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Lunch & Learn Reminder

Due to unforseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.Ìý Follow this space for rescheduling information when available.Ìý Thank you for your understanding.

 

Just a reminder that Thursday, October 13 is another Women’s & Gender Studies installment in the Lunch & Learn series:

Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
“Ginagadawendamni Nooniyang miinwaa Jaagineyang Akiing: Breastfeeding and Exhaustion as Models for Chaos Theory on Earth”
Presented byÌýMargaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Humanities, 51ÁÔÆæ

In person in Curtin Hall 181
OR or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýMeeting ID: 272 828 384 285Ìý Passcode YbCAak

Interns Wanted!

Women’s & Gender Studies / Women’s Resource Center Internship Opportunities

Are you in need of a feminist internship?

Are you looking to work on a feminist team?

Do you want to be a feminist leader on campus?

LOOK NO FURTHER!

Women’s & Gender Studies and the Women’s Resource Center now have a permanent partnership, offering two internships each semester.Ìý There are two tracks: Educational Intern and Program Intern

WGS-489 Educational Intern: Are you a passionate feminist, want to gain experience and peer educate?Ìý Are your gifts project management, research, communication and professional development?Ìý This is your path!

WGS-489 Program Intern: Are you a feminist with strengths in organizing, marketing, social media and collaboration?Ìý This route is for you!

Students with junior standing or higher who have successfully completed an Intro to Women’s & Gender Studies class are encouraged to reach out to Morgan Foster, Undergraduate Advisor and Program Coordinator at fosterm@uwm.edu for more information.

Internship Flyer

Lunch & Learn Series is BACK!

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues for the fall semester.Ìý Check out what’s on tap:

 

 

 

 

Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
“’If you don’t want your stick touched, put it away’: Rematriation as Haudenosaunee Women’s Reclamation of Space in Lacrosse”
Presented byÌýSharity Bassett, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies and Manager of the American Indian Student Center, 51ÁÔÆæ

In person in Curtin Hall 181
OR
or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýMeeting ID: 266 085 203 865Ìý Passcode: HBn9JK

 

Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
“Ginagadawendamni Nooniyang miinwaa Jaagineyang Akiing: Breastfeeding and Exhaustion as Models for Chaos Theory on Earth”
Presented byÌýMargaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Humanities, 51ÁÔÆæ

In person in Curtin Hall 181
OR or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýMeeting ID: 272 828 384 285Ìý Passcode YbCAak

 

 

Thursday, November 17, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
“American Girls: Girlhood Fiction and Fandoms in America”
Presented byÌýMorgan Foster, Undergraduate Advisor and Program Coordinator in Women’s & Gender Studies, 51ÁÔÆæ

In person in Curtin Hall 181
OR or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýMeeting ID: 219 672 026 928Ìý Passcode fa4YBp

 

 

Thursday, December 08, 2022 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
“Queer (Re)Orientations: Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Selves”
Presented by Leah Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, 51ÁÔÆæ

In person in Curtin Hall 181
OR or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýMeeting ID: 224 589 318 075Ìý Passcode k4BeL8

 

 

All events are open to the public and all are welcome.

 

An Evening with Carolyn Eichner

Carolyn Eichner, author of FEMINISM’S EMPIRE and THE PARIS COMMUNE – an in-person Boswell event

About this event

On August 26, 2022, Boswell Book Company hosts , author ofÌýFeminism’s EmpireÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Paris Commune.ÌýCohosted by 51ÁÔÆæ’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of History, and Alliance Française de Milwaukee.

°Â¾±³Ù³óÌýFeminism’s Empire, Eichner investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ imperialist as binary positions. Eichner explores how feminists opposed – yet employed – approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Margaret Cook Andersen, author ofÌýRegeneration through Empire, says: “Feminism’s EmpireÌýexpands concepts of imperialism beyond France’s colonial holdings and brilliantly demonstrates how integral ideas of empire, race, and religion were in shaping articulations of French women’s rights.”

And inÌýThe Paris Commune, the first brief history of this event written in English in decades, Eichner considers a moment in history that began when Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. Sarah Fishman, author ofÌýFrom Vichy to the Sexual Revolution, says: “This compelling account of the Paris Commune makes a complicated event understandable and vivid. Eichner’s rich portraits bring to life the freedom and empowerment the Communards experienced, juxtaposed with the bloody repression of its final days.”

Carolyn J Eichner is also author ofÌýSurmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. She is Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at 51ÁÔÆæ.

,ÌýandÌý. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.

When?Ìý Friday, August 26, 2022 at 6:30 pm CDT
Where?Ìý Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211

Dean’s List Announced

 

 

Women’s & Gender Studies is thrilled to congratulate our students who made the Dean’s List for the Spring, 2022 semester, including

Andrew Borchardt

Abagail Houck

Isabella Matheson

Sarah O’Brien

Brittany Powell

Alyssandra Scaffidi

Great job!

Florence L. Healy Scholarship Winners Named

Dr. Matthew Healy and Kimberly Coleman Healy generously fund the Florence L. Healy Scholarship, which is open to all Women’s & Gender Studies’ students with a research interest in the area.

This year we were thankful to have a boon of well qualified candidates, and the following scholarships were awarded:

Undergraduate Students:
Top Prize:
–ÌýNada Moubarak
Runners Up:
– Abagail Houck
– Robie Lunger
– Nicole Martinez
– Emma Peterson

Graduate Students:
Top Prize:
– Xueyou Wang
Runners Up:
– Carly Casper
– Sierra Kane
– Melissa Marban

Our thanks to all who applied and congratulations to our winners!

 

Carolyn Eichner Named Camargo Fellow

Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner has been named a Fellow for the Spring of 2023, for her projectÌýThe Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship. The Camargo Foundation Fellowship is an 11-week residential fellowship in Cassis, on France’s Mediterranean coast.Ìý“[t]he Camargo Foundation fosters creativity, research, and experimentation through its international residency program for artists, scholars, and thinkers. […]ÌýEach year, an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals selects 18 individuals or teams from hundreds of submissions from around the world.”

Congratulations, Carolyn!

WGS Co-Sponsorship: Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story

Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story
WGS is pleased to be co-sponsoring A Conversation with Maryam Durani and Kathleen DunnÌýEscaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story.Ìý
Thursday, May 5th at 3:30pm at the AGSL.

Healy Scholarship Awards Now Open

Applications are now being accepted for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship (/womens-gender-studies/scholarships/). This scholarship is for the 2022-23 school year; students graduating in May or August 2022 are not eligible. Qualified students will meet these criteria:

  • Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
  • Interest and engagement in research related to Women’s and Gender Studies
  • Have taken at least one Women’s and Gender Studies course (Coded as WGS on your transcript)
  • Demonstrated financial need as shown on the FAFSA

 

All applications are done through the 51ÁÔÆæ Scholarship Portal and is a two-step process:

  1. Fill out your general scholarship application in the 51ÁÔÆæ scholarship portalÌý.ÌýIf you previously filled this out, your answers carry over and you just need to update and edit your information.
  2. Complete the Healy scholarship application atÌý.

The deadline to apply isÌýMay 15, 2022. Technical problems with the application process can be directed toÌýlet-sci@uwm.edu.

Lunch & Learn Series Continues

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues for the spring semester.Ìý Check out what’s on tap:

Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm
“Mapping Reproductive (In)Justice: Curatorial Reflections in Exhibiting Milwaukee as a Hostile Reproductive Terrain”
Presented byÌýMaria Novotny, Assistant Professor, English, 51ÁÔÆæ, with Graduate Students Kristiana Perleberg, Anna Edwards, and Madison Williams

or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýConference ID: 726 472 903#

 

Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 12:00 pm
“Unruly Bodies: Politics, Pedagogies, and Performance Practices”
Presented byÌýMair Culbreth, Assistant Professor, Dance, 51ÁÔÆæ

or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýConference ID: 241 545 0#

 

Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 12:00 pm
“Reading Luisa Captetillo”
Presented byÌýNancy Bird-Soto, Professor, Latin-American Literature, 51ÁÔÆæ

or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýConference ID: 301 631 234#

 

Thursday, May 05, 2022 at 12:00 pm
“Looking for bell hooks: Revolution and Revelation – An Archival Legacy”
Presented byÌýMegan Feifer, 51ÁÔÆæ Alumna, Teacher-Scholar in Residence at bell hooks center at Berea College

or
Toll +1 414-253-8850,ÌýConference ID: 593 062 709#

 

All events are open to the public and all are welcome.