Announcement: Women’s and Gender Studies Conference Today and Tomorrow!
Today and tomorrow, the Center for Women's and Gender Studies presents "The Feeling Body—Feeling the Body, " the 20th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Conference. This graduate student run conference offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to share their research on issues in women's, gender, and/or sexuality studies. The theme of this year's conference addresses the relationship between feminist theory, affect, and the body.
The following comes to us from the conference program:
Affect is an emerging new direction in feminist theory, generating fascinating conversations around the role of the body and feeling in producing knowledge. How are other disciplines writing about and engaging with affect? How might this new direction shift how we think about the role of the body in academic research? The panelists will examine these topics, exploring the ways in which the body shapes knowledge.
The conference will feature a keynote address on Friday at 3:30p.m. by Dr. Ann Cvetkovich (Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at UT) in the SAC Ballroom.Also, be sure to check out our AMS grad students presenting at this year's conference! Masters student Tynisha Scott will present her paper, "Imagining Freedom: On the Vestiges of Enslaved Black Women, Pleasure, and Sexuality" at 3:00p.m. today in SAC 3.116, and Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Kelly will present her paper, "Negotiating (Im)Mobility: Solidarity Tourism in Occupied Palestine" at 1:30 Friday in SAC 1.118.Hope to see you there!
Announcement: Littlefield Lectures and IASPM-US Conference This Week!
The conference season is certainly upon us at UT, and we have two more great events to point you toward today.First off, the the Department of History's Littlefield Lectures will feature Professor Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). This afternoon, Professor Dowd Hall will give a talk entitled, “Left of the New Deal: Radical Women and the Struggle to Put Race and the South at the Center of Reform” at 4:00pm in SAC 2.302. Tomorrow, the Littlefield Lectures continue with a second lecture from Professor Dowd Hall entitled, “Misread and Betrayed: Left Feminism in the Shadow of the Long Cold War, ” also at 4:00pm, in CLA 0.126.In addition, Austin will play host to the IASPM-US Conference (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch ) today through Sunday at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center. The theme for this year's conference is "Liminality & Borderlands."According to the conference website, the conference will include...
...a rock show, a Who’s Who panel from Austin City Limits, a cash bar engagement at the Dive Bar, scholars spinning DJ sets at a local club, and wall-to-wallsmartpopularmusicanalysisspreadover the nextfourdays. We also happen to have more tattoos than your average academic conference, for what it’s worth.
If that's not a good endorsement, I don't know what is! Happy weekend, Austin!
Announcement: Two Great Conferences This Week!
This week, UT will host not one but two great conferences. Here's all the info!The Warfield Center presents the 2013 Lozano Long Conference: "Refashioning Blackness: Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas." The conference continues through today and tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, in SRH.
Full schedule here.The Undergraduate Writing Center presents the 20th Anniversary Celebration & Symposium: "The Future of Writing Centers," from Friday through Sunday, February 22-24, at the Texas Union.
Full schedule here.
Announcement: AMS Film Series Continues Next Week!
The American Studies film series continues next week on Tuesday with a screening of Good Hair. The screening will take place 6:30-8:30pm in CAL 100.
To celebrate Black History Month, the American Studies Film Series will host a FREE screening of Jeff Stilson's 2009 docu-comedy Good Hair!
Good Hair follows comedian Chris Rock on his quest to answer his young daughter's question, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" Finding the answer takes him on an international journey to better understand the African American hair industry. He also seeks input from various African American celebrities, from Maya Angelou to Eve. American Studies PhD student Jackie Smith will give a brief introduction to the film. Jackie's academic interests include critical race theory, gender studies, 20th century photography, 20th century African-American history and media studies.
This witty documentary probes important questions about America's beauty fixation in interesting, entertaining and deeply insightful ways. Please join us as we discuss and watch Good Hair together!
Check out the Facebook event here, and mark your calendars for future (tentative) screening dates: Tuesday, March 19 (Reel Injun) and Saturday, April 6 (Paris is Burning). Stay tuned at AMS::ATX for updates!