Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 12, 2004|Volume 33, Number 11

First talk in new series to explore
gender studies in global context

A panel discussion on the intersection of global studies and gender studies being held this week will launch a new seminar series exploring institutions of higher education around the world.

The series, titled "Understanding Diversity and Gender in Universities: Local and Global Views," is sponsored by the Women's Faculty Forum, the Graduate School Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity and the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

The program will compare the ideas and practices about diversity at institutions in the United States and abroad -- with a particular focus on the roles played by women of all colors and by members of other under-represented minorities and whether gender is or is not a topic of scholarship.

The first session in the series, "Gendering Globalization Studies, Globalizing Gender Studies," will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The panelists will look at the differing definitions and content of gender studies programs around the world and how those programs differ in their relationship to such issues as civil society, family structures, religious organizations and national feminist movements. The participants will also consider the ways in which global studies do and do not incorporate gender into their study of economics, culture, health and other fields.

The participants will be: Rabab Abdulhadi, director, Center for Arab-American Studies, University of Michigan at Dearborn; Hoda Elsadda, professor of English and comparative literature, Cairo University; Shelley Feldman, associate professor of rural sociology, Cornell University; Jennifer Bair, assistant professor of sociology, Yale; and Laura Wexler, professor and chair of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Yale.

"Gendering Globalization Studies, Globalizing Gender Studies" will take place at 6 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Rosenfeld Hall (entrance on Temple Street, near the corner of Grove Street). It will be preceded by appetizers at 6 p.m., and is free and open to the Yale community. Those planning to attend are asked to R.S.V.P. if possible by calling (203) 432-8847 or sending e-mail to wff@yale.edu.

Other sessions in the series will include "Affirmative Action in the Age of Globalization," February 2; "Getting Through the Pipeline in a Global Era: Best Practices for a Diverse Academy," March 30; "Theories, Politics, Strategies: Emergent Gender Scholarship in the Global Academy," April (date to be announced).

For further information, visit the website at www.yale.edu/wff/events.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale to pay fee for students seeking visas

Pagnam steps down as V.P. for Development

Reception for donors will feature prizes, departmental awards

In Focus: Yale Urban Design Workshop

Medical School welcomes new deputy dean: Jaclyne Boyden

YCIAS event will honor new Leitner Professor

New database has info on all grants at Yale

The presidential election is topic of Poynter Lecture by CNN anchor

Noted surgeon displays his artistic side in sculpture exhibit

Alumni to explore Asian Americans' new role 'in the spotlight'

Environmental experts will explore the effects of the U.S. elections

Exhibit illuminates architects' work with 'Light Structures'

First talk in new series to explore gender studies in global context

Study links low education level with impaired recovery from illness

Researcher's grants support the development of statistical methods

Study enhances understanding of enzyme's role in psychiatric illnesses

Study shows spinal cord nerves regenerate despite absence of NgR protein

Journal fostering international dialogue . . .

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes