Autumn 2008 Events

Dr. Joan DeJaeghere, "Constructing the Limits and Possibilities of Equality: Analyzing discourse and practices of gendered relations, ethnic traditions and poverty among non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam", Monday, November 3, 11:45am - 1:00pm. Lunch will be served first and the lecture will follow beginning promptly at noon. All are welcome to attend. Dr. DeJaeghere is Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her paper examines discourses and practices at individual, community and institutional levels that construct meanings and experiences of poverty, ethnic tradition and gender relations of non-majority Vietnamese ethnic girls and their access to and participation in secondary school. This critical ethnographic study utilizes Sen's framework of capabilities to critically analyze differences in discourse and practice of poverty, and gendered relations and ethnic traditions as they affect girls' choices and well-being in and through education. Dr. DeJaeghere particularly draws on girls' and their parents' constructions of these issues as they negotiate them. She argues for strategies that address poverty and gender must also consider the inequalities and lack of capabilities that exist for non-majority ethnic groups in societies, and move beyond the discourse that ethnic traditions and gendered relations are primary barriers to girls' education. Dr. DeJaeghere's visit has been arranged by Dr. Christine Min Wotipka, Assistant Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford, and is sponsored by Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice Area, Stanford School of Education, the Program in Feminist Studies, and the East Asian Studies Theme House. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
Jana Harris, "Who Giveth This Woman?: Courtship and Wedding Tales of the American Frontier", Monday, October 20, 2008, 11:45am - 1:00pm. Lunch will be served first, and then the reading and talk will follow beginning promptly at Noon. The Stanford Bookstore will be on site selling some of Harris' works. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to attend. Award winning poet Jana Harris will be reading from and discussing her book-in-progress: "Who Giveth This Woman?", a work of documentary imagination. Harris' poems are based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, journals, accounts, etc. of women of the American West in the 19th Century: These poems have appeared in many journals including TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist, Jana Harris' award-winning books include Manhattan as a Second Language and Other Poems ( Harper & Row) and Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women (Ontario Press, Princeton), both Pulitzer Prize nominees. Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? was a Washington State Governor's Writers Award winner, a PEN West Center Award finalist, and has been adapted for educational television as well as for the stage. The Dust of Everyday Life, (Sasquatch) won the 1998 Andres Berger Award. In 2001 she won a Pushcart Prize for poetry and in 2004 she won a Reader's Choice Award in poetry from Prairie Schooner. Born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she worked for six years as director of Writers in Performance at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Harris now teaches creative writing at the University of Washington where she is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org), one of the first electronic poetry journals of the English-speaking world. Harris is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, Poetry Society of America, and AWP. More information about Jana Harris and her publications is available at www.janaharris.net.
Harris' visit is co-sponsored by the Program in Feminist Studies. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
"Out of the Chrysalis: A Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian", Saturday, October 11, 2:30 - 4:30pm. Main Quad, Building 200, Room 203. This program is being shown as part of the popular educational format Classes Without Quizzes during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming weekend celebration. This event is free of charge. All welcome to attend (NB - registration at Reunion Homecoming not required).
A pre-release version of the documentary will be shown telling the fascinating story of artist and naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian, who lived from 1647 -1717, was a groundbreaking entomologist. She undertook a scientific expedition to Surinam from 1699 to 1701, and was an artist and scientific illustrator during the Dutch Golden Age. Her careful observations from nature and her detailed paintings overturned centuries of assumptions about the life cycles of insects, spiders, butterflies and moths, laying a foundation for the system of classification of species used today. After the screening, join a discussion with the filmmakers John Füegi and Jo Francis of Flare Productions, and Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute. More about the documentary.

Artist's Salon: Janice Ross, "Embedded in San Francisco Ballet", Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Light refreshments will be provided. All welcome to attend. Janice Ross is Stanford Dance Division director and Associate Professor in the Drama Department. Professor Ross will discuss her most recent book, San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five (Chronicle Books 2007), a journalistic portrait of a season embedded in America's oldest ballet company. Previous books include Moving Lessons: The Beginning of Dance in American Education (University of Wisconsin Press 2000), Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (University of California Press 2007), and San Francisco Ballet: An American Voice in Ballet (Chronicle Books 2007). Her current research interests include contemporary performance as activism and dance in prisons. For ten years she was the staff dance critic for The Oakland Tribune and for twenty years a contributing editor to Dance Magazine. Her articles on dance have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She is past president of the Dance Critics Association, and the CORD board of directors and current President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
Obstacles and Solutions for Women in Silicon Valley
Dr. Caroline Simard, Director of Research, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Monday, September 15, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
McCaw Hall, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez St, Stanford.
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology have conducted a major study that compares the experiences of men and women and offers solid strategies for breaking down the barriers to women's advancement. Dr. Simard will present new data on the status of women in Silicon Valley companies, the obstacles they face in their careers, and the strategies that work to retain and advance them. This is the Stanford Professional Women's 2008-2009 kick-off event. Price: Current SPW members $30; SPW guests $50; young alums $20. Registration required in advance. RSVP: Nancy Reyering, '95, at nanzo@stanfordalumni.org

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Home People News Events Calendar Fellowships Programs and Research Grants and Prizes Publications and Podcasts Art at the Institute Links Support our Work	Autumn 2008 Events Dr. Joan DeJaeghere, "Constructing the Limits and Possibilities of Equality: Analyzing discourse and practices of gendered relations, ethnic traditions and poverty among non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam", Monday, November 3, 11:45am - 1:00pm. Lunch will be served first and the lecture will follow beginning promptly at noon. All are welcome to attend. Dr. DeJaeghere is Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her paper examines discourses and practices at individual, community and institutional levels that construct meanings and experiences of poverty, ethnic tradition and gender relations of non-majority Vietnamese ethnic girls and their access to and participation in secondary school. This critical ethnographic study utilizes Sen's framework of capabilities to critically analyze differences in discourse and practice of poverty, and gendered relations and ethnic traditions as they affect girls' choices and well-being in and through education. Dr. DeJaeghere particularly draws on girls' and their parents' constructions of these issues as they negotiate them. She argues for strategies that address poverty and gender must also consider the inequalities and lack of capabilities that exist for non-majority ethnic groups in societies, and move beyond the discourse that ethnic traditions and gendered relations are primary barriers to girls' education. Dr. DeJaeghere's visit has been arranged by Dr. Christine Min Wotipka, Assistant Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford, and is sponsored by Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice Area, Stanford School of Education, the Program in Feminist Studies, and the East Asian Studies Theme House. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford. Jana Harris, "Who Giveth This Woman?: Courtship and Wedding Tales of the American Frontier", Monday, October 20, 2008, 11:45am - 1:00pm. Lunch will be served first, and then the reading and talk will follow beginning promptly at Noon. The Stanford Bookstore will be on site selling some of Harris' works. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to attend. Award winning poet Jana Harris will be reading from and discussing her book-in-progress: "Who Giveth This Woman?", a work of documentary imagination. Harris' poems are based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, journals, accounts, etc. of women of the American West in the 19th Century: These poems have appeared in many journals including TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist, Jana Harris' award-winning books include Manhattan as a Second Language and Other Poems ( Harper & Row) and Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women (Ontario Press, Princeton), both Pulitzer Prize nominees. Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? was a Washington State Governor's Writers Award winner, a PEN West Center Award finalist, and has been adapted for educational television as well as for the stage. The Dust of Everyday Life, (Sasquatch) won the 1998 Andres Berger Award. In 2001 she won a Pushcart Prize for poetry and in 2004 she won a Reader's Choice Award in poetry from Prairie Schooner. Born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she worked for six years as director of Writers in Performance at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Harris now teaches creative writing at the University of Washington where she is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org), one of the first electronic poetry journals of the English-speaking world. Harris is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, Poetry Society of America, and AWP. More information about Jana Harris and her publications is available at www.janaharris.net. Harris' visit is co-sponsored by the Program in Feminist Studies. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford. "Out of the Chrysalis: A Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian", Saturday, October 11, 2:30 - 4:30pm. Main Quad, Building 200, Room 203. This program is being shown as part of the popular educational format Classes Without Quizzes during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming weekend celebration. This event is free of charge. All welcome to attend (NB - registration at Reunion Homecoming not required). A pre-release version of the documentary will be shown telling the fascinating story of artist and naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian, who lived from 1647 -1717, was a groundbreaking entomologist. She undertook a scientific expedition to Surinam from 1699 to 1701, and was an artist and scientific illustrator during the Dutch Golden Age. Her careful observations from nature and her detailed paintings overturned centuries of assumptions about the life cycles of insects, spiders, butterflies and moths, laying a foundation for the system of classification of species used today. After the screening, join a discussion with the filmmakers John Füegi and Jo Francis of Flare Productions, and Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute. More about the documentary. Artist's Salon: Janice Ross, "Embedded in San Francisco Ballet", Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:30pm - 6:00pm. Light refreshments will be provided. All welcome to attend. Janice Ross is Stanford Dance Division director and Associate Professor in the Drama Department. Professor Ross will discuss her most recent book, San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five (Chronicle Books 2007), a journalistic portrait of a season embedded in America's oldest ballet company. Previous books include Moving Lessons: The Beginning of Dance in American Education (University of Wisconsin Press 2000), Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (University of California Press 2007), and San Francisco Ballet: An American Voice in Ballet (Chronicle Books 2007). Her current research interests include contemporary performance as activism and dance in prisons. For ten years she was the staff dance critic for The Oakland Tribune and for twenty years a contributing editor to Dance Magazine. Her articles on dance have appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. She is past president of the Dance Critics Association, and the CORD board of directors and current President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Location: Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford. Obstacles and Solutions for Women in Silicon Valley Dr. Caroline Simard, Director of Research, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Monday, September 15, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. McCaw Hall, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez St, Stanford. The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology have conducted a major study that compares the experiences of men and women and offers solid strategies for breaking down the barriers to women's advancement. Dr. Simard will present new data on the status of women in Silicon Valley companies, the obstacles they face in their careers, and the strategies that work to retain and advance them. This is the Stanford Professional Women's 2008-2009 kick-off event. Price: Current SPW members $30; SPW guests $50; young alums $20. Registration required in advance. RSVP: Nancy Reyering, '95, at nanzo@stanfordalumni.org
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