1/14/2009

Save the dates: Gender Lectures 2009

Be sure to save the dates - we welcome you to join us for the first
SWS Akron/Kent - Gender Lectures SPRING 2009


University of Akron: Thursday, February 26th
Dr. Betsy Lucal, Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, IUSB

1pm-4pm Workshop, Student Union, University of Akron
Making Sense of Intersex, Transgender and Bisexuality: Resources for teaching.
A related article and materials can be retrieved for free via Sociology Compass.


6 pm, Lecture, Student Union Ballroom B
Talkin’ about a (Still Missing?) Revolution: Reflections on Two Decades of Feminist Sociology.

Betsy Lucal is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend, where she also teaches in the Women’s Studies program. She teaches courses on gender and sexuality, sociological theory, sociology of food, social movements and making sense of college life. She serves as Deputy Editor for Gender & Society and on the editorial boards of Teaching Sociology and the Gender Section of Sociological Compass. She currently chairs the American Sociological Association’s Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology and is completing a term as chair of ASA’s Committee on the Status of GLBT Persons in Sociology. She is a member of IU’s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and winner of the IUSB Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the all-IU Sylvia E. Bowman Award for teaching excellence. She earned all of her degrees at Kent State University (BGS ’89, MA ’91, PhD ’96).
Homepage of Betsy Lucal


Kent State University: Friday, March 6th
Dr. Cecilia Ridgeway, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University
SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer 2009

am-TBA,
Workshop: Mentoring
pm-TBA,
Lecture: Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations

Cecilia L. Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. Her research addresses the role that social hierarchies in everyday interaction play in stratification and social inequality, especially in regard to gender. She is the author of Gender, Interaction, and Inequality (Springer-Verlag, 1992) and articles on this topic in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Social Issues. She is past editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and recipient of the 2005 Cooley-Mead Award for career contribution to social psychology.
Homepage of Cecilia Ridgeway.

All lectures and workshops are free, and open to the interested public of whatever background! Please visit OUR BLOG for updates
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SWS is a non-profit scientific and educational organization of sociologists and others dedicated to exploring the contributions which sociology can, does and should make to the investigation of and humanization of current gender arrangements. The local SWS chapters of Akron and Kent have been active for many years now in an attempt to engage young students and encourage extra-academic allies and friends to participate in creating feminist social change. Together the SWS chapters of Akron and Kent were awarded the "Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award 2008/09" of the national SWS-organization, which was an incentive to organize the first SWS - gender lectures on each campus in Spring 2009, which will be continued in the following semesters.

1/08/2009

Prep for the Winter Meeting Roundtable

The SWS winter meeting in Savannah/Georgia is coming up in the beginning of February, hooray! Michelle, Jodi, and Tiffany (pic), Marie, and myself submitted an abstract and will facilitate a round table centered around activism of local SWS chapters. We start on individual and group interviews now, and are positive and visionary that a toolkit for local chapters will evolve down the road.