Announcements
Weekly E-Newsletter — May 23, 2007
I. CSRPC Events
How Does Race Matter? Genetics and Race
Have Lunch with Filmmaker Charles Burnett
Screening Charles Burnett’s “To Sleep with Anger”
Asian Americans Asserting Visibility: Postponed until Fall
Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black & Latina/o Sexualities: Call for Papers
II. Campus Events
Ethics in a World of Strangers: Kwame Anthony Appiah
From Marginal to Mainstream? Gay Marriage and the Living Wage
US Social Forum Info Session
Medicalizing Bodies, Policing, and Humanitarian Interventions: Rocío Magaña
The Death of the Modern City: The Urban Discourse on Bombay/Mumbai Gyan Prakash
The Feminine Epidemic: Global Intersections of Women and HIV/AIDS
III. Off-Campus Events
Talk About Sex (LTAS) Conference
Teatro Luna presents: “Lunatic(a)s”
2007 Annual Fatherhood Symposium and Resource Fair: “Fathers Who Care”
Teatro Luna Auditions for MACHOS
IV. Call for Papers
First International Conference on Child Sexual Abuse in Africa African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect
New Trans/Gender Variant/ Queer Anthology
V. Job, Fellowship, and Grant Opportunities
Southside Arts and Humanities Network Intern position available
NBPC Television and New Media Internship Program Fall 2007
African Activist Association (AAA) Symposium: presentation submissions
White House Internship Program
Subject: Summer Jobs
I. CSRPC EVENTS
How Does Race Matter? Genetics and Race
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
5:00pm
DuSable Museum of African American History (740 E. 56th Pl.)
New research that aims to identify shared genetic markers challenges some traditional concepts of race and ethnicity, and may reinforce others. Do the results of this research reduce people to a set of genetic traits, perpetuate old forms of discrimination, and put certain populations at risk for further oppression? How do we ensure that racial and ethnic groups maintain self-definition and self-control as genetic science advances?
Panelists
Troy Duster, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at New York University; Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge; Author, Backdoor to Eugenics
Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM, Wicklander Chair and Director, Health Law Institute; Director, Center for the Study of Race and Bioethicsm DePaul University
Blase N. Polite, M.D., Instructor, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago
Harry Porterfield, Feature News Reporter, ABC 7 News (moderator)
Attendees will have an opportunity to view the exhibit: From Dreams to Determination: The Legacy of Doctors Percy and Anna Julian from 5:00 6:00 pm.
This event is presented in partnership with the American Medical Association, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago's Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, the DuSable Museum of African American History, The Historymakers,the National Society of Genetic Counselors, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.
Reservations required. Reservations can be made on-line, via email, or by calling 312.422.5580.
Enter the museum through the 57th Street entrance.
If you need a sign interpreter or require other arrangements to fully participate, please call 312.422.5580
Have Lunch with Filmmaker Charles Burnett
Thursday, May 24, 2007
12:00 Noon
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (5733 S. University)
Discussion Facilitated by Theaster Gates.
Free lunch provided. Please pre-register by calling (773) 702-8063
Charles Burnett’s “To Sleep With Anger”
Thursday, May 24, 2007
7:00pm
Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th St.)
This event is free with Burnett in attendance for a Q&A
Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black & Latina/o Sexualities
April 11-12, 2008
University of Illinois, Chicago
Over the past decade, racialized representations of Black and Latina/o sexualities as perverse Others have been systematically challenged by scholars and political and cultural activists from myriad disciplinary fields. The steady emergence of new exhibitions, performances, media, writings, virtual communities, and activist groups bear witness to the importance of how Black and Latina/o people love and express themselves sexually.
This conference brings attention to these “bodies of knowledge” in their biological, social, cultural, and political forms 96 in order to rethink how the relationships between race, sexuality, and power has, and continues to, shape Black and Latina/o sexualities in the U.S. This conference intends to highlight debates, ideas, and practices relating to the meanings assigned to black and brown bodies in the U.S., how black and brown people experience their socially regulated bodies, and how those bodies are positioned vis-á-vis knowledge, truth, politics, and history.
Bringing together activists, artists, independent scholars, faculty, practitioners, and students from a broad range of disciplines and fields, the conference aims to address issues of sexual desire and pleasure, cultural activism, black-brown dialogues and coalition-building, creating and performing sexual identities, human rights and social justice, and citizenship, among other topics.
The conference venue presents a unique opportunity for the participants to examine critically the state of empirically grounded, historicized, and theoretically informed inquiries and practices around Black and Latina/o bodies and sexualities. Equally important in this moment then, is the recognition and scrutiny of how these interventions have made an impact on the fields of African American studies; Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer studies; as well as mainstream disciplines like literature, sociology, history, public health, psychology, art history, public policy, etc.
Participants from all disciplinary fields and perspectives who wish to engage with these issues are welcome. Through this interdisciplinary forum, the conference seeks to create a diverse intellectual community, to foster healthy debate about the intersections of race and sexuality, and to provide unique opportunities for networking and professional development. In turn, such working relationships can better inform public policy, present and future scholarly agendas, and community needs.
Interested participants may submit an abstract (approx. 300 words) for: 1) individual papers; 2) panels and round tables (approx. 4 persons); 3) poster presentations; or 4) visual presentations (film, performance, video, photography displays). If applicable, please include any technology requests, space needs as well as low-resolution images of your work, in addition to your abstract.
Please submit abstracts (as well as any queries) to RACESEXPOWER2008@DEPAUL.EDU. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2007.
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
* Art, Music, Literature and Censorship
* Black-Brown Dialogues and Coalitions
* Black and Latina/o Sexualities and Prison Culture
* Critical Approaches to Activism
* Cultural Productions and Activism
* Desire, Eroticism, Fantasy and Pornography
* Disability and Desir/Ability
* Family and Kin Relationships20
* Geography and Sexual Identities and Practices20
* Health and Sexual Decision Making
* Health Care and Health Education
* Human Rights, Sexual Rights, Civil Rights
* (Im)Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism
* Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Spirituality20
* Making and Un/Making of Erotic Black and Latina/o Bodies
* Mass Media Representations of Black and Latina/o Sexualities
* Philosophy
* Psychoanalytical Approaches to Black and Latina/o Sexualities
* Public Sex, Private Sex
* Queer Black and Latina/o Feminisms
* Queering Spaces, Producing Sexualities
* Race, Sex and the State
* Sex Work/Sexuality at Work
* Racialized Bodies and Data Collection
* Sexual Citizenship
* Sexual Desire and Knowledge in the Archives
* Sexual Economies, Sexual Communities
* Sexual Health and Pleasure
* Sexual Initiations/Rites Of Passage/Sexual Scripts
* Sexual Attractiveness and Intimacies
* Sexual Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship
* Social Justice and Public Policy
* Technology, Virtuality, and Racialized Sexualities
* Urban Sexual Cultures
* Visual Cultures
II. CAMPUS EVENTS
Ethics in a World of Strangers: Kwame Anthony Appiah
Monday, May 21- Friday May 25, 2007
4:30pm
Swift Lecture, 3rd Fl. (1025 E. 58th)
"Global Citizenship" . . . Monday, May 21
"Understanding Moral Disagreement" . . . Wednesday, May 23
"The Cosmopolitanism of W. E. B. Du Bois" . . . Friday, May 25
Receptions to follow
A renowned philosopher, cultural critic, editor, and novelist, Professor Appiah is the author of many books, which include: In My Father's House (1992), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann), The Ethics of Identity (2005), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), and the forthcoming Experiments in Ethics.
People with disabilities who believe they may need assistance should call (773) 702-8536 in advance.
From Marginal to Mainstream? Gay Marriage and the Living Wage
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
4:00pm-6:00pm
Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood)
Paper is available for download from the workshop website, http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/pcs/ or by emailing skscott@uchicago.edu.
US Social Forum Info Session
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
5:30-7:00pm
Bartlett Lounge
Speakers from:
Jobs with Justice (JWJ)
Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)
Coalition to Protect Public Housing (CPPH)
Over the past six years, million of activists, organizers, and culture workers have participated in the World Social Forum process. From June 27 to July 1, thousands of social justice activists from across the United States will gather in Atlanta, GA to build a movement for change through the US Social Forum.
The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression.
The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.
“Medicalizing Bodies, Policing, and Humanitarian Interventions: The Politics of Border Rescues in the Arizona-Mexico Region” Rocío Magaña, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Thursday, May 24, 2007
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Haskell 101<
This paper is available for download on our website at http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/medprabod/
Persons with a disability, who believe they may need assistance, please email Kathryn Tanaka at ktanaka@uchicago.edu
The Death of the Modern City: The Urban Discourse on Bombay/Mumbai
Professor Gyan Prakash, Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Department of History, Princeton University
Thursday, May 24, 2007
4:30pm
Foster 103
For further details contact sen@uchicago.edu
Persons with a disability who believe that they need assistance are requested to call 773-702-8637 in advance.
The Feminine Epidemic: Global Intersections of Women and HIV/AIDS
Saturday, May 26, 2007
10:00am-4:00pm
Swift Hall, Lecture Hall
With a Keynote Address: Beri Hull, Global Advocacy Officer International Community of Women Living with AIDS
Schedule:
9:30 Breakfast
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks, Spruill
10:15-11:10 "Sex-Workers and Stories in India," Gupta
11:10-12:10 Panel 1: Globalization, Behavior, and AIDS
12:10-12:45 "Crack and Women in Latin America," Dickson-Gomez
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:25 "Women and AIDS, the Future of the Pandemic," Hull
2:25-3:30 Panel 2: AIDS and Activism
Speakers:
Julia Dickson-Gomez, Principal Investigator Institute for Community Research
Annie Dude, Ph.D. Candidate, Demography and International Health Harris School of Public Policy
Dr. Rajan Gupta, Researcher and Advocate on Issues of AIDS and Sex Workers in India
Elizabeth Rowley, DrPH Candidate, International Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
Moderator: Jennifer Spruill, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology,University of Chicago
Sponsored by: Student Global AIDS Campaign, The Center for Gender Studies, The Human Rights Program, Your Student Activities Fee, The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund
III. Off-Campus Events
Talk About Sex (LTAS) Conference
Thursday, May 31- Tuesday, June 4, 2007
Wyndam Rosemont Hotel
SisterSong is proud to present our 2007 National Conference entitled “Let’s Talk about Sex” to be held in Chicago, May 31-June 3, and hosted by African American Women Evolving.
Since the right to have sex is a topic rarely discussed when addressing reproductive health and rights issues, SisterSong believes that sexual prohibitions are not only promoted by moral conservatives in this country, but also by reproductive rights advocates who fail to promote a sex-positive culture.
We believe that sex for pro-creation or sexual pleasure is a human right, and we are striving to create a pro-sex space for the pro-choice movement.
This four-day conference will include workshops and plenaries on topics such as birth control, senior sexuality, STDs, microbicides, gynecological health and wellness, erotica, militarism, and more, all through a reproductive justice lens.
There will also be a special track of workshops designed by and for young women and teens.
You can register online at http://www.sistersong.net/2007_NationalConference/2007NC_registration_form.html
Teatro Luna Auditions for MACHOS
We are looking for Latina/Hispana performers of all ages who are comfortable and able to play MEN. Previous performance experience is a plus, but not mandatory.
Performers must be able to commit to the following dates:
Performances Thursdays through Sundays, November 1-Dec 15th.
Rehearsals Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays starting September 4th.
Performance/writing workshops twice a week (TBD) June 15-July 15th
Auditions for Machos will be held June 2nd, between 10am and 2pm. To schedule an audition, please e-mail coyapaz@teatroluna.org with your preferred time (15 minute slots) and a phone number where you can be reached.
To audition:
-Please come dressed to show us that you can perform as a man. We are looking beyond the stereotypes, so whatever that means to you! (There is a changing room available if you would like to change before or after your audition.)
-Please prepare a short (1-2 minutes MAX) original piece - it can be a joke, a story, some chisme, a monologue, a poem, lo que sea - we just want to get a sense of what you have to say and how you say it! Pieces should be memorized if possible.
-Please bring a recent head shot or photo, and a copy of your resume.
Teatro Luna is Chicago's first and only all-Latina theater company. Visit us on the web at www.teatroluna.org and don't miss our upcoming show Lunatic(a)s, playing June 1-July 15th at Chicago Dramatists
2007 Annual Fatherhood Symposium and Resource Fair: “Fathers Who Care”
Saturday, June 2, 2007
9:00am-3:30pm
Malcolm X College (1900 W. Jackson Blvd.)
Panelists include:
Phillip Jackson, Education and Father Involvement
Attorney Jeffery Leving: Fathers’ Rights and Child Support
Father George Clements: Spirituality and Fatherhood
Dr. Eric Whitaker: Health and Wellness
Edward Smith: Child Support/Project Clean Slate
The symposium will have a host of social service agencies that provide services to custodial and non-custodial parents.
For more information, please call: (773) 533-7520 or (773) 550-3556
Teatro Luna presents: “Lunatic(a)s” Directed and developed by Tanya Saracho A.
June 7-July 15, 2007
Thursdays, 7:30pm; Fridays and Saturdays, 8:00pm; Sundays 3:00pm
Chicago Dramatists (1105 W. Chicago Ave.)
Featuring Belinda Cervantes, Maritza Cervantes, Gina Cornejo, Yadira Correa, Miranda Gonzalez, Suzette Mayobre and Tanya Caracho
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors and students with an id.
Group rates are also available.
For reservations, please call:773-878-LUNA
For more information, please visit www.teatroluna.org or www.myspace.com/teatroluna
IV. CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Conference on Child Sexual Abuse in Africa African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect
The first International Conference on Sexual Abuse of the African Child will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 24-26 September, 2007. The aim of the conference is to advance knowledge regarding the various types of sexual abuse and their complexity in the cultural settings of Africa.
The specific objectives of the conference are to: (a) identify the causes, nature and magnitude of child sexual abuse in Africa; (b) create a forum to identify strategies to deal with sexual violence against children; (c) provide an opportunity to share information and experiences with a view to enhancing partnership and networking.
Call for papers
The conference organizers are calling for paper abstracts that address innovative prevention, intervention, and treatment of sexual abuse; networking or collaborative efforts, and research studies on the topic.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by an international panel and will be expected to address multi-cultural work, applicability to African children and prevention implications. Please send a one page abstract to regional@anppcan.org, with contact information of all presenters. Indicate if you prefer to present at a workshop, panel, or make poster presentation.
Submission deadline: 31st May 2007
Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=12328
For more information, contact:
African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect
PO Box 46516, 00100-GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: + 254 2 2722835; Fax: + 254 2 2723104
Email: admin@anppcankenya.co.ke
Website: http://www.anppcankenya.co.ke
New Trans/Gender Variant/ Queer Anthology
Please submit your writing via email to:captivegenders@gmail.com
Deadline: July 1, 2007.
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Edited by Nat Smith, Eric Stanley
Currently, at least 65% of transwomen and 29% of transmen have been incarcerated in the United States. Trans/gender variant people disproportionately experience the horrors of poverty, imprisonment, and criminalization. Captive Genders seeks to offer some frameworks, theories, and dreams for unthinking these cycles.We see this project as an important intervention in the emergent field of critical prison studies that will push discussion past men and women in prison, toward thinking how gender is lived under the crushing weight of corporal captivity. Along with race, sexuality, citizenship, class, and all other markers of difference, gender must be another central category for an understanding of the prison industrial complex (PIC).
Captive Genders will create a space to think the various ways the prison industrial complex keeps trans/gender variant communities from thriving. Captive Genders will also explore ways in which we can challenge the very real cultures of violence that Trans and queer folks experience without relying on current state-sponsored systems that reproduce the same kinds of violence they allege to end, such as the current push for "hate crimes" enhancement legislation.
There is a specificity of survival and power inside prison walls that we want to be attentive to. However we know the prison industrial complex involves all aspects of state surveillance, policing and social control and does not stop at the prison gates. So, we are also interested in work that explores the punishment of transgender and/or queer bodies outside traditionally understood spaces of incarceration.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Post 9/11 surveillance culture and queer / transgender lives
* HIV in prison and surveillance of positive folks outside of prison
* Cultural/social responses to violence against trans/gender variant and queer folks that rely on the State
* Ways of building power and challenging the PIC
* Queer sex and alternative gender formations in prison
* Policing sex, gender and sex work
* Social service/nonprofit denial of gender variance
* The culture of sexual violence in prison and its links to gendered power of the State
* The marginalization of transwomen, particularly transwomen of color, by the mainstream gay and lesbian community
The length of your work should be a minimum of 1,000 words. We would like works that are written for a wide audience. Essays, papers, and creative pieces are all welcome, but please no poetry. Please include a short biography with your work.
Eric Stanley is a graduate student in the History of Consciousness Program at UCSC and works with the radical queer direct action collective Gay Shame, San Francisco. Eric is also the co-director, along with Chris Vargas, of Homotopia.
Nat Smith is a member of Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee (TIP) and an organizer with the Oakland Chapter of Critical Resistance. Nat is also on the planning committee for Transforming Justice, the first ever conference focusing on imprisonment and poverty and the trans/gender variant community.
V. JOB, FELLOWSHIP, AND GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Southside Arts and Humanities Network Intern position available
The Civic Knowledge Project is looking for a student to work as an intern for the Southside Arts and Humanities Network, an exciting project that aims to leverage the intellectual, volunteer, technological and space resources of the University to benefit small arts and humanities organizations on the South side of Chicago. Work with local theaters, dance groups, visual artists, oral history projects and historical societies!
Requirements: Work Study eligibility, interest in Southside arts and humanities organizations. Contact joaniefriedman@uchicago.edu
NBPC Television and New Media Internship Program Fall 2007
The National Black Programming Consortium is looking for a smart and creative candidate to participate in a joint media internship program with MTV Networks. While immersed in this intensive 12-week program, the intern will experience firsthand the fast-paced, ever-evolving, world of television and new media creation and distribution.
For over 25 years, NBPC has been an effective advocate for media makers telling stories about the African-American and African Diaspora experience. Since 1991, NBPC has awarded over six million dollars to independent filmmakers, whose work has provided several hundreds of hours of programming on the PBS system. Most recently, NBPC funded a summit and new media training program which yielded four high-concept new media projects which will be distributed via its website and through hand-held devices.
In our effort to identify and support emerging producers of color within this rapid evolution of the media landscape, we have established a relationship with MTV Networks to provide a unique opportunity for students to work within one of today’s most dynamic and forward moving media companies. This internship duration will be 12 weeks, with a weekly stipend of 500 dollars (paid by NBPC).
The position, which is modeled on our successful TV internship with the award-winning magazine show NOW, is open to undergraduate students and must be for college credit. Students interested in aspects of television or new media creation, development, and distribution, are encouraged to apply. To apply, please send a properly formatted Microsoft Word resume to N. Christian Ugbode, Programs & New Media Coordinator, at Christian@nbpc.tv. The submission deadline is June 30, 2007.
White House Internship Program
The White House Internship Program offers an excellent opportunity to serve our President and explore public service. We are seeking exceptional candidates to apply for this highly-competitive Program. In addition to typical office duties, interns attend weekly lectures, tours and complete an intern service project.
Interns may serve a term in the fall, spring or summer. Every candidate must bea U.S. citizen, enrolled in a college or university and be at least 18 years old.
An application and additional info about the Program can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/wh-intern.html.
Strong applications should exhibit: (1) sound academic credentials,(2) a history of community involvement and leadership, (3) solid verbal/written communication skills and(4) a demonstrated interest in public service.
Applications should be submitted to Karen Race, Deputy Director and Intern Coordinator, White House Personnel, at intern_application@whitehouse.gov on or before:
June 26, 2007 for FALL 2007 (September 4-December 14, 2007)
If you have questions, you may contact Karen Race at (202) 456-5979 (voice/relay) or at intern_application@whitehouse.gov.
Subject: Summer Jobs
Verizon is looking for students who are 2006 graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). If you know of someone graduating from a HBCU this year with a degree in Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Information Technology, General Business, Finance or Marketing, please have them forward their resume to melissa.w.langham@verizon.com to be considered for career opportunities within Verizon.
