Chinese Politics and Society

Continuity and Change: A Symposium

February 11-13, 2005

The Jo Ann Bendetson Tilip Symposium

Friday, February 11
-Mediating the Media in the Information Age 2pm
-Confucianism in China: Tradition and Transition 7pm

Saturday, February 12
-Open Markets, Open Minds? Implications of Economic Liberalization 9:30am
-Inequalities: Rights and Resistance 11:30am
-Dilemmas of Corruption and Legal Reform 2:30pm
-Ethnic Minorities in China: Nationalism and Separatism 7:30pm

Sunday, February 13
-Hong Kong and Taiwan: Barometers of Change? 1pm
-Visions for the Future: Scenarios for Political Reform 3pm

Location:
Tufts University 99 Packard Avenue Medford, MA

Organizer:

URL: http://www.tilip.org

Theory of Cryptography Conference

TCC 2005 - The Second Theory of Cryptography Conference

various speakers

Three day conference (Feb. 10-12, 2005) regarding theories of cryptography.

Open to the public
 
www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/tcc05/

Location:
Hotel at MIT

Cost: $200-350

URL: http://web.mit.edu/conf-serv/www/tcc/tccterms05.html

African Film Festival at MFA

The MFA presents its annual African Film Festival, February 2-26.

Over the past few years, this festival has expanded, offering more films covering an ever-diversifying range of subjects.

Hollow City by Maria João Ganga (Na Cidade Vazia, Angola, 2004, 88 min.)
A “calm and unsentimental look at the realities of a war-torn nation” (Variety)

Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal, 2004, 124 min.)
"an example of humanist cinema at its finest, a movie that reminds you of the dignity and heroism of ordinary life.” (A. O. Scott, The New York Times)

Mrs.Wheelbarrow by Moussa Sene Absa (Madame Brouette, Senegal, 2002, 104min.)
a loopy saga of passion, ambition, chauvinism, corruption, gangsters and betrayal.

HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s festival begins with an 8-show engagement of Ousmane Sembene’s acclaimed Moolaadé. It then proceeds with an array of eight features and three short films. Represented are Algeria, Angolia, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. This festival is part of the nationally touring African Film Festival of New York.

TICKET INFO
MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9. Double-feature price: any two back-to-back screenings $14/$15 when purchased at the Box Office or by phone.

www.mfa.org/cgi-bin/webevent.pl

Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cost: $9/$8

URL: http://www.mfa.org

Bob Metcalf & Hermann Hauser

CMI DLS: Bob Metcalfe

The next CMI Distinguished Lecture Series spotlights Hermann Hauser, technical entrepreneur, and Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet, as they discuss growing a start-up business into a larger company.

Dr Robert (‘Bob’) Metcalfe began his career as an engineer-scientist, and was working as a researcher for Xerox when he invented Ethernet, the LAN standard on which he shares four patents.

In 2003, 184 million new Ethernet connections shipped for $12.5 billion.

Bob subsequently founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company.

As well as serving on the board of several companies, Bob is now a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners, and specializes in Boston-based IT start-ups.

Hermann was an influential figure in the UK personal computer industry during the 80s.

He also co-founded the venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners where he oversees a range of early- and later-stage developing technology companies.

Hermann Hauser is speaking from a Lecture Theatre at the Judge Institute of Management Studies in Cambridge UK and Bob Metcalfe from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

They will meet by live video-link for the talk, and for Q&A.

Live Webcast Information
The webcast of this event begins at 11.30am on Friday, February 11th via CMI’s home page: www.cambridge-mit.org.

Sponsor
MIT Entrepreneurship Center, cmi-events
 
Open to the public

Location:
E51-325, M.I.T. and online at http://www.cambridge-mit.org

Cost: free

URL: http://www.cambridge-mit.org

Faith in Action

Faith in Action: From Brandeis to Nicaragua, From Boston to Sudan

What particular challenges, and opportunities, exist for faith-based initiatives for social change?

How do local congregations and religious organizations amplify their efforts to make an impact on a larger scale?

Dr. Ray Hammond, from the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain, will speak about helping to facilitate an elaborate "underground railroad" to address slavery in the Sudan.

Corey Hope Leaffer ‘04 and other Brandeis students will speak about their experiences with the American Jewish World Service’s Alternative Spring Break program in Latin America.

Bring your lunch; refreshments will be served.

Location:
Shapiro Campus Center, Art Gallery, Brandeis University

URL: http://my.brandeis.edu/btime/item?item_id=468027

Uninsured Women in America

Sick to Death: Uninsured Women in America
Susan Sered, Ph.D.

Dr. Sered will give a public lecture based on her new book Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (University of California Press, 2005).

Drawing on reports from her in-depth interviews of uninsured women and men in five regions of the country, she will discuss how women are particularly vulnerable in America’s health insurance crisis.

Sponsored by the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights.

Light refreshments will be provided, please bring a brown-bag lunch.

Location:
Donahue Building, McDermott Conference Room, Suffolk University

URL: http://www.suffolk.edu/events.html

The Importance of I.T.

Bentley Provost Seminar Series Spotlights The Importance of IT

University of Michigan's John Leslie King to discuss emerging information technology mechanisms in a public lecture.

As part of its emphasis on promoting practical research that addresses current and future issues in the world of business and society more generally, the Provost Seminar Series at Bentley continues with a lecture by John Leslie King entitled "Does IT Matter?"

An authority on information technology, King is among several internationally recognized professionals and researchers invited to Bentley this year to discuss topics for scholars and practitioners dedicated to a transdisciplinary treatment of key issues in the modern world.

The program is free and open to the public.

"The topic of information technology is a complicated jumble of surprises. Hyperbolic prediction followed by disappointing letdowns has been accompanied by completely unforeseen but world-changing accomplishments," says King.

The "dot.com" boom of the late 1990s was followed by the "dot.bust" right after Y2K.

The pundits were hailing the birth of the information economy in 1999; by 2003 the pundits were saying IT doesn't matter.

This talk addresses the questions of both whether and how IT matters, as well as the causal mechanisms by which emerging information technologies change the fundamental nature of human enterprise at all levels.

Examples will be drawn from a variety of subjects, including commerce, politics, entertainment, and terrorism.

John Leslie King is dean and professor of the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

His research is in the problems of developing high-level requirements for information systems design and implementation in strongly institutionalized production sectors.

Recent and current projects focus on the role of technical and institutional forces in the co-evolutionary development of intermodal transport and logistics, case management in felony criminal courts, global wireline and wireless telephony, and the transition of the automobile industry from product to service sector.

He was formerly a professor University of California-Irvine, as well as a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School.

In recent years, he has been a senior scientific advisor to the National Science Foundation and an outside advisor to many IT-related programs in universities in the U.S. and internationally.

Reception follows.

The event is free but pre-registration is requested.

Please RSVP for the seminar and reception to:

Diane Whelan, Office of the Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs
781-891-2471 or email: dwhelan-AT-bentley.edu

Location:
LaCava Campus Center, Room 375, Bentley College

Directions: 781-891-2100 or www.bentley.edu/directions

URL: http://www.bentley.edu/news-events/pr_view.cfm?id=1897

Mark Rudd live at The Weather Underground

Mark Rudd, forner member of The Weather Underground will appear for discussion at this screening.

Part of Progressive Week at Suffolk University.

ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE • BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path.

This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage." Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.

The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list.

"Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." ~ Bernardine Dohrn

Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list.

Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s.

Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that drove their resistance.

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND is a production of the Free History Project, produced in association with KQED Public Television/San Francisco and ITVS.

Location:
Donahue Building, 41 Temple Street, 4th Floor, Suffolk University

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.suffolk.edu

An Evening with Shyam Benegal

An Evening with Shyam Benegal
Director in Person

Netaji: The Last Hero
(aka Bose: The Forgotten Hero)

Directed by Shyam Benegal
India, 2004, color, 222 min.
With Sachin Khedekar, Rajit Kapur, Udo Schenk

Accomplished director Shyam Benegal emerged over the past thirty years as the heir to the filmmaking legacy of Satyajit Ray, both of whom were noted for their use of literary adaptations in realist contexts. Benegal recently completed a biopic of the great Indian freedom fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose created controversy when he renounced Gandhi’s non-violent teachings in favor of more direct warfare with the British Empire. The film followa his struggles at home as well as his unlikely encounters aborad with Adolf Hitler and the Japanese Army.

This screening is co-presented by the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University.

Location:
Harvard Film Archive

URL: http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org

Folklore, Fantasy & Film

A Symposium sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology

Friday, February 11, 2005

7pm - 10pm
Short films, presentations, and refreshments


Saturday, February 12, 2005

BREAKFAST
9:30 am - 10:00 am

MORNING PANELS
10:00 am - 12:45pm

"Our Lady's Tumbler: from Medieval Fantasy to Modern Fakelore" (Jan Ziolkowski)

"Seeking Seed-Wheat I Have Come: Desire between the Worlds in Medieval Irish and Welsh Tales" (Kate Chadbourne)

"Phenomenal Cosmic Powers: Aladdin's Metamorphic Genius" (Sandra Naddaff)

"Why Should Sleeping Beauty Wake Up?" (Cara Zimmerman)

"Fairy Tale Romance: Love, Sex, and Bestiality Across the Centuries" (Catherine Orenstein)

"The Magic Art of the Great Humbug: Performative Language in The Wizard of Oz" (Maria Tatar)

LUNCH
12:45pm - 1:30pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:30pm - 2:30pm

James Russell
"J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: A Russian Liberal Perspective"

AFTERNOON PANELS
2:30pm - 4:45 pm

"Tolkien and the Ornithography of Evil" (Joseph Harris)

"The Naming of Trees is a Difficult Matter: Treebeard and the Kalevala" (Veronica Heller)

"The Mythological Heritage of Tolkien's Elves" (Matthew Granoff)

"Shared Narrative Framework in Role-Playing Games" (Bryn Neuenschwander)

"Star Wars: Myth and Autobiography" (Paulette Curtis)

"Imaginary Lands, Economic Territories: Conquering the Global Film Market with the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Genre" (Winnie Li)

REFRESHMENTS
5:00 pm - 5:30pm

Location:
Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University

URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/FFF.htm

Forum on Social Security

Coffee & Conversation

A Radical Response to Social Security Reform

Special Guests:

Jarvis Tyner
Vice-President, Communist Party USA

Sue Kirby
Organizer, OWL, the voice of midlife & older women

Tony Vander Meer
Professor, UMass/Boston

Location:
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street, Copley Square
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets

Directions: The Community Church Center is easily accessible from the Copley or Back Bay T stops.

URL: http://www.commchurch.org

Masscann/NORML Freedom Rally 15 1/2

Savagelane.com Presents

Masscann/Norml Freedom Rally 15 ½-
Hurricane Rain Fund Shows

All Door Proceeds to Masscann/Norml
www.masscann.org

At Goodtimes, Assembly Sq. Drive, Somerville, MA
$7 cover, 21+-,
(617)628-5559

Friday, Feb. 11th
-----------------
Haloburn- New, buzz band featuring x-7th Rail Crew.
Stock 7- East Boston's hard rock act.
Down 2 Zero- Took 2nd place at WBCN High School Battle.
Dead Sober- X-Bonescrew, playing two shows at Tsongas Arena.
Roots of Creation- NH based reggae act.

With Words lead Guitarist from Ants of Stock 7 about his experiences with medical marijuana and the disease that he has, Marfan Syndrome. www.marfan.org

Also other special appearances by Mike C-Savagelane.com, Gramma Ganja, Steven Epstein and others TBA.

Location:
Goodtimes, 30 Assembly Square Road, Somerville, MA

Cost: $7

Organizer:

URL: http://masscann.org

Acció contra la constitució

Tots a plantar cara a l'Europa del Capital! Porta timbals, cassoles i tot el que tinguis per a rebre com cal a convidats il·lustres com l'Schröder i Chirac, a part de Zapatero!

Location:
Sortida metro Palau reial

Organizer:

Per la República: Commemoració de la República del 11 Febrer 1873

Ponents: Miquel Caminal, politòleg; Miquel Candel, filòsof; Josep Fontana, histoirador. Encarna Sánchez: recitació de poemes republicans.

Location:
Ateneu Barcelonés

Directions: C/ Canuda 6 Bercelona
19 h.

Organizer:

Por qué decimos NO a la Constitución Europea

Charla-Debate

Location:
Locales de la Federación Comarcal de la CGT Baix Llobregat

Directions: Ctra. de Esplugues, 46 (CORNELLÁ)

Metro, Trambaix y Renfe Cornellá Centre

Organizer:

taller de salsa

Vina i "sandunguea" cada divendres de 8 a 10 a la Fera amb el taller de salsa i merengue. ASSSÚCAR!!

Location:
C/ Santa Agata Nº 30

Cost: De Gratix

Organizer:

Hitzaldia :: Los inmigrantes en el punto de mira / Etorkinak miran

Pedro Albite EHUko irakaslea eta Txamba Bilbon finkaturik dagoen Salvadorreko errefuxiatuak, Europar konstituzioak eta honek etorkinengan duen eraginari buruz hitz egingo digute.

Location:
Koldo Mitxelena (Donostia)

Organizer:

G8 nonviolence training

Friday 11 March – Sunday 13 March 2005
Dunblane, Perthshire at Scottish Centre for Nonviolence

Does your group plan to be active around the G8 in July?
Do you want and plan to work nonviolently?

If so why not use the free to download training on
www.nonviolence-scotland.org.uk and use your internal skills to train together?

The Scottish Centre for Nonviolence supports people who work nonviolently towards social change and is offering a Training for Trainers using the workshop for the G8 on our website from the evening of Friday until the late
afternoon on Sunday.

Location:
Scottish Centre For Nonviolence
The Annexe
Kirk Street
Dunblane
FK15 0AJ

Organizer:

URL: http://www.nonviolence-scotland.org.uk

: Rochester Poets Against the War & Occupation

Rochester Poets Against the War & Occupation
Monday, 11 February 2005
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rochester Poets Against the War & Occupation
to Hold a Free Public Reading

February 12 marks the third anniversary of the White House Symposium on Poetry that
was cancelled by First Lady Laura Bush when she learned that a number of the attending
writers planned to use the occasion to protest the President's imminent invasion of Iraq.

The first Lady's action prompted Sam Hamill and several other dis-invited poets to form
Poets Against the War, which called upon writers around the world to commemorate the
cancelled event -- which was to focus on Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston
Hughes, all poets with pacifist sentiments -- by submitting poems and comments to a
web site, www.poetsagainstthewar.org, and by holding protest readings on or close to
the cancelled event date, February 12.

The PAW website, and a sister website, www.voicesinwartime.org, have become the largest
anthologies of poetry known to exist, and the readings over the past two years were a
tremendous success, including the two held at the downtown Rochester Public Library.

Rochester area poets & writers will participate in the third annual protest, which will be
held on Friday, February 11, 2004, 6:00 – 9:00 pm, in the same location as last year's
event – the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Rochester Public Library main branch,
115 South Avenue.

"We think it's extremely important to keep public awareness focused on the fact that
the Bush Administration ignored virtually all its allies and the UN and launched an
invasion based on what clearly appears to be fabricated evidence of so-called Weapons
of Mass Destruction," notes Rochester PAW organizer Frank Judge."This has already
cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars for an unnecessary war; at the same time
President Bush plans to spend several trillion to scale back and privatize Social Security.
Moreover, while the adminstration says it has no intentions of invading Iran, the sort of
ultimatums it's giving Iran sound just like the pre-Iraq invasion talk of WMDs.This has
beccome another Vietnam quagmire. The President ran his re-election based on his
dubious leadership a "wartime president;" it's only fitting that he be opposed with the
truth about his actions."

Participants from Rochester and the surrounding area will include: Dimitri Anastasopoulos,
Geoffrey Barber, Sarah Brinklow, Ed Downey, Ian Downey, Vincent Golphin, William Heyen,
Steve Huff, Pat Janus, bobby johnson, Frank Judge, Jennifer Kehoe, Michael Ketchek,
David Kelly, Ruth Kennedy, Gary Lehmann, Wynne McClure, Scott Regan, Kerry Regan,
Patricia Roth Schwartz, David Michael Nixon, John Roche, Rob Rohan, and Leah Zazulyer.
There will also be an open as time allows. For additional information, contact Frank Judge,
328-2144 or write RochesterPAW-AT-snsnews.com.

Location:

Location:

HANDS OFF CARLY AND JANICE rally

11 February 2005 - 12Noon to 1:00pm:

HANDS OFF CARLY AND JANICE rally in front of the downtown Courthouse at 220 West Broadway in downtown San Diego. Carly and Janice will be arraigned on the 11th of February at 12:30pm. Sign-making for the action will take place next week. Please contact Ayesha at 619.249.5643. If you can't make the sign-making party, please follow the themes DISSENT IS NOT A CRIME; STOP SELECTIVE PROSECUTION; DROP ALL CHARGES.

Location:
220 West Broadway

Organizer:

URL: http://sandiego.indymedia.org

RESISTENCIA ESTUDIANTIL MEETING

The next Resistencia Estudiantil meeting is Friday, February 11th, 2005 at 4:30pm in the southwest corner of the City College Cafeteria. (PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.)

Resistencia Estudiantil is taking actions to oppose Bush and the extreme right-wing agenda. We are opposed to the Bush administation's military recruitment plans to persuade the poor and underprivileged into becoming soldiers for an imperialistic army bent on violently imposing it's policy of domination over the world, instead of encouraging the pursuit of an education which brings them to City College.

The meeting will also include discussion and plans for action against our Governator's and Bush's Budget Cuts. We are planning on becoming an active part of AIDE (Action in Defense of Education) and will defend and fight for our right to an education at CITY COLLEGE. We will also be meeting with a local organizer from SDSU Students for Economic Justice.

Location:
Friday, February 11th, 2005 at 4:30pm in the southwest corner of the City College Cafeteria.

GENDERQUEER/QUEERGENDERS: CONVERSATIONS AMONG ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS & ACADEMICS

GENDERQUEER/QUEERGENDERS:
CONVERSATIONS AMONG ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS & ACADEMICS
University of California, Santa Barbara
Feb 11, 12, 13 2005


Conference Events are free and open to the public. Advance registration
requested. More information is available at
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/queergender/


PLENARY SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Gayatri Gopinath
Judith Halberstam
Imani Henry
Thea Hillman
Yoseñio Lewis
Scott Turner Schofield
Susan Stryker




SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11


1:00pm to 2:30pm
Panel: Are You In or Are You Out? Research and the Politics of Identity (HSSB
3041)
Kristen Schilt: ‘Why are YOU interested in this?’: Doing Transgender Research as
a Non-Transgender Person
Eve Shapiro: Studying at Home: Doing Research Within Your Own Communities and
Friendship Networks
Elroi Waszkiewicz: ‘I’m Actually Not FTM’: Negotiating Misperception of Insider
Status
Moderator: Beth Schneider


Panel: Will the Real Identity Please Stand Up?: Out on a Limn (HSSB 5024)
Ahmet Atay
Shane Moreman
Sandra L. Pensoneau
Satoshi Toyosaki


2:45pm to 4:15pm
PLENARY FILM PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION
(McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
"Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria"
Susan Stryker


4:30pm to 7:30pm
WELCOME PLENARY PANEL: "Art, Activism and Academe: Necessary Conversations &
Crosspollinations"
(McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Gayatri Gopinath
Yoseñio Lewis
Moderator: Catherine Cole


The panel will be followed by a reception & the opening of the GQ/QG Digital Art
Show, featuring artists Tania Anderson, Filiz Cicek, Dandy/Chris Carraher, Marc
De Clercq, Carlos Cortes, Rhon Drinkwater, Dan Dumont, Elizabeth “Liz”
Guenthner, Phillip Munson, Nico, Click Patterdale, Stephen Quirk, L.J. Roberts,
Maxx Sizeler, Estelle Slegers, Rachel Wilberforce



8:00pm to 10:00pm
PLENARY PERFORMANCE
(MultiCultural Center Theater)
B4T: Before Testosterone*
Imani Henry


*The performance of B4T is made possible by the UCSB MultiCultural Center



SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12


9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Violence, Visibility, and Community Responses (McCune Conference Room ­
HSSB 6020)
Tomasz Basiuk: The Polish Poster Campaign: Visibility, Solidarity, and a
Politics of Anger
Toby Beauchamp: Violence Made Visible: Mourning & Memorial in Transgender
Political Organizing
Lori Saffin: Structuring Hate, Erasing Lives: Queers of Color, Hate Crimes, and
the Law
Moderator: Horacio Roque Ramirez


Panel: History, Culture, Nation (HSSB 5024)
Sumiko Braun: Our Kind of Queer: Examining how our expectations alter the very
reality of the Hawai’ian people
Russell Cambron: Gender and Nationality in the Aftermath of September 11
Deborah Cane: Queering the Road: Women Hoboes, Female to Male Transsexuality and
the Great Depression
Rebecca Chapman: A Deed Without a Name: Invocation, Equivocation, and the Female
Masculinity of Macbeth’s Weird Sisters
Moderator: Stephan Meischer


Workshop: Harness Your Desire (Women’s Center Library)
Carrie Gray


Filmmakers’ Roundtable followed by Short Film/Video Show Opening
(Girvetz 1116)
Roundtable participants:
Giovanna Chesler * Jessica Lawless * Rigo Maldonaldo * Elizabeth Stark
Moderator: Celine Parreñas Shimizu
FILMS
F. Backman & A. David “Backstage with the Sisters”
Giovanna Chesler "Beauteous: Giovanna"
Eddie Gesso "Binding"
Paul Grimmer "The Gloves R Off" (edit)
D. R. Hammer "Shake the Rain"
Janice Kang "Packing"
Jessica Lawless "Let Them Eat Cake"
Rigo Maldonaldo "And Now..."
Karla Rosales "Mind If I Call You Sir?" (clip)
Elizabeth Stark "FtF: Female to Femme" (preview)
R. Wilberforce and P. Pajdic "Ritual"



10:45am to 12:30pm
PLENARY PANEL: "Politics, Art, and Performance"
(Girvetz Theater ­ Girvetz 1004)
Judith Halberstam
Thea Hillman
Imani Henry
Moderator: Leila Rupp


LUNCH ON YOUR OWN


2:00pm to 3:30pm
Panel: Femmes Across the Faultlines (HSSB 5024)
Elizabeth Currans: My Femme Manifesto: A Letter to a Baby Dyke
Ednie Kaeh Garrison: Non-Feminine Femme; Or, How Can a Femme Register as
Androgynous Masculine on a Personality Test?
Alyssa Harad: Dyke Envy Part 1: Not My Mamma’s Femme
Respondent: Karl Bryant


Panel: Experiential Genderqueer Narratives (HSSB 3041)
Loree Erickson: Presenting Femmegimp
Sarah Hunt: Narratives of Decolonization: Visualizing Transformative Identities
Susan McCully and Martha Marinara: Lesbian Femme Butch Desire and Biker Babe
Mythos
Moderator: Verta Taylor


Workshop: Gotta Pee? Navigating Gender Segregated Bathrooms (HSSB 2001A)
Bryan Burgess


Workshop: Queers on Wheels (Women’s Center Library)
Eva Sweeney


3:45pm to 5:30pm
PLENARY PERFORMANCE
(MultiCultural Center Theater)


“DEBUTANTE Balls”
Turner Schofield


Spoken Word, Dance and Performances
Theo Burnes * Thea Hillman * Yoseñio Lewis
Sean Dorsey/Freshmeat Productions “Second Kiss”
Lisa Gillinger * Celestina Pearl




SATURDAY EVENING, DON'T MISS THE.....


GENDERQUEER CABARET!!!


An evening of drag & Burlesque


With special Performances by…


BURLESQUE-ESQUE
The Miracle Whips
The Dangers & Noah Boyz
Celestina Pearl
Nappy Grooves
Eartha Klitt
The Lost Boys


Hosted by Ethel & the Pantyraids
With M.C. Summer’s Eve


7PM-11pm, Saturday February 12, 2005
Hades nightclub, 235 w montecito St
$3 to $7 sliding door fee*
21 and over



SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13


9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Reading Gender: Artistic Representations (HSSB 5024)
David Benin: Bodily Perception: Experimental Cinema and the Condition of Virtual
Ability
Nicole Eschen: Drag Queen, Fairy, Femme and Stanley: Queer Genders in Belle
Reprieve
Trish Salah: Writing in “the in-between”: a performative lecture with poetry
Moderator: Guy Mark Foster


Panel: Performance and Politics (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Matt Richardson: Going to Make the Man: Blackface Minstrelsy and Queer Gender
Performance
Frank Leon Roberts: “What Kind of Cunt Do You Really Want To Be?” Gender,
Performance and Queer World-Making in New York City Black and Latino Ballroom
House Culture
Katrin Greim: Femme Out Loud: Queer Femininity and the Politics of
(In)Visibility
Moderator: Marlon Bailey


Workshop: Gender Outlaws (Women’s Center Library)
Colin Kennedy Donovan & Qwo-Li Driskill


10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Femme in Context: Multiple Ways of Being (HSSB 5024)
Christine De La Rosa-Drinkwater
Sandy Falby
Laura Goodspeed
Moderator: Jessica Eve Humphrey


Workshop: White Supremacy By Any Other Name: Racism As It Affects Queer
Communities (Women’s Center Library)
Yoseñio Lewis & JoAnne Reyes-Boitel


Panel: Rethinking Compulsory Heterosexuality (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB
6020)
Adriane Friedl: Heterosexual Compulsion in “Compulsory Heterosexuality”
Denise Goerisch: From the Ugly Duckling to The Swan: The Construction and
Performance of Gender on The Swan -
Robert Heasley and Rachel Goss: Queering Straight Masculinities: Beyond the
metrosexual hype
Yael Sherman: Political Possibilities and the Question of Human Nature: “Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy”
Moderator: Mireille Miller-Young


12:15pm to 1:30pm
Lunch Buffet (Graduate Student Association Lounge ­ Upstairs from the
MultiCultural Center Theater)


1:30pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Gendered Desires (HSSB 5024)
Susan Cook: Reviewing Masochism: Desire and the Rearticulation of Female Power
in Secretary
Susan Driver: Playful Identities and Passing Pleasures: Erotic dialogues across
transitioning selves
Cathy Hannabach: Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic
Practices
Respondent: Lydia Sausa


Discussion: Visual Artists’ & Performing Artists’ Roundtable (McCune Conference
Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Mel Corn
Elizabeth “Liz” Guenthner
Maxx Sizeler
Moderator: Turner Schofield


Workshop: Battling the Trans-Enough Blues (Women’s Center Library)
Eli R. Green


3:15pm-3:45pm
Conference Wrap Up (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Conference Organizing Committee



Ongoing Events


DIGITAL ART SHOW (Girvetz 1115)
SHORT FILM/VIDEO SERIES (Girvetz 1116)
Saturday 9:00 to 3:30
Sunday 9:00 to 3:00



Important Accessibility Information


(Dis)ability Access is a Social Justice Issue!!


***All GQ/QG events are wheelchair accessible.


***There will be ASL interpreters at the Friday evening and Saturday morning
plenaries. Presenters in other sessions have been asked to provide read-along
copies of their presentations.


***The GQ/QG Conference is designated a scent free event. In order to make this
space accessible to people with immune disorders, asthma, allergies, and
chemical sensitivities, no perfumes, colognes, or scented products may be worn
to GQ/QG events.



GQ/QG is made possible with the generous support of:
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Office of the Provost, College of Letters and Sciences
The MultiCultural Center
The Hull Chair of Women’s Studies
Chancellor Henry Yang
Women & Conflict Conference
Graduate Student Association
EUCALYPTUS
Dramatic Arts
Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs Michael Young
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Women’s Studies
The Women’s Center
Queer Student Union
Law & Society
Religious Studies
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Studio Art
Comparative Literature
Sociology

Location:

URL: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/queergender/

GENDERQUEER/QUEERGENDERS: CONVERSATIONS AMONG ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS & ACADEMICS

GENDERQUEER/QUEERGENDERS:
CONVERSATIONS AMONG ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS & ACADEMICS
University of California, Santa Barbara
Feb 11, 12, 13 2005


Conference Events are free and open to the public. Advance registration
requested. More information is available at
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/queergender/


PLENARY SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Gayatri Gopinath
Judith Halberstam
Imani Henry
Thea Hillman
Yoseñio Lewis
Scott Turner Schofield
Susan Stryker




SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11


1:00pm to 2:30pm
Panel: Are You In or Are You Out? Research and the Politics of Identity (HSSB
3041)
Kristen Schilt: ‘Why are YOU interested in this?’: Doing Transgender Research as
a Non-Transgender Person
Eve Shapiro: Studying at Home: Doing Research Within Your Own Communities and
Friendship Networks
Elroi Waszkiewicz: ‘I’m Actually Not FTM’: Negotiating Misperception of Insider
Status
Moderator: Beth Schneider


Panel: Will the Real Identity Please Stand Up?: Out on a Limn (HSSB 5024)
Ahmet Atay
Shane Moreman
Sandra L. Pensoneau
Satoshi Toyosaki


2:45pm to 4:15pm
PLENARY FILM PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION
(McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
"Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria"
Susan Stryker


4:30pm to 7:30pm
WELCOME PLENARY PANEL: "Art, Activism and Academe: Necessary Conversations &
Crosspollinations"
(McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Gayatri Gopinath
Yoseñio Lewis
Moderator: Catherine Cole


The panel will be followed by a reception & the opening of the GQ/QG Digital Art
Show, featuring artists Tania Anderson, Filiz Cicek, Dandy/Chris Carraher, Marc
De Clercq, Carlos Cortes, Rhon Drinkwater, Dan Dumont, Elizabeth “Liz”
Guenthner, Phillip Munson, Nico, Click Patterdale, Stephen Quirk, L.J. Roberts,
Maxx Sizeler, Estelle Slegers, Rachel Wilberforce



8:00pm to 10:00pm
PLENARY PERFORMANCE
(MultiCultural Center Theater)
B4T: Before Testosterone*
Imani Henry


*The performance of B4T is made possible by the UCSB MultiCultural Center



SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12


9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Violence, Visibility, and Community Responses (McCune Conference Room ­
HSSB 6020)
Tomasz Basiuk: The Polish Poster Campaign: Visibility, Solidarity, and a
Politics of Anger
Toby Beauchamp: Violence Made Visible: Mourning & Memorial in Transgender
Political Organizing
Lori Saffin: Structuring Hate, Erasing Lives: Queers of Color, Hate Crimes, and
the Law
Moderator: Horacio Roque Ramirez


Panel: History, Culture, Nation (HSSB 5024)
Sumiko Braun: Our Kind of Queer: Examining how our expectations alter the very
reality of the Hawai’ian people
Russell Cambron: Gender and Nationality in the Aftermath of September 11
Deborah Cane: Queering the Road: Women Hoboes, Female to Male Transsexuality and
the Great Depression
Rebecca Chapman: A Deed Without a Name: Invocation, Equivocation, and the Female
Masculinity of Macbeth’s Weird Sisters
Moderator: Stephan Meischer


Workshop: Harness Your Desire (Women’s Center Library)
Carrie Gray


Filmmakers’ Roundtable followed by Short Film/Video Show Opening
(Girvetz 1116)
Roundtable participants:
Giovanna Chesler * Jessica Lawless * Rigo Maldonaldo * Elizabeth Stark
Moderator: Celine Parreñas Shimizu
FILMS
F. Backman & A. David “Backstage with the Sisters”
Giovanna Chesler "Beauteous: Giovanna"
Eddie Gesso "Binding"
Paul Grimmer "The Gloves R Off" (edit)
D. R. Hammer "Shake the Rain"
Janice Kang "Packing"
Jessica Lawless "Let Them Eat Cake"
Rigo Maldonaldo "And Now..."
Karla Rosales "Mind If I Call You Sir?" (clip)
Elizabeth Stark "FtF: Female to Femme" (preview)
R. Wilberforce and P. Pajdic "Ritual"



10:45am to 12:30pm
PLENARY PANEL: "Politics, Art, and Performance"
(Girvetz Theater ­ Girvetz 1004)
Judith Halberstam
Thea Hillman
Imani Henry
Moderator: Leila Rupp


LUNCH ON YOUR OWN


2:00pm to 3:30pm
Panel: Femmes Across the Faultlines (HSSB 5024)
Elizabeth Currans: My Femme Manifesto: A Letter to a Baby Dyke
Ednie Kaeh Garrison: Non-Feminine Femme; Or, How Can a Femme Register as
Androgynous Masculine on a Personality Test?
Alyssa Harad: Dyke Envy Part 1: Not My Mamma’s Femme
Respondent: Karl Bryant


Panel: Experiential Genderqueer Narratives (HSSB 3041)
Loree Erickson: Presenting Femmegimp
Sarah Hunt: Narratives of Decolonization: Visualizing Transformative Identities
Susan McCully and Martha Marinara: Lesbian Femme Butch Desire and Biker Babe
Mythos
Moderator: Verta Taylor


Workshop: Gotta Pee? Navigating Gender Segregated Bathrooms (HSSB 2001A)
Bryan Burgess


Workshop: Queers on Wheels (Women’s Center Library)
Eva Sweeney


3:45pm to 5:30pm
PLENARY PERFORMANCE
(MultiCultural Center Theater)


“DEBUTANTE Balls”
Turner Schofield


Spoken Word, Dance and Performances
Theo Burnes * Thea Hillman * Yoseñio Lewis
Sean Dorsey/Freshmeat Productions “Second Kiss”
Lisa Gillinger * Celestina Pearl




SATURDAY EVENING, DON'T MISS THE.....


GENDERQUEER CABARET!!!


An evening of drag & Burlesque


With special Performances by…


BURLESQUE-ESQUE
The Miracle Whips
The Dangers & Noah Boyz
Celestina Pearl
Nappy Grooves
Eartha Klitt
The Lost Boys


Hosted by Ethel & the Pantyraids
With M.C. Summer’s Eve


7PM-11pm, Saturday February 12, 2005
Hades nightclub, 235 w montecito St
$3 to $7 sliding door fee*
21 and over



SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13


9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Reading Gender: Artistic Representations (HSSB 5024)
David Benin: Bodily Perception: Experimental Cinema and the Condition of Virtual
Ability
Nicole Eschen: Drag Queen, Fairy, Femme and Stanley: Queer Genders in Belle
Reprieve
Trish Salah: Writing in “the in-between”: a performative lecture with poetry
Moderator: Guy Mark Foster


Panel: Performance and Politics (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Matt Richardson: Going to Make the Man: Blackface Minstrelsy and Queer Gender
Performance
Frank Leon Roberts: “What Kind of Cunt Do You Really Want To Be?” Gender,
Performance and Queer World-Making in New York City Black and Latino Ballroom
House Culture
Katrin Greim: Femme Out Loud: Queer Femininity and the Politics of
(In)Visibility
Moderator: Marlon Bailey


Workshop: Gender Outlaws (Women’s Center Library)
Colin Kennedy Donovan & Qwo-Li Driskill


10:45am to 12:15pm
Panel: Femme in Context: Multiple Ways of Being (HSSB 5024)
Christine De La Rosa-Drinkwater
Sandy Falby
Laura Goodspeed
Moderator: Jessica Eve Humphrey


Workshop: White Supremacy By Any Other Name: Racism As It Affects Queer
Communities (Women’s Center Library)
Yoseñio Lewis & JoAnne Reyes-Boitel


Panel: Rethinking Compulsory Heterosexuality (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB
6020)
Adriane Friedl: Heterosexual Compulsion in “Compulsory Heterosexuality”
Denise Goerisch: From the Ugly Duckling to The Swan: The Construction and
Performance of Gender on The Swan -
Robert Heasley and Rachel Goss: Queering Straight Masculinities: Beyond the
metrosexual hype
Yael Sherman: Political Possibilities and the Question of Human Nature: “Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy”
Moderator: Mireille Miller-Young


12:15pