Friday, September 22  Rashmi Varma, Department of English, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.  HHH 215.
Professor Varma extends the analysis of citizenship and political mobilization to contemporary nationalist movements that claim to defend traditional morality.  Varma’s work demonstrates how some Indian women have developed alternative understandings of citizenship that challenge the sectarian lines of Hindu fundamentalism.

Monday, September 25 Sandra Patton, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Minnesota.  HHH 215.
The work of Professor Patton challenges the conservative narrative that cites the breakdown of the family as a justification for dismantling the Unites States’ welfare system. Patton shows how stereotypic race narratives function in contemporary public discourse regarding family values, and offer a multi-racial feminist perspective to raise questions about whose values are enforced and fostered by social institutions.

Monday, October 2  Dawn Rae Davis, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota; Jodi Horne, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota; and Sara Hottinger, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota.  HHH 215.
Davis, Horne, and Hottinger will present a collaborative work in progress that takes up the question of professional and disciplinary identity in Women’s Studies.

Monday, October 9  Nancy Campbell, Department of Women’s Studies, Ohio State University.  HHH 205.
**PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE**
In her forthcoming book  Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice, Professor Campbell addresses postmodern Progressivism and its implications for feminist activism and scholarship.  Campbell is particularly interested in feminist activism that aims to negotiate with the state, and explores the relationship between postmodern Progressivism and the rhetoric of “compassionate convervatism.”

Friday, Oct. 20, 2:15-4, 710 Soc. Sci. Bldg. CWHW Workshop.
*NOTE TIME CHANGE*
Sako Ogata, UMN, on Japanese and American attitudes to abortion.

Monday, October 23  Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara.  HHH 215.
Professor Gordon's work emphasizes the relationship between "haunting," memory, and history, she proposes a new approach to understanding the role of power relations in the construction of knowledge. “Hauntings” incorporates notions of loss, invisibility, and absence as aspects of knowledge—for example, in the connection created between relatives of the absent "disappeared" in Argentina—in ways that call for a critical writing of history based on the partiality of knowledge and experience.

Monday, October 30  Richa Nagar, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Minnesota.  HHH 215.
Focusing on a grassroots campaigns of poor, rural women in Uttar Pradesh, India, Professor Nagar’s work demonstrates how space is central to women’s struggles and how feminist discourses emerge as situated practices in particular places.  Nagar charts the discursive geographies in Bundeli women’s resistace by mapping the sociospatial circuits through which women share and politicize their experiences.

Friday, November 3  CWHW Workshop: Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota. 710 Social Sciences, Ford Room.
"Race and Sexuality in the Old South."

Friday, Nov. 10, 3:30, 710 Social Sciences, CWHW Workshop.
Estella Musiiwa, "Linking Women to Canalscapes and Waterscapes: Women
and Smallholder Irrigation Technology in Zimbabwe, 1912- 1995."

Friday, November 17  Betsy Hartmann, Director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College.  HHH 215 (co-sponsored by ISEES and ICGC).
In her work on the global politics of reproductive rights, Hartmann shows how international development organizations often justify their projects (including population control measures) by claiming these will enhance women's political, economic, and social rights and lead to women's increased empowerment. Gender is one of the processes for constituting entire populations and nations as “oppressed,” underdeveloped,” and “traditional,” and, thereby, justifying economic development initiatives that serve the interests of global capitalism.

Friday, December 1  CWHW Workshop: Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota. 710 Social Sciences, Ford Room.
"Gender, Film and Nation in  Argentina"

Friday, December 8  Karen Hagemann, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender, Technical University of Berlin.  HHH 215. "Nation, War and Masculinity in 19th century Germany"  Professor Hagemann's work on German nationalism during the period of the French Wars shows how gender is implicated in the constitution of nationalist ideologies that depend on images of the nation as a family.  She argues that such images give rise to a highly militarized, masculinized nationalism that is justified on the basis of protecting women, children, and other "dependents."

For spring 2001, our speakers will include:
Julia Roos, "Prostitution and Reform in Weimar Germany"
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Medieval Masculinity"
Jean O'Brien, "Race, Class and Gender in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Old Town Folks"
Laura Edwards, topic TBA
Susan Amussen (Union Institute) "Gender and Slavery in the Caribbean"
Kathleen Canning (U of Michigan) "The Body and Politics in Weimar Germany"
Kay Reyerson, "Medieval Women"
Margot Canady (UMN graduate student), "Sexuality and Citizenship in US History"