WGS Events
Free and open to the public
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 11am to 12pm
Math and Science Bldg. 38, Room 204
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"Austen's Pride and Prejudice : Anxiety and the Unaccountable"
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featuring Assistant Professor of English at the University of Idaho
DAVID SIGLER -
For fans of Jane Austen and queer politics alike!
Next week, Cal Poly's English Department and Department of Women's and Gender Studies will present a talk by Dr. David Sigler titled "Austen's Pride and Prejudice : Anxiety and the Unaccountable."
The lecture will discuss how the novel's seeming insistence on the desirability, and even the inevitability, of marriage is destabilized by Austen's retaining of queer or unaccountable pleasures within conjugal heterosexuality itself.
The talk will be held on Thursday, from May 10, from 11:10am-12pm, in Bldg. 38 (Math and Science), Rm 204.
David Sigler is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Idaho. He is the Director of the M. A. Program in English and affiliate faculty in Women's Studies. Dr. Sigler's research and teaching interests include British Romanticism, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, and critical theory. He has articles published or forthcoming in such journals as Studies in Romanticism , Criticism , The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation , and European Romantic Review . His current book project is titled Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism .
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies through the assistance of the College of Liberal Arts' Lottery Speakers Fund, this reading is free and open to students, faculty, and the public.
For more information, contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at 805-756-1525 or wgs@calpoly.edu.
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Free and open to the public
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 12 to 1pm
Graphic Arts Building 26, Room 104
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"WAR OF THE WOMB:
Expanding Morality Policies in an Era of Small Government" -
featuring Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Kansas and an affiliated faculty member for the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
ALESHA DOAN
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Politicians and citizens opposed to Obamacare claim the policy is an unfair intrusion into individuals’ private lives. Ironically, critics do not extend these same sentiments to the widespread governmental intrusion into the lives of women. In the past year, anti-women legislation was passed across the US at a record rate. Although these policies appear to have come out of nowhere, Professor Doan discusses how anti-abortion advocates and politicians have used a strategy of radical incrementalism to create a 21st century war of the womb.
Co-sponsored by the Political Science Department and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies through the assistance of the College of Liberal Arts' Speaker Fund, this reading is free and open to students, faculty, and the public.
For more information, contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at 805-756-1525 or wgs@calpoly.edu.
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WGS NEWS
NEW WGS HONOR SOCIETY - IOTA IOTA IOTA
There's a new honor society at Cal Poly: The Women's & Gender Studies Honor Society -- Iota, Iota, Iota (Triota).
Membership for Triota is open to Minors in Women's & Gender Studies, as well as any student at Cal Poly who has demonstrated a strong interest in Women's & Gender Studies by
• completing at least 8 units of courses in Women’s & Gender Studies,
• completing a minimum of 20 documented hours of paid or unpaid service, work or training/education related to Women’s & Gender Studies on or off-campus,
• by pursuing, or planning to pursue, research (i.e., a senior project, a master’s project) that promotes a critical understanding of how genders and sexualities shape and are shaped by social, political, ethical, economic, legal, and/or cultural institutions in historical and/or contemporary contexts.
In addition, ALL members must currently have and continue to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0.
The application form is available online at:http://tinyurl.com/6mtzyea
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGFtU1R3RlpvY05mTFVLTnRINnlWdWc6MQ
Triota can also be contacted at Triotacalpoly@gmail.com. For more information, please visit: http://slo.ihollaback.org/triota/.
PLEASE VISIT THE HOLLABACK WEBSITE ***
There's a new feminist project in our community: Hollaback! San Luis Obispo: slo.ihollaback.org.
Hollaback! is an international movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology. Main international site: http://www.ihollaback.org/
Our local Hollaback! site has been "live" since Dec 7, 2011 -- along with 10 other new Hollaback! sites.
Seven Cal Poly students will travel to Malta and Sicily in March 2012 for this year's International Computer Engineering Exchange (ICEX) program.
The students will collaborate with marine archeologists from the Aurora Special Purpose Trust and the University of Malta to investigate previously unexplored underwater archaeological sites using underwater robots. These sites include ancient cisterns (underground water storage systems) and marine caves. The students will be joined by three Cal Poly faculty members -- Associate Professor Chris Clark, currently on sabbatical leave at Princeton, Associate Professor Zoe" Wood of Computer Science, and Assistant Professor Jane Lehr of the departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's& Gender Studies -- along with 4 students from Princeton. The Cal Poly students are working on a number of projects including: 1) the use of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms that employ sonar data to construct 3D maps; 2) the creation of computer graphics applications to construct and visualize geometric models of the underwater data; and 3) a new website designed for teachers and
students that will explore the relationships between water and society, using Malta as a case study. The Cal Poly students are also actively introducing young people to the exciting fields of robotics and computer science via class visits to elementary schools in San Luis Obispo, CA (Pacheco Elementary) and Malta. Follow the students a the ICEX 2012 blog: http://icex2012-malta.blogspot.com/
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Thank you so much for your continued support!
Please consult this page throughout the academic year for more information about WGS events.
