THE
DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
UNIVERSITY
OF TOLEDO
2004-2005
Women’s movements and global grassroots movements have taken leading roles in demanding international and gendered social justice in response to the rise and spread of economic Globalization. The Women’s and Gender Studies department at the University of Toledo will address the human and environmental rights issues raised by Globalization in the 2004-2004 Symposium series entitled Feminisms and Global Movements. The greatest burden of the negative economic and ecological impact of globalization and corporatization of planetary resources is borne by women worldwide. The nationally and internationally recognized persons invited to be residents in our year-long program will address issues raised by the head-on encounter of local human rights and globalized capital from the vantage point of their unique professional, ideological and theoretical perspectives.
*The department of Women’s and Gender Studies will
award 3 undergraduate credits for attendance at the 2004-2005 Feminisms and
Global Movements Symposium events. The course requirement may be met by signing
up for WGST 3980-003 Call # 18126 (3 undergraduate credits; fall and spring
2004-2005; register at http://www.myutoledo.edu).
The course is open to the public as well as to registered UT students.
The
course requirements are as follows:
1.
Attendance at all 2004-2005 public and campus events offered by speakers
(mandatory).
2.
Attendance at the two seminars to be taught by WGST faculty on November 10, 2004
and April 21, 2005, from 6:30 pm – 9 pm (mandatory).
3.
Completion of two writing assignments based on participation in events and
seminars (mandatory).
For
more information on venues and program details, please contact Diana Sharp
at
419-530-2233.
Symposium
Speakers:
Monday,
September 20, and Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Event: Public Talk entitled The Cultural Life of Toi Whakari: New Zealand and Being a Female Director, Monday, September 20, 2004
Keynote: Annie Ruth
Annie Ruth is an actor, director and tutor. She has worked in film, theatre, radio and television and has taught in NZ the UK and USA. Screen credits include core character in Shark in the Park, various episodes of Crime Watch & Country Calendar and the short films, Christmas Shopping and The Bee King. In theatre Annie has performed in Shakespeare (including Prospero in The Tempest, Downstage), Williams, Albee, Daio Fo, and contemporary US and NZ work including Strip by Lorae Parry and Girls on Girls which she also co-produced. In 2001 Annie was selected for the International Directing Symposium at LaMaMa, Spoleto, Italy where she worked with Anne Bogart, Theodora Skipitares, Ong Keng Sen, Jean-Guy Lecat among others. In 2000 she directed Lorae Parry's new play, Vagabonds at Downstage Theatre, as part of the Shebang festival. She has also taught master classes in Improvisation in the US. In 2003 she attended the SITI Company Intensive at Saratoga Springs, building on the earlier work with Anne Bogart. Currently Annie is Director of Toi Whakaari; NZ Drama School where she teaches improvisation, acting, history of theatre and directs productions along with managing the school.
Time: 6:30 p.m. Reception to follow.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, Center Theatre, The University of Toledo.
Event: Campus
presentation of Girls on Girls and Mills & Bleedin’ Boon, Tuesday,
September 21, 2004
Time:
1-3 p.m.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, Center Theatre, The University of Toledo
Dr.
Ruth will also be making campus classroom visits during her residency, times and
date TBA. Made
possible in collaboration with the Department of Theatre & Film.
Tuesday, October 19,
2004Keynote: Poet Marge Piercy
Poet, novelist, and essayist Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1936. She won a scholarship to the University of Michigan and was the first member of her family to attend college. She subsequently earned a Master's Degree from Northwestern University. She has published several books of poetry, including Colors Passing Through Us (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme (1999), and Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy (1999) just to name a few titles. Piercy is dedicated to exploring the interstices of ideology and aesthetics by way of Marxist, feminist, and environmentalist strains of thought. "To name," she writes, "is not to possess what cannot / be owned or even known in the small words / and endless excuses of human speech."
Time: 7
p.m. Reception to follow event.
Location:
Law School
Auditorium, The University of Toledo
Ms.
Piercy will also be making campus classroom visits on Tuesday, October 19, 2004,
from 3-5 p.m. TBA. Made
possible in collaboration with the Department of English, The Department of
Interdisciplinary & Special Programs, The Department of
Sociology/Anthropology, The Humanities Institute, and UT’s Sexual Assault
Education & Prevention Program.
Monday,
December 6, 2004
Event:
Public Luncheon & Public Talk entitled . . .
Keynote:
Representative Marcy Kaptur of the 108th Congress from Ohio, District
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Congresswomen Kaptur has demonstrated
international leadership directing the first surplus farm commodities in 1999 to
support the peace process in the Middle East. She is dedicated to democratic
institution-building across the globe and has spearheaded private charitable
efforts for peoples' of underdeveloped nations, including Ukraine and Vietnam.
She is the recognized leader on issues related to international trade and
human and labor rights. Congresswoman
Kaptur is currently the senior Democratic woman on House Appropriations
Committee. She has secured subcommittees on Agriculture, the leading industry in
her state, and Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection,
Veterans, NASA and the National Science Foundation which allow her to pursue her
strong interests in economic growth and new technology, community rebuilding,
and veterans. She was awarded the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Americanism Award, in part for introducing the
legislation authorizing the National
World War II Memorial in Washington in 1987, as well as for her longstanding
commitment to America's veterans. She is the only woman to have received the
American Prisoner of War "Barbed Wire" Award for her commitment to
veteran’s affairs.
Time:
12-2 p.m.
Location:
Luncheon will be held in the Skybank Meeting Rm., and the Public Talk will be
held in the McMaster Center. Both
locations are located in the Main Library located in downtown Toledo.
Made possible in collaboration with our community partner the
Toledo Lucas County Public Library.
Event: Public Talk entitled. . . , Tuesday January 25, 2005
Keynote: Dr. Shakti Butler (Jan 25-26, 2005)
Our resident, Dr. Shakti Butler is the Executive Director of World Trust, a non- profit organization committed to creating sustainable communities. Dr. Butler is the producer and director of the ground - breaking documentary, The Way Home. Dr. Butler’s current work relates to “Transformative Education,” a process-oriented encounter of student, teacher, and the world. Dr. Butler will visit UT for two days as a resident of WGST, and will offer a public lecture and film screening, two classroom workshops and film screenings, and a campus seminar on issues of diversity, gender, and sexual orientation.
Time: 7-9
p.m.
Location: The
YWCA of Greater Toledo
Event: Campus Lecture entitled . . . , Open to the Public, Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts, The University of Toledo Campus
Ms. Butler will also be making campus classroom visits on Wednesday January 26, 2005, from 11 am –12 pm. TBA. This event was made possible in collaboration with The YWCA of Greater Toledo and The University of Toledo, the Department of Music and Dance.
Event:
Performance of Heroic Beloved, Wednesday,
March 16, 2005
Keynote:
Dancer and Choreographer, Leslie Friedman
Audiences
and critics on four continents have acclaimed Leslie Friedman’s remarkable
career as a dancer and choreographer. She has performed with the support of the
US State Department and other governments in Russia, China, India, England,
Spain, Poland, Egypt and many other countries. She is also a writer and
lecturer, with a Ph.D. in Modern British History from Stanford University. She
taught at Stanford and Vassar College before leaving her academic career to
dance. Her writing on history, dance, music, and the arts is widely published. Dancer and choreographer Leslie Friedman is the artistic
director of The Lively Foundation in San Francisco. Dr. Friedman has performed,
taught, and choreographed works throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Dr. Friedman was the first U.S. dancer-choreographer to perform for a Russian
audience in Moscow and Leningrad after a 14-year break in cultural relations.
She was also the first U.S. dancer to perform at Cairo's El Ghoumeria Opera
House, the first to teach at China's three ballet schools, and the first to
perform and choreograph for Romania's national dance company in Bucharest.
Celebrated for reaching across cultural borders, The Lively Foundation
has from its inception presented work by artists of African, Arabic, Asian,
Eastern and Western European heritage.
Time:
6:30 p.m. Reception will follow performance.
Location:
Center for Performing Art,
Recital Hall, The University of Toledo.
Event:
Presentation entitled Backstage Stories: Life Behind the Velvet
Curtain, Thursday, March 17, 2004
Time:
1 p.m.
Location:
Venue TBA.
Ms. Friedman will also be making campus classroom visits on
Thursday, March 17, 2005, from 9-11 a.m., TBA. This event was made possible in collaboration with, the Department of
Music and Dance.
Event:
Measure for
Measure public
workshop and presentation
Resident:
Dr. Suman Mukherjee (Mar 22-Apr 8, 2005)
Suman
Mukherjee has directed several pieces including Samay Asamyer Brittanto
(2003) Debesh Roy/Mukherjee, Mephisto (2002) Klaus Mann/Arione Mnouchkine/Mukherjee,
Teesta Paarer Brittanto (2000) Debesh Roy/Mukherjee, to name a few
titles. He is an actor and has
appeared in several roles performing in the United States, Canada, Bangladesh,
Germany, and France. Dr. Mukherjee
has received fellowships from – Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA ;
Trinity College, Hartford, USA (1990) and training from La Mama Umbria
International, Italy (2002). The
International Institute Workshop, Munich, Germany; (1993); Trinity/La Mama
Performing Arts Programme in New York, USA (1991). Mukherjee was a cultural delegate of Indian Council for
Cultural Relations to Prague Quadrennial, 2003, and has studied filmmaking in
New York Film Academy working with various genres, which have been screened in
different national and international festivals.
Dr. Mukherjee has been awarded the Anandalok Chancellor Award and
the Achintya Choudhury Memorial Award for Best Production.
Dr. Mukherjee will also be visiting classes during his visit, TBA.
This event will be made possible with the collaboration of the
Department of Theatre and Film.