Posts from — February 2009

March is Women’s History Month and Women’s Studies Program  has planned exciting and informative programs. Please check the campus calender and our website for the events, or download our flyer here!

The first program contains two sections: a Film and a Panel discussion:

The Business of Being Born
March 4 12 – 1:30 pm       MLK 255/257

A film that interlaces intimate birth stories with historical and scientific insights and some surprising statistics about the current maternity care system. See http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center.

Birth as Feminist Practice
March 4         1:30 pm         MLK 255/257

A panel discussion with Kavita Noble, certified midwife; Allana Moore, childbirth doula; Christine Morton, research sociologist, California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center.

Dear Students,
Are you interested in a career in nonprofits?  The Career Center is excited to introduce a new program -  a Careers in Nonprofit Workshop facilitated by Idealist.org on Tuesday, March 3rd from 3:00 – 4:30pm in the Umunhum Room, inside the Student Union . [Read more →]

Last Day to Drop Courses Without  an Entry on Student’s Permanent Record
February 3, 2009 [Read more →]

THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTS
AZADEH MOAVENI
Author of Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Moderated by Dr. Shahin Gerami
Noon Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Le Petit Trianon Theater
72 N. 5th St., San Jose [Read more →]

On Saturday, February 7, I attended a conference at Stanford Law School on Gender, Parenting, and the Law. I wasn’t entirely sure it was a good thing for me to go because I’m not trained in the Law and figured that most of the discussion would go over my head. To my pleasant surprise I was totally wrong. This conference was amazing and touched on many key issues including Parenting and Work, LGBT Parenting, and Race, Biotechnology, and Gender. The most inspirational part of this conference for me, however, was the opening remarks given by Cherrie Moraga. Cherrie Moraga’s work has always spoke to me in a way that rekindles the connection between my heart and my mind. It was wonderful to get to see her speak in person for the first time. Here are a few of her ideas that really resonated with me: She shared with us her frustration of parenting in society and culture without radical and transformative models of parenting. She asserted that the nuclear family model is one that serves the interests in capitalism and patriarchy and spoke about how she finds herself looking backward, not forward, for models of parenting and family that perserve a cultural integrity not based on consumer citizenship or understandings of the self as a product. These ideas struck me hard in that I too am constantly searching for ways to be, to love, and to live in the world that are based on structures and notions of reciprocity rather than alienation, individualism, and isolation. From this conference I walked away with a renewed sense that yes! there is an alternate way to be on this planet that is based on a sense that your flourishing is dependent of mine and that it is possible to do the work it takes to advance together. What a great way to spend a Saturday!

SJSU African American Faculty and Staff Association (AAFSA)
Invites you to Participate
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING FREEDOM MARCH
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2009
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM [Read more →]

Silent Epidemic

HIV and Women of Color (a workshop)

MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center

Thursday, February 19 at 5-7 pm

Jackson Katz,
International Leader in the Men Against Violence movement
and the creator of the film Tough Guise
will be at the Stanford campus, Cubberly Auditorium

7:30 pm  Tuesday, February 24th,
for a multimedia presentation entitled:
“Men, Women, Sex and Violence” [Read more →]

*/”Discovering Robeson”/* is a performance by Nigerian born Tayo Aluko about the remarkable Paul Robeson, American film and stage actor, opera singer, and civil rights activist in the 1930-60s. The performance is an informative, entertaining and engaging presentation of Robeson’s oratory for universal human rights, extracts from his plays, as well as live renditions of his famous repertoire songs including the powerful /”Ole Man River.”/

Morris Daily Auditorium, middle entrance
Students free / General $5 / No one turned away for lack of funds