| Department of Sociology |
| UW- Madison |
Spring 2013 Schedule
Femsem meets Thursdays from 12:30 - 2:00p in 2435 Sewell Social Sciences (unless otherwise noted)
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Room/location |
1/24 |
|
Organizing Session |
2435 Social Science |
1/31 |
Di Wang |
The Interim Survival of Feminist Activism in China: The Case of Women's Voice |
2435 Social Sciences |
2/7 |
No presentations |
Join us at SWS in New Mexico! |
|
2/14 |
Maria Azocar |
Judicial Reforms and Gendered Palace Wars |
2435 Social Sciences |
2/21 |
Gender Prelim Committee |
Gender Prelim Discussion with committee members and gender prelim veterans. Please attend if you plan to take the prelim in August. |
2435 Social Sciences |
2/28 |
Dr. Jeanne Flavin, Professor of Sociology, Fordham University, author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: Policing of Women's Reproduction in America(2009). |
Reproductive Justice for Pregnant Women
Dr. Flavin will discuss her work with National Advocates for Pregnant Women.She leads the Feminist Activism Committee of Sociologists for Women in Society, and is the recipient of SWS's 2013 Feminist Activist Award. |
2435 Social Science |
2/28 |
Informal discussion with Dr. Flavin |
Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to meet Dr. Flavin in an informal setting. Refreshments provided. |
2:30pm - 3:30pm, Sterling Hall 3401 |
3/7 |
Dr. Anna Korteweg, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto. |
The Headscarf Debate in France and the Netherlands: Conflicts of Belonging in National Narratives |
Ingraham 206 |
3/7 |
Reception for Dr. Korteweg |
Quasi-pot luck at Myra's home (17 Sauk Creek Circle). Contact Katie (zaman@wisc.edu) if you can offer a ride, or if you need one. Please bring a dish to pass, Myra will provide vegetarian and non-vegetarian chilli. |
|
3/14 |
Stephanie Canales |
Developing a New Feminist Identity Scale from a Third Wave Perspective |
2435 Social Science |
3/21 |
Belén Hernando |
Gendering Citizenship in the Global City: Subjectivity, Agency, and Gender Equality in a Diverse Democratic High School" |
2435 Social Science |
3/28 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
|
4/4 |
Na Yang |
Reproducing Gender in the State's "Fatherhood": the Discourse of Chinese Family Planning Policy in People's Daily from 1978 to 2008 |
2435 Social Science |
4/11 |
Megan Shoji and Alyn Turner |
Gender Inequality in Children’s Behavioral Problems: The Role of Parents, Peers, and Teachers |
2435 Social Science |
4/18 |
Dr. Jutta Almendinger, first woman president of the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, sociologist of education and stratification |
Educational Expansion and Vocational Training in the EU: An Intractable Contradiction? |
2pm, 245 Educational Building on Bascom Mall |
4/18 |
Dr. Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research includes work on Complex Organizations, Stratification, Economic Sociology, Public Policy, and Comparative Historical Sociology.
|
Does Diversity Management Promote Diversity?
This event is co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence and FemSem (Sociology of Gender at UW-Madison). |
Ingraham 336 |
4/18 |
Professor Dr. Susanne Baer, first out lesbian supreme court justice in Europe. |
Judging Inequalities: The Jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court |
4pm, Lubar Commons, 7200 Law Building 5pm, Reception |
4/25 |
Nancy Rydberg |
Gendered aid to post-conflict northern Ugandan schools: the interaction of global and local discourses about girls' education |
2435 Social Science |
5/2 |
Gina Longo |
Marriage Migrants, Citizenship, and Intersectionality |
2435 Social Science |