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Update from the Director Gillian Creese, Director Past Events (Including Presentations What’S Inside Newsletter Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, UBC Spring/Summer 2009 Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies The University of British Columbia, Canada Update from the Director Gillian Creese, Director past events (including presentations What’s Inside... from the “Engendering Social Justice” It’s already spring and another busy Research Forum), and up-to-date no- Graduate Advisor Report 3 term at CWAGS is winding down. One tices for our weekly speaker’s series. Visiting Scholar Report 4 of the most important accomplishments As most of you know we have also News from RAGA Centre 6 this term has been to get our new web- been organizing our list of Faculty Community Visitor Report 8 site up and running. Thanks to Brian Associates (which now number over Grad Student Association 9 Charles for designing the new web site, 90) into a series of research clusters. WAGS Program Update 11 and to graduate students Emilia Niel- Look for the list of Faculty Associates Beyond Binaries symposium 13 son and Jenny Fawcett for their valu- in each research cluster to appear on Spring Lecture Series 14 able assistance. The website address the website soon. Visiting Scholars Program 15 remains unchanged (http://www.wmst. As we often do in the spring term, ubc.ca/), but the site is much easier to our major activities are connected negotiate, now includes video clips of to International Women’s Day. Nikki The Newsletter of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies The University of British Columbia 1896 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada (604) 822-9171 tel (604) 822-9169 fax [email protected] www.wmst.ubc.ca Becki Ross (l), incoming Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program Chair, with current Chair Wendy Frisby and Director Gillian Creese at the 2009 CWAGS/WAGS Annual Joint Retreat. 2 Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies Strong-Boag and I produced our third side the Lines: A Conference for Inter- a previous visit to CWAGS. We also report on the effects of recent govern- disciplinary Feminist Research”, to be hosted another Community Visitor this ment policies on gender inequality held on April 29th at Theas Lounge in term. Niki Silva, from the Philippine in British Columbia. Still Waiting for the Graduate Student Centre. Women Centre, is working on a proj- Justice Update 2009: Provincial Poli- In February Wendy Frisby and I ect on violence against women in the cies and Gender Inequality in BC was convened a one-day symposium on Live-In-Caregiver Program. We thank launched at the BC Federation of La- “Feminist Approaches to Community- the VanCity Community Foundation for bour’s annual International Women’s Based Research”. The invitation-only their generous support of the Commu- Day Breakfast on March 6th. Unlike event was designed to provide authors nity Visitors program. We are pleased last year, this year’s report has so far of an upcoming edited collection the to confirm that both these programs received little press (other than one ar- opportunity to present early drafts and will continue next year. Please see de- ticle appearing in the Georgia Straight), develop synergies between chapters. tails about how to apply as a Visiting but we are hopeful that the issue of The book, a collection of 12 original Scholar or a Community Visitor on the gender inequality will inform debates chapters on feminist community-based CWAGS website. Individual reports in the upcoming provincial election in research, is written by CWAGS Fac- from this term’s Visiting Scholars and May. The report can be downloaded ulty Associates and Research Associ- Community Visitors appear elsewhere from the CWAGS website or the BC in this newsletter. Federation of Labour website at http:// As we all know the recent financial www.bcfed.com/files/1670-09br-Still_ crisis has had a major impact on UBC’s Waiting_for_Justice-2009.pdf. budget, not least in the College for In- ...Among other activities, We also celebrated International terdisciplinary Studies (CFIS) which Women’s Day by co-sponsoring a Justice Abella will give a has more endowed chairs that are cur- public talk by author Evelyn White. Her public talk on the evening of rently ‘underwater’ than any other fac- presentation, “The Universe Provides: November 6..... ulty. Since CWAGS has a very small Alice Walker, Abundance and the Art endowment, so small we have not of Biography” was held on March 6 be- actually used any of the interest ac- fore a small but appreciative audience. cumulated over the past few years, I We also co-sponsored a talk by Elana am pleased to say we have escaped Brief, “Creating space for women sci- ates, in collaboration with a wide range the new CFIS belt tightening associ- entists to succeed” (February 12), an of community groups, for submission ated with the current budgetary crisis. exhibit by Mary Taylor, “Homophobia to UBC Press. Indeed, in the fall we were given the Kills” (February 9 – 12), a talk by Laura Plans are already well underway to green light to pursue a possible new Mulvey, “Between film theory and film bring in our fall keynote speaker. This joint appointment with another unit in history: The young modern women year we are bringing in Justice Rosa- CFIS. The hiring process is ongoing and the ‘flapper film’” (February 23), lie Abella on November 5 – 6. Among and the outcome as yet uncertain, but screening of “Examined Life” and Q & other activities, Justice Abella will give I remain hopeful that we will have good A with director Astra Taylor (March 26), a public talk on the evening of Novem- news on this front. and the Black History Month Photo ber 6, following a panel examining 25 For the past several months we Exhibit mounted by SFU’s Women’s years of employment equity in Canada. have also been engaged in discus- Studies program at SFU Teck Gallery This promises to be an exciting event, sions about a possible move to a and SFU Harbour Centre (February – so save that date in your calendars. new campus location. The Centre is May). In addition the Centre continued We welcomed 3 Visiting Scholars to in many respects a wonderful space: its weekly speakers’ series of noon- the Centre this term: Laurence Bach- centrally located, bright, and inviting. hour lectures every Wednesday (the mann from the University of Geneva, On the other hand it is a ‘temporary’ list of speakers appears elsewhere in Michelle Bastian from the University building and we continue to have prob- the newsletter). And we marked the of New South Wales, and Grace Puja lems with a leaky roof (in spite of re- publication of Volume 16 of Views from Ruaha University in Tanzania. pairs last fall), various wildlife, and are From the Edge with papers from the In April we look forward to welcom- just about bursting at the seams. The 2008 Graduate Student Conference. ing Lucy Delap from Cambridge Uni- economic meltdown has made our We eagerly look forward to this year’s versity who will be with us over the dreams of fundraising for a new space Graduate Student Conference, “Out- summer. Lucy is looking forward to in a new building much less realistic. renewing acquaintances made during Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies 3 So if suitable alternate space can be negotiated a move over the summer is a possibility. Graduate Advisor’s Report As always I am grateful for the hard Leonora C. Angles conferences, such as this year’s suc- work, unwavering support, and much cessful Graduate Student conference laughter shared with Jane Charles, I attended early this month what is per- dubbed “Outside the Lines” by our five our administrator, and Wynn Archibald, haps my last Graduate Advisor Forum amazing organizers – Andrea Carlson, our graduate/undergraduate secretary. before I step down in July. I was proud Bjorn Hjatardottir, Sarah Leamon, Mi- They make my job both easier and to share the many professional devel- chele Murphy, and Soni Thindal. The much more enjoyable. Special thanks opment initiatives we have been doing Conference is already our 16th, argu- also to Nora Angeles, who has served for our Women’s and Gender Studies ably one of the longest running series as Graduate Advisor for the past 2 graduate students. Among these initia- on campus entirely organized by stu- years and will be stepping down this tives are the seminars and workshops dents. We have one new MA graduate summer as Dawn Currie takes up the on grant proposal writing, submitting (Gemma Hunting) and two new PhD post. I am also grateful to my ‘other manuscript for publication, thesis writ- degree holders (Sirijit Sunanta and half’ at the Centre these past 2 years. ing, pedagogy, course syllabus devel- Marilou Carrillo). We have good suc- Wendy Frisby, Chair of the Women’s opment, teaching portfolio develop- & Gender Studies undergraduate pro- ment, and organizing interdisciplinary see page 4 gram, will be stepping down after 5 years at the helm. I will miss our al- most daily collaborations, though I know some of that will continue on our book project, and I am excited to work closely with Becki Ross who will take up the mantle from Wendy. I also want to thank the members of the CWAGS advisory committee for their advice and counsel; our Graduate Academic Assistants this year – Andrea Carl- son, Soni Thindal, and Eunkyung Choi – for their hard work; and the Princi- pal and Associate Principals of CFIS (Mike Burgess, Tim Cheek and Sneja Gunew) for their support of CWAGS during difficult times. Congratulations! PhD Candidate Naomi Lloyd’s article “The Universal Divine Principle, the Spiritual Androgyne, and the New Age in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins” was published in the journal Victorian Literature and Culture (Mar.
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