YAT (Young Activist Training)

This training is perfect for high school students, college students, and young professionals who are interested in learning more about how to be more effective activists and how to further the progressive issue of their choice. Beginners are welcome!

During this fun-filled weekend, FAPPA will provide hands-on, interactive trainings with experts from around the state in the areas of Public Speaking, Volunteer Recruitment and Retention, Fundraising, Lobbying, Media Relations, and Event Planning.

The main focus of this training will be centered on reproductive rights, however, community leaders also will provide insight into a few other progressive issues of interest.

Co-sponsored by:
Planned Parenthood

July 29 – 31, 2005
Friday - Sunday

Orlando, FL

There's no registration fee, meals will be provided, and travel scholarships will be offered.

To sign up, contact Marianna Carlucci, 305-348-2408.

Women's Studies Faculty Meeting

Meeting and social hour to launch WS 25th anniversary year.

Book Reading
Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change

Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change (Cambridge Scholars Press, $59.99) is a comparative analysis of recent films by African male and female filmmakers and literary works by female African authors from Senegal, Mali, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo and Burkina Faso. The films featured in the book are “Finzan” (Cheikh Oumar Sissoko, 1990), “Women with Open Eyes” (Anne-Laure Folly, 1994), and “Faces of Women” (Desire Ecare, 1985). Author Ginette Curry (who has a doctorate in Post-Colonial Literatures from the Sorbonne University, Paris III) analyzes themes such as oppression, cultural alienation, exploitation, sexual bargaining and the changing dynamics of sexual relationships as they appear in these productions, concluding that African women continue to undergo a metamorphosis.

Ginette Curry
Adjunct Professor
FIU- Women's Studies and English

Everything But Immaculate:
Women and Nature in the Work of Naomi Fisher and Ali Prosch

Throughout art history, the relationship between the female body and nature has been represented as harmonious and nurturing. In the work of Naomi Fisher and Ali Prosch, these conventional representations are challenged in empowering ways.

Panel
Naomi Fisher, Artist
Ali Prosch, Artist

Moderator
Jillian Hernandez
Curatorial Associate
MOCA

Co-sponsored by:
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

MOCA Museum, Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 175th St., N. Miami

For driving directions, see http://www.moca.org/
museum/visit_home.php
or call 305-893-6211.

In The Company of Men: Masculinity and History in Modern Europe

For decades now scholars of European history have rejected natural, transhistorical understandings of gender ideology and emphasized that masculinity, like femininity, has a history. In particular, historians have explained the shifting and contested nature of societal expectations of what constitutes appropriate manliness – from the Hellenic image of homoerotic attachment to the bourgeois ideal of respectability, physical strength and domesticity. This talk not only will explore the changing definitions of masculinity across time and space – with particular emphasis on Europe and Russia over the past two hundred years – but also will connect these changes with broader phenomena, such as the emergence of new social groups, the birth of nations, and changing political ideologies.

Dr. Rebecca Friedman
Assistant Professor
FIU - History/Humanities

Dr. Friedman teaches classes on Russian and Soviet history as well as the history of gender and sexuality in modern Europe, and had a book come out last spring: Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Co-sponsored by:
MIAMIntelligence and The Wolfsonian- FIU

The Wolfsonian - FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, South Beach
Info: 305-860-2499

Cost: $10. Museum admission included.
Free Museum Guided Tour at 6pm.
Complimentary wine and cheese from 6:30pm.
Lecture starts at 7pm.
Purchase tickets here or at the door.

By Serena Cruz - "A Mother's Promise"-campaign

A mother's promise to her children is about love, security, shelter, food, health, and education. 10 years after world leaders met in Cairo to formulate strategies to improve those basic human rights, the quality of life for more than half the world's population has dramatically deteriorated - while the wealthy nations watch.

Serena Cruz, an activist for more than a decade, will tell us what we can do to "keep a mother's promise."

Don't miss this engaging presentation.

Co-sponsored by:
Herschafft Foundation and is organized together with the Humanist Group under the UU Congregation.

Unitarian Universalists Congregation, 7701 SW 76th Avenue -Miami

We open the doors at 7:30 PM - come and share some refreshments and mingle with other guests. Bring a friend - and an open mind!

This event is free and open to the public. Ample parking is free as well.

Film Screening: "Sisters of 77
Celebrating Women's Equality -
85 Years of Voting Rights

When 20,000 women attended the first ever National Women's Conference in 1977, they debated issues and hammered out resolutions that would determine the future of the U.S. women's movement.

Using archival footage and interviews with participants, Sisters of 77 brings this historic conference to life. Find out what these leaders are doing today - and how much has really changed for women in America.

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center, National Organization for Women (NOW), Women's Studies Student Association (WSSA), and Miami-Dade County Commission for Women.

Tuesday
Sep. 27, 2005
8:30pm

Wednesday
Sep. 28, 2005
12:30pm

Everglades Hall

GC 140

International Campaign for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua

It will be a testimony by Alma Gomez and a discussion on the influence of globalization and neoliberal economic policies on the femicides.

Alma Gomez
Founding Member
Justicia Para Nuestras Hijas
Ni Una Mas Campaign

Macrina Cardenas de Alarcon
Mexico Solidarity Network

Co-sponsored by:
Latin American And Caribbean Center, and Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology

DM 253, LACC

Call 305-348-2894 for more information.

Women Engaging Globally
A Forum on Women, Poverty, Globalization & Trade.

Helena Bustos
Sintrasplendor-Colombia

Tanya Dawkins
Inter American Forum

Emira Woods
Foreign Policy in Focus

Priya Sampath
Human Services Coalition

Serena Cruz
Planned Parenthood

Sushma Sheth
Miami Workers Center

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Fund Advocacy Project and the League of Women Voters

Friday
Nov. 4, 2005

Registration, 1pm

Forum, 1:30-4pm

Reception follows the discussion.

Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
Auditorium Room 1261

Please RSVP to 305-284-0118 or to sophie@womensfundmiami.org.

The Honors College Excellence Forums
Gender and Diplomacy

Ambassador A. Missouri Sherman-Peter
Permanent Secretary
Cabinet Office, Nassau, The Bahamas

Ambassador Sherman-Peter, a thirty-year Foreign Affairs veteran, was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the Fifty-eighth Session of the United Nations General Assembly (2003-2004). A diplomat of her country, The Bahamas, she has worked with the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Caribbean Community. Earlier, she served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of The Bahamas Foreign Service, High Commissioner (Ambassador) to Canada, Non-resident High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Consul General in New York. Ambassador Sherman-Peter is currently assigned to the Cabinet Office, Nassau, Bahamas. She did undergraduate work in History at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and graduate studies in International Organization and International Law at Columbia University in New York.

Co-sponsored by:
The Honors College, Dept. of International Relations, and African New World Studies

The Honors College Excellence Forums
Gender and Diplomacy

Ambassador A. Missouri Sherman-Peter
Permanent Secretary
Cabinet Office, Nassau, The Bahamas

Co-sponsored by:
The Honors College, Dept. of International Relations, and African New World Studies

The Honors College Excellence Forums
Managing the General Assembly: The Role of Chef de Cabinet

Ambassador A. Missouri Sherman-Peter
Permanent Secretary
Cabinet Office, Nassau, The Bahamas

Co-sponsored by:
The Honors College, Dept. of International Relations, and African New World Studies

An interactive discussion led by Char Eberly, Writing Coordinator for the University Learning Center, encouraging participants to use inclusive writing. Topics will include non-sexist language and diversity.

Co-sponsored by:
The Women’s Center, and National Organization for Women

"The Good Body" by Eve Ensler

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Studies Student Association

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream

Barbara Ehrenreich
Author

Co-sponsored by:
Books & Books

Dr. Margarita Birriel
Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad de Granada

Dr. Patricia Jaramillo
Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Dr. Lindsay Clowes
Gender Studies Program, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Dr. Suzanna Rose and Dr. Aurora Morcillo
Women’s Studies Center, FIU

This two hour session goal is to present to the public the different centers involved in this venture. Participants will share with us information about the academic and administrative structure of their centers. Likewise they will propose different ideas for mutual collaboration. The audience will be able to ask questions and mingle with the presenters.
This event is part of the
First Annual International Gender and Women's Studies Consortium Meeting Outreach, Research, Teaching For The Twentieth First Century

Co-sponsored by:
Transnational Studies Center

Friday
Dec. 2, 2005
2-4pm

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
A Time to Run

Senator Barbara Boxer
The U.S. Senate

Co-sponsored by:
Books & Books

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Sail Away: Morris Lapidus and the Architecture of Leisure

Examines hotel architecture of the post World War II period within the context of design for travel, tourism, and the shifting gender roles in the United States and Europe.

Prof. Alice Friedman
Art and Women's Studies
Wellesley College

Co-sponsored by:
AIA--Miami Architecture Club, Miami Design Preservation League, and The Wolfsonian-FIU

Women in Industry Night

Come and meet women who have been challenged and have made tremendous strides within their industry. Topics addressed will include; family and the workplace, salary differences, and higher education and women.

Co-sponsored by:
Career Services

MARC 125

Space is limited, please register on the website http://www.fiu.edu/~career/workshps/.

FIU will host the first major event of the 2006 Florida election season: A debate between the two major candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor for the State of Florida: Congressman Jim Davis and State Senator and former State Attorney Rod Smith. The debate is hosted by FIU's College Democrats and the Democrats of South Dade Club.

It will be moderated by Leonard P. Strickman, Dean of FIU's Law School with questions from the audience as well as an expert panel including Rosa Jones, FIU Vice President for Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education, Peter Cistone, Professor and former Dean of the College of Education, Suzanna Rose, Director of Women's Studies and Chair, Psychology Department and Arsenio Milian, President of Citizens for a Better South Florida.

Faculty, students and staff will have a chance to meet the candidates as well as interact with prominent Democrats from the various Democratic organizations in South Florida including the cosponsors of the event: Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Hispanic Caucus, North West Dade Democrats, Democracy for America, Miami Beach Democratic Club, Democratic Power, All Peoples Democratic Club, Democratic Club of Sunny Isles Beach.

Co-sponsored by:
The Democrats of South Dade Club & FIU College Democrats

Graham Center Ballroom

Refreshments will be served!
For more information contact kendalldems@yahoo.com or Jack Parker, parker@fiu.edu

Gender and Development
"Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women's Organizations Internationally"

Marianne Marchand
Professor Titular II
Universidad de las Americas
Puebla, Mexico

Irene Tinker
Professor Emerita
University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored by:
The Department of International Relations, the Broad Educational Series of the Department of International Relations, the Center for Transnational and Comparative
Studies (TCS), and Latin American and Caribbean Center

Bill Nelson
National speaker and author

The focus of this presentation is education and prevention of sexual assault with an emphasis on developing an awareness of your surroundings, learning to identify potentially dangerous situations, trusting your instincts, being creative, and being able to think on your feet if ever involved in an attack, and how traditional gender roles, sexism, and cultural conditioning can lead to sexual violence against women.

Co-sponsored by:
Soo Bahk Do Karate Institute, and FIU - Victim Advocacy Center

Soo Bahk Do Karate Institute, 10674 Quail Roost Drive, Cutler Ridge, FL 33157.

Contact: Marc Enriquez, 305-259-0440

Admission is free to the public but donations are encouraged and will benefit the Victim Advocacy Center of Florida International University.

Take Back the Night is an international event, with marches, rallies and speakers occurring around the world since 1976. Last year, over 200 students, faculty and administrators came together to increase awareness about the issue of Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women. Through a dynamic speaker, interactive presentation, march and educational stations, this group educated and empowered the FIU Community. This year, Take Back the Night will be held on Monday, April 3rd at University Park Campus and Wednesday, April 12th at the Biscayne Bay Campus to achieve the following goals:

* Increase awareness in the FIU community
* Educate ourselves
* Serve as a collective
* Empower individual men and women to take action
* Provide the leadership

Co-sponsored by:
Women's Center and Victim Advocacy Center, and National Organization for Women

Faculty & Staff planning commitee:
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 11am – 12pm, Women’s Center, GC 2200

Student planning commitee:
Wednesday Wed., February 8,
9-10pm, GC 1235

Human Rights and Women's Issues
"International Intervention on Humanitarian Crises: Balancing Sovereignty and Human Rights”

Ms. Gillian Sorensen
Senior Advisor for the United Nations Foundation
New York, NY

From l997 to 2003, Gillian Sorensen served as Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She was responsible for outreach to civil society including non-governmental organizations around the world. She was the contact point for the Secretary-General in relations between the UN and parliamentarians, the academic world, religious leaders and other groups committed to peace, justice, development and human rights. As a member of the Secretary-General’s inner circle, she had a role in his communications strategy as well as schedule planning. She was also the contact point for certain HostCity matters.

Co-sponsored by:
The United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations Association - Greater Miami

GC East Ballroom

Contact: Jennifer Vazquez, 305-342-2461

WOMEN OF DISTINCTION SERIES
Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University 1804 - 1863
(NY: Palgrave March 2002)

Dr. Rebecca Friedman
Assistant Professor
FIU - History/Humanities

Dr. Rebecca Friedman will discuss her book on Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University 1804-1863 (McMillan, $90). Dr. Friedman's research has focused on the history of masculinity in Russia. Her book examines behavior, loyalty and sociability among a generation of Russian university students that would reshape the Russian social and political landscape for decades to come. Dr. Friedman will offer a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the nineteenth century.

Monday
Feb. 20, 2006
5pm

Extended
Monday
Feb. 27, 2006
5pm

6th Annual Malcolm X/Ella Baker Black Human Rights Lecture
"Women, Power and Revolution"

Dr. Kathleen Cleaver
African American Studies Yale University

Co-sponsored by:
African New World Studies, College of Law

Kovens Conference Center
Biscayne Bay Campus
3000 NE 151 Street, North Miami

For more information, call (305) 919-5521

Friday
March 10, 2006
7pm, Opening Reception

Exhibit open from March 10 - 31

Wolfe Gallery, FIU - Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151 St., North Miami, FL

For more information, call 305 919 5521.

As Violence Escalates in Iraq, Iraqi Woman Makes Rare Trip to the US to Speak Out for Peace: Daily life in Iraq and the possibility of an impending civil war.

Dr. Entisar Mohammad Ariabi

Dr. Ariabi will speak first-hand about the situation in Iraq. Ariabi arrived in the United States on March 5th with a delegation of Iraqi women who want to tell their stories to the American public and urge US and UN officials to create a peace plan to end the escalating cycle of violence.

Dr. Ariabi is a pharmacist at the Yarmook Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, where she lives with her husband and five children. A member of the Pharmacist Union, she is involved in providing medical and food emergency relief to
families in villages and towns devastated by the war. She is especially concerned by the deteriorating health care system in Iraq, including the lack of medicines and medical supplies and destruction of hospitals.

The Iraqi women’s delegation that Dr. Ariabi is part of is promoting a Women’s Call for Peace that’s been signed by 100,000 women around the globe.
The Iraq war has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqis (estimates range from 28,535 to 100,000) and some 2,300 US troops. As the three-year anniversary of the war approaches, the country is wracked by violence and threatened with the prospect of civil war, Iraqi civilians are suffering from a lack of basic services, including electricity and clean water, and women’s rights are being eroded.

Also Speaking: Jennifer Van Bergen.

A journalist with a law degree, Jennifer writes frequently on civil liberties, human rights, and international law. She is the author of THE TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE BUSH PLAN FOR AMERICA (Common Courage Press,2004). Jennifer will be speaking about the case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a medical doctor who raised funds through a charity organization to provide humanitarian aid to needy persons in Iraq and was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his benevolent deeds.

Co-sponsored by:
N.O.W. of North Miami - FIU N.O.W.- Code Pink

Florida International University – Graham Center - Room #140.

CONTACT: Holly: 786-389-4755 or Lori: 954-401-1768

Women and Spirituality and the Arts in Middle Ages

Co-sponsored by:
The Arts at St. Johns, The Working Group for Pre-Modern Histories and Cultures (FIU), and the Departments of History and Religious Studies (FIU)

Church of St. John on the Lake, Miami Beach
4750 Pine Tree Drive

Free Parking Available
Tickets: $15/$10 students/seniors

Logistical Event Details: www.stjohnsmiamibeach.com

Contact: Dr. Lifshitz

Guerilla Girls on Tour
The internationally acclaimed women's theatre company.

Co-sponsored by:
The Women's Center
Funded by:
The Women's Center; SGA Lectures Commitee; NOW; WSSA; and SPC, Division of Student Affairs, FIU.

Tuesday
Mar. 28, 2006
7pm

Graham Center Ballroom

Free Admission.

For more information, call 305 348 1506 or email women@fiu.edu.

Association for Women in Psychology Conference
Intersecting Identities:
Multicultural Feminist Perspectives on Women's Lives

Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, MI

Information: www.awpsych.org

Come see what all the SILENCE is about.....

What are you doing to end the silence?

Day of Silence is a national youth movement
protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgendered people and their allies.
It is a day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT harassment unacceptable in schools take part in activities to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment - in effect, the silencing - experienced
by LGBT students and their allies. 500,000 students from approximately 4,000 schools will take part in this year's Day of Silence.

Co-sponsored by:
Stonewall Pride Alliance, FHA, NOW,
Residential Life, & the Women's Center

Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2006
10am-2:30pm

GC Fountain

Speak Out Presentation!
3-6pm, GC Pit

6-8pm
Break the Silence Celebration!
Residential Courtyard, Everglades Hall

Women's Studies Center Colloquium
Feminist Foundations of Critical Heterosexuality Studies and the Law

Jose Gabilondo, Assistant Professor
College of Law, FIU

DM140 (Courtroom), University Park

Also by videoconference, 306 ACI (A&S conference room), BBC

SEVIGNE
Directed by Martha Balletbò-Coll

FLORIDA PREMIERE

The relationship between art and reality has rarely been explored with as much panache as in this stylish, bracingly candid portrait of
creative breakthroughs and personal choices set against the backdrop of Barcelona's theater community. Thespian Júlia Berkowitz (Anna Azcona) is ready for her directorial debut, but is there a play out there that can capture her imagination? Enter Marina (writer-director
Balletbò-Coll), a lovelorn TV editor with a provocative pet project: a no-holds-barred account of the obsessive and nearly incestuous bond between 18th Century French socialite Madame de Sévigné and her daughter. As they begin rewriting the text, both women enter into an intense collaborative process. Why does this material resonate so strongly with Júlia? The aspiring stage director has plenty to deal with between married life to revered theater critic husband Gerardo and an ongoing affair with Ignasi, the handsome programmer at the Public Theater. Julia decides to bare her soul to collaborator Marina, who begins to fall for her ostensibly hetero colleague. Heralded by some as Catalonia’s answer to Woody Allen, Balletbò-Coll returns with the follow-up to her 1995 hit, Costa Brava. With more dramatic plot twists in the lives of the characters than in the taboo play they are penning Sévigné is an insightful, deeply satisfying look at this play called Life. In Spanish and Catalán with English subtitles

