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Spring Semester 2013

Difficult Dialogue Series: LGBT Issues in the Classroom

Monday, April 8, 2013, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., 202 Morrill Hall

Co-Sponsored by EQuAL & Gender and Women's Studies

Controversial topics often enter our classrooms, sometimes uninvited by the instructor.  When part of the planned curriculum, these topics are often avoided in class discussions.  Topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity can spark strong feelings on the part of students as well as faculty. The workshop will focus on our presenters’ experiences as students, staff and faculty members navigating classroom and sometimes out-of classroom discussions related to LGBT and/or Queer issues. They will also talk about their successful and unsuccessful strategies regarding how to handle the

uninvited statements and how to encourage dialogue in these topics when part of the curriculum.  Audience experiences and participation is welcomed!

Panelists are: Dr. Hugh Crethar, Associate Professor in SAHEP-College of Education and the Jacques Flannery Community Counseling Endowed Professor and Counseling Program Coordinator (CACREP Accredited) at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Crethar is also currently the President Elect of  the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC).

Kenya Guidry is a senior majoring in Sociology at Oklahoma State University.  She serves as the Sergeant at Arms for the Sexual Orientation Diversity Association.

Jen Macken is a Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs in the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Oklahoma State University.  She works primarily with women and LGBT students, and advises three student organizations addressing feminism and LGBT issues

Moderator and Facilitator is: Dr. Sue C. Jacobs, Team Leader of the OSU Difficult Dialogues Program, Associate Professor in SAHEP-College of Education and the Ledbetter Lemon Counseling Psychology Diversity Professor.

JOIN US FOR AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION FOR FACULTY, TAs and STAFF

And also help kick off OSU PRIDE WEEK!

Registration: Not required for this event
Questions: Dr. Sue Jacobs at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Difficult Dialogues Team Lead)

Global Briefing: “Impact of sanctions on Women and Children”

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is the co-founder of the International Civil society Action Network (ICAN), an international NGO dedicated to supporting women’s civil society activism on rights, peace and security in conflict affected or transitioning countries. For over a decade she has been a leading international advocate, researcher, trainer and writer on conflict prevention and peacebuilding. In 2000 she was among civil society drafters of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. Between 2002-2005 as Director of the Women Waging Peace Policy Commission Ms. Anderlini led ground breaking field research on women’s contributions to conflict prevention, security and peacemaking in 12 countries. Since 2005 she has also provided strategic guidance and training to key UN agencies, the UK government and NGOs worldwide. In March 2007 in Nepal she led a UNFPA/UNDP needs assessment team into Maoist cantonment sites, meeting a range of fighters including women and provided training to the registration/verification teams.

In 2008 Ms. Anderlini was appointed as Lead Consultant for a new UNDP global initiative on the “Men and the Gendered Dimensions of Violence in Crisis Contexts”. She has served on the Advisory Board of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF), and in 2010 she was appointed to the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) on Resolution 1325, chaired by Mary Robinson. Ms. Anderlini is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for International Studies. She has written extensively on women and conflict issues. Her latest book, Women Building Peace: What they do, why it matters was published by Lynne Rienner in 2007. Ms. Anderlini is Iranian, lives in Washington DC and has twin daughters.

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Sponsors: OSU Difficult Dialogues, Women’s Faculty Council, Gender & Women’s Studies, Institution for Creativity & Innovation, Iranian Student Association, Sociology Department

Miss Representation

April 10th, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm, 101B Willard Hall

The Princes of Renaissance Italy: Male Beauty, Radiance, and Rule

Timothy McCall, Assistant Professor of Art History

Department of History, Villanova University
Saturday, April 13th, 4:00 pm at the Bartlett Center, Room 109

Keynote Lecture , Art History Senior Symposium Symposium: 9:30am-5pm (coffee at 9:00am) Bartlett Center 109 Schedule details will be posted on art.okstate.edu For more information email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Physical beauty — often described as brilliant or light-emitting — was commonly invoked as an aspect of nobility and lordliness in Renaissance Italy, where beauty was a potent ideological tool wielded to legitimize power through visual imagery, spectacle, and literary praise. These radiant bodies were charismatic, drawing desires and gazes towards them, and beauty served as a marker of social status as much as of sexual desirability. The ideal of the blond, fair prince is one to which Renaissance princes almost always aspired, but yet one which must not be taken to be natural or inevitable. This talk will explore the ways in which correlations between whiteness, power, and beauty were fundamental to aristocratic structures and ideologies of rule.

August Wilson's play Radio Golf will be performed by Theatre North

Saturday, April 20th, 8 PM in the Student Union Theater

Admission is FREE.

Theatre North, based out of Tulsa and Oklahoma's only African American theater group, will perform August Wilson's last play, Radio Golf, which was finished shortly before the writer's death. Radio Golf is set in 1997 and involves upwardly-mobile African American politicians and businessmen. It deals with serious issues but there is a lot of humor in it.

"Evolution of Gender and Sexuality" With speaker Joan Roughgarden

February 21st, 5:30 pm

Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room Edmon Low Library Reception to Follow

Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice

2013 Conference, February 15th and 16th

The OU Women’s and Gender Studies Program, in collaboration with The Center for Social Justice, The Student Organizers Collective, Oklahomans for Reproductive Justice, Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, Trust Women, Provide, formerly the Abortion Access Project, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Gender and Women’s Studies at Oklahoma State University, Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma, Civil Liberties and Public Policy at Hampshire College, presents:

Conference Cost: $40

Students: $25

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"Bruce Goff: Rustic Glam and Queer Designs In Central Oklahoma" with speaker Professor Carol Mason

February 14th, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Bartlett Center 108 Reception to follow

Fall Semester 2012

Terrorism TV: Lecture and Book Signing with author Stacy Takacs

December 7th, 5:00pm at Willard Hall Parlor

Stacy Takacs is Association Professor and Director of American Studies at OSU. Her work examines the relationship between popular and political cultures in the contemporary US and has appeared in such journals as Cultural Critique, Spectator, Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies and The Journal of Popular Culture.

FEMfolio at the OSU Foundation (ART ON EXHIBIT THROUGH DECEMBER; RECEPTION DEC 6)

The Oklahoma State University Museum of Art is proud to partner with the OSU Foundation and the Malinda Berry Fischer Gallery to present the Fem Folio, a portfolio of prints by 20 women artists whose work changed the face of American art. The diversity of their work challenges ideas of “the feminine,” and makes it clear that women artists were at the heart of major aesthetic and intellectual movements throughout the late 20^th and into the 21^st century.

The partnership is a unique opportunity to preview some of the artwork from our permanent collection, which will soon be housed at the Postal Plaza Gallery (currently under construction in downtown Stillwater). Scheduled to open in Fall, 2013 the Postal Plaza Gallery will open with an exhibition of highlights from Oklahoma State University’s extensive—and continually growing—permanent art collection. The Postal Plaza Gallery will also host traveling exhibitions, visiting artists and other events.

You can learn more about the OSU Museum of Art and the Postal Plaza Gallery by visiting our website at museum.okstate.edu, by contacting Debra Engle at the Foundation, or contacting the Curator of the OSU Museum of Art, Louise Siddons, directly.

The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces

October 18th 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Gardiner Art Gallery

This exhibition examines issues related to the practice of veiling in Islamic culture.

It features 29 artists including videographers, filmmakers, and new media artists, as well as painters, sculptors, performance and installation artists. Each redefines the veil in its numerous manifestations and interpretations, and put the veil and veiling into context. This exhibition intends to engage received wisdom, particularly current cliches and stereotypes about Islamic practices, and to reflect on the great ubiquity, importance and profundity of the veil throughout human history and imagination.

Curated by Jennifer Heath, this exhibition is a visual companion to Heath's edited volume "The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics" (University of California Press).

On display: Oct. 15 - Nov. 2

Gallery Talk: Oct. 18, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Reception: Oct. 18, 5 - 6 p.m.

Discussion: Oct. 18, 6 - 7 p.m.

Join a roundtable discussion led by faculty members from History, Gender and Women's Studies, and Art to examine the exhibition and the issues it raises about Islamic culture, gender and visual arts.

All in the Gardiner Gallery and free and open to the public.

The Veil is funded in part by Boulder Arts Commission, the Puffin Foundation, Ltd., Firyal Alsalabi and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

More details: http://museum.okstate.edu

"A Sporting Chance: Title IX and Women's History" by Susan Ware

Over the last forty years, opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports have expanded dramatically, and Title IX played a fundamental role in that transformation.  The events leading up to Title IX's passage in 1972, and the struggle ever since to figure out how to implement the law fairly, demonstrate the difficulties -- and rewards -- ofputting abstract principles like equal opportunity and gender equity into concrete, everyday practice. Join historian Susan Ware for a public discussion of this milestone in the struggle for gender equity.

Susan Ware is a pioneer in the field of women's history and author or editor of numerous books on 20^th century U.S. history. She has taught at New York and Harvard Universities and has served as the editor of Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century. She is associated with the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is committed to bringing women's history and feminist scholarship to a wide popular audience. Her most recent book is Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports.

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FRIENDS OF THE FORMS LECTURE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 AT 6:00 PM

CLASSROOM BUILDING ROOM 302

“Transgender Politics and Questions of Surveillance” by Dr. Toby Beauchamp, OSU English Department

The State of Women in Oklahoma with Sen. Constance Johnson