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Department of Sociology
UW- Madison

 

Previous Activities

 

 

Spring 2013

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?


Lunch will be provided for those who RSVPed.

 

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

 
Fall 2012

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

9/13

 

Discussion of Sylvia Walby's The Future of Feminism

2435 Social Science

9/20

M. Belén Hernando Llorens

Imagining Lives in the Global City: Identity, Agency, and Gender Justice of Young Women

12:30pm - 2pm

8108 Social Sciences

9/25

Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University

Gender, Neoliberalism and the Crisis in the UK and EU

(Politics, Culture, and Society Research Group)

12:30pm - 2pm

8108 Social Sciences

9/25

Sylvia Walby

The Future of Feminism

4pm, Pyle Center

9/25

Reception for Sylvia Walby

Quasi-potluck reception for Sylvia Walby at Myra's home (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6:30pm

9/27

Zakiya Luna, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, UC-Berkeley

Framing, Identity and Power: When Movements Make Unexpected Choices

2435 Social Science

10/4

Nancy Rydberg

Gender messaging in post conflict aid to schools in northern Uganda

2435 Social Science

10/11

Recent graduates: Anne Genereaux and Sarah Lloyd

Non-Academic Jobs Panel

2435 Social Science

10/18

 

 

2435 Social Science

10/25

Silke Roth, Faculty of Social and Human Services, University of Southampton

Gender at Work: Experiences of People Working in Aid

2435 Social Science

11/1

Vina A. Lanzona, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii-Manoa

Engendering Counterinsurgency: The Battle to Win 'Hearts and Minds' of Women during the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines

 

Sponsored by the Goldberg Center

Cosponsored by the Center for Research on Gender and Women, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

2435 Social Science

11/8

Seong Won Han

Cross-national variation in gender segregation of STEM occupational aspirations: The significance of features of secondary education systems.

2435 Social Science

11/15

So-Jung Lim

Relationships between Mother's Nonstandard Employment and Children's Health

2435 Social Science

11/22

Maria Azocar

Judicial Reforms and Gendered Palace Wars

2435 Social Science

11/29

Simone Ipsa-Landa

School Contexts and Social Control: Parents' Rules and the Construction of Gendered Age Norms among Urban Adolescents.

2435 Social Science

12/6

Michelle Robinson

An Intervention Approach to Strengthening Parent Child Relationships: Findings from a Randomized Trial of Families and Schools Together (co-authors are Adam Gamoran and David Kaplan)

2435 Social Science

12/13

Johanna Quinn

Teaching in a Sea of Crisis: Newspaper Constructions of Good Teachers and Bad Schools

2435 Social Science

 
 
Spring 2012

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

1/26

Joan Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Open session with graduate students

2435 Social Science

2/2

Cancelled due to SWS conference

 

 

2/9

Ayesha Khurshid

Women's Education and Empowerment: Challenges to Development Paradigm

2435 Social Science

2/16

Proposal writing workshop

please see proposal examples here: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/gender/Resources/index.htm

2435 Social Science

2/23

Vansa Shewakramani

The effect of department climate on faculty job satisfaction: A multilevel model using longitudinal data

2435 Social Science

2/29

Eve Shapiro, (Sociology, Westfield State University)

Racialized Technologies of the Self and Gender Transformation in a Performance Community

12:15 pm, 8417 Social Science

3/1

Shu-mei Shih, (Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, UCLA)

Is Feminism Translatable? Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu

4pm, 3401 Sterling Hall

3/8

Kellea Miller

The Cost of NGOization: Regional Differences in Access to Development Aid for Women's Movements

2435 Social Science

3/15

Hillevi Ganetz (Professor of Gender Studies, Stockholm University)

Familiar Beasts: Nature, Gender and Sexuality in Wildlife Films on Television

2435 Social Science

3/22

Lawshawnda Pittman Gay (postdoctoral fellow at Georgia State University and University of Michigan)

Topic: How custodial grandmothers negotiate and manage state subsidized childcare

8417 Social Science (Institute for Research on Poverty seminar)

3/29

Johanna Quinn

Teachers at the intersections of Race, Gender, and Class

2435 Social Science

4/5

SPRING BREAK

 

 

4/12

Katie Zaman

Conflict or Convergence: women's empowerment and neoliberalism in Bangladesh

2435 Social Science

4/19

Mieke Verloo (Professor in Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues, Radboud University Nijmegen)

Intersectional and cross-movement politics and policies: reflections on current practices and debates in the EU

2435 Social Science

4/26

Lisa Brush (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh)

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy (book discussion)

2435 Social Science

5/3

Hannah Miller

Good Parenting" or "Parent Blaming"?: An Analysis of K-12 Parent Involvement Policies and School-Parent Compacts

2435 Social Science

5/10

Naama Nagar

TBA

2435 Social Science

 
 
Fall 2011

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

9/8

 

Organization Meeting

2435 Social Science

9/15

 

Nicole Safar, Public Policy Director of Wisconsin Planned Parenthood

 

Current political and policy issues facing the reproductive healthcare providers in WI and the US

2435 Social Science

9/22

 

Lillian Su

 

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Women: A story of two Southern Chinese markets

2435 Social Science

9/29

 

Zakiya Luna (Mellon Sawyer Postdoc, UW-Madison)

 

Who Speaks for Whom? The politics of gender, race, and authenticity in social movements

2435 Social Science

10/6

 

Pilar Gonalons-Pons

 

The resurgence of paid domestic work in Europe

2435 Social Science

10/13

 

Zakia Salime (Sociology, Rutgers University)

 

Gramscian Publics, Habermasian Spaces: Islamist Women in the Transitional Sphere

2435 Social Science

10/20

 

Felicity Turner (Law and Society Fellow, UW-Madison)

 

Narratives of infanticide: Mothers, Murder, and the State in Nineteenth-Century America

2435 Social Science

10/27

 

Celeste Benson

 

Values Polarization, Abortion Access and Unmarried Childbearing in the US: A Social Movement Explanation for a Demographic Outcome?

2435 Social Science

11/3

 

Millie Thayer (Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

 

Sustaining Movements in Neoliberal Times: Brazilian Feminists and the Social Movement Market

2435 Social Science

11/10

 

Annabel Ipsen

 

Harvesting Inequality: paradoxes of regulation and deregulation in Chilean agriculture

2435 Social Science

11/17

 

Natasha Borges Sugiyama (Political Science, UW-Milwaukee)

 

Gendered Citizenship in Brazil: Poverty, Patriarchy, and the Extension of Legal Identity

2435 Social Science

11/24

 

THANKSGIVING

 

No Femsem

 

12/1

 

Steve Saxonberg (Sociology and Social Policy, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)

 

With a Wimper, Not a Bang: The Increasing Acceptance of Feminism in Central Europe

(paper)

2435 Social Science

12/1

Reception for Steve Saxonberg

Quasi-potluck* reception for Steve Saxonberg at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

7:30pm, 17 Sauk Creek Circle (directions)

12/8

 

Kellea Miller

 

Myths & Methodologies: Examining Gender Equality in Global Grantmaking Discourse

2435 Social Science

12/15

So-Jung Lim

Back to The Future of Marriage: Marriage and Women's Health in Japan

2435 Social Science

 
 
Spring 2011

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

1/20

 

Organization Meeting

2435 Social Science

1/27

Hae Yeon Choo

Migrant Workers, Migrant Women: Producing Gendered Cross-ethnic Subjects for Marriage and Factory Work in South Korea

2435 Social Science

2/3

NO FEMSEM

 

 

2/10

Melissa Wilde

Creating Heaven on Earth: Birth Control, Eugenics and Belief in the Social Gospel 1920-1935 (paper co-authored with Sabrina Danielsen)

2435 Social Science

2/17

Katie Zaman

Bangaldesh: Gender Projects, Women's Work and Domestic Violence

2435 Social Science

2/23

Nancy Folbre (Economics, UMass-Amherst) (hosted by The Havens Center)

The Capitalist Trajectory

4pm, 206 Ingraham Hall

2/23

Reception for Nancy Folbre

Quasi-potluck* reception for Nancy Folbre at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6: 30p, 17 Sauk Creek Circle (directions)

2/24

Nancy Folbre

The Socialist Imaginary

12:20pm, 3470 Social Science

3/3

Pilar Goñalons-Pons

Gendered barriers to exiting unemployment. The gender gap in unemployment duration in Spain

2435 Social Science

3/8

Dana Cloud (Communication Studies, UT- Austin) (hosted by The Havens Center)

Queer Theory, Socialism, and the Demand for Equality

4pm, 206 Ingraham Hall

3/9

Dana Cloud

Stonewall Lives! But Where?

4pm, 8417 Social Science

3/10

Dana Cloud

Open Seminar

12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

3/17

SPRING BREAK

 

 

3/21

Nicola Beisel (Northwestern University)

Discrimination or Genocide? Racial Politics and the 1972 Abortion Referendum

12-1:15p, 3470 Social Science (Race and Ethnicity brownbag)

3/21

Reception for Nicola Beisel

Quasi-potluck* reception for Nicola Beisel at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6: 30p, 17 Sauk Creek Circle (directions)

3/24

Mytoan Nguyen

Beyond the Expat Bubble: Second Generation Vietnamese Americans Negotiate Ethnic Belonging, Race, and Gender in Globalizing Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2435 Social Science

3/28

Kristin Bumiller (Amherst College)

Gender Responsive Policy in an Era of Mass Incarceration: Reconfiguring the Gendered Meaning of Criminality

12-1:15p, 3470 Social Science (Race and Ethnicity brownbag)

3/31

Jill Bowdon

Does College Matter? Individual and Institutional Factors Related to the Gender Gap in Choice and Completion of Math, Engineering, and Physical Science Majors

2435 Social Science

4/7

Susan Gal (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

Politics of 'circulation' in Europe, old and new

2435 Social Science

4/14

Kathrin Zippel (Sociology, Northeastern University)

Being a foreigner, woman and/or mother: US and EU contexts for gendered concerns in international research collaboration

2435 Social Science

4/21

Tom DiPrete and Joscha Legewie

Pathways to a Science and Engineering Bachelor Degree for Men and Women: From MiddleSchool to College (paper by Joscha Legewie and Tom DiPrete)

2435 Social Science

4/28

Hae Yeon Choo, Steven Alvarado and Adam Slez

Approaching the Job Market: Sharing Firsthand Experiences

2435 Social Science

5/5

OPEN

 

 

 

Fall 2010

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

9/2/10

 

Organization Meeting

2435

9/3/10

Ruth Rubio Marin (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)

Reparations for Mass Human Rights Violations: a Gendered Approach

12p, Lubar Commons (7200 Law)

9/9/10

Myra Marx Ferree

Proposal writing

2435

9/16/10

Nikki Graf

Mothers' Employment in Male-Dominated Occupations and Adult Children's OccupationalAttainment

2435

9/23/10

Kimberle Crenshaw (Professor of Law, UCLA)

Intersection of Race and Gender

2435

9/30/10

Diane Wolf (UC-Davis, Sociology)

Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Families in Postwar Holland

2435

9/30/10

Diane Wolf (UC-Davis, Sociology)

Quasi-potluck* reception for Diane Wolf at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6: 30p, 17 Sauk Creek Circle (directions)

10/1/10

Diane Wolf (UC-Davis, Sociology)

Cultural Memories and Public Mourning: The Holocaust and the Vietnam War Compared

12p, 336 Ingraham

10/07/10

Hae Yeon Choo

Gender and the Regime of Containment: Migrant Workers and Question of Citizenship in South Korea (practice job talk)

2435

10/13/10

Kathleen Gerson (NYU, Sociology)

The Unfinished Revolution: Negotiating Gender, Work, and Family Change in 21st Century America

4p, 8417 Social Science

10/13/10

Kathleen Gerson (NYU, Sociology)

Quasi-potluck* reception for Kathleen Gerson at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6: 30p, 17 Sauk Creek Circle (directions)

10/14/10

Kathleen Gerson (NYU, Sociology)

Discussion with Kathleen Gerson

2435

10/21/10

Becky Schewe

Labor, Gender, and Regulation on New Zealand Dairy Farms

2435

10/28/10

Sabra Katz-Wise

Victimization Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals: A Meta-Analysis

2435

11/4/10

Lilian Hsu

A Gendered Regime: the State, Market Women, and Intellectual Property Rights in the People's Republic of China

2435

11/11/10

Celeste Benson

Exploring Gender and Family Welfare Regimes across US States

2435

11/16/10

Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney, Australia)

Raewyn Connell talk/discussion in Politics, Culture and Society brownbag

12:30p, 3401 Sterling

11/16/10

Arlie Hochschild (UC-Berkeley, Sociology)

The Commodity Frontier: Intimate Life in Market Times

4p, 206 Ingraham

11/17/10

Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney, Australia)

Roses from the South: Rethinking Gender Analysis in World Perspective

12:15p, 8417 Social Science

11/17/10

Arlie Hochschild (UC-Berkeley, Sociology)

Global Traffic in Female Service: Nannies, Surrogates, and Emotional Labor

4p, 8417 Social Science

11/17/10

Raewyn Connell and Arlie Hochschild

Quasi-potluck* reception for Raewyn Connell and Arlie Hochschild at Myra's house (17 Sauk Creek Circle)

6: 30p, 17 Sauk Creek Circle(directions)

11/18/10

Arlie Hochschild (open seminar)

Open seminar for students, faculty, and the public

12:20p, 8108 Social Science

12/2/10

Shane Sharp

Interviewing (Gender perspective)

2435

12/9/10

Susan Rottman

Writing Gender into German-Turkish Return Migration

2435

12/16/10

open

open

2435

 

 

Spring 2010

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room

1/21/10

 

Organization Meeting

2435

1/28/10

Asifa Quraishi (UW, Law School)

What is Shari'a and Why Does it Matter for Feminism?

2435

2/4/10

Ellen Samuel (UW, Gender & Women's Studies and English)

Faking It: Bodily Performance and the Disability Con

2435

2/11/10

Liliana Cisnero (UW Development Studies)

Observing the Rashomon Effect in Gender Discourses: Doing Fieldwork at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

2435

2/18/10

 

Discussion: Writing and Publishing

2435

2/25/10

Nicole M. Butkovich Kraus (UW Sociology)

Thesis-to-article Workshop "Xenophobia in the Russian Federation: A Multilevel Analysis"

2435

3/4/10

Hae Yeon Choo (UW, Sociology)

In Transit: Filipina Club Workers in American Military Camptowns in South Korea

2435

3/10/10

Quasi-potluck with Teri Caraway

Chili and drinks provided; salads, sides and desserts welcome. Rideshare wiki.

6:30pm, Myra Ferree's home

3/11/10

Teri Caraway (Political Science, University of Minnesota)

"Theorizing Gender and Global Production: Revisiting 'Assembling Women'"

105 Ingraham Hall

3/18/10

Yakin Erturk (Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women)

Soffa Lecture

4pm, At&t Lounge, The Pyle Center

3/19-3/20

New Perspectives on Gender and Human Security Workshop

3/25/10

Linda Sendens

EU Policy, Democracy and Social Inclusion

12-1:15pm, Lubar Commons, 7200 Law School

4/8/10

Abby Drwecki

Body Projects and Women’s Empowerment in Poland: The Intersections of Post-Socialism and Individuation

2435

4/15/10

Marcus Hunter (Sociology, Northwestern)

All the Gays are White and All the Blacks are Straight: Black Gay Men, Identity and Community

2435

4/22/10

Lillian Hsiao-Ling Su

Flexible Governance: State, Market Women, and Intellectual Property Rights in the People's Republic of China

2435

4/29/10

Cameron Macdonald (UW, Sociology)

"Doing the 'Wet Work': Gender Identity and Cancer Caregiving Strategies

2435

5/6/10

Helen Kinsella (UW, Political Science)

Erotic Triangles in the Laws of War

2435

 

Fall 2009

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room

9/3/09

Christina Ewig & Myra Marx Ferree

Organizational meeting

8146

9/10/09

Jenna Nobles

"Migration and Mexican Couples: Heterogeneity in Returns and Preferences"

2435

9/17/09

Christina Ewig & Myra Marx Ferree

Grant Writing Workshop
[see workshop resources]

2435

9/24/09

Diane Elson
Sociology, University of Essex

"Gender Dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis"
[The reception for Diane Elson is 7pm, Tuesday 9/22- click here for the rideshare wiki.]

8108

10/1/09

Susana Lastarria

Some Evidence on the Impact of Micro-Credit on Children's Education in Malawi and India

2435

10/8/09

Wendy M. Christensen

When Politics is Private: Self-Silencing Military Mothers (Practice Job Talk)

2435

10/15/09

Kristy Kelly

Whatever happend to 'comrade'?" Learning to Mainstreaming Gender as Vietnam's Development Policy (Practice Job Talk)

2435

10/22/09

Miriam Glucksman
Sociology, University of Essex

"Women on the Line" revisited. Changes and Continuities in Women's Work"

2435

10/29/09

Lynn Prince Cooke
Social Policy & Sociology, University of Kent

"Equality for Some: Gender, Class and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective"

2435

11/5/09

Angela Barian

Practice Job Talk

2435

11/12/09

Shahirah Mahmood & Taylor Price (shared presentation)

"Traditional Leaders, Modern Problems: Examining the Role of Chiefs in Namibia's Gender-Based Violence Campaign" (Price) and "When is international aid effective in promoting gender equality? Case studies of improving women’s local representation and welfare within community driven development projects in Indonesia" (Mahmood)

2435

11/16/09, 12pm

Sally Kenney, Professor, Department of Law and Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota Director, Center on Women and Public Policy

Public Lecture:
"Making the Case for Women Judges"

2435

11/16/09, 3pm

Workshop:
"Teaching and Writing Case Studies on Women and Social Change: the Case of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition"

2435

11/19/09

Liz Holzer and Shane Sharp

Interviewing Techniques

2435

12/3/09, 1pm

Ingrid Robeyns, Practical Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

"Social Justice and the Family"
[More information]

5181 Helen C. White

12/10/09

Angie Stuart

 

2435

 
Spring 2009

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room

1/22/09

 

Organizational meeting

8146

1/29/09

Pilar Goñalons

Transnational Perspective: Contributions and Challenges from a Gender Approach: Migrant-Connected Business Women in the Country of Origin

8146

2/5/09

Laura Dresser, COWS

Cleaning and Caring in the Home: Shared Problems? Shared
Possibilities?

8146

2/12/09

 

Methods discussion: Ethics, Validity, Writing

8146

2/19/09

Jennifer Sheridan, WISELI

Understanding the Experiences of Underrepresented Students in Engineering: The PACE Study

8146

2/26/09

Chandra Hinton

Outsider/Within: A Multiracial Feminist Analysis of a Radical Feminist Space

8146

3/5/09

Katie Zaman

Bangladeshi Women Workers and Domestic Violence

8146

3/12/09

Jason Orne

Staying-in Stories: Managing Selective Outness in Young Gay Men

8146

3/25/09

 

Special Wednesday Evening Meeting: How to Turn a Thesis into an Article for Publication

 

3/26/09

Beth Hoffman, Dept. of Sociology, Purdue University

Lactation Support in the Workplace

8146

4/2/09

Danielle Currier, Dept. of Sociology, College of William and Mary

Intentional Ambiguity: How Definitions of "Hooking Up" Maintain Boundaries of Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity

8146

4/9/09

Matt Desmond

Eviction and the Feminization of Poverty

8146

4/16/09

Laurel Kent

Contested Legal Framing of Women Who Kill their Abusers

8146

4/23/09

Kellea Miller

Making the Case: External Representation vs. Internal Practices in Feminist Funding and Fund-seeking

8146

4/30/09

Kristy Kelly

What Do Pigs Have to Do with Gender? Institutionalizing Gender Inside, Outside and Alongside the State

8146

5/7/09

Julia McReynolds

Gender and the Medical Profession in Argentina

8146

 
Fall 2008

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room

9/18/08

Christina Ewig

Insuring gender equity? Public and Private Health Insurance in Peru

8146

9/25/08

 

Discussion of feminist methodology (see below for readings)

8146

10/2/08

Angela Barian

Chewing the Fat: Understanding the Discourses of Childhood Obesity

8146

10/9/08

Wendy Christensen

Defining Military Motherhood

8146

10/16/08

Maria Isabel Espinoza

Women's artisanal mining in the South of Peru: the "Cuatro Horas Pallaqueras Community"

8146

10/23/08

Naama Nargar

The double feminization of women's citizenship: NGOization and the gendering of civil society

8146

10/30/08

Jessica Autumn Brown

Citizenship of the Heart and Mind: Educating Germany's Immigrants on the Emotional and Ideological Components of Belongingness

8146

11/6/08

Keera Allendorf

The Quality of Family Relationships, Women's
Agency, and Maternal and Child Health in India

8146

11/13/08

Jaewoon Bang

Coffee, Sex and the City – Spatial Gendering of Starbucks in South Korea

8146

11/20/08

Julie Keller

Queer in the Countryside: LGBT Farmers and Rural Life

8146

12/4/08

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti

Prostitution, Sexuality, and Biopower in
Postcolonial India

8146

 

Spring 2008

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

1/28/08

Pamela Herd

Organizational Meeting

 

8108

2/4/08

Sarah Robert

Public work / Private lives: The absent presence of teachers' work in Argentina's reform context 

 

8108

2/11/08

Anna Rogers

Feminist consciousness-raising groups in West Yorkshire, UK, in the '70s and '80s

 

8108

2/18/08

Jessica Brown

Citizenship of the Heart and Mind: Educating Germany’s immigrants in the emotional and ideological components of belongingness

 

8108

2/25/08

 

 

 

8108

3/3/08

Kristy Kelly

Learning to Mainstream Gender in Vietnam: Where 'Equity' Meets 'Locality' in UN Development Policy

 

8108

3/10/08

Hae Yeon Choo

Citizenship at the margins: Filipina migrant women and the negotiation of national boundaries in Korea

 

8108

3/17/08

 

Spring Break

 

8108

3/24/08

 

 

 

8108

3/31-4/4/08

Carme Diana Deere (Friday talk)

TBA

 

TBA

4/7/08

Angela Barian

Chewing the Fat - Discourses of Childhood Obesity in the U.S. Public Schools

 

 

4/14/08

Myra Marx Ferree

TARGET

 

8108

4/21/08

Sylvia Walby

TBA

 

TBA

4/28/08

Kristen Springer

Gender and Health Outcomes

 

8417

5/5/08

Laurel Kent

Domestic Violence, Self-defense and the Women's Movement

 

