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WST Colloquia Series: A Professional Forum for Faculty informs the university community of the broad research interests of the discipline and showcases USF’s best scholarship in the area of Feminist and Women’s Studies."

FALL 2007 Women’s Studies Colloquia

November 7
Barbara Berglund, Ph.D. (USF, History) “Cultural Frontiers: Gender, Race & Empire in Post-Gold Rush San Francisco”
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September 26
Orathai Northern, Ph.D. (USF English & Women’s Studies)
"Part to Whole: Hair and Black Women’s Autobiographical Practice"
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October 24
Panel: Leisa Clark, Heather Curry, Chelsea Tanner, Cyrana Wyker
"Women’s Studies Graduate Students’ Panel on the Applications of Queer Theory"
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SPRING 2007 Women’s Studies Colloquia

January 29
Colleen Clark (USF, Mental Health Law & Policy)
"Gender Differences in Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders"
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February 19
Naomi Yavneh, Ph.D. (USF Humanities) “Trumping Beauty: Petrarchism and the Bellissima Donna in Giulia Bigolina’s Urania
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March 5
Panel on Activism and Community Engagement: Jan Roberts, Earth Charter; Ronna Metcalf, Life Enrichment Center and W.O.M.E.N.; Jacqueline Mirkin and Edie Daly, Community Activists
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March 26
Panel on Feminist Perspectives on Holistic Health Marilyn Myerson, Ph.D. (USF, Women’s Studies) Nagwa Dajani Ph.D. (USF, Neurosurgery) Sharon DeJoy (USF, College of Public Health)
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April 9
Kennan Ferguson, Ph.D. (USF, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences): “Beyond Access: Care Ethics, Disability, and Space”
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FALL 2006 Women’s Studies Colloquia
NOVEMBER 13
Nandini Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (English Dept. , Bethune College, Kolkata, India)
“Reader… I Let Him Go” ~ Love and Desire in Times of Swadeshi [nationalist uprising]: Tracing Emotional History in British Bengal (1905-1935)
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OCTOBER 25
Erica Hesch Anstey, M.A. (U.S F. College of Public Health): “Environmental Toxins and Women's Health: A Feminist Precautionary Perspective”
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OCTOBER 11
Hew Cheng Sim, Ph.D. (U.S F. Anthropology): “Singles, Sex and the City: A Study in Sarawak, Malaysia”
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SEPTEMBER 27
Dr. Carolyn Eichner is a feminist historian with a Ph.D. from UCLA. Her publications include the forthcoming. "'Ni la butalité du maître, ni la perfidie de l'escalve': les anti-impérialismes fèministes de Louise Michel et de Paule Mink," in Louse Michel, figure de la transvertalité, edited by Valérie Morignant (Brussels, Belgium; Editions Tribord), and Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Bloomington: Indaina University Press, 2004). Presentation Title: "Feminism's Empire: Feminist Imperialism and Ant-Imerialism in France, 1870-1919."

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SPRING 2006 Women’s Studies Colloquia
JANUARY
Doris Weatherford (Well known author of women's history) proposed title: “REAL WOMEN of Tampa and Hillsborough County, From Prehistory to the Millennium.”
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FEBRUARY 2
Sara Crawley, Ph.D. [Queer Theory panel presentation] (U.S.F. Women's Studies) title: “Panel on Queering the Disciplines.”
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FEBRUARY 16
Maya Trotz, Ph.D. (U.S.F. Engineering) title: “Water Quality and Women: The Interface between science, engineering and Non Governmental Organizations in Guyana.”

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MARCH 23
Cheryl Hall, Ph.D. (U.S.F. Government and International Affairs) proposed title: “Is Deliberative Democracy Good for Women ?”

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FALL 2005 Women’s Studies Colloquia
OCTOBER 13, 2005
Sara Quick, M.A. (U.S.F. Women's Studies) “Situating the Silences: Courtesans, Gender, and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century France.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2005
Oksana Lyutsyshyna, M.A. (U.S.F. Women’s Studies and French) "Postcolonial Herstory: the Novels of Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine): A Comparative Analysis"

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SPRING 2005 Women’s Studies Colloquia
JANUARY
Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D. will be presenting "Sexuality, Excess, and The Repudiation of Femininity; Revisiting the Primal Metaphors" on Sat. 1/15/05 at 3PM at the University of South Florida's Business Administation Building (BSN) Room 1201. View Flyer
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[**note change: this presentation originally scheduled for February**]
Thursday January 20 from 3:30-4:30 in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
“New Media and Feminist Interventions: VALIE EXPORT’s Medial Anagrams”
Margit Grieb, Assistant Professor of German, U.S.F. Department of World Language Education

FEBRUARY
[**note change: this presentation was originally scheduled for January**]
Thursday, February 17 from 3:30-4:30 in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
"African Women: Rights, Politics, Religion, and Development" [exact title: To Be Announced]
Fatou Diop, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Gaston Berger, Senegal and Visiting Fulbright Specialist, New College of Florida
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Women of Color Conference Information Page
FEBRUARY

Women’s Awareness Month: Women of Color: Reaching High, Going Far
A Conference on Current Psychological Issues
February 28, 2005 - 8:30AM-5PM - University of South Florida - Tampa, FL 33620
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Noted theorist, Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity (Duke University Press) is lecturing on "Friends in Low Places: Photography and the Queer Image" on Monday, 2/28/05 7PM Marshall Center Ball Room Co-sponsored by The Department of Sociology and the Department of Humanities and American Studies. View Flyer
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MARCH
Thursday, March 10 from 3:30-4:30 in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
"Flirting and the Fetish of Gender: Ethnographic Reflections."
Kevin Yelvington, Associate Professor, U.S.F. Department of Anthropology
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“Missing Girls, Bare Branches, and the Politics of China's Sex Imbalances,” presented by Nancy Riley, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College. Dr. Riley’s research on Chinese women has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Wenner-Gren, and the Committee for Scholarly Communication with China (fieldwork funding and affiliation with CSCC, through the National Academy of Sciences) to be held in the TECO room on Tuesday, March 22 event from 5:00 - 8:00PM
MARCH
Thursday, March 31 from 3:30-4:30 in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
"The Ethics of Naming: Uncovering the Birth-Mother in Adoption Life-Writing"
Emily Hipchen, Visiting Associate Professor of English, University of Tampa
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APRIL
Thursday, April 14 [**note: earlier time**] from 2:15-3:15in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
“Working the System That’s Working Her”
Jennifer Friedman and Laurel Graham, Associate Professors, U.S.F. Department of Sociology
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FALL 2004 Women’s Studies Colloquia
SEPTEMBER
Thursday, September 23 from 3:30-4:30 in FAO196
"Deconcentrating The Poor: Scattering Misery To Make It Go Away"
Susan Greenbaum, Professor, U.S.F. Department of Anthropology
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OCTOBER
Thursday, October 7 from 3:30-4:30 in FAO196
"Expanding the Expression(s) of TRUE EXPRESSIONS:
A lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/questioning/intersex Youth Organization"
Jeni Mohr, Vice President and Kerry Clawson, President, TRUE EXPRESSIONS, Inc.
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OCTOBER
Thursday, October 21 from 3:30-4:30
in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
“The Lavender Scare: Homosexuality and Presidential Politics, Return to the 1950s”
David Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor, U.S.F. Department of History
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NOVEMBER
Thursday, November 4 from 3:30-4:30 in Grace Allen Room (library 4th floor, Special Collections)
"Community of Christ/Reorganized Latter Day Saint Herstories:
Neglected Women's Voices in a New American Religion."
Danny Jorgenson, Professor and Chair, U.S.F. Department of Religious Studies
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