History and Mystery, Faith and Feminist Rage: Deciphering the success of The Da Vinci Code

Prof. Felice Lifshitz
Historian and Researcher
FIU

Women in Science Series
Still a Chilly Climate

Suzanna Rose, Ph.D.
Chair, Dept. of Psychology & Director, Women's Studies, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

Please join us for socializing and refreshments. Meet our 2004-05 Visiting Faculty: Karen Garner and Dana Van Tilborg. Learn about upcoming events and future plans.

Sept. 17, 2004
Friday
2:00 - 3:30pm

DM 213

RSVP (305 348 2408) appreciated but not required.

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Margaret Bourke-White: Modern Woman, Modern Photographer

Vicki Goldberg
NY Times photography critic

Free Admission.
Co-sponsored by: The Wolfsonian-FIU

Sept. 23, 2004
Thursday
7pm lecture (6-7pm Gallery open)

Girls in Women's Studies:
Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century

Susan Freeman*, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Women's Studies
Minnesota State University
*Former FIU Women's Studies Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2003

Presidential Lecture Series
Science, Policy and Politics: Lessons learned from two decades in the Congress and White House

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, Dean
School of Natural Resources and Environment
The University of Michigan (http://www.snre.umich.edu)

Women in Science Series
Ecological and Social Implications of Hydropower Development on a Neotropical River System in Costa Rica

Dr Elizabeth Anderson Olivas
Undergraduate Research Coordinator,Organization for Tropical Studies
La Selva Biological Station
Costa Rica

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Cross Current

Christine Kling, Author

Dr Rinku Roy Chowdhury
University of Miami

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Environmental Studies

Women’s Studies Faculty Research-in-Progress Brown Bag
“A Passion for History: Feminist Research Informing Historical Studies”

Dr. Karen Garner
Visiting Assistant Professor
Women's Studies/History, FIU

Dr. Aurora Morcillo
Assistant Professor
Women's Studies/History, FIU

Please bring your lunch and join us in this informal discussion.

For more information, email Dana Van Tilborg at tilborgd@fiu.edu

Book Reading
Border-Line Personalities/Latina Women's Identity

Why, in the minds of most Americans, are Latinas still thought of as maids, seductresses, and booty-shaking salsa divas? Never has the concept of Latina identity been more relevant.
Never has there been a new generation of Latinas so ready to say what they mean and even criticize the Latina generation that preceded them. Until now.

Ask the editors of the book questions firsthand.

Robyn Moreno, Ed.
Michelle Herrera Mulligan, Ed.

Co-sponsored by:
Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.

FIU Bookstore, GC 170

Admission free.

Sexual Harassment: mini-workshop with role-playing

This mini-workshop will involve various role-plays depicting sexual harassment scenarios. The intent is to increase awareness about this subject and to discuss positive ways to handle unwelcome situations in the workplace and the university. The mini-workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the gray matters associated with sexual harassment, as this is typically not a black-or-white issue.

Dr. Diann Newman

Dr. Diann Newman has been an educator/administrator at Florida International University since 1975. She currently teaches classes on human relations, teambuilding, organizational behavior, and managing self and others in Hospitality Management. Dr. Newman is also a licensed Mental Health Counselor as well as an author and a professional speaker and workshop facilitator.

Co-sponsored by:
WICS@FIU
Women in Computer Science (WICS) at FIU

GL 523

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please visit http://cs.fiu.edu/scswomen. Ana Pasztor, advisor.

Auditions For "The Vagina Monologues"

A V-Day FIU 2005 College Campaign
To Stop Violence Against Women And Girls

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Studies Student Association (WSSA)

Golden Panther Arena 117

Contact Person:
Sze Lee, slee007@fiu.edu

Dr. Heather Hughes
College of Law, FIU

The Women's Studies Center is offering a series of Research-in-Progress events for FIU faculty to share their current feminist scholarship and begin a dialogue with faculty from other disciplines and fields. These informal talks will take place roughly once a month and highlight interdisciplinary views on feminist scholarship.

Psychology Conference Room DM 258 (enter through DM 256)

Please bring your lunch and join us in this informal discussion.

For more information, email Dana Van Tilborg at tilborgd@fiu.edu.

Evelyn Gaiser
Assistant Professor
Biology/SERC, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Dept. of Environmental Studies

Women and Property
in Early Modern Spain

Dr. Margarita Birriel
University of Granada, Spain

After: Reflections on Post-Holocaust Art: The Case of Anselm Kiefer

Dr. Lisa Saltzman
Associate Professor, History of Art
Director, Center for Visual Culture
Bryn Mawr College

Co-sponsored by:
Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and the Dept. of Art & Art History

CP 197

Free and open to the public.

For more information please contact at Art and Art History Department 305-348-2897 or email at visart@fiu.edu

Women in Japanese Film

Dr. Maureen Turim
University of Florida

Dorotea´s Revenge: Sex and Speech Acts in Don Quixote, Part I

The lecture will be given by:
Dr. Anne J. Cruz
Professor of Spanish
Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Miami

to be introduced by:
Prof. Maida Watson
Modern Languages, FIU.

Co-sponsored by:
The Spanish Resource Center, and The Department of Modern Languages

RB 140 (College of Business)

Please contact Yusimit Martinez, 305 348 2852 for more information.

The Women's Studies Center
Logo Competition

The Women's Studies Center is looking for a logo/image/symbol that will identify the program. This should be a professional and creative image to add to our web site and all our publicity events.

Rules:
1. The design must be original (no clip art, etc.) and complete.
2. If digital, resolution must be at least 300 dpi, on a CD.
3. If hand created, the submission must be at least 6” wide or tall, neat and clean.
4. This competition is open to FIU and the community at large.

A $ 100 prize will be given to the winner
at our 3rd Annual Women's Studies Student Conference Award Ceremony.

Submission deadline:
Dec. 1, 2004
Wednesday
5pm

DM 212

Contact Person: Prof. Morcillo, 305 348 2408.

A Global Perspective on Women’s Mental Health

Poverty, violence, stress related to multiple roles, gender discrimination and access to healthcare are some of the major psycho-social factors identified as having a significant impact on the mental health of women.

This presentation will discuss the importance of the identifying and modifying risk factors across the life span through research, policy and program development.

Emphasis will be placed on the need to foster social support networks for women within their cultural context.

Dr. Patt Franciosi
WFMH President 2003-2005

• Former President of the National Mental Health Association in the United States
• Former Chair of the U.S. National Prevention Coalition
• Presidential appointment to the National Institute for Mental Health Advisory Council
• Presidential appointment the US Health and Human Services Secretary's Council on Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Recipient of numerous awards for her mental health advocacy work, particularly in the area of children's mental health

The World Federation of Mental Health was founded in 1948 and currently includes members & contacts in 112 countries on six continents.

The WFMH is accredited as a consultant to the United Nations and its specialized agencies.

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Psychology, Developmental & Mental Health (DMHA) Graduate Student Association, Department of Women’s Studies, SGA Lectures Committee & College of Arts & Sciences, Community-Based Intervention Research Group (CBIRG)

Graham Center (GC-150)

This lecture is FREE and open to the public!

For more information contact the FIU Psychology Department at 304 348-2880 or contact DMHA at dmha@fiu.edu.

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Masterful Women:
Slaveholding Southern Women

Kirsten Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
History, FIU

Rape. Talk About It. Prevent It.

A presentation on educating students, faculty and staff on prevalent issues such as rape, date rape drugs, and dating violence. Attendees will be provided with information about key topics: Florida laws, Victim Advocacy Center services, statistics and much more!

Maureen Muhlena
Program Specialist
Victim Advocacy Center

Co-sponsored by:
Victim Advocacy Center

University Health Service Complex (UHSC), Room 210

Refreshments will be provided, as well as 15 minute prepaid calling cards that were reported on by Channel 7 news (Nov. 2004).

For more information, call 305-348-1215 or Maureen.muhlena@fiu.edu

Black History Month: Black Identity
Queen Latifah or the Queen Bee: Conceptualizing Racial Identity, Attractiveness and Relationships via Popular culture Sexual Scripts

Dr. Dionne Stephens
Psychology & Women's Studies

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Psychology, and African New World Studies

Feb. 10, 2005
Thursday
2 - 3:30pm

Department of Psychology Conference Room (DM258)

All are welcome to attend these free, informal dialogues.

For more information, call (305) 348- 2880 or 6488.

Women's Studies students' production and performance.

Performance Dates:

Feb. 11 - 12
Fri. - Sat.
8pm

Feb. 13
Sun.
6pm

GL 100

Ticket prices: 
FIU Student $10
FIU Faculty $15
General $20

Ticket Information:
Marianna Carlucci

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time

Frances Morris, Senior Curator
Tate Modern Museum, London

Image credit:Louise Bourgeois
COUPLE, 2001, Fabric, hanging piece
20 x 6 x 4"; 50.7 x 15.2 x 10.1 cm.
Collection of Joan and Michael Salke, courtesy of Cheim & Reid, New York
Photo: Christopher Burke

Museum of Contemporary Art, Joan Lehman Building 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami

RSVP Required. For information and RSVP, contact MOCA: 305-893-6211.

MOCA Map
Driving Directions:
From I-95: Exit I-95 at NE 125 Street (Exit #13).
Head East approximately one mile.
MOCA is located on the right at
770 NE 125 Street--
between NE 7 Court and NE 8 Avenue.

From Biscayne Boulevard:
At NE 125 Street, head West approximately 1.5 miles. MOCA is located on the left between
NE 8 Avenue and NE 7 Court.

Black History Month: Black Identity
The influence of Racial Identity on African American adolescents' Academic Orientations in Miami-Dade County

How high-achieving African American adolescents' in an inner-city High School in Miami maintain a "racefull" Black identity as opposed to developing a "raceless" persona will be discussed. She will explore the ways schools'’ ethnic composition affects African American identity and academic orientation and achievement.

Dr. Paula Fernandez
Robert Stempel School of Public Health

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Psychology, and African New World Studies

Department of Psychology Conference Room (DM258)

All are welcome to attend these free, informal dialogues.

For more information, call (305) 348- 2880 or 6488.

Grant Writing Lecture

Jane Steinberg, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Dr. Jane Steinberg was awarded her doctorate degree in social psychology from Syracuse University in 1980. She completed postdoctoral training at Ohio State University's Nisonger Center in developmental disabilities. Her 24-year career at NIMH has spanned basic and clinical research, as well as the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. Dr. Steinberg directed three recent planning efforts for NIMH, which reshaped the genetics, treatment, and basic behavioral grant portfolios. She is currently responsible for NIMH's scientific review of grant and contract applications, extramural policy, grants management, and the National Advisory Mental Health Council.

Co-sponsored by:
The FIU Department of Psychology & Developmental Mental Health Graduate Student Association (DMHA)

PCA 150
(Architecture Building)

For more information contact the psychology department at 304 348-2880 or contact DMHA at dmha@fiu.edu.

The Apache Sunrise Ceremony:
	Ritual Expressions and their Meanings at Puberty

Carol Markstrom , Ph.D.
Professor, Child Development and Family Studies, Division of Family and Consumer Sciences
West Virginia University
Director, Bear Rocks Education and Research Consulting

She recently authored “Adolescent Identity Formation and Rites of Passage: The Navajo Kinaalda Ceremony for Girls”(Journal of Research on Adolescence, 13, 399-425). She will be presenting some of her work on girls' puberty rituals among Native American people.

The presentation is about the renewed efforts, both nationally and in Florida, to get the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified and become part of the U.S. Constitution. The ERA would explicitly provide for equal rights for men and women in the U.S. Constitution. Part of our presentation will include a short film.

Laura Morilla
Executive Director
Miami-Dade County Commission for Women

Rosa Naccarato
Chairperson, Miami-Dade County Commission for Women

Paula Xanthopoulou
Member, Miami-Dade County Commission for Women
President, National Women's Political Caucus, Florida Chapter

This presentation investigates the ways sexuality - a fundamental aspect of identities - has been negotiated and re-negotiated by Afro-Ecuadorian women. He examines the ways these women have - as socio-political and sexual agents - developed different strategies for pleasures and positive self-construction within a particular racist society.

Dr. Jean Rahier's
Anthropology & African-New World Studies

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Psychology, and African New World Studies

Department of Psychology Conference Room (DM258)

All are welcome to attend these free, informal dialogues.

For more information, call (305) 348- 2880 or 6488.

30th Annual Conference of the
Association for Women in Psychology
Feminist Psychology: Future Tense

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Women's Studies, University of South Florida

Colloquium
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework

Christine Bose
Professor of Sociology and Chair of Women's Studies
SUNY - Albany

Dr. Christine Bose’s areas of expertise concern gender stratification, socio-historical research on women’s work, and international gender issues. She is the author or editor of numerous books and
articles including: Jobs and Gender (1985), Ingredients for Women’s Employment Policy (1987), Hidden Aspects of Women’s Work (1987), Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (1993), Women in the Latin American Development Process (1995), and Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the Twentieth Century (2001).

Lobby Training Workshop For Students
Learn to Lobby Your Legislators about Women's Issues!

Members of the Legislative Committee of the Miami Dade Commission on the Status of Women will conduct the session. Attendance at the lobby training workshop is required of those going to Tallahassee (see below). However, you are encouraged to attend the lobby training session even if you do not plan to go to Tallahassee so you will know how to communicate with your legislators.

Panelists:

Anitere Flores
Florida State Representative
District 114

Yolanda Cash Jackson, Esq.
Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.

Cindy Lerner, Esq.
Former State Representative

Laura Morilla, Executive Director
Miami-Dade County Commission for Women

March 4, 2005
Friday
9:30am - 1pm

Celebrate Women's Herstory
Empowering Women 2005; A Look Back

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

Celebrate Women's Herstory
Wellness Exposé

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

Colloquium
Mothering The World: The World YWCA and International Governance

Karen Garner, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
History and Women's Studies, FIU

Co-sponsored by:
Department of International Relations

Celebrate Women's Herstory
Maya Angelou

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

Celebrate Women's Herstory
Women's Softball Ice Cream Social

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

March 11, 2005
Friday
6:30pm

Women in Astronomy

Dr. Caroline Simpson
FIU Astronomer

This talk received rave reviews the last time it was presented. Dr. Simpson discussed the major contributions women have made to astronomy throughout history.

Co-sponsored by:
The Physics Department

CP 145

Free and open to the public. There will be refreshments served before the talk and observing afterward if weather permits.

The FIU Women's Studies contingent will join the Florida Women's Consortium, attend the FLW conference on Sunday and visit legislators on Monday. The FIU Women's Studies Center will fund travel and hotel expenses for students who wish to join the contingent. Students will pay a nominal fee of $30. Seats are limited. Please indicate your interest now to be included in this field trip.

TALLAHASSEE TRIP:
March 12-14, 2005, Saturday-Monday

Deadline to sign up:
March 5, 2005
5pm.

The flight departs for Tallahassee on Saturday March 12, 2005, from Miami International Airport at 12:25pm and will arrive at 1:50pm. We will return Monday, March 14, 2005 at 6:30pm and arrive in Miami at 7:50pm.

For more info, contact: Call Suzanna Rose, WS Director at 305-348-2408 or srose@fiu.edu

Celebrate Women's Herstory / Brown Bag Luncheon
Women in Shadow and Light: Journeys from Abuse to Healing

Jan Goff-La Fontain
Editor and Photographer

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

Mary, Mother and Warrior
The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

Linda B. Hall
Professor of History
University of New Mexico

Co-sponsored by:
Dept. of Religious Studies, LACC

Celebrate Women's Herstory
Take Back the Night

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center

Women Constructing a Fair Global Economy: Fair Trade, Globalization and Human Rights

Since the Zapatista uprising began on January 1, 1994, (the first day that NAFTA went into effect) the Mexican military and paramilitaries have waged a counter insurgency war against Zapatista and sympathizer communities. Eleven years after the uprising, human rights abuses are rampant. But these communities are developing new forms of resistance. Women are playing leading roles on all fronts in the struggle to build alternatives. Fair Trade Cooperatives allow women to play a central role in the control and development of local economies.

Gabriela Martínez López
Sociologist and Researcher
Center of Political Analysis and Social and Economic Research (CAPISE), Chiapas, Mexico.
Gabriela's studies have focused on collective rights of indigenous communities, liberation theology, and fair trade and women's cooperatives.

Tom Hansen
National Coordinator of the
Mexico Solidarity Network

Co-sponsored by:
FIU - Institute for Sustainability Science

GL 220

Mujeres por la Dignidad (Women for Dignity)-Participating via video message, Mujeres por la Dignidad is a cooperative of several hundred Zapatista indigenous weavers in Chiapas, Mexico.

Hand-made textiles for sale.

The prestigious 7th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has unveiled the line-up of the best gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered films.

Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids -
the story of May Sarton to world premiere on May 1st at 3pm at Regal 17 Cinemas on Lincoln Road,
directed by Linda Thornburg.

For more information visit their website at: www.mglff.com

For complete program schedule visit: http://mglff.com/2005/films.htm

Tickets are $12 Non-Members/ $10 Members available online at: http://mglff.com/2005/tickets.htm

Dishes to share are welcomed but not required. (rsvps by Fri, 4/29, appreciated but not required: srose@fiu.edu or 305-348-2408)