Announcements
Ulrika Dahl
Chair, School of Gender, Culture and History, Sodertorn University, Sweden
Femme-on-Femme: Reflections on collaborative methods and queer femme-inist ethnography
Thursday, November 12th
4-6pm
2125 Rolfe Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women
Abstract:
Based in femme-on-femme research, this paper reflects on the queer dimensions of conducting ethnographic work with/in “ones own community” and on the possibility of queering ethnographic writing. Focusing conversation and representation, I argue that collaboration with research subjects queers research conventions and contributes to a reconsideration of what counts as theory, and that this is particularly useful with regards to considering the topic of femininity and its place within queer feminism. Here I first discuss two queer feminist ethnographic models for conducting research within sub-cultural communities to which one belongs that have been useful to my own practice and then address how ideas about home/community/distance continue to structure social scientific (and ethnographic) knowledge production. The central piece of the talk is a retrospective reflection on the joys and dilemmas of the collaborative work I did with photographer Del LaGrace Volcano and the subjects of our book Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (Volcano & Dahl 2008). Aside from considering writing conventions, I scrutinize the dichotomy between the theorizing academic and her “informants”, ultimately and hopefully, proposing that femme-inist ethnography highlights citation, collaboration and co-production of ideas in ways that contribute to a “femme science” (Duggan and McHugh 1996/2002).
Bio:
Ulrika Dahl is Assistant Professor and Chair of Gender Studies at Södertörn University. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz and has previously written about, among other things, the politics of gender and knowledge in the EU’s Northern periphery, about heteronormativity in Swedish Gender Equality and about formations of gender studies in the Nordic region. A leading voice in Scandinavian feminist debate, she is author (with Del LaGrace Volcano) of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities and is currently working on a book project about (queer) femininity and feminist theory.
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Following the Momentum of the Sept. 24th UC-Wide Day of Action...
Defending the Public University: A Colloquium Thursday, Oct. 15th 2-4pm,
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Moderator: Kent Wong, Director, Center for Labor Research and Education
Panel 1: 2-3 pm
Scott Waugh, EVC and Professor of History
Robin Garrell, Chair, Academic Senate and Professor of Chemistry
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies, and
Professor of Anthropology
Susan Li, External Vice President, Undergraduate Students Association
Council
Miguel Lopez, Vice President, External Affairs, Graduate Student
Association
Panel 2: 3-4 pm
George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Robert Samuels, President, UC-American Federation of Teachers
Christian Haesemeyer, Associate Professor of Mathematics, UCLA
Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and
Political Science, UCLA
Sondra Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, UCLA
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September 23, 2009
Statement on the September 24, 2009 UC Day of Action
The Women’s Studies Department at UCLA officially endorses the
September 24, 2009 UC Day of Action, in support of the following:
No to student fee increases of 30% in the next two years
No to salary cuts to staff making under $40,000 annually
Yes to shared governance and transparent budget information
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Check out the 2009 Department of Women's Studies Newsletter for departmental, faculty, and student updates!
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The Fall Salon
Thursday, September 10th - 5:00-7:00pm
Home of Sharon Hartmann (West Adams District)
Presentation by Kate Norberg
Click here for more details
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Women's Studies is thrilled to announce that Ph.D. Candidate Azza Basarudin has received the distinguished Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award for 08-09. This award is presented by the College of Letters & Science annually for exemplary academic achievement, research and university citizenship.
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The Celebration of the official recognition of the newly established UCLA Department of Women's Studies was held on
Thursday, October 16 2008
To view photos from the event, please click here
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WOMEN'S STUDIES FEATURED IN THE UCLA GRADUATE QUARTERLY
The Women's Studies graduate program was recently featured in the Spring
2007 installment of the UCLA Graduate Quarterly. The articles profile the
program and its graduate students. Click
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articles online.
We also had one of our students profiled in the Winter 2007 installment of the UCLA Graduate Quarterly. Jennifer Musto, a 4th year PhD student in the program, was profiled for her work with the Department of World Arts & Cultures and the community organization CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking). Click here to read the article online.
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