From the Pop Conference Webpage:

We are also proud to announce two keynote appearances. Lovesong writer supreme Diane Warren is one of pop music's most influential but rarely interviewed figures, responsible for more than 80 Top 10 hits over the past quarter century, including "How Do I Live," "Un-Break My Heart," "If I Could Turn Back Time," and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." Nona Hendryx has been dance music sex romancing for almost fifty years, as a songwriter and singer in Labelle ("Lady Marmalade") and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, a solo performer who bridged underground and pop, and a touring member of Talking Heads. A third artist session will feature singer Asha Puthli, who brought operatic and Indian classical music training to jazz collaborations with Ornette Coleman and cult 1970s solo albums later sampled by the likes of Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and the Neptunes.

Admission is free for all events.   Register to save your spot for the keynote below at:

http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26

Hey Women Studies Students, Faculty and Friends

it’s Time to Order Your Students of Women Studies (SOWS) Spring T-shirts!!!!!
 
Show Your SOWS Pride by purchasing a t-shirt that will help fund graduation and future SOWS/Women Studies Student Events!!!!

T-Shirt Info:
T-shirts are only $16.00

T-shirts will be from American Apparel, are 100% cotton and come in two different cuts/styles:

 Women’s Fit (S-XL) or

Unisex (S-3X)

Note that sizes XXL in the women’s fit and 4X in Unisex will cost an extra $2.00 dollars; so $18.00 dollars instead of $16.00

T-shirts are $16.00 dollars and we will only be able to accept CASH. Please NO CHECKS!

The T-shirt Color will be White with a super cool SOWS logo on front and
a little piggy and “UW Students of Women Studies” on the back

To order your SOWS t-shirt please see the wonderful Elaine in the Women Studies Main Office to pre-order. Elaine will be available from 8:00am-11:00am and 2:00pm-4:00pm Monday-Friday.

There will be a few samples of the different t-shirt styles and sizes in the office

You have until Thursday April 16, 2009 at 4pm to order your T-shirts; Remember $16.00 dollars and CASH ONLY!!!

The Women Studies Department is pleased to invite you to the first of two winter quarter Brown Bag events.
 
On February 6th Rebecca Aanerud, Ph.D. will moderate a
Round Table discussion on Feminist Theory.
 
Featured participants are Carolyn Allen, Ph.D.; Christine Di Stefano, Ph.D.;
Eva Cherniavsky, Ph.D.; and Jennifer Bean, Ph.D. 
 
Please join us at noon on Friday, February 6th in the Women Studies Conference Room in Padelford Hall (B110-G).
 
Questions identified for the discussion include:
What does feminist theory mean and look like in different disciplinary locations?
How have different disciplinary locations engaged with feminist inquiry in different ways?
What makes certain versions of feminist theory more interdisciplinary than others?
·How might a particular feminist theory cross disciplines? What might be the strengths and weaknesses of such crossings?

Sex in Change: Configurations
of Sexuality and Gender in
Contemporary Iran

This talk focuses on current contours of transexuality in Iran and considers the particular

mapping of trans-identities and lives. How do legality of transexuality and condemnation of

same-sex desires and practices shape sexual subjectivities in Iran? How do state-codified

notions of proper public manhood and womanhood affect sexualities? The talk will look at

how the confluence of classical Islamic discourse on the “true sex” of every human body

with the psycho-medicalized notion of “truth of sex” -- that a natural biological sex

determines one’s gender behavior and sexual desire — has given a powerful impetus to

acceptability of “curing” transexuality through sex-change medical interventions.

Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science Sponsored by the Women Studies Department

Afsaneh Najmabadi

The Francis Lee Higginson Professor of

History and of Studies of Women, Gender,

and Sexuality, Harvard University

Wednesday. January 21st 2009

Johnson Hall, Room 102

7:00 p.m.

Reception to follow