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Previous Activities

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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