November 4, 2009

TODAY at 4 pm!

WOMEN AND THE LOS ANGELES
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Senior Feminist Faculty Seminar

Drawing on interviews with Latino immigrant women who are activists in the L.A. immigrant rights movement, we examine the gender dynamics of this movement. Our focus is on an apparent paradox: namely, women are prominent among the ranks of activists in the movement, but issues of gender equality are rarely prominent on the agenda. We seek to explain the reasons why, looking at the gender dynamics of the migration process itself.

Ruth Milkman
Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA

Veronica Terriquez
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, USC

RESPONDENT
Maylei Blackwell, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCLA

WEDNESDAY
November 4
314 Royce
4 to 6 pm

For info, visit http://www.csw.ucla.edu/calendar_ex.html

TOMORROW! NOVEMBER 5

BUILDIN' BRIDGES and STIRRIN' WATERS
Women of Color Feminism and Activism
organized by the Asian American Center

Ericka Huggins
Professor of Women’s Studies, CSU East Bay

Former Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins will speak about her work with noted Asian American human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama. Their lives and work illustrate the important role that women have and continue to play in building connections between social justice movements, the history of connections between the African American and Asian American communities, and what women of color feminism means.

Other speakers will include Mary Kao and Stephanie Santos, guest editors of the women's issue of the Amerasia Journal, and Mo Nishida, veteran community organizer.

THURSDAY
November 5
UCLA Powell Library Rotunda
5:30 to 7:30 pm

For info, visit: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/default.asp

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NEXT WEEK! NOVEMBER 12

FEMME-ON-FEMME
Reflections on Collaborative Methods and
Queer femme-inist Ethnography
organized by the Department of Women's Studies

Ulrika Dahl
Chair, School of Gender, Culture and History, Södertörn University, Sweden

Ulrika Dahl is a femme-inist activist, writer, and, since 2002, a regular contributor to Scandinavian queer and feminist debate. She is the author, with Del LaGrace Volcano, of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (Serpent's Tail, 2008). In this talk, Dahl will discuss her current work, "A Joint Canon? Transition and Translation in Nordic Women's and Gender Studies 1990-2005," and focus on citation practices, intellectual kinship networks, and canon formation in Nordic gender studies.

THURSDAY
November 12
ROLFE 2125
4 to 6 pm

INFORMATION

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Other Items of Interest

The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Western Regional Feminist Campus Leadership Conference! Speakers include Dolores Huerta, Labor Rights and Feminist Activist, and Katherine Spillar, Ms Magazine Executive Editor

FRIDAY/SATURDAY
November 6/7
Santa Monica College

INFORMATION/REGISTRATION: http://www.feministcampus.org/leadership/Western/2009/default.asp

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