Hate that anti-choice booth in SUB?

Then go to the next Voices for Choices meeting!

When: Thurs, Nov 19 at 5pm

Where: TBA

Why: To discuss a pro-choice LRT advertisement, etc.

voicesforchoices.uofa@gmail.com

 

Movie!

Feminist Research Speakers’ Series 2009 – Polytechnique (2009)

 

Screening with an Introduction and Commentary by Donia Mounsef Associate Professor, Drama & Campus Saint-Jean

 

Admission: $10 Adults & $8 Students/Seniors – Student ID required

 

Presented in Cooperation with the Film Studies Program at the University of Alberta

 

Date: Friday November 27, 2009 7:00 pm

 

Location: Metro Cinema, Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 – 101A Ave

DEWEY’S TOMORROW!

Hi everyone!

Come to Dewey’s tomorrow (Monday)  to chat and drink beer.

1:00pm.

Drinks on us!!

 

WSUA T-Shirts!! Please help us!

Hello Women’s Studies Community!

 

The Women’s Studies Undergraduate Association is having t-shirts made and we want you to help us with the design!  We’re asking you to submit your favourite feminist quotations.  We’re hoping to have 3 to 5 t-shirt options, each with a different colour, design, and quotation.  The quotations will be silk-screened onto an American Apparel t-shirt and the expected cost of each shirt is $25.

 

So send us what you’ve got!!  You can send in a quotation from your favourite feminist, or you can send in an original quote or message.  Please post your submissions on the WSUA blog www.wsua.wordpress.com or you can e-mail them to us at wsua@ualberta.ca

 

We would like to have all submissions in by November 15, 2009.  You have two weeks to send in your best stuff.  Hopefully, we’ll have the t-shirts ready by the end of fall semester.

 

Thanks for your help.  If you want to get more involved in the design process or with the WSUA, just e-mail us.  We love to hear from new people!

 

Thanks! The Women’s Studies Undergrad Association

Course Listings: CSL

This is from Mebbie.  These courses should be awesome!  check them out.

 

Interested in how you might combine your academic learning with community
involvement?  The Community Service-Learning Program invites all
undergraduates to consider registering for the following winter courses!

CSL100 – Introduction to Community Engagement
Winter 2010  Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30-10:50 am
What exactly does community engagement mean? What are the intended results
of community engagement in university education? CSL100 will explore these
questions and the related concepts of community, citizenship, social
responsibility, and experiential education through theoretical and practical
approaches inside and outside of the classroom.

CSL 300: Theory & Practice of Community Service-Learning
³Embodying Community: Learning, Space & Social Justice²
Winter 2010  Wednesday, 1-3:50 pm
CSL 300 builds on students¹ previous CSL experience (or substantial
volunteer experience) through focused community placements and
interdisciplinary classroom engagement. In this seminar, students will
explore the negotiations of place, power and identities in urban
environments, and examine their own roles as learners in these processes and
sites.

Please note that these courses count toward the Certificate in Community
Service-Learning: You can build your CSL courses and community based
learning toward a formal designation on your transcript.

See the attached for more information, and visit our website at
www.arts.ualberta.ca/csl <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/csl> .

Weekly Get-Togethers!

Hi everyone,

Like last year we’re going to try for a weekly get-together Mondays at 1:00pm at Dewey’s!  Come and drink beer, etc.

Upcoming Events!!

Hi everyone,

Here are some exciting events coming up in the next few days/weeks:

TOMORROW!/Oct 22: In Depth Look at the Harsh Realities of Human Trafficking and the sex industry.  Trisha Baptie ( former sex-trade worker and Director of Honour Ministries in Vancouver) and Kimberley Ferland ( ACT Alberta Edmonton Coordinator and Counselor for DESCA) will share their stories and give us tangible steps on how to fight trafficking and help those who are victims to it.  7:00 (doors at 6:40) in room 1-013 ETLC.

Oct 23: Dean Spade, Professor, Seattle University.  LECTURE: “Trans Politics: Beyond Law and Order.” 12:00 – 1:00 pm, room 231 – 237, Law. PANEL: “TRANS.assemblages: Intersectionality and Beyond,” with Dean
Spade, Lucas Crawford, Carol D. Allan, Lane Mandlis, and Val Napoleon, 3:30 – 5:00 PM, room L-2 Humanities.

More info here.

Oct 29/30: The Women’s Centre is creating children’s art for the LaSalle women’s shelter.  Join them from 1:00 to 5:00 pm in SUB 4-26.

Nov. 4: Feminist Research Speakers’ Series 2009: “RCMP Surveillance: ‘Penetration’ of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.”  3:00 – 4:00 pm, room 227 Athabasca Hall.

Also, do you have a favourite feminist quotation?  Write is in the comments as the WSUA is creating t-shirts with feminist quotations and we need some ideas!

Class offered by Native Studies and Women’s Studies

Here is a new course being offered next semester by Women’s Studies and Native Studies:

Course description for NS 380/WST 498

Selected Topics on Aboriginal Women

Course Description: This course offers a critical approach to understanding a number of historical and contemporary experiences of Aboriginal women. Through the exploration of the notion of community, gender, and identity the course addresses key issues such as Aboriginal women and colonialism, self-determination and self-government, traditional and contemporary land and resource use practices of Aboriginal women. Drawing on historical and empirical cases the course addresses questions such as how have Aboriginal women been shaped and resisted colonialism? Should Aboriginal women be represented at the land claims negotiations? How can Indigenous women’s knowledge provide alternative ways of conceptualizing, politicizing and knowing the world?

Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science/Faculty of Native Studies

University of Alberta

Department of Political Science

Tory Building 10-22

Ph. (780) 492 0737

Faculty of Native Studies

Pembina Hall 2-58

Ph. (780) 492 1913

Voices for Choices Meeting

Hi everyone!

The Voices for Choices Strategic Planning meeting is tomorrow at 4:30-7pm. It is in HC-214 – in the Humanities building on the second floor at the University of Alberta.

Voices for Choices is the pro-choice group on campus.

See you there!

Upcoming Events

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving.

This week on Thursday, Oct 15th from 4-6pm there will be a reception for Carolyn’s project Love Letters to Feminism.  It’s in the lower level of Assiniboia Hall.

Hope to see you there!