Posts from — April 2009

Authors Abe Ignacio and Jorge Emmanuel discuss the book and images

BOOK READING:

Thursday, April 30, 2009- 5:45 – 7:00 p.m

Almaden Room, Student Union

San Jose State University

Call (408) 924-5592 for Information

VIEW THE EXHIBIT:

April 27 – June 30, 2009

Cultural Heritage Center- 5th Floor

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

San Jose State University

http://sjsuwoms.com/docs/Toon.pdf

http://sjsuwoms.com/docs/ToonExhibit.pdf

Domestic Violence Information & Resources Workshop

Sponsored by the Office of Councilmember Nora Campos,
with The Domestic Violence Info and Resource Collaborative
and San Jose State University

Monday, April 27, 2009
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
San Jose City Hall Rotunda
200 East Santa Clara Street
San José, CA 95113
Join us….

• If you are a student at San Jose State University and believe everyone has a right to a healthy, safe relationship and peaceful community (and want to promote this)
• If you or a friend, family member, or coworker is in a relationship with a partner that makes you afraid, threatens you, physically hurts you (punch, pushes, grabs or hits you) or controls you.
• If you have been a victim of sexual assault (and need help)
• If you are interested in law, criminal justice, social work, psychology and other related fields and want to know first hand how the domestic violence system works.

Come and hear local experts from the courts, domestic violence agencies and law enforcement and visit with over 40 agencies who will share resources and answer questions about: navigating the court system in a domestic violence case, working with law enforcement, housing and shelter, mmigration /legal/tax services, LGBTQ resources, mental health and substance abuse counseling, emergency and social services.

Princeton’s PoliSci professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell was asked to give Harvard University’s Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series last weekend. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Princeton, although I most often see her as a guest commentator on Rachel Maddow’s News show on MSNBC.

Anyway, she is one of only three women given this honor since 1982 (along with Marian Wright Edelman, Hazel Carby, and Barbara Fields).  Fortunately, her lectures were taped and are available at Harvard’s website. The series is titled:

Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
with three lectures:
Lecture 1: Subjects or Citizens: Feeling Black in Post-Katrina America
Lecture 2: Faith of Our Mothers: Women Bearing the Burdens of Citizenship
Lecture 3: I am Obama: Forging a New Black Citizenship

Saturday, April 4, 2009 through Sunday, August 16, 2009

This exhibition presents a broad range of prints from the past 35 years by some of the foremost contemporary women printmakers at work in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Collectively, the fifty-six prints that comprise the exhibition testify to the innovative breadth and variety of printmaking approaches taken by women since the early 1970s. Women’s Work makes known a variety of stylistic formats that address overlapping issues of gender, the body, and personal fantasies of desire, as well as more recent concerns of identity, politics, and the environment.

Often laced with humor and a sense of playfulness, this work shares a creative personal vision deeply integrated with references to larger historical themes and conceptual motifs. Included in the exhibition will be works by artists such as Anni Albers, Squeak Carnwath, Barbara Kruger, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporeal, Fay Jones, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith, Wangechi Mutu, Vija Celmins, and Kara Walker, among others.

–Posted by Karina Murtagh

Congrats to Women’s Studies minor Mallory Viera, director of last weekend’s successful Vagina Monologues, and her staff and actors for a wonderful performance.

Proceeds from the benefit will go to organizations including the YWCA of Silicon Valley, Asian Americans for Community Involvement’s domestic violence program and Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence

From the Spartan Daily:

A living trust of $1 million was made to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center from two SJSU alumni, the first major gift to SJSU’s Division of Student Affairs under which the LGBT resource center operates.

“It’s a great investment to the future of the LGBT center, friends and allies of the university,” said Bonnie Sugiyama, the assistant director of the university’s LGBT Resource Center. “It is money we will use in the future.”

The gift from philanthropists Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer, both Los Gatos residents and businessmen, is a living trust, which means their estate will transfer $1 million to the center after they pass, Sugiyama said.
The center is currently located in Building BB in room 101, next to the Aquatic Center. [Read more →]

A discussion with Alice E. Ginsberg about her new edited collection, The Evolution of American Women’s Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies and Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

From Inside Higher Ed., March 27, 2009

Q: What were the key challenges to women’s studies in the early years of its development?
A: Feminist scholar Jean Robinson has written that: “When women’s studies was born in the mid-1970’s, politics was its mid-wife.” Marilyn [Read more →]

Please pass along the following info to any graduating students that might be interested. Thanks for your help!

SJSU Pilipino Commencement 2009
http://sjsupilgrad.wordpress.com/
When: Thursday May 28, 2009
Where: Jacinto “Tony” Siquig Northside Community Center, 488 N.6th St. San Jose, Ca 95112

Registration Fee: $55 [Read more →]