Marta Balletbo-Coll is a Spanish actress, writer and director. Her first film, Costa Brava: A Family Album won the Audience Favorite
Feature Film award at the 1995 Frameline - San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Co-sponsored by:
Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Tuesday
April 25, 2006
9:30pm

Spain, 2005, 35mm
82 minutes

Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (April 21-30)

Regal South Beach, Regal 17
9:30 pm Screening
$12 Non-Members/ $10 Members -

TO BUY TICKETS and SEE LISTING OF OTHER MOVIES:

2005-2006 Cuba Lecture Series
Taboo/Tabú: De eso no se habla
Family Ties, National Utopias, and the Disruption of Gender

Sylvia Molloy
Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities
New York University

A native of Argentina, Sylvia Molloy specializes in Latin American literature, comparative gender studies, postcolonial theory, and translation studies, and is currently working on a book on decadence and the construction of sexualities in turn-of-the-century Latin America. "Family Ties, National Utopias, and the Disruption of Gender" will explore issues of gender and sexuality in the work of José Martí and Lydia Cabrera, part of a larger reflection on the anxiety-ridden construction of gender and sexual norms in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Latin American literatures.

Co-sponsored by:
The Cuban Research Institute

Thursday Apr. 27, 2006
7pm

The Colonnade Hotel
180 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
RSVP at (305) 348-1991

Reception following lecture

SPRING BRUNCH SOCIAL AND FUNDRAISER

$10 donation (more if you can, less if you can't)

Donation will be accepted at the door or go to donations.

Friends: Women's Studies is postponing its 25th anniversary celebration until Fall 2006. Please come to the Spring event to congratulate our graduates and celebrate a successful year!

Home of Suzanna Rose
For directions: contact srose@fiu.edu

RSVPs welcomed but not required. Reply to wstudies@fiu.edu or 305-348-2408

The 2006 IAWM Congress focuses on women's unique musical perspectives from around the world. The theme, "Women in Music: Global Perspectives," refers not only to ethnography and sociology, but also to broader artistic visions. The 2006 IAWM Congress will highlight traditional performance and compositional practices with technology, multimedia, and performance art; academic and non-academic approaches to music; women of the past with women of the present; and other issues
relevant to the Congress theme. Additional areas of interest include, but are not limited to, education, women's music in non-Western cultures, women composers and performers of non-Western musics, and feminist music and musicology.

Dr. Kristine H. Burns
Host, International Alliance for Women in Music Congress 2006
FIU - School of Music

Co-sponsored by:
International Alliance for Women in Music Congress 2006 - FIU School of Music

Miami, Florida USA on the campus of Florida International University

Events will take place all around campus, but primarily in the School of Music.

Please visit the official IAWM Congress 2006 website at http://www.iawmcongress.org for information on submission procedures.

Rep. Robaina will join us for a casual evening of cocktails and appetizers. He will provide us with a 2006 legislative session wrap-up and insight on how to effectively reach out to the legislature on behalf of women and families in Miami. Please join us!
This event is free. There will be a cash bar and some appetizers.

Co-sponsored by:
Planned Parenthood of Gretarer Miami, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast, Inc.

Cacao Restaurant, 141 Giralda Ave., Coral Gables

Please RSVP to mikele.aboitiz-earle@ppgmpbtc.org or at 786-594-3302 for more details.

10th Anniversary International Conference
The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating

Co-sponsored by:
The Association of Caribbean Women Women Writers & Scholars and African New World Studies

Tuesday - Saturday
May 30 -
June 3, 2006

Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa, 3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood, FL 33019

Contact: Carole Boyce Davies

Lauren Fordyce
M.A., Sociology
University of Florida