Dear Campus Community and Friends of Women’s Studies

On Tuesday, March 2nd, the course I teach on “Gender, Sexuality and Religion” will host Max Dashu, director of the Suppressed History Archives in Oakland.  She will be speaking on the vast legacy of Women Shamans from far-ranging cultural backgrounds, ancient to modern.  We’ve moved to a larger room to accommodate visitors: please feel free to join us.  The class runs from 6:00 to 8:45 pm, in Boccardo Business Classroom 003 (ground floor, accessed from the courtyard).  Click on the links below for more background on Max and the specific talk she is presenting on Tuesday.  Hope to see you there:

Date: Tuesday, March 2nd
Where: Boccardo Business Classroom 003 (BBC 003)
When: 6:00 PM
Who: Max Dashu, Director, Suppressed History Archives
What: Talk on Women Shamans
Hosted: Prof. Jennifer Rycenga, Comparative Religious Studies class on Gender, Sexuality and Religion

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/catalog/womanshaman.html

Jennifer Rycenga
Professor, Comparative Religious Studies and Humanities

Statewide/National Day of Action
In Support of Public High Education

A series of events protesting cuts to education

Local march events:

Meet at City Hall Plaza by 11:45 am to participate in the March

March will arrive at 7^th St. Plaza by 12:15 pm

Rally in 7^th St. Plaza 12:15 to 1:00 pm

Free T-shirts, and drink at the end of the rally

We’re all connected! Keep the doors open!

Info: Contact Sue Pak: spak@calfac.org (510) 290 4308

Endorsers and more info:

• National Day of Action site
• Standup for Schools
• CA Student Walkout Facebook page
• CFA resource page [Read more →]

Part of the MAIZ series on 40 Years of the Chicano Movement in San Jose

“Mujeres en el Movimiento”

Featuring local activists Elisa Marina Alvarado, Shirley Trevino, Martha Campos, Tamara Alvarado

Moderated by Teresa Castellanos

6-8pm Wednesday, March 3
Mexican Heritage Plaza
1700 Alum Rock Ave, SJ

Women have played a major role in the development and leadership of the Chicano movement inSan Jose, even while struggling for their role and recognition in it.  They have challenged gender norms, politics, and the status quo by founding and managing some of the area’s most progressive arts, grassroots and civic organizations.  Share and take part in this multigenerational event honoring the backbone of San jose’s Chicano movement, las mujeres.

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 2 for the Women’s Studies Program Open House.  Come share good conversation, games, music, food, and drink as we kick off Women’s History Month and a full roster of events.  In DMH238A from 3-6pm.  Also mark your calendars for these events throughout the month:

3/2 Women’s Studies Open House, 3-6pm  DMH238A
Please join us for conversation, games, music and refreshments with faculty and friends of the Women’s Studies program.

3/3 Chicanas in the Movimiento – 6-8pm  Mexican Heritage Center, 1700 Rock Ave, San Jose
Featuring local activists Elisa Marina Alvarado, Shirley Trevino, Martha Campos, Tamara Alvarado, moderated by Teresa Castellanos.  Part of the MAIZ series on 40 Years of the Chicano Movement in San Jose

3/3  Film Screening of Arusi: Persian Wedding, followed by Q&A with Director Marjan Tehrani, 7pm  Eng189
Marjan Tehrani’s second feature documentary explores the complex and troubled relationship between America, the country of Tehrani’s birth and Iran
Co-sponsored with the Student Association of Middle Eastern Studies

3/6 “Womyn Unite” – International Women’s Day Marcha, 11am
March begins from Roosevelt Park (Santa Clara & 19th) to Biblioteca Latinoamericana, Festival continues from 1-4pm.   Sponsored by South Bay International Women’s Day Network & Cihuatl Tlatocan

3/11 Women’s Studies Alumni Panel, 10:30-11:45  MLK 255/257
Come learn how SJSU Women’s Studies alumni are making change in local communities with Noemi Teppang, Lindsey Mansfield, and Margie Strubel.

3/17 Sex & Love in the Bay Area with Sexologist Carol Queen, 1:30 – 2:45  ENG189
Carol Queen is a writer, educator and cultural sexologist with a Ph.D. in human sexuality.  She is founder of The Center for Sex and Culture, a non-profit sexuality education center and directs Continuing Education at Good Vibrations, the women-owned, worker-owned sex toy shop in San Francisco.

3/17  7pm  Literary Reading with Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans, 7pm MLK Schiro Room, Steinbeck Center, 5th floor
Khadivi’s first novel begins a trilogy that follows the lives of three generations of Kurdish men as they grapple with landlessness, migration and national identity.   Sponsored by the Student Association for Middle Eastern Studies

Don’t miss Dr. Ruth Wilson’s exhibit, “Realizing the Dream: A Photographic and Memorabilia Exhibit of the 44th Presidential Inauguration of Barack H. Obama” in its last week at the MLK, Jr. Library (thru Sun 2/28).  It is located on the 5th floor and is available for viewing whenever the library is open.

“Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really think”

A Documentary film based on the Gallup poll of worldwide Muslim public opinion

Followed by a Keynote Address from Dr. John Esposito
Professor of Religion & International Affairs, Georgetown University

4pm  Saturday, Feb. 20
ICCNC, 1433 Madison Street, Oakland

Presale tickets $12 at http://ca.cair.com/sfba/

Challenging Power and Privilege in Schools:
Un Encuentro in Applied Chicana/o Studies
Featuring the Work of MAS Graduate Students at SJSU

Monday, December 14, 2009  -  6pm
Cultural Heritage Center ­ Room 525
MLK Library (5th Floor) -  San José State University

This event is the culmination of the Applied Seminar in Chicana/o Studies in the SJSU Master¹s Program in Mexican American Studies.  The students in this class will share our efforts to bring Chicana/o Studies to life in our communities.  In several distinct projects, we focused on developing Chicana/o Studies Methods for Social Justice.  We will share our preliminary insights from individual projects, as well as the collective lessons we have developed together.  Our goals are to share specific strategies that may be applied to other communities and issues, and to dialog about what this work means and where it can go next.  You are invited to join us for the presentations and to share in the dialog.

Students in the class and their projects include:

• Lupe M. Allen, ­ Finding Voice & Creating Safe Spaces: An Analysis of the Experiences of Undocumented University Students
• Elizabeth Caldera, ­ The Impact of Teacher Expectations on the Academic Achievement of Latina/o Students
• Alicia Casas, ­ Understanding the School Disengagement of Fifth Grade Chicano Boys
• Claire González, ­ Latina/o Student Voices: High School Students¹ Insights on the Latina/o Achievement Gap
• Yanira I. Madrigal, ­ Responding to the Internalization and Normalization of Violence in Oakland: Listening to the Voices of Chicana/o Youth
• Margarita Ortiz, ­ Where is Osvaldo?: Confronting the Absence of Latinas/os in US History Textbooks
• Robert Unzueta, ­ Debunking Meritocracy: Understanding Intergenerational Chicano School Experiences

El PAIS, the Queer Latino student organization on campus, is cordially inviting you to attend our panel on the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transexual) Latin American Community on campus.

WHEN: The panel will be on Monday, November 23rd
from 5:30 to 6:30 in the Pacifica Room (top level of the Student Union).

El PAIS stands for “Estudiantes Latinos y el Proyecto Arco Iris,” which translates to “Latino Students and Project Rainbow.” Our Mission Statement is, “To unite the LGBTQQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Intersexed, Ally) Latino community at SJSU and to spread awareness of Queer Latino identities to the campus community, including awareness of the issues that affect LGBTQQIA Latinos.” We will be hosting this event in order to inform the campus community of the diverse experiences of LGBT Latino students, whose lives and identities are often affected by a web of gender, class, and ethnic norms. Most importantly, we want to share how Latino Students on the campus embrace their LGBT identity.

So come support us! We welcome faculty, staff, and students who identify with the LGBT community, support the community as allies, or want to know more about LGBT Latino identities and issues. Please spread the word and let anybody know who may be interested.

“From this day forward, I promise never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women, sexual violence, and dating/intimate partner violence.”

Tuesday thru Thursday, 11/17-11/19

The White Ribbon Campaign is rallying all male-identified students of SJSU to come and sign the pledge to be aware and be a part of the solution.

Pick up your ribbon and sign the pledge at the Campaign table from 10am-2pm on 11/17, 11/18, and 11/19 outside the Student Union in the Art Quad as well as from 5pm-8pm on 11/17 in the Dining Commons!

You can also come to the Office of Student Conduct & Ethical Development at any time from 8am-5pm M-F to get a pledge card and pick up your ribbon!

97% of violence are committed by men.
97% OF MEN ARE NOT ASSAILANTS.
A minority are responsible for the problem.
THE MAJORITY CAN STOP IT.

Sponsored by SJSU Men Creating Change,
Office of Student Conduct, and cool guys everywhere

The Assyrian Student Association would like to invite you to our Documentary Screening on Wednesday, November 18th at 3:00pm in the Student Union, Guadalupe Room.

The short documentary, Transient, is about the millions of Assyrian Iraqis who have been displaced from their homes. Their stories have been largely neglected. The goal of this project was to better understand the plight of these refugees, their living conditions, their medical issues, their access to health care, and how the war has affected their lives. We would be so delighted if you could attend.