8108

 

Fall 2007

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

9/10/07

Pamela Herd

Organizational Meeting

 

8108

9/17/07

Sarah Robert

Public work / Private lives: The absent presence of teachers' work in Argentina's reform context 

 

8108

9/24/07

Sarah Bruch

Policy Feedback, Political Participation, and the Disadvantaged

 

8108

10/1/07

Angela Barian

The Social Construction of the Obesity Epidemic

 

8108

10/8/07

Grainne de Burca

Making Anti-discrimination law in Europe

Law & Society

8108

10/15/07

Gioconda Herrerra

Migration/Global Care Chains: Ecuadoran Women Migrants in Spain

 

8108

10/22/07

Wendy Christensen

Militarized Motherhood

 

8108

10/29/07

Devah Pager

Gender, race and low wage labor markets

Race & Ethnicity

8108

11/5/07

Patricia Melgar Alcantud

Preventive Socialization of Violence Against Women

 

8108

11/12/07

Jennifer Holland

Immigration and Family Change in Europe

 

8108

11/19/07

Alyn Turner

Gender, Height, Weight, and Wages

 

8108

11/26/07

Movie:  Gender and Hip Hop Video Joint with Race/Ethnicity

 

3470

12/3/07

Anne Generoux

Migration and Fertility

 

8108

12/10/07

Niki Graf

TBA

 

8108

 

Spring 2007 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

1/22/07

Pamela Herd

Organizational Meeting

 

8108

1/29/07

Deborah Carr

"No, a grand-dog doesn't count...: Generational differences in women's work-family choices and implications for mother-daughter relationships"

 

8108

2/5/07

Karen Hagemann

A German "Sonderweg": Women, Work and the "Time Politics" of School Education in West Germany

WAGE

8417

2/12/07

Anne Genereux

African Immigrants in France: Transnational Families, Isolated Lives

 

8108

2/19/07

Claudia Koonz

TBA

Center for German and European Studies

8417

2/26/07

Hae Yeon Choo

Dismantling Binaries: Framing Teenage Homosexuality in South Korean Newspapers 1990-2005

 

8108

3/5/07

Jane Jenson, Mary Daly,Tammy Hervey

Social Europe and the Future of the Welfare State

 

TBA

3/12/07

Angela Barian and Shamus Kahn

Toward a General Theory of Embodiment

 

8108

3/19/07

Diane Soles

Exploring the Public-Private Debates through the Lens of Chilean

 

8108

3/26/07

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Spouses, Jobs, and Class Perceptions

 

8108

4/2/07

Spring Break

 

 

8108

4/9/07

Julie Keller

WI Women's Farmer's Project

 

8108

4/16/07

Kim Dacosta

TBA

 

8108

4/23/07

Emanuela Lombardo

Gender Mainstreaming

 

8108

4/30/07

Giovanna Merli

Sex Behavior and AIDS

 

8108

5/7/07

Diana Hojlund Madsen

The African State and the Women's Movement

 

8108

 

Fall 2006 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

9/11/06

Pamela Herd

Organizational Meeting

 

8108

9/18/06

Noelle Chesley

Does Technology Use Reinforce Gendered Boundaries Between Work and Home?

 

8108

9/25/06

Shamus Kahn

Production of Privilege

 

8108

10/2/06

Jane Collins

'Only Work Should Pay'--Contradictions of Citizenship for Women Leaving Welfare

 

8108

10/9/06

Michelle Hasday

Male Pornography Use and Orientations Towards Sexual Relationships with Women

 

8108

10/16/06

Vicki Mayer

Welfare Reform: A Moment of State Reformation

 

8108

10/17/06
6:30pm

 

Job Market Workshop (John Martin, Christine Schwartz, and Shaumus Kahn)

 

Myra's house

10/23/06

Cynthia Feliciano

Gendered Hierarchies: Racial Exclusion and Inclusion in Dating Choices

 

8108

10/30/06

Landy Sanchez

Residential Segregation and Labor Markets in Mexico City: Is there a Gender Difference?

 

8108

11/9/06
Thursday
12pm

Cynthia Enloe

"Where are the Women in the U.S. War in Iraq? Why does it Matter?

Women's Studies Research Center Transnational Feminisms Research Circle and Center for German and European Studies

On Wisconsin Rm. Red Gym

11/13/06

Leslie McCall

What Does Class Inequality Among Women Look Like? A Comparison with Men and Families in the Unites States, 1970-2000

 

8108

11/20/06

Anne Genereux

The impact of migration on fertility of sub-Saharan immigrants in France

 

8108

11/27/06

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti

"Impossible Subjects": Gender, Sexuality and Identity in Post-Colonial India

 

8108

11/28/06
6:30pm

 

Article Workshop

 

Pam's house

12/4/06

Angela Barian

TBA

 

8108

12/11/06

Keera Allendorf

Household decision making, family relationships, and health in India

 

8108

 

Spring 2006:

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

1/24/06

Cameron Macdonald

Organizational

 

8108

1/30/06

Nikki Graf

Mothers and the Stratification Process: Intergenerational Effects on the Labor Force Participation and Status Attainment of Male and Female Offspring

 

8108

2/6/06

Jessica Brown

Einwanderungsland: Gender & Citizenship in Multicultural Germany

 

8108

2/13/06

Hae Yeon Choo

Making a South Korean: Gender, Migration & Citizenship in Contemporary South Korea

 

8108

2/20/06

Professor Julia McQuillan, University of Nebraska

"No longer Intending: The relationship between Relinquished Fertility Intentions and Distress."

 

8411

2/27/06

Professor Asifa Quraishi, School of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Western Advocacy for Muslim Women: It's Not Just the Thought that Counts

Trans-natiotional Feminism Study Circle/ CES/ WSRC

8417

3/6/06

Professor Danielle Currier, Radford University

Heteronormativity and Gendered Self Presentation among College Athletes

 

8108

3/20/06

Mary Hannah Weir

Organizing Across Identities

 

8108

3/20/06 7pm

 

MA to Thesis Workshop- Hae Yeon Choo and Kristy Kelly

 

Chez Cameron

3/27/06

Shamus Kahn

Gendered Pathways to Belonging

 

8108

4/3/06

Dr Maria Stratigaki, Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Greece

European Approaches to Gender Equality: EU Policy & Practice

CGES

105 Ingraham

4/10/06

Professor Yen Le Espiritu

An Asian American Critical Transnational Perspective to Feminism

Race & Ethnicity Brownbag - Sociology

105 Ingraham

4/17/06

Brigitte Beauzamy

Suburbs in France: a difficult place for anti-globalization and feminist mobilizations

Trans-national Feminism Study Circle/ CES/ WSRC

105 Ingraham

4/24/06

Professor Helen Kinsella, Political Science

Erotic Triangles: Protection of Civilians in War

Trans-natiotional Feminism Study Circle/ CES/ WSRC

105 Ingraham

5/1/06

Wendy Christensen

'Our Family, Your Freedom:'  Militarized Motherhood in Online Support Forums

 

8108

5/1/06 6:30pm

 

Potluck Gathering

 

Chez Cameron

 

Fall 2005 Schedule:

Flyers: Mary Bernstein 11/22 || Nancy Naples 11/21 || Nikki Jones Talk 10/17 || Nikki Jones Workshop 10/24

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

9/12/05

 

Organizational

 

8108

9/19/05

Lisa Wade

"Practice Job Talk: Discursive Contests between Doctors and Feminists within Medicine, Activism, and in the Mass Media."

 

8108

9/26/05

Keera Allendorf

"He Said, She Said, They Said: Household Decisionmaking and Health Care in Nepal".

 

8108

10/03/05

Kristin Springer

"His" and "Her" Marriage Today: The Impact of Spousal Employment and Caregiving on Later Mid-Life Health

 

8108

10/10/05

Hae Yeon Choo & Leanne Tigges

"Rural Myth Revisited: Gender and Nonstandard work in Non-metropolitan Wisconsin

 

8108

10/17/05

 

cancelled

 

 

10/20/05
6:30-9:30pm

Mara Loveman, Michel Guillot, Chad Goldberg, and Cameron Macdonald

"Strategies for the Job Market: the Talk, the Interviews, the Meals…and Everything." [NOTE: Pot Luck Dinner - please RSVP to cmacdon@ssc.wisc.edu for this event]

 

1319 Jenifer st.

10/24/05

Nikki Jones

Working "the Code": On Gender and Violence in the Inner City

Race and Ethnicicity Brownbag

8417

10/31/05

Katrina Zippel, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University

The Politics of Sexual Harrassment: A Comparative Study of The US, the EU, and Germany [link]

CGES, Center for European Studies, WSRC, International Studies

8417

11/7/05

Mary Tuominen, Professor of Sociology, Denison University

"The Right and Responsibility to Care:  How Women of Color Frame and Claim the Value of Their Work"

Department of Family Studies

8108

11/14/05

Ann R. Saetnan, Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center

"All Fetuses Created Equal? Racialization of the fetal normogram"

WSRC, Science and Technology Brownbag

8108

11/21/05

Nancy Naples, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Connecticut

Sexual Citizenship in International Context: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Social Regulation

International Studies, Center for Research on Women, CES,

8417

11/21/05
4-6pm

Mary Bernstein, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

Reception for Mary Bernstein and LGBT students and allies - contact Mary Hanna-Weir for Details

Institute for Legal Studies, the Faculty Committee on LGBT Issues

8417

11/22/05
12:05-1:30

Mary Bernstein, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

"Using the Law: The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the Decriminalization of Sodomy"

Institute for Legal Studies, the Faculty Committee on LGBT Issues

8417

11/28/05

Alfonso Morales

"Women's cancer screening practices and language preference: border and non-border comparisons"

 

8108

12/5/05

Amy Schalet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy at the University of California, San Francisco

Raging Hormones, Regulated Love:  Adolescent Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United States and the Netherlands."

Center for German and European Studies

206 Ingraham

12/5/05
6:30 PM

 

Pot Luck Dinner

Chez Macdonald

 

Flyers: France Winddance Twine 11/8/05

 

Spring 2005 Schedule:

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

1/21/2005

Dorothy Smith

"A Conversation With Dorothy Smith"

Theory@Madison

8417

1/24/2005

Cameron Macdonald

Organization Meeting

 

8108

2/7/2005

ILS Panelists

Marriage Amendment Symposium

 

Law School Rm 7200

2/14/2005

Cameron Macdonald

"'They're Too Poor and They All Smoke:' Ethnic Logics and Childcare Hiring Decisions"

 

8108

2/21/2005

David Merrill

Gender and Depression

 

8108

2/28/2005

Jessica Brown, Emily Kremer and Wendy Christensen

Working in the Gendered Academy

 

8108

3/7/2005

Professor Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University Law School

"Privatization and Punishment - Regulating Who Reproduces"

IRP, ILS, Race and Ethnicity, Women's Studies

8417

3/14/2005

Anne Genereux

Fertility of West African Immigrants in France

 

8108

3/28/2005

Thesis to Article Workshop

Pot Luck Dinner and Workshop

 

 

4/4/2005

Professor Collette Fagan

Part-Time Workers

Economic Sociology

8108

4/6/2005

Professor Pippa Norris, Kennedy School, Harvard University

"Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Worldwide."

CES, CGES

8417

4/11/2005

Professor Valerie Sperling, Clark University

"Women's Organizations in Russia: Institutional Interest Groups or Vulnerable Dissidents?

CREECA, WMNS

8411

4/18/2005

Janet Gornick & Marcia Meyers

Real Utopias Project

Havens Center

8108

4/25/2005

Jessica Brown

"Allah's Oppressed Daughters:" News Media Coverage of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany

 

8108

5/2/2005

Potluck Gathering

Chez Cameron

 

 

 

Fall 2004 Schedule:

Date

Speaker

Topic

Co-Sponsors

Room

9/13/2004

Myra/Cameron

Organizational Meeting

 

8108

9/20/2004

Janeen Baxter - Visiting Scholar, University of Queensland

Transitons through the Lifecourse and Time Spent on Housework: A View from Australia.

 

8108

9/27/2004

Aida Hurtado - University of California, Santa Cruz

Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity

Race and Ethnicity

8108

10/4/2004

Keera Allendorf

Do women's land rights promote empowerment and child health in Nepal?

 

8108

10/11/2004

Tetyana Pudrovska

Networks of Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: North/South Linkages and Identities

 

8108

10/18/2004

Cheryl Gilkes - Colby College, Havens Center Speaker

My Mother's Song Is Mine: Sacred Musics as Discourses of Psychic Survival

Havens Center

6310

10/25/2004

Lisa Wade

Health and Human Rights in American Discourse about Female Genital Mutilation

 

8108

11/1/2004

Kristy Elizabeth Kelly

Gender in Transition: Lives of Vietmanese Students in the US

 

8108

11/8/2004

France Winddance Twine - UC Santa Barbara and Duke University

A White Side of Black Britain: Racial Logics and Gendered Labor in Multiracial Families

Race and Ethnicity

6310

11/15/2004

Leanne Tigges, Professor, Rural Sociology

"Placing" gender in labor market analysis

 

8108

11/22/2004

Sarah Warren

Una Necesidad: Mapuche Women and the Creation of New Spaces in the Context of Struggle

 

8108

11/29/2004

Wendy Christensen

"Yee-Ha" is not a Foreign Policy: Masculinity in the Iraq War Debate

 

8108

12/6/2004

Victoria Mayer

Public and private visions of Wisconsin's social welfare program.

 

8108

12/13/2004

Semester Wrap-up

Pot-luck Gathering Chez Cameron

 

 

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