Readings for Monday (if you are interested). You don’t have to read to attend :)

Coates, Teenyboppers, Groupies and other grotesques

Female Gamers Fight Back

Dishing Gender on Monday March 23

Please join us to discuss women and gaming.

IWS lounge, Monday March 23, 1:50-3 pm.  Pizza will be served (for more details see poster below).

Poster WGS

Grant Opportunity–Barnard College

The Barnard Library will award two grants of $2,500 to researchers using its Archives, Zine Library or Barnard Center for Research on Women collection.

https://library.barnard.edu/news/Announcing-Library-Research-Awards-201516

Undergraduate and graduate students, professors and independent scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area are encouraged to apply.

Particular strengths of the three collections are the history of the college, second and third wave feminist and LGBTQ print ephemera (1970s-present newsletters, pamphlets, zines, etc.), riot grrrl, late 20th century girlhood, 20th century women’s education, NYC modern dance history, representations of women’s sexuality and embodiment, contemporary zine culture, zines by women of color.

Award money may be used for whatever will facilitate the researcher’s work at Barnard, e.g., travel, housing, childcare.

Applications will be accepted through February 15, 2015. Award notifications will be sent to applicants by April 30, 2015 for research to be conducted at Barnard during the period July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016.

February 9th Talk in honor of Women’s History Month

In honor of women’s history month

Professor Lori Flores, SUNY Stony Brook,

http://history.sunysb.edu/blog/loriflores/ will discuss

“The History of Women in the U.S. Farmworker Justice Movement”

1:50-3:15, Monday, February 9th, DAC 306

For much of the twentieth century and still today, the farmworker rights

movement has struggled to improve the lives and working conditions of

those who harvest our food. Though agriculture is often imagined as a

world dominated by men, women have played a powerful role in building,

sustaining, and directing the future of the farmworker rights struggle in

the United States. Spanning the period between the 1930s and today, this

lecture focuses on women’s involvement in important moments of labor

unionization, boycotting and community protest, immigration, and

legislation connected to the hotly-debated issue of how we should treat

the farmworkers who labor within our borders.

Dishing Gender February 12th!

Women’s and Gender Studies 

invites you to the first Dishing Gender of the semester 

 Thursday, February 12th, common hour (1:50-3:15) in the Writing Center Lounge (in back).

Collaborate, brainstorm, create— we need ideas and designs for a new WGS logo.  Come and bring a friend to the design party.    Pizza served.  

Please forward to all your friends and colleagues.  We hope to see you!

For more information contact:  

Roberta Villalón

Associate Professor

Assistant Chair 

Sociology and Anthropology Department 

villalor@stjohns.edu

and/or 

Jennifer Travis

Director, and Gender Studies

Associate Professor, English 

St. John’s University

travisj@stjohns.edu

sjugenderstudies.wordpress.com

Welcome to Spring Semester!

Wow–2015!

We have a lot of great events in store this semester, starting with our first Dishing Gender of 2015 on February 9th, common hour, writing center lounge.  More on this and other Dishing Gender dates soon.

March 30th, in honor of Women’s History Month, WGS and Women in Science will host a panel/discussion of women in STEM.  More details about this event also coming soon.

Good luck for the first week of classes!  Check back here often 🙂

Final Dishing Gender of the Year!

Monday, December 1st in the library lounge, common hour: 1:50-3.

Please join us for the last dishing gender of 2014!  We’ll discuss current events: Ferguson, cat calls…what’s on your mind?  Bring your ideas, opinions, and friends.

Pizza served 🙂

WGS with Spectrum and Haraya

November 17th (Monday) from 7-9 in SJH

Please join us! All are welcome!

Classes for the spring!

Sociology:

Women and Crime

Human Trafficking (soc 2330)

Sociology of Latino/as (Soc 2230)

History:

His3562 Women in Modern Europe (16701) MR 10.40-12.05

His3731 Women in America 1 (16694) MR 12.15-13.40

Politics:

Global Gender Politics, GOV 269.  It is a graduate class, but Dr. Koziak will accept undergrads if this is o.k. with your home department.  Politics has a class called Research and Reading class, Gov 4990.   Check with your department, me, and Dr. Koziak for more info.

Ten Hours Walking as a Woman in NYC

In case you haven’t seen it: