Next at the Clayman Institute:
Artists' Salon with Diane Frank: "INSIDE JOB: A Talk about the Making of a New Work, History, and Connection" Wednesday May 7, 4:30pm to 6:00pm. Choreographer and lecturer in dance Diane Frank reflects on the construction of a recent dance, the antecedents embedded in previous pieces and projects, the processes that release her creative work, and the implications of all of the above in the complex enterprise of teaching.
Frank has been a member of Stanford's Dance Division since 1988. She teaches advanced modern dance technique, mentors student choreographers, organizes Stanford's participation in the American College Dance Festival, and co-directs the annual Dance Division concert. She has been the rehearsal director for numerous repertory works by visiting artists, including works by Brenda Way, Don Redlich, Remy Charlip, and Janice Garrett. She has created and implemented numerous dance research and performance projects in collaboration with Stanford colleagues and visiting artists, notably Chance Dances as part of "Encounter:Merce" with Lively Arts, the Anna Halprin "Myths" Project, and a repertory workshop of Merce Cunningham's "Scramble." She created the wildly popular "Duets Project" last spring quarter, and is currently engaged in the up-coming production of "RED ROVER," a site-specific performance project of 5 commissioned dances for 5 evocative campus sites, to be performed this Spring, Wednesday May 28. "RED ROVER" is linked to the course "Figure/Ground: Site-Specific Dance Performance in Outdoor Environments". All welcome. Light refreshments served. Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
Feminist Theory Workshop: Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering. Tuesday May 20, 4:30pm to 6:00pm. Contributors to the recent GISE volume will join Paula Moya and Helen Longino to discuss the development of tools for gender analysis in science. Open to Stanford faculty, invited faculty, and enrolled graduate students only. Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford.
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Gender Mainstreaming in Medicine , Tuesday June 3, 11:45am to 1:30pm. Professor Regitz-Zagrosek is Professor of Gender in Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease in Women at the Charite University in Berlin. All faculty and graduate students welcome.
Janice Ross, Associate Professor of Dance, will be talking about her research, including into the San Francisco Ballet, on October 14, 2008. Serra House. More details to come.
Deborah Siegel, Writing to Make it Pop Siegel, author of "Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild" and successful freelance writer, will be offering a workshop for Stanford faculty interested in broadening the dissemination of their research and expertise in the popular media by writing for magazines or blogs. Fifteen faculty spots will be available - registration in advance required. October 23, 2008.
Co-sponsored Events
Women in a Globalizing Workplace: A Panel Discussion, April 29, noon, Women's Community Center
How is the role of working women changing in a globalizing professional world? Our panel of professors and successful alumni will address specific barriers and opportunities that exist for women entering the global workforce. Through participating in this conversation, you'll discover how to develop your own educational foundation and practical skill set to meet the demands of the competitive global workplace. For more information, contact Laura Harrison (lauramh at Stanford dot edu).
Women as Leaders: Negotiating the Labyrinth with Alice Eagly, May 15, noon, Faculty Club
Alice Eagly, James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University, will discuss contemporary issues relating to women and leadership. In many nations, women have gained considerable access to leadership roles and are increasingly praised for having excellent skills for leadership. In fact, women, more than men, manifest leadership styles associated with effective performance as a leader. Nevertheless, more people prefer male than female bosses, and research has demonstrated that women can still face impediments to attaining leadership roles and barriers to success as occupants of these roles. This mix of women's apparent advantages and disadvantages reflects progress toward gender equality as well as the lack of attainment of this goal. Contact Noa Ronkin of the Stanford Center on Ethics (ronkin at Stanford dot edu) for more information. Also sponsoring this program is the Faculty Women's Forum. RSVP to Jeanette Jenkins, jenkins2 at Stanford dot edu.
Same-Sex Desire and Union in China: Interdisciplinary and Historical Perspectives, May 16-18, 2008 The Clayman Institute is pleased to be a leading co-sponsor of this conference, to be held at the Stanford Humanities Center. There will be a round table discussion on Friday, with Terry Castle (English, Stanford University), Greg Pflugfelder (Japanese History, Columbia University), Jim Reichert (Japanese Literature, Stanford University), and Paul Robinson (History, Stanford University). For more details visit the conference website at desire.stanford.edu or contact Matthew Sommer msommer@stanford.edu.
Women Survivors of Srebrenica Professor Selma Leydesdorff, of the Department of Arts, Religion, and Culture, University of Amsterdam, will be giving a lunchtime seminar on the experience of women in the context of the Srebrenica genocide, on Thursday May 22, 2008. Hosted by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute. For more information, contact Katherine Jolluck jolluck@ stanford.edu.
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