Autumn 2007 Events

“Women and Tobacco: Disarming A Deadly Weapon” . Margaretha Haglund, Senior Advisor, Tobacco Control Expert National Institute of Health, Sweden; and International Consultant, Tobacco Control working for the WHO and IUHTL. 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Thursday December 6. All welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Anthropology, Building 50, Room 51A, 450 Serra Mall (Inner Quad, next to Memorial Church). Presented by the Stanford Global Tobacco Free Research Initiative, and co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute.
The long-time tobacco control tradition in Sweden has resulted in very encouraging outcomes, and many lessons learned which can be important for other countries. Margaretha Haglund who has been the head of the national tobacco control program during the last 20 years will tell the Swedish story from an insider’s perspective .The presentation will try to identify specific success factors within the variety of tobacco control activities that have been implemented in Sweden but also discuss the importance of a comprehensive strategy including gender-sensitive initiatives for its success. Sweden is one of the very few countries where women smoke more than men which Margaretha calls the ultimate pitfall of women’s liberation.
Gendered Pathways to Success in Engineering Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 4:15-6:30pm at the Bio-X, Clark Center, Room S360, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford (near the Medical School). Parking is unrestricted after 4:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. We particularly welcome our local middle and high school communities.
Engineering is at the heart of our local and national economy, and women are an underutilized resource in this key area of our economic well-being. Only 21% of undergraduate degrees in engineering go to women. How do we get women to self-identify as future engineers? How do we get men to accept them in that profession?
The Clayman Institute is pleased to welcome the SpelBots Robotics Team from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. The SpelBots are the USA's only all women, African American competitive undergraduate robotics team. Andrew Williams, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, and Director, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, and Robotics (AIR) Lab, along with undergraduate students, Whitney O'Banner and Philana Benton, of the SpelBots team, will share their personal experience (and demonstrate their award winning four-legged robots) in the context of a wider conversation on the impact of gender on engineering education.
Sheri Sheppard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and Senior Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, will discuss results from the Academic Pathways Study (APS) which explores developmental, cognitive and institutional factors that contribute to student persistence and success in engineering majors. APS is a mixed methods longitudinal study involving four universities and is funded by an NSF Higher Education Center Grant (Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education).
Dean Jim Plummer of the School of Engineering will conclude by responding to a panel discussion with students, including an audience question and answer period, and to the program overall.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach and the Science and Engineering Graduate Women’s Association.
Carrying Linda's Stones: An Anthology of Estonian Women's Life Stories. A Discussion with Prof. Suzanne Lie Wednesday Nov. 14, 2007, noon. Bechtel International Center, 584 Capistrano Way (This is opposite the Faculty Club and across from Serra House).
Free and all welcome.
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Bechtel International Center invite you to join us for a lunchtime discussion with Professor Suzanne Lie, Professor Emerita of Educational Sociology at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo. An American-Norwegian, she has written extensively in the fields of women's studies, multicultural education, comparative education and rural sociology. Professor Lie was co-founder of the Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre at Tallinn University and its Academic Director from 1997 to 2000.
Professor Lie will base her presentation on her most recent work, Carrying Linda's Stones, which contains the life stories, told in their own words, of fifteen Estonian women whose lives were turned upside down in the conflagration of World War II and its aftermath. Caught in the hegemonic struggle of Germany and the Soviet Union, these women managed to survive and record their experiences in spite of the break-up of their families, deportation, incarceration, and years of deprivation and hardship. The women represented here have shown great endurance and a remarkable ability to cope with adversity. Although they were living under extreme conditions, they held fast to their cultural traditions and historical roots.
The editors provide the historical and cultural context in which these stories may be understood, and highlight the individual and social factors which were critical to the survival of the contributors. While each individual story is intrinsically interesting, together they show how gender roles, especially those of women in Estonia, have been altered by changes in socio-political and economic circumstances. The stories are analyzed from sociological and gender theoretical perspectives. Estonia is used as a case study to illustrate the parallel social processes that also took place in the two other Baltic countries.
Artists' Salon: Women in Jazz and World Music - Taking a Leadership Role November 7, 2007. 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Everyone welcome.
Kay Kostopoulos, Stanford lecturer in acting and artistic director of Black Olive Jazz, and Mimi Dye, artistic director of the all-woman jazz group Topaz, will be joining forces and performing at Serra House, and discussing their work as musicians. Uplifting, rhythmic, soulful...Music to celebrate life and the human spirit! They will be performing jazz standards and originals featured on Mimi's newest CD release. This event will include musicians from each of their ensembles: Vic Schrader, guitar, Sam Bevan, bass, and Roberto Acevedo, congas.
Jazz vocalist, Kay Andreas (aka Kay Kostopoulos ) is a classical actress and Drama teacher at Stanford University. Kay has always been attentive to rhythm, range, and textural meaning in her teaching and acting. Middle Eastern riffs and Shakespearean texts have helped to inform her delivery of the complex time, sensitive lyrics and multiple shades of jazz. Her theatrical background lends an emotional sensitivity to her three octave range. She has acted and sung at festivals, club venues, educational institutions and benefits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sonoma, including Stanford Summer Theatre, A.C.T., The Art Deco celebration at Union Square San Francisco, and the Union Street Festival.
I Do but I Don't: On Modern Marriage with author Kamy Wicoff
Thursday, October 18, 2007 from 12:00-1:30pm at the Women's Community Center located in the Old Fire Truck House, 433 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford (close to the Stanford Humanities Center, behind Tresidder Union).
In her entertaining, insightful look at the rituals and customs surrounding modern marriage, Kamy Wicoff asks why so many women feel compelled to abandon their personal preferences when faced with planning a marriage. Why do even the most individualistic women decide to fall into line with the highly gendered traditions of the marriage event - and why do so many of those traditions continue unchallenged? She also asks probing questions about the wedding industry: how has it become a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry? Why do young couples (and their families) feel driven to go into debt to create the "perfect" wedding?
"I Do but I Don't is sinfully funny, and astonishingly brave, from beginning to end. I finished the book with tears in my eyes." - Diane Middlebrook, Professor Emerita and former Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.
Kamy Wicoff is an author and freelance journalist. She serves on the advisory council of the Clayman Institute, and on the editorial board of the literary journal Women's Studies Quarterly. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, and has been anthologized in Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex and Who Does the Dishes (Hudson Press, February 2006). Kamy was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and went on to earn a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in 2003. She and her husband Andrew live in New York City with their sons, Maximilian and Jedidiah. I Do But I Don't is her first book. www.kamywicoff.com
Kamy read from the book, talked about its themes, and invited questions and discussion.
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford Bookstore, Women's Community Center and the Department of English.
Estelle Freedman Book Talk, October 2, 2007, 6:00pm Professor Freedman read from and discussed her new book, The Essential Feminist Reader. All welcome. Dessert reception followed talk. Venue: Women's Community Center, Old Fire Truck House, Santa Teresa Street, Stanford (close to the Stanford Humanities Center, behind Tressider Union). For more information, contact Laura Harrison (lauramh @ stanford.edu).

The Gender Chip Project: Phase II Launch Event

The Gender Chip project hosted a gathering of academics, practioners and professionals from across the nation to launch its Phase II funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this gathering was to "train the trainers" to help organizations training adults to empower with young women interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. September 18 and 19, 2007. Contact Victoria Bernal at the Gender Chip Project, 626-393-1458 for more information. www.genderchip.org

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Home People News Events Calendar Fellowship Programs Research Studies Grants and Prizes Publications Art at the Institute Links Support our Work	Autumn 2007 Events “Women and Tobacco: Disarming A Deadly Weapon” . Margaretha Haglund, Senior Advisor, Tobacco Control Expert National Institute of Health, Sweden; and International Consultant, Tobacco Control working for the WHO and IUHTL. 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Thursday December 6. All welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Anthropology, Building 50, Room 51A, 450 Serra Mall (Inner Quad, next to Memorial Church). Presented by the Stanford Global Tobacco Free Research Initiative, and co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute. The long-time tobacco control tradition in Sweden has resulted in very encouraging outcomes, and many lessons learned which can be important for other countries. Margaretha Haglund who has been the head of the national tobacco control program during the last 20 years will tell the Swedish story from an insider’s perspective .The presentation will try to identify specific success factors within the variety of tobacco control activities that have been implemented in Sweden but also discuss the importance of a comprehensive strategy including gender-sensitive initiatives for its success. Sweden is one of the very few countries where women smoke more than men which Margaretha calls the ultimate pitfall of women’s liberation. Gendered Pathways to Success in Engineering Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 4:15-6:30pm at the Bio-X, Clark Center, Room S360, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford (near the Medical School). Parking is unrestricted after 4:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. We particularly welcome our local middle and high school communities. Engineering is at the heart of our local and national economy, and women are an underutilized resource in this key area of our economic well-being. Only 21% of undergraduate degrees in engineering go to women. How do we get women to self-identify as future engineers? How do we get men to accept them in that profession? The Clayman Institute is pleased to welcome the SpelBots Robotics Team from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. The SpelBots are the USA's only all women, African American competitive undergraduate robotics team. Andrew Williams, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, and Director, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, and Robotics (AIR) Lab, along with undergraduate students, Whitney O'Banner and Philana Benton, of the SpelBots team, will share their personal experience (and demonstrate their award winning four-legged robots) in the context of a wider conversation on the impact of gender on engineering education. Sheri Sheppard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and Senior Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, will discuss results from the Academic Pathways Study (APS) which explores developmental, cognitive and institutional factors that contribute to student persistence and success in engineering majors. APS is a mixed methods longitudinal study involving four universities and is funded by an NSF Higher Education Center Grant (Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education). Dean Jim Plummer of the School of Engineering will conclude by responding to a panel discussion with students, including an audience question and answer period, and to the program overall. Co-sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach and the Science and Engineering Graduate Women’s Association. Carrying Linda's Stones: An Anthology of Estonian Women's Life Stories. A Discussion with Prof. Suzanne Lie Wednesday Nov. 14, 2007, noon. Bechtel International Center, 584 Capistrano Way (This is opposite the Faculty Club and across from Serra House). Free and all welcome. The Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Bechtel International Center invite you to join us for a lunchtime discussion with Professor Suzanne Lie, Professor Emerita of Educational Sociology at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo. An American-Norwegian, she has written extensively in the fields of women's studies, multicultural education, comparative education and rural sociology. Professor Lie was co-founder of the Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre at Tallinn University and its Academic Director from 1997 to 2000. Professor Lie will base her presentation on her most recent work, Carrying Linda's Stones, which contains the life stories, told in their own words, of fifteen Estonian women whose lives were turned upside down in the conflagration of World War II and its aftermath. Caught in the hegemonic struggle of Germany and the Soviet Union, these women managed to survive and record their experiences in spite of the break-up of their families, deportation, incarceration, and years of deprivation and hardship. The women represented here have shown great endurance and a remarkable ability to cope with adversity. Although they were living under extreme conditions, they held fast to their cultural traditions and historical roots. The editors provide the historical and cultural context in which these stories may be understood, and highlight the individual and social factors which were critical to the survival of the contributors. While each individual story is intrinsically interesting, together they show how gender roles, especially those of women in Estonia, have been altered by changes in socio-political and economic circumstances. The stories are analyzed from sociological and gender theoretical perspectives. Estonia is used as a case study to illustrate the parallel social processes that also took place in the two other Baltic countries. Artists' Salon: Women in Jazz and World Music - Taking a Leadership Role November 7, 2007. 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Everyone welcome. Kay Kostopoulos, Stanford lecturer in acting and artistic director of Black Olive Jazz, and Mimi Dye, artistic director of the all-woman jazz group Topaz, will be joining forces and performing at Serra House, and discussing their work as musicians. Uplifting, rhythmic, soulful...Music to celebrate life and the human spirit! They will be performing jazz standards and originals featured on Mimi's newest CD release. This event will include musicians from each of their ensembles: Vic Schrader, guitar, Sam Bevan, bass, and Roberto Acevedo, congas. Jazz vocalist, Kay Andreas (aka Kay Kostopoulos ) is a classical actress and Drama teacher at Stanford University. Kay has always been attentive to rhythm, range, and textural meaning in her teaching and acting. Middle Eastern riffs and Shakespearean texts have helped to inform her delivery of the complex time, sensitive lyrics and multiple shades of jazz. Her theatrical background lends an emotional sensitivity to her three octave range. She has acted and sung at festivals, club venues, educational institutions and benefits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sonoma, including Stanford Summer Theatre, A.C.T., The Art Deco celebration at Union Square San Francisco, and the Union Street Festival. I Do but I Don't: On Modern Marriage with author Kamy Wicoff Thursday, October 18, 2007 from 12:00-1:30pm at the Women's Community Center located in the Old Fire Truck House, 433 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford (close to the Stanford Humanities Center, behind Tresidder Union). In her entertaining, insightful look at the rituals and customs surrounding modern marriage, Kamy Wicoff asks why so many women feel compelled to abandon their personal preferences when faced with planning a marriage. Why do even the most individualistic women decide to fall into line with the highly gendered traditions of the marriage event - and why do so many of those traditions continue unchallenged? She also asks probing questions about the wedding industry: how has it become a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry? Why do young couples (and their families) feel driven to go into debt to create the "perfect" wedding? "I Do but I Don't is sinfully funny, and astonishingly brave, from beginning to end. I finished the book with tears in my eyes." - Diane Middlebrook, Professor Emerita and former Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Kamy Wicoff is an author and freelance journalist. She serves on the advisory council of the Clayman Institute, and on the editorial board of the literary journal Women's Studies Quarterly. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, and has been anthologized in Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex and Who Does the Dishes (Hudson Press, February 2006). Kamy was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and went on to earn a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in 2003. She and her husband Andrew live in New York City with their sons, Maximilian and Jedidiah. I Do But I Don't is her first book. www.kamywicoff.com Kamy read from the book, talked about its themes, and invited questions and discussion. Co-sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford Bookstore, Women's Community Center and the Department of English. Estelle Freedman Book Talk, October 2, 2007, 6:00pm Professor Freedman read from and discussed her new book, The Essential Feminist Reader. All welcome. Dessert reception followed talk. Venue: Women's Community Center, Old Fire Truck House, Santa Teresa Street, Stanford (close to the Stanford Humanities Center, behind Tressider Union). For more information, contact Laura Harrison (lauramh @ stanford.edu). The Gender Chip Project: Phase II Launch Event The Gender Chip project hosted a gathering of academics, practioners and professionals from across the nation to launch its Phase II funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this gathering was to "train the trainers" to help organizations training adults to empower with young women interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. September 18 and 19, 2007. Contact Victoria Bernal at the Gender Chip Project, 626-393-1458 for more information. www.genderchip.org
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