FALL 2008
Wednesday, Sept. 24, noon-1:30pm
Accounting for Interdisciplinarity
Presentation by Miranda Joseph, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Chair of the UA Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee
Kicking off the 2008-2009 Women's Studies Colloquium Series
Pima Room, Student Union (Level Three)
Financial and performance accounting and accountability are increasingly shaping the production and dissemination of knowledge in the academy. Noting that "interdisciplinarity," especially in the sciences, has become a prominent feature in the strategic plans of many public research universities as they seek to expand "tech transfer" and produce marketable intellectual property, I explore the relationship between the meaning of interdisciplinarity in science ("the way business is done" according to one colleague) with the notion common in cultural studies that interdisciplinarity is a strategy for progressive political intervention ("no business as usual"). I then examine the values expressed in various specific sets of performance measures and the extent to which different kinds of knowledge production within women's studies and ethnic studies do and don't count in those regimes of accounting. Finally, I explore the extent to which we might draw on certain important methodological strategies articulated in cultural studies and women's studies to locate contradictions in the current regime and develop alternative accounts of the value and purpose of higher education.
For more information, email Sandra Soto.
UA LGBT Fall Welcoming Reception
OUTReach, the Institute for LGBT Studies and the Office of LGBTQ Affairs invite you to the UA LGBT Community's Fall Unity reception.
Fridays, October 3, 10 and November 6
SPRING 2009
Early spring
Jamie Lee will share her work documenting the lives of older LGBT people in the Tucson area. Stay tuned for further details about this exciting project!
January 31, 5pm
Deadline for submission of 2009-2010 research cluster applications.
Brown Bag discussion: "Queer Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching in Queer Studies"
Santa Cruz Room, Student Union
Dr. Adam Geary, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies & Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for LGBT Studies, will open a conversation on pedagogy by reflecting upon his experience teaching Queer Theories to undergraduate students in Fall 2008. The discussion provides a collective opportunity to think through issues of political education, the relations between understanding and emotion, and the current climate of queer student inquiry.
Brown Bag Lecture, "Why do we need to learn this?--LGBT Health in the Medical Education Curriculum"
McClelland Park Building Room 402
Dr. Carol Galper, Assistant Dean of Curricular Affairs and Community Health & Institute affiliate faculty, will discuss her efforts to introduce LGBT and HIV issues into the UA medical students' curriculum: why this was vital, how she accomplished it, and next steps to be taken to ensure that medical practitioners are adequately prepared to serve Arizona's diverse populations including people with HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ communities.
March 5 and 6
The Frances H. McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, directed by our own Dr. Stephen Russell, will have dedication ceremonies.
March 25-27 CANCELED
Campus visit by Professor Saidya Hartmann, Columbia University
Organized by the Subjectivities, Sexualities, and Political Cultures Research Cluster.
"The Subject of Diaspora: Archive, Photography, and the Sight and Sense of Race"
Lecture by Tina Campt, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University
Harvill Building, Room 204
Tina Campt is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press, 2004) as well as numerous essays on gender, race and diaspora including "Family Matters: Race, Gender and Belonging in Black German Photography" in Social Text 98 (2008). She edited a special issue of Feminist Review: Gendering Diaspora 90:1 (October, 2008), which aims to stimulate critical reflection among feminist scholars about the formation of diaspora as a site of political aspiration and solidarity, and as a social, cultural and political framework of analysis. Her lecture is drawn from her forthcoming book, Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe, which charts the emergence of a Black European through the medium of photography in the early twentieth century.
Presented by the Department of Women's Studies. Co-Sponsors include
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Unit Research Activity Fund; The Institute for LGBT Studies Subjectivities, Sexualities, and Political Cultures Research Cluster; The Department of German Studies, The Women's Studies Advisory Council
Coalición de Derechos Humanos with the UA Institute for LGBT Studies
invite you to a community potluck and lecture:
Between the Lines: Identifying The Needs of LGBTQ Immigrants and Refugees in Southern Arizona (view PDF of publication of same name)
Southside Presbyterian Church / 317 W. 23rd Street / Tucson, Arizona
$5 suggested donation / please bring a dish to share!
Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Karma Chavez of University of New Mexico reports on the findings of a needs assessment conducted with LGBTQ immigrants and refugees, their friends, family and allies in Southern Arizona. This assessment will make recommendations to service providers serving LGBTQ immigrant clients on issues pertaining to health, housing and the law.
This assessment was generously supported by the UA Institute for LGBT Studies, the Williams Institute of UCLA, and the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona
For more information: 520.770.1373