.
Women’s Studies Program
FALL 2010 NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Inside this issue
Colloquium
1
Feminist
Forum
1
Scholarship
Awards
2
Kudos
2
Social Media
3
Student
Organizations
3
Lubbock
Community
4
Events
4
Spring Conference 5
The mission of the
Women’s Studies Program
is to provide feministcentered as well as gender
and identity-aware
education, to support and
expand research in
Women’s Studies and
related fields of
scholarship, to promote
networking, advocacy, and
support for women faculty,
staff, and students and all
interested members of the
University and surrounding
communities, and to serve
as a source of information
on and support for
women’s and genderrelated scholarship,
activities, and issues.
(CREATIVITY & INNOVATION) Texas Tech University is committed to ethical institutional
programs that meet the teaching, research, and service objectives of each discipline and
department, to policies that are consistent with those objectives, and to a working and
learning environment that encourages active participation.
Welcome to the 2010-11 Year at TTU!
This new year opens up new opportunities
for the Women’s Studies Program to become a
part of your academic and social experience here
at Texas Tech.
We invite you to get involved! With both a
colloquium during the fall term and a conference
in the spring, the Program offers the chance for
you to present your research, learn what others
are working on, tell a new story, and listen to new
speakers.
Our Feminist Forum events invite you to get
energized about thinking and making change in
new and much needed ways. Our classes are full
and we are offering scholarships – we hope you
like our new-look newsletters, and you’ll find that
there are many ways to start becoming the
change you want to see!
- Laura M. Calkins, Director
Gender & Gender Identity
Colloquium
Feminist Forum
Highlighting Feminist Research
The Women’s Studies Program is pleased to
announce two forums this semester that will
provide a place for discussion, creating a thread
of communication focusing on gender equality.
The first forum, “Methods of Advocacy &
Activism”, will be held on September 27th from
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in Holden Hall RM 6.
The main theme of this Forum will be to
help generate ideas about how to start or
maintain communication and activism and learn
from others about their experiences of advocacy
within our community.
Individuals can find personal motivation in
their own lived experiences and begin to
mobilize larger groups, but how? This forum
offers us an opportunity to hear feminist voices
that remind us of how one person’s dedication to
a cause or issue can become another person’s
reason to act on behalf of that cause. Come along
and learn about getting or keeping your group up
and running. [continued on page 3]
The Women’s Studies Program will host a
Fall Colloquium on October 29th here on the
Texas Tech campus. The purpose of the
colloquium is to provide the academic
community an opportunity to present papers
and panels analyzing and discussing specific
topics related to feminist research on gender
and gender identity. In the past, topics have
included gender and media, gender and
political activism, cultural construction of
gender, and psychology of sex roles.
We are currently accepting paper and full
panel proposals, in progress or completed. The
deadline for proposals is by email Friday,
October 15th. Look for our announcement in
Tech Announce or review our web site for
submission guidelines. This year the
colloquium will be on Friday, October 29th on
the campus in the Senate Room located in the
Student Union. [continued on page 2]
A Place for Discussion
Fa l l 2 0 1 0
2
Gender & Gender Identity
Colloquium
UNDERGRADUATE
SCHOLARSHIP
Congratulations to this
year’s recipient of the
Florence Brown En
Avant Club Scholarship
for the academic year
2010-2011, Paloma
Mariana Lidzy
(Undergraduate, School
of Art, Sculpture/Jewelry)
GRADUATE
SCHOLARSHIP
Congratulations to this
year’s recipient of the
Rae Nell Griggs
Scholarship for the
academic year 20102011, Erin KostinaRitchey, M.A.,
Certified Family Life
Educator (Graduate,
Human Development
and Family Studies &
Women’s Studies
Graduate Certificate)
UPCOMING
SCHOLARSHIPS
Future scholarship
opportunities will be
announced Spring 2011
[continued from front cover] We invite proposals
exploring meanings of movement and change as
connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the
presence of women’s, gender, and identity issues,
in both contemporary and historical frameworks.
Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and
staff from all disciplines are invited to participate
and to attend.
Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those
from the disciplines and specialty subject areas,
are welcome. We consider proposals from
professional schools and administrative offices,
as well as those from scholary areas where
women have been historically under-represented,
including mathematics, the agricultural and
natural sciences, and technology and applied
sciences. We also invite students, faculty and
staff members in the social and behavioral
sciences, the visual and performing arts, the
communications fields, and the humanities to
present their research.
The Colloquium Committee also issues a
special invitation to interested parties from other
colleges and universities, including Lubbock-area
institutions, Angelo State University, and other
institutions in the Southwest to present, to
participate, and/or attend this colloquium.
Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate
students are all invited to share their work, in the
form of research findings, group or single-author
projects, and works-in-progress. You do not have
to be affiliated with Texas Tech University to
submitt a proposal. For individual papers and full
panels, please submit a short abstract including
the proposal title, name, affiliation and contact
information for all author(s) in addition to the
cover page.
For detailed submission guidelines
please visit: http://www.depts.ttu.
edu/wstudies
Kudos Women’s Studies Affiliated Faculty News
Professor Laura J. Beard has been named
Interim Chair of the Department of Classical &
Modern Languages & Literatures.
Dr. Elizabeth Hall- Burns, Associate
Professor (Health, Exercise and Sport Sciences),
has been selected as the recipient of the 2010
West Texas Association for Women in Science’s
“Outstanding Woman Leader in Science” award.
She was nominated for her support of women in
science and engineering by Julie Isom and Lou
Densmore.
Dr. Jennifer Snead, Assistant Professor of
18th Century British Literature (English), has
published the following two articles: “Evangelical
Literacies: Predestination and Print, 1739-1740,”
in Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, Vol. 1
(December 2009) pp. 83-108. and “The Work of
Abridgements: Readers, Editors, and
Expectations,” in Reading in History: New
Methodologies from the Anglo-American
Tradition, ed. Bonnie Gunzenhauser (Pickering
and Chatto, 2010), pp. 77-91.
Dr. Kanika Batra, Assistant Professor of
Postcolonial Literature (English), will publish the
following two articles: “Kipps, Belsey, and
Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and
Black Studies in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty” in
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and
Letters (Johns Hopkins University Press). “The
Home, the Veil, and the World: Reading Ismat
Chughtai towards a ‘Progressive’ History of the
Indian Women’s Movement” in the June 2010
(Number 95) issue of the journal Feminist Review
Dr. Anne Hawkins, Associate Professor of
Book History in the Department of English, was
interviewed in the July 11 edition of [continued
on page 3]
3
Kudos [continued from p.2]
The Chronicle of Higher
Education for the article “The
Career Risks of Scrutinizing the
Physical Side of Books.” The
article identifies Texas Tech
University as noteworthy for its
support of bibliographic studies:
“At Texas Tech, bibliography is simply woven into
what the English department does.”
Dr. David Larmour, Horn Prof of Classics
(CMLL), gave a paper at a conference, “Cultural
Memory and Roman Religion” at the University
of Birmingham, UK 4-6 July, 2010, entitled
“Nights of Egeria”. Prof. Larmour was also
invited to speak at a roundtable discussion of
theories and practice of cultural memory to be
held in Lubbock in January 2011, “Cosmopolitan
Technologies”, which deals with matters of
cultural memory, in connection with space and
identity.
Feminist Forum
[continued from the cover]
The second forum this semester, “Collective
Identity within Social Movements”, will be held
on October 4th from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in
Holden Hall RM 6.
This forum is intended to discuss how the
history of the Women’s Movement and the LGBT
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Civil
Rights movement intertwine and construct
multiple voices with a common goal of gaining
equality. We will view the documentary, “Mom’s
Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’
Custody Movement”. This film, narrated by Kate
Clinton, interviews sons and daughters who were
seperated from their mothers, the mothers
themselves, and one women who made the
difficult decision to flee with her children.
Founders of the Lesbian Rights Project (now the
National Center for Lesbian Rights) and the
Lebian Mothers’ National Defense Fund recount
the founding of their organizations in response to
Dr. Joyce Carter, Associate Professor and
Director of Graduate Studies in Technical
Communication in the Department of English,
has been elected to the Executive Committee of
the Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Her three-year term is for the
years 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Dr. Jacqueline Kolosov, Associate Professor
of Creative Writing (English), will publish a
critical essay on ekphrastic poetry (poetry based
on visual art), “The Ekphrastic Poem: A
Grounded Instance of Seeing,” in The Writer’s
Chronicle, the bi-monthly journal of AWP
(Associated Writing Programs). In addition, she
has poetry and nonfiction forthcoming in
Water~stone Review, Poetry East, Windhover,
Under the Sun, and a Salmon Press anthology of
poetry about dogs titled Dogs Singing - A Tribute
Anthology.
Send Kudos to womens.studies@ttu.edu
the bevy of court rulings granting custody to
grandparents, fathers and distant relatives based
on the belief that lesbians would be unfit parents.
The forums are FREE and open to the public.
Faculty using these events as part of their course
curriculum or extra credit should note that “proof
of attendance” forms will be provided.
Feminist Forum Fall 2010
Sept 27, 2010 | 6-7 p.m. | Holden Hall RM 6
Oct. 4, 2010 | 6-8 p.m. | Holden Hall RM 6
Women’s studies
Texas Tech University
Women’s Studies is
now on Facebook!
TTU Student
Organizations
GRADUATE
FEMINIST
SCHOLARS
For more information
contact Erika Brooks at
<erika.brooks@ttu.
edu>
V-DAY LUBBOCK
V-Day Lubbock is a
student organization
and a local branch
of the national V-Day
organization. For the
past 4 years they have
hosted V-Day events
such as the Vagina
Monologues, the play
“A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and
A Prayer” as well as
other community based
fundraisering events
to benefit Women’s
Protective Services
and the Victim’s Voice.
They also hold clothing
drives for the Sexual
Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) program
for their patients.
For more information
contact Amanda Evans
at <minga1087@hotmail.com>
Fa l l 2 0 1 0
4
Lubbock Community Events
Networking | Advocacy | Organizing
Lubbock
Community
WEST TX
ASSOCIATION OF
WOMEN IN
SCIENCE
Sept. 17th:
12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
TTUHSC | Academic
Classroom B230
Speaker will be Dr.
Janet TonelliMitchell.
For more information
contact: Kendra.
rumbaugh@ttuhsc.
edu or go to: http://
www.ciser.ttu.edu/
wid/default.aspx
WOMEN’S
STUDIES
COMMUNITY
CONNECTION
For more information
on the upcoming Fall
reception please
contact: Debie
Martin <debie38@
suddenlink.net>
After the successful events of
2008 organized by Texas
Tech University’s Student
Diversity Relations
Department a “GLBTQ &
Allies Awareness Steering
Committee” was formed to continue planning
and scheduling events. As a coalition of the
Lubbock community and Texas Tech University
community, coordinated events are intended to
encourage honesty and openness about being
gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or
being an ally. In addition to the many events
planned for the month of October, Faculty may
be interested in reserving a class presentation by
TTU Student Counseling Center, PFLAG
Lubbock and others. For more information and a
detailed calendar visit the Lubbock Area
Community events page on our web site.
“Week Without Violence”
(October 18-23, 2010) is an
annual worldwide campaign
that takes place in the third
week of October to encourage
comunities to think and act
towards a world without
violence.
Events consist of Information Fair,
Candlelight Vigil, Literary Reading
Performances and Panel Discussions. For a
detailed calendar list visit the Women’s Studies
web site listed below.
Events are FREE and open to the public. For
more information contact the Women’s Studies
office or Roy Rios, Coordinator of Community
Education and Development, Women’s Protective
Services, 748-5292 or www.wpslbk.org
For more information visit the Women’s Studies events page at
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/events
Advertise Your Spring Class!
Spring 2011
Are you teaching a course that covers women’s, gender or identity topics?
Would you like to get the word out to Women’s Studies undergraduate and grad
students? Send the CRN#, title, description, day/time, and other details to:
womens.studies@ttu.edu
What are students saying about our Introduction to Women’s Studies course?
“The class was very interesting to say the least. I enjoyed it. The topics and the openness
of the class made it a better learning experience.”
“I enjoyed this class a lot. I mostly enjoyed how open and honest everyone was. I liked
hearing everyone’s opinions on various topics. The class was a lot different than I
expected, luckily. I had a lot of fun and will remember the discussions and the people for
a long time. Thank you.”
“ I really enjoyed this class. The things discussed in class opened my mind about a lot of
important social issues regarding women, minorities etc.”
Fall 2010 Newsletter
Office of The Women’s Studies Program
Box 42009 | Lubbock, Texas 79409-2009
Announcements | Call for Papers | Conferences of Interest
ADVERTISE YOUR
SPRING CLASS
Let the Women’s Studies
Program help advertise
your upcoming courses
H-Net Academic Announcemetns is a great
resource for CFP’s, fellowships, programs,
workshops, publications etc. For more
information visit:
http://www.h-net.org/announce
National Women’s Studies Association is a
great place for Conferences & CFP’s. For
more information visit:
http://www.nwsa.org/cfps/jan.mar.php
“Difficult Dialogues II”
National Women’s Studies Association
November 11-14, 2010
For more information visit: http://www.nwsa.
org/conference/
“Black and Brown Feminisms in Hip Hop
Media”
University of Texas at San Antonio
March 4-5, 2011
CFP deadline: Nov. 15, 2010
For more information visit: http://www.nwsa.
org/cfps/jan.mar.php
september ISSUE 2010
Women’s
Studies
36th Annual Association for Women in
Psychology Conference
Philadelphia, PA
March 3-6, 2011
CFP deadline Oct 29, 2010
For more information visit: http://www.
awpsych.org/
Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s
and Gender Studies: Global Discourses
Middle Tennessee State University
March 24-26, 2011
CFP deadline: Nov. 1, 2010
For more information visit: http://www.mtsu.
edu/womenstu/conference/
TTU All-University Conference on the
Advancement of Women in Higher
Education is scheduled for February 4th,
2011.
Save the date!
Call for Papers coming in November.
For more information visit: http://www.depts.
ttu.edu/wstudies/AWHE.php
The newsletter of The Women’s Studies Program
WEB SITE
DEAN OF ARTS & SCIENCE
LOCATION
Dr. Lawrence Schovanec
Holden Hall RM 8
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/
(lower level)
wstudies
Dr. Laura Calkins
CONTACT INFO
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
laura.calkins@ttu.edu
(806) 742-4335
DIRECTOR
Providing the latest news
Dr. Laura Calkins
Tricia Earl, MFA
and information for the
COORDINATOR
EMAIL
Women’s Studies
Tricia Earl, MFA
womens.studies@ttu.edu
Program and Texas Tech
patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
University and Lubbock
Communities.
To receive an electronic version of this newsletter, visit www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies