Class Notes/Follow-up

I wanted to remind everyone that the second assignment for PAFG627 (the literature review) will be due on March 11 instead of March 4. I am still working on getting the 'Analyzing Talk and Text' article to you. I encourage you all to continue looking elsewhere and satiating your voracious minds.

Thank you to Grace Ross

Hello!

I wanted to encourage you to write thank you notes to Grace Ross for taking time to come and speak with us last week. She values the feedback and it will help with name recognition and potential job opportunities. She also values mentorship (hint hint). If you did not grab a card last week, you can reach her directly at the following email address:

Gracegrnrnbw@aol.com

Come see Nency in Vagina Monologues--3/8/2008

UMass Boston Women’s Center Presents the Vagina Monologues

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8th) than enjoying then a rendition of Eve Ensler’s of the ALWAYS funny and provocative Vagina Monologues!

You can see the performance on both March 7th and March 8th at 7pm at UMass Boston’s Snowden Auditorium in the Wheatley Building
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston MA 02125

Better yet! In addition to a fun night you will be helping out other women as all the proceeds go to Jane Doe Inc. (www.janedoe.org)--an organization that brings together organizations and people committed to ending domestic violence and sexual assault.

Tickets are $7 for students and $10 for general admission.

Tickets may be purchased at the Women's Center with cash or a check made out to Jane Doe Inc. (please make sure that UMB Women's Center is written in the memo section of the check).

For questions or more information go to www.myspace.com/UMBWomensCenter, contact the Women's Center at 617-287-7986 or email womens.center@umb.edu.

Delegate Training

Tomorrow we are holding the training that will provide you with the information and procedure on how to run for delegate for the National Convention. We plan to cover

-How many delegates are allocated in the Congressional District 8

-How to Declare and what is the process once you declare

-Important Dates for declaration, caucus, and convention

-Volunteer Opportunities

The training runs for about one hour and we have supplemental materials. If you are not able to make the training tomorrow I can email you the materials and have a phone conversation about the process.

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Congressional District 8

Congressman Michael Capuano

Asian Community Development Corporation

Wednesday-February 27^th 6pm

38 Oak Street-Community Room

Boston MA, 02111

http://www.asiancdc.org/contact.html

-Gloribell Mota

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Gloribell Mota,
Education and Training Director
Massachusetts Democratic Party
56 Roland Street Suite 203
Boston MA, 02129
Tel: 617-776-2676 x200
Fax: 617-776-2579
gmota@massdems.org
www.massdems.org

Grace Ross

Just a reminder that our guest speaker this week will be Grace Ross, 2006 MA Gubernatorial Candidate. Bring some good questions and be sure to be on time. She will be with us from 6-6:45pm.

Professor Waddell

Conference Opportunity: Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latina/o Sexualities

CALL FOR REGISTRATION

Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in Black and Latina/o Sexualities

April 11-12, 2008

Chicago, Illinois

http://condor.depaul.edu/~rsp2008/info.html


Registration is now open!!!

Faculty from nine universities and colleges will hold the largest ever
conference on black and Latina/o sexuality on April 11-12 at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. "Race, Sex, Power: New Movements in
Black and Latina/o Sexualities," the culmination of more than two years
of planning, will bring together academics, activists, and artists to
address topics ranging from intimacy and desire to HIV/AIDS and teen
pregnancy to humor and Hip Hop.

Conference organizer Cathy Cohen, Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago, calls the conference "a bold effort to rethink what
sexuality means for the two largest racial minority groups in the US."

Dr. Jocelyn Elders, the former United States Surgeon General appointed by
President Clinton, will open the conference on Friday morning, April 11.

Sponsored by the participating universities with major funding from the
Ford and Arcus Foundations, "Race, Sex, Power" aims to set a new agenda
for studying, organizing, writing, and developing policy about
sexuality. Juan Battle, professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate
Center, argues that the conference is not only ambitious, but timely, as
sexuality is central to current political debates. "Same-sex marriage,
abstinence education, and abortion rights are all at the forefront."

Marysol Asencio, associate professor of Family Studies/Puerto Rican and
Latino/a Studies from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, adds that
the demographic shifts in the US mean that "sexuality has to be
confronted from the perspective of race, not merely to challenge the
pathologies historically assigned to Latina/o and Black Americans, but
to explore the dynamism and heterogeneity within these populations as
well."

The conference program takes sexuality and race in all their complexity.
Panels and speakers selected from hundreds of submissions will cover,
among other things: media, migration and immigration, religion and
spirituality, sexual tourism, reproductive rights, transgender,
community organizing, gay and lesbian civil rights, poverty, social
class, age, and the sex industry. Within the wide variety of approaches
in both method and topic, a key idea emerges. Sexuality can only be
imagined in the context of communities that are embedded in a national
and international context of changing sexual mores and deeply entrenched
habits of thought and representation.

One of the hallmarks of this conference, Cohen stresses, is its emphasis
on collaboration and inclusiveness. The complex coordination of nine
institutions permitted organizers to draw on a pool of expertise that no
one college or university could hope to contain. The unusual blend of
research, activism, and art encourages all participants to think outside
their personal assumptions and the conventions of their fields. Finally,
the organizers hope to draw an audience of specialists and
non-specialists alike. Asencio reminds us that knowledge about sexuality
is hardly confined to those who make a profession of its study.
Everyone, Asencio argues, is engaged in a critique of current sexual
conventions. The conference is simply the space where such knowledge can
be shared, rethought, and transformed.



LOCATION: UIC FORUM, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL


SPONSORING UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES:
Chicago State University
Columbia College Chicago
DePaul University
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Northwestern University
Roosevelt University
University of Chicago
University of Connecticut at Storrs
University of Illinois, Chicago


Conference Website: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rsp2008/info.html
For more information, contact: racesexpower08@gmail.com

International Women's Day Breakfast, March 7

Please come to the 11th Annual International Women's Day Breakfast, celebrating Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency: Globally & Locally. The event is hosted by Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change.

Date: 03/07/2008 Time: 7:30AM - 9:30AM Location: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Contact: Diane Hammer
Director, Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
617-521-2480

Assignment #2 for PAFG627

PAFG 627: CASE STUDY SEMINAR

ASSIGNMENT #2 Literature Review

DUE: March 4, 2008

Length: 5-7 pages double-spaced plus a bibliography

Objective: The objective of this assignment is to help you develop the final case study which is due May 13, 2008.

Instructions: Using the lectures and readings for this course and the literature you compiled for your research, please complete the literature review assignment by providing the following sections: 1) title, 2) list research questions, 3) literature review, and 4) bibliography. This assignment should answer the questions listed below and be organized as shown.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the key scholarly opinions on your topic?
2. What are some key themes in your literature?
3. What questions are left unanswered and how does your case study answer them?

Criteria for Grading:

· Writing that conforms to standard graduate level expectations of writing with APA style citations (see http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/apagd.php)

EXAMPLES OF APA STYLE CITATION

Komisar, L. (1991). The new feminism. New York: 

               Franklin Watts.

Roll, W.P. (1976). ESP and memory. In J.M.O. Wheatley

               & H.L. Edge (Eds.), Philosophical dimensions 

               of parapsychology (pp. 154-184). Springfield, IL:

               American Psychiatric Press.

Maki, R.H. (1982). Categorization effects which occur 

               in comparative judgment tasks. Memory & 

               Cognition, 10, 252-264.

ESS Registration FYI

Dear all

If you are planning to attend the 78th Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Sociological Society in New York (February 21-24) -- and if you have not
yet paid your 2008 dues and registered-- please note that
pre-registration will be closed down on February 17th 5PM. This means
that your next opportunity to register after that will be at the meeting
at conference rates (generally $10 more at each level of registration;
undergraduates remain at the original price.) If you are mailing in your
registration, please gauge so that it hits our offices by this weekend
so that we will have time to process it. Many thanks.

General information about membership and registration is below.

Membership and Registration: Unless you have received Presidential
dispensation, ALL Presenters in the discipline must be ESS members and
must register for the sessions. Undergrads whose institutions hold a
Departmental Membership do not have to pay for membership ($30 for a
student) but will have to register at the nominal $10 Undergraduate
rate. (Ugrads, bug your chair to join - it is good for everyone and can
be done online at our website). NON-SOCIOLOGISTS may opt for a
"non-member" registration. Registration and Membership can be taken care
of online in the Annual Meeting section of our website http://essnet.org
at a pre-registration rate until
February 17th..

If you have already registered, many thanks for your promptness! We
will see you in New York.


Emily Mahon
Executive Officer
Eastern Sociological Society
Department of Sociology
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470
973-720-3689
http://essnet.org

Black Legislative Caucus Celebrate Black History Month on Feb. 12 at the State House

The Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus Celebrates BLACK HISTORY MONTH On

*Tuesday February 12, 2008*
*1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ~ Nurses' Hall*

*State House Boston*
*2nd Floor*
* *
*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carol R. Johnson*
Boston Public Schools Superintendent

*"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who
prepare for it today
"*
*Malcolm X*

*For More Information contact MBLC Office (617) 722 2688*

Announcement of Graduate Center Study of Culture Fellowships

Dear colleagues,

The GCSC invites applications for 10 PhD fellowships and 2 postdoctoral fellowships and we would be very grateful if you could distribute the attached advertisement among colleagues and young scholars at your institution. Fellowships are awarded for projects which are connected to one of the eight research areas at the GCSC: (1) Memory Cultures, (2) Culture and Narration, (3) Culture and Performativity, (4) Visual Culture, (5) Culture, Language, and New Media, (5) Culture and Identities, (6) Political and Transnational Cultures, or (7) Cultures of Knowledge, Research, and Education.

Additional information about the GCSC and the fellowship scheme is available online
http://www.uni-giessen.de/gcsc. We would also be very happy to send you our information packs containing further details on the GCSC and its research profile (please email gcsc@uni-giessen.de, indicating the number of information packs, flyers, or posters requested).

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions regarding the fellowship programme. We greatly appreciate your support.

With best wishes and warmest regards,

Ansgar Nünning and Martin Zierold

Katja Urbatsch
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) / Gießener
Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
35394 Gießen
Tel. 0641 / 99-30042
Fax: 0641 / 99-30049
www.uni-giessen.de/gcsc
www.uni-giessen.de/graduiertenzentrum

Ready to RUN: Campaign training for women

Center for American Women and Politics

REGISTER NOW!


Saturday, March 15, 2008

Special pre-conference programs for women of color on Friday, March 14, 2008

Douglass Campus Center

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, NJ

Reserve your space now - early bird rate available only until February 15!

Register online here: http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/r2r-reg.html

Why Should You Attend Ready to Run?

Ready to Run is a bipartisan program for women who want to run for office, work on a campaign, or position themselves for other types of public leadership. You will walk away with...

- "How to" instructions on running for office

- Fundraising and media skills

- Real-world advice and best practices from experts

- Inspiration to launch a campaign

- Strategies for positioning yourself for public leadership

- A better understanding of New Jersey politics

Feminist blogs: independent to malestream media

"Feminist Blogs is a community of weblogs by self-identified feminists, women's liberationists, womanists, and pro-feminist men" who blog to "raise awareness, bring together feminist voices, and promote cross-linking and discussion." From Intute.ac.uk
http://feministblogs.org/

Commonwealth Seminar

I found this program and thought it might be of interest, especially to those of us who will already be at the Statehouse.


http://www.masscls.org/index.html