticket at registration (limited supply).

The Huntington Library Women's Studies Seminar is free of charge and

no reservation is required.

Attendees will receive complimentary admission to the grounds and museums.

Parking is free.

Please distribute and post this announcement widely.

To access the program flyer in PDF, please click here: https://sites.google.com/site/hlwssflyers/flyers

May 21: Telling Our Stories: Life Into Art

2011-04-12T08:56:00.000-07:00

Join us for the final Huntington Women's Studies Seminars event of the year, the always popular writers' panel.

Telling Our Stories: Life into Art
May 21, 2011

Sandra Tsing Loh, writer/performer
Sandra Tsing Loh is the author of A Year in Van Nuys, Aliens in America, Depth Takes a Holiday, and If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now. She has written and performed in solo shows, including “Mother on Fire” and "Sugar Plum Fairy.” She is a regular commentator on NPR.

Michele Serros, writer
Michele Serros is the author of Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard, How to be a Chicana Role Model, and two Young Adult novels: Honey Blonde Chica and ¡Scandalosa! A Honey Blonde Chica Novel.

Mary Trunk, documentary filmmaker
Mary Trunk is the director of The Watershed and Plain Art. Her newest documentary (currently in post-production), Lost in Living, focuses on women artists as mothers. She is a co-owner of Ma and Pa Films.

Registration: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Program: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch: 12:00 p.m.

Bring a sack lunch or buy a sandwich lunch ticket at registration (limited supply).
THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED.
Seminar participants may be admitted to museum free of charge.

March 5: Women and Progressive Politics in California

2011-02-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

Women and the Tradition of Progressive Politics
in Twentieth-Century California

5 March 2011
10 a.m. to 12 noon

Maria de Lopez, Clubwomen, and Social Networks in Suffrage-Era Los Angeles
Eileen V. Wallis
Assistant Professor, Department of History, California Polytechnic University, Pomona

Women in the Inner Halls of Politics: California's Commission on the Status of Women and
Activism Against Sex Discrimination, 1965-1975
Carol Cini, Ph.D.
Instructor, History Department, De Anza College

Deep Roots: Francisca Flores and Chicana Political Activism in Los Angeles, 1960-1980
Marisela R. Chavez
Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills

Moderator: Donna C. Schuele
Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration, and the program is free to all in attendance.

Save the date for our next program, 21 May 2011.

January 29: Women and Rhetoric

2010-12-18T11:43:00.000-08:00

Women and Rhetoric:

A Roundtable Discussion

Saturday, 29 January 2011

9:30 a.m. to 12 noon

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Sappho’s Garden

Susan Jarratt

Professor, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Rhetoric, Writing, and Radical Feminism in the Late 1960s

Jacqueline Rhodes

Professor, English, CSU-San Bernardino

The Difference Between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull:

Sarah Palin’s Rhetorical Performance at the 2008 Republican Convention

Amy L. Heyse

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, CSU-Long Beach

Katie L. Gibson

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, CSU-Long Beach

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Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration, and the program is free to all in attendance.

Other events of interest at the Huntington

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The following events are NOT programs of the Huntington Women's Studies Seminar, but they are other free programs at the Huntington, with topics we think many in our audience might find interesting.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture “Wild Unrest” Revealed: Pasadena and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
Nov. 9 (Tuesday)
7:30 p.m. Free

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a harrowing story of a woman’s descent into madness, fueled by the author’s own experience. Helen Horowitz, professor of history at Smith College and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, considers Gilman’s life in Pasadena and the making of the story. No reservations required.

History of Science Lecture Series - Science, Medicine, and the Woman Question: The Activism of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi
Dec. 2 (Thursday)
7:30 p.m. Free

The intersection of science and women's rights activism will be explored in this lecture by Carla Bittel, professor of history at Loyola Marymount University. Bittel will discuss the life and work of 19th-century New York physician Mary Putnam Jacobi, focusing on how Jacobi used biological knowledge to advance women's participation in the professions. No reservation required.

Talk and Book Signing: Helen of Pasadena
Dec. 12 (Sunday)
2 p.m. Free

Writer and talk show host Lian Dolan, one of radio’s Satellite Sisters, discusses her new novel, Helen of Pasadena, which takes place in and around The Huntington. Dolan, a longtime Huntington Member, will reveal her inspiration for a key plot device in this lighthearted romantic comedy. A book signing follows. No reservations required.

November 20: Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine

2010-10-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine
Bringing Ms. Magazine to the Classroom
and Feminist Scholarship to Ms.

A round-table discussion between

Katherine Spillar
Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine

Ina Coleman
Managing Director, Ms. in the Classroom

Dianne Bartlow
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, CSU Northridge

Audrey Bilger
Associate Professor of Literature and Faculty Director of the Writing Center, Claremont McKenna College

Moderated by
Karon Jolna
Chair, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminars
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

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Saturday, November 20, 2010
9:30- 10am – Registration
10-12noon – Program
12noon – Lunch on the terrace
Huntington lunches $12-14 at registration or bring a brown bag

THE PROGRAM IS FREE AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED
Save the date for our next program: January 29, 2011

Dates for 2010-2011 Seminars!

2010-09-07T12:09:00.001-07:00

We can't unveil any programs or themes yet, but here are the dates for the four seminars this year:

November 20
January 29
March 5 and
May 21

Remember that all programs are Saturday mornings, 10am-12noon, with registration before and lunch afterwards on the garden patio. Stay tuned for more information soon about program specifics.

May 1: Women Writers and Artists

2010-04-08T11:49:00.000-07:00

Join us on May 1 for our last program of the 2009-2010 season, as we return to a favorite theme, local women writers:

Women writers and artists:
Giving voice to women's stories through writing and photography

Mixing It Up: Women at Crossroads Write a Stinger Cookbook
Kimberly Drake
Visiting Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program, Scripps College

The World Split Open: Women Writing, Teaching Girls
Elline Lipkin
Poet and Fellow, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA

Blessed Are These Hands: Reflections on Women's Values @ the Turn of the 21st Century
Susan Kullmann
Historian, Photographer, and Instructional Technology Consultant, Scripps College

Moderator: Wendy Smith
Associate Professor, Department of English
California State University, San Bernardino

Co-Organizer: Sue Castagnetto
Coordinator, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges

Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we will meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration or reservation taken, and the program is free to all in attendance.

March 20: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction

2010-02-20T17:36:00.000-08:00

Join us March 20, 9:30am-12pm at the Huntington for our next stimulating program of scholarship presented for a diverse audience.

Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Plenary Speakers:

Sherry Velasco
Professor and Chair
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Southern California

Chikako Takeshita
Assistant Professor
Department of Women's Studies
University of California, Riverside

Deborah Mindry, PhD
Global AIDS Research Fellow
UCLA Program in Global Health

Moderator:
Julie Nack Ngue, PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Lecturer, Department of French and Italian
University of Southern California

And save the date for our last panel of the year, May 1, when we return to the popular annual "LA Writers" theme.

January 30: Trafficking in Women Worldwide

2010-01-10T19:00:00.000-08:00

Join us for the next Huntington Women's Studies Seminar! Details below:

Trafficking in Women Worldwide
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Jennifer Musto
Ph.D. Candidate
UCLA Department of Women's Studies

Kay Buck
Executive Director
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)

Julianne McMurtry
Professor of Sociology
Mount St. Mary's College

Moderator:
Karon Jolna
Lecturer
UCLA Department of Women's Studies

9:30am - 10am -- Registration
10am -12pm -- Program
12pm -- Lunch on the Garden Terrace

And save the date for our next program, "Women, Power and Science," to be held on March 20, 2010.

November 14: The Queen's Bench: Women's Voices in the Judiciary

2009-10-21T10:54:00.000-07:00

Come join the Women's Studies Seminars on November 14, for a lively and timely roundtable discussion on women and the US Supreme Court. The panelists will be:

Jane S. De Hart
Professor of History
University of California, Santa Barbara

Rachel F. Moran
Founding Faculty
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law
Berkeley Law School

Donna Schuele
Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
University of California, Irvine

Moderator: Mary R. Boland, Associate Professor, Department of English
California State University, San Bernardino

As usual, the program will start at 10am, and end at 12noon, followed by lunch on the garden terrace (you may purchase a lunch ticket at registration, or bring your own lunch). The program is free and no reservation is required.

Preview of the 2009-2010 schedule of seminars

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The dates are firm, but the topics will no doubt get refined as the planners work their ways on these seminar programs:

November 14: Women and the Supreme Court

January 30, 2010: Trafficking in Women

March 20, 2010: Women, Power and Science

May 1, 2010: Women Writers and the Middle East

Huntington Women's Studies Seminars--now on Facebook!

2009-04-02T14:24:00.001-07:00

If you like to organize your schedule or share announcements with friends using Facebook, now you can include the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars in that habit. Join our Facebook group, and automatically get announcements and reminders about our seminars; you can also see who else is planning to attend and refer friends to the event announcements.

May 2: Our annual "Women Writers in LA" panel!

2009-04-01T18:51:00.000-07:00

Here are the confirmed speakers our annual "Women Writers in Los Angeles" panel, planned for May 2, 10am-12noon. This has become an annual favorite of the seminars' audience, always worth attending.

Gayle Greene is a professor of literature and women's studies at Scripps College, who has published numerous articles in both scholarly and popular intellectual venues. Her non-fiction works include The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation (2001) and the recent Insomniac (2009), which mixes memoir with scientific reportage and addresses the scientific neglect of a disorder that affects millions.

Dorothy Randall Gray is Los Angeles-based poet, author of the best-selling book Soul Between The Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing. Dorothy has been a commentator for National Public Radio, literary consultant to the United Nations Committee on Women, and delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing which commissioned her to create a poem for their opening ceremony, as well as a featured reader and workshop facilitator at many universities, cultural institutions and venues. She is the founder and executive director of the Heartland Institute for Transformation.

Corina Gamma holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University and teaches fine art photography at Long Beach City College. Her work has been featured in several solo exhibitions as well as numerous group exhibitions. She directed the 2005 documentary, Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angeles Speak Out, a beautiful film about homeless women in downtown L.A., narrated in their own voices.

There will be a screening of Ties on a Fence following the presentations, during lunch.

March 14: Our 25th Anniversary Event!

2009-02-04T20:01:00.000-08:00

On March 14, the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars will mark a milestone--25 years of programs bringing quality humanities scholarship on women to a diverse and discerning audience. Join us for a special all-day program (details below), and a lunchtime reception.

Where Are We Now:
A Discussion on the Impact of Feminism on Women's Studies
Saturday, March 14, 2009
9am-10am

Speakers:
Inderpal Grewal, Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
Dianne Bartlow, Gender and Women's Studies, California State University, Northridge
Gail Livings, Social Science, Santa Monica College

Moderator:
Ricky Manoff, Gender and Women's Studies, California State University, Northridge

Reflections on Women’s History: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Saturday, March 14, 2009
10:15am-12:15pm

Panelists:
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University, and Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, The Huntington Library

Karen Offen, Senior Scholar, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Vicki Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano Latino Studies, and Dean, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine

Moderator:
Kendahl Radcliffe, Assistant Professor, Afro-Ethnic Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Women Changing the Face of the Middle East
Saturday, March 14, 2009
1:30pm--3:30 pm

Keynote Speaker: Nayereh Tohidi
Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge
The Women’s Movement and Democracy in Iran: A Comparative Perspective

The Case of Syria
Anne Bennett
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino

Women’s Self-representation and Use of Media in Turkey
Ece Algan
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, California State University, San Bernardino

Transcending the Obstacles: Women in Saudi Arabia
Ferial Masry
Author, Running for all the Right Reasons: A Saudi-born Woman’s Pursuit of Democracy

Moderator: Wendy Smith
Member, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminars Steering Committee
Associate Professor of English, California State University, San Bernardino

Sue Castagnetto contributed a great deal to organizing this panel. Thanks Sue!

January 31: American Catholic Nuns in Historical Perspective

2008-12-10T14:03:00.000-08:00

Join us at the Huntington Library on Saturday, January 31, 9:30am-12noon, for a trio of presentations spanning centuries and coasts:

Community Ministry, Community Change: American Catholic Nuns in Historical Perspective

The Daughters of Charity as Advocates for the Sick Poor in Los Angeles, 1856-1878
Kristine Ashton Gunnell
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Claremont Graduate University

The Harlem Franciscan Hand Maids of Mary: A Community of Women, A Community of Hope, 1916-1931
Kendahl Radcliffe
Assistant Professor, Afro-Ethnic Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Creating Community at the Edge: One Sister's Journey
Sister Terry Dodge, SSL
Executive Director, Crossroads, Inc.

Moderator: Donna Schuele, Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

Sneak peek at 31 January 2009 program

2008-10-28T11:44:00.000-07:00

Just had word that the 31 January 2009 program in the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars will be about nuns as agents of social change. Exact titles and speakers are still being worked out, but that's the topic--share the news with anyone who might be particularly interested in women and religious life.

November 22: The Promise of Women's Political Leadership

2008-10-06T13:41:00.000-07:00

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Join us at the Huntington Library on Saturday November 22, 9:30am-12noon, for a roundtable discussion on the historic 2008 candidacies of women for the highest offices in the United States.

The Promise of Women Leaders in Politics

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Ellen DuBois
Professor of History and Women’s Studies, UCLA
Author, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents
Curator, Huntington Exhibit: Votes for Women: Unfinished Business

Caroline Heldman
Assistant Professor of Politics, Occidental College
Co-Author, Rethinking Madame President

Rebecca Loegering
Campaign Semester Student, Politics, Occidental College

Lori Cox Han
Professor of Political Science, Chapman University
Co-Author, Rethinking Madame President

Glenna Matthews
Historian
Author, Running as a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics

Moderator: Karon Jolna
Chair, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Steering Committee
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

9:30-10am--Registration
10-12noon--Program
12noon--Lunch

Bring a sack lunch or buy a sandwich lunch ticket at registration (limited supply). We will eat together outdoors on the Garden Terrace, weather permitting.

THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED.

When is the next program?

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Mark your calendars for November 22--and watch this space for the program, which will be ready sometime in September.

Into our 25th year...and into the 21st century!

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As the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars move into our 25th season of programs, the steering committee has also decided to set up a blog. We'll be using this space to publicize programs and speakers, and to welcome comments and questions from the community. Welcome to our new presence online, and stay tuned for our exciting plans for 2008-2009. And...if you subscribe to this blog's RSS feed, you'll never miss an announcement.

2007-2008 Programs

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3 November 2007
On the Inside, On the Outside: Women and Prison

"A World of Women: Prisoners, Reformers, and the California Institution at Tehachapi"
Kathleen Cairns, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, History and Women's Studies

"The Inside Story"
Gloria Killian, Action Committee for Women in Prison

"Women in Transition from Prison: Observations on Reentry Challenges"
Marta Lopez-Garza, California State University-Northridge
Women's Studies and Chicana/o Studies

Moderator: Marilyn Montenegro, California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Women's Council Prison Project

12 January 2008
"New Writing" by Women

Emily Rapp, Antioch University, will discuss writing about disabilities and read from her memoir, Poster Child.

Susan Suntree, East Los Angeles College, brings together science, art, spirituality, poetry, and drama in her reading from Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California.

Sholeh Wolpé, born in Iran, is a multinational writer, translator, and anthologist of literature from the Muslim world. She will read from her recent translation of the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad and from her own poetry.

Terry Wolverton is author of six books and fourteen anthologies, including Embers, a novel-in-poems and Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles.

1 March 2008
Feminisms in the Twentieth Century: Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
A Roundtable Discussion in honor of Women's History Month

Jennifer Abod, Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Marisela Chavez, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills

Laura Harris, Associate Professor of English, World Literature, and Black Studies, Pitzer College

Caroline Heldman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Occidental College

10 May 2008
Family Secrets: Documenting the Lives of our Kinswomen

"No more cookies or cake now 'C'est la guerre'": An American Nurse in Turkey, 1919 to 1920"
Kathleen Sheldon, Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

"Secret Strength: Five Generations of Fuentes Women in Los Angeles"
Christina Chavez, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, Cal Poly Pomona

"The Red Flag and Me: Opening the Pandora's Box of My Family's Activist History"
Judy Branfman, filmmaker and Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Moderator: Penny L. Richards, Huntington Women's Studies Steering Committee and UCLA Center for the Study of Women

2006-2007 Programs

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7 October 2006
Gendering at the Border Line: Canada, Mexico, China, and the United States

"Gendered Borders: Immigrating Women and the Foundation of U.S. Immigration Policy, 1875-1924"
Torrie Hester, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oregon

“Domestic Service in 21st Century Oaxaca: Gendered Patterns of National and International Migration”
Jayne Howell, Professor, California State University at Long Beach

“Documenting Chinese American Experiences”
Suellen Cheng, Senior Curator and Executive Director Emeritus, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument

Moderator: Lesley Kawaguchi, Professor, Santa Monica Community College

18 November 2006
Women and Health: Exploring the Margins

"Keepers of the Path: Women, Naturopathic Healing, and Cultural Critique, 1890-1950"
Susan E. Cayleff, San Diego State University Women's Studies

"Fire and Ice: Geographies of Gender and Emotion in the Shetland Isles, Scotland"
Deborah Thien, Cal State University-Long Beach Geography

"Sex Work, Gender Inequality, and HIV"
Gisele Maynard-Tucker, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Moderator: Robyn Fishman, Cal State University-Long Beach

February 3, 2007
Engendering the Environment: History, Culture, Practice

“Gendered Turning Points in Environmental Justice History”
Nancy Unger, Associate Professor of History, Santa Clara University

“More than Meets the Eye: Women Writers on the Environment”
Toni Clark, Associate Professor of English and Dean of Women, Pomona College

“Microcredit at Caohai, China: One Effort to link Conservation, Development and Women”
Melinda Herrold-Menzies, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Pitzer College

Moderator: Martha Matsuoka, Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College

2 June 2007
Women Writing in Los Angeles Today: Who? Why? How?

Eloise Klein Healy has published six books of poetry, most recently, The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho. She formerly directed CSUN’s Women’s Studies Program and was active in the Woman’s Building. Healy founded Antioch University’s program in Creative Writing, where she is Distinguished Professor Emerita.

Tara Ison's latest novel, The List, came out in March. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and elsewhere. She co-wrote a film and has received distinguished fellowships and awards. Ison is currently Associate Professor in Antioch University's MFA program in Creative Writing.

Nina Revoyr grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. Her second novel, Southland, “merges elements of literature and social history with…mystery, while evoking Southern California as a character.” The Age of Dreaming will be published in 2008. Revoyr is currently Remsen Bird Visiting Artist at Occidental College.

Gail Wronsky is author or coauthor of seven books including Poems for Infidels, Dying for Beauty, and Love-Talkers. She has translated for Argentinean poet and activist Alicia Partnoy, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Wronsky is Director of Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University.

2005-2006 Programs

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8 October 2005
Maintaining Poverty: Women and the Welfare State

"From Security to Rehabilitation to Rights: Women, Welfare, and Poverty"
Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Women's Studies, UC-Santa Barbara

"Television's 'Queen for a Day': The Mid-Twentieth-Century 'Worthy' Poor"
Carole Srole, History Department, California State University at Los Angeles

"Tough Love in L.A. County: Latina Immigrants and the Failure of Welfare Reform"
Alejandra Marchevsky, Liberal Studies, California State University at Los Angeles

Moderator: Ricky Manoff, Women's Studies, CSU-Northridge

25 February 2006
Women, Disability, and the Arts

“The Theatrical Landscape of Disability: Domestic vs. Transcendent Geographies”
Victoria Ann Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Redlands

“Truth and Beauty: Women, Disability, and Literary Form”
Helen Deutsch, Associate Professor, Department of English, UCLA

“Five Foot Feat: Dance, Disability, and the Art of the Ordinary"
Catherine Cole, Associate Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC-Santa Barbara

Moderator: Penny L. Richards, Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

18 March 2006
Women in Politics in the Twentieth Century

“In the Service of the Nation: Conservative Women in Early 20th Century France”
Cheryl Koos, Associate Professor of History, CSU-Los Angeles

“Reading and Writing on the Right: Conservative Female Political Culture in Postwar Los Angeles”
Michelle Nickerson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas
Fletcher Jones Fellow, Huntington Library

"Realpolitik: One Woman's Experience in the Trenches of Los Angeles Government"
Valerie Fields
Former Board Member, Los Angeles Unified School District

Moderator: Lisa Sousa, Associate Professor of History, Occidental College

3 June 2006
Performing Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o L.A.

“From Macha to Macho: Expanding a Visual Vocabulary”
Raquel Gutierrez, USC Center for Feminist Research & the Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
and Claudia Rodriguez, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan

“Feminism + Femininity = Anxiety,
and Other Reflections on Performing 'Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist'”
Maria Elena Fernandez, Performance Artist

"Figuring L.A.:
The Performative Force of Luis Alfaro's
'Pocho Nightmare-A Moo Moo Approaches.'"
Tiffany Ana Lopez, UCR Department of English

Moderator:
Rita Cano Alcala, Scripps College Hispanic Studies and Chicano Studies

2004-2005 Programs

2008-05-17T17:50:00.000-07:00

9 October 2004
Labor of Love/Labor of the Oppressed? The Complex Nature of Women's Caregiving

"Enslaved Women as Caregivers in the Antebellum Plantation South"
Sharla Fett, History, Occidental College

"Interdependence as Intimacy: Imagining Caregiving and Community in Fiction by Craik, Yonge, and Gaskell"
Martha Stoddard Holmes, Literature and Writing Studies, CSU-San Marcos

"Caregiving and Inequality: American Women Tending Kin, 1850-1940"
Emily Abel, Public Health, UCLA

Moderator: Penny L. Richards, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

29 January 2005
Fighting for the Future: Activist Women in Twentieth-Century California

"Women Citizens and War: Los Angeles Women, Voluntarism, and World War I Mobilization"
Lynn Dumenil, Professor of History, Occidental College

"'We Are Conscientious Mothers': Women's Postwar Activism for Child Care in California"
Natalie Fousekis, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton

"El Movimiento and Chicana Feminist Activism in California, 1968-1978."
Dionne Espinoza, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Los Angeles

Moderator: Cheryl Koos, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles

16 April 2005
History, Culture, and Politics: Gendering International Human Rights

“The History of International Human Rights”
Ellen DuBois, Professor of History, UCLA

"Human Rights Conventions: Women and Genocide, with Special Reference to Sudan"
Sondra Hale, Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology, UCLA

"Speaking Truth to Power: Palestinian Girls Facing the Wall"
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women and UCLA Law School, and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology/Faculty of Law and School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University - Jerusalem

Moderator: Christine Littleton, Professor of Law and Women’s Studies, UCLA

7 May 2005
Leisurely Pursuits: Women, Popular Culture, and the Twentieth Century

"From Women's Sports and Fitness to Self: Third Wave Feminism and Consumption"
Faye Linda Wachs, Assistant Professor of Psychology/Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

"Driving Change: Women and Fairground Cars in Interwar Britain"
Sandra Dawson, C. Phil., Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Sirens Win! Gender and Sexuality in Las Vegas"
Elizabeth Adams, Interim Director, Liberal Studies Program, California State University, Northridge

Moderator: Torrie Hester, C. Phil., University of Oregon; Instructor, Department of History, Santa Monica College

2003-2004 Programs (incomplete)

2008-05-17T17:30:00.000-07:00

22 November 2003
Beyond Affirmative Action: Transforming Curriculum, Protecting Safety, and Discovering Allies

"Making Science Accessible to Everyone: Inquiry-Based Learning."Jodye Selco, Physical Chemist and Director of the Center for Education and Equity in

Mathematics, Science and Technology (CEEMST), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

"Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Discrimination, and School Safety"
Deanne S. Neiman, Director of the Educational Equity Compliance Office for the Los Angeles Unified School District

"Reframing Identities for Social Justice"
Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton, Director of Student Life, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Moderator: Regina Lark, Manager, UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Instructor, UCLA Women's Studies Program

13 March 2004
In Celebration of Our 20th Anniversary and Women's History Month
FEMINISM UNBOUND: CROSSING BORDERS

Keynote Address:
"The Centrality of Feminisms in American History, 1775-2000"
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton, and Co-Director of the acclaimed website, Women and Social Movements in the U. S., 1600-2000

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL FEMINISMS

"Thoughts on Writing the History of European Feminisms (1700-1950)"
Karen Offen, Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender,
Stanford University

"New Paths of Women's Empowerment in Latin America"
Christine Hunefeldt, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Moderator: Carla Bittel, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University.

NEW DIRECTIONS: FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS

"Using Transnational Frameworks to Expand the Discourse on Gendered Violence"
Sharmila Lodhia, Esq., Lecturer, Department of Women's Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

"Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Reframing the Dialogue in the Classroom"
Khanum Shaikh, Lecturer, Department of Women's Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Moderator: Breny Mendoza, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, California State University, Northridge.

15 May 2004
Global Visions of Imperialism, Sexuality, and Gender

"'Celestial Ladies?': Creating Asian American Womanhood(s) in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Constance Chen, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University

"Prostitution, Race and Politics in the British Empire"
Philippa Levine, Professor of History, University of Southern California

"Hybrid Italians, Diasporic Africans: Who's/Whose 'Meticcio' in the Africa Italy Diaspora?"
Laura Harris, Assistant Professor English/Black Studies, Pitzer College

Moderator: Kathleen Sheldon, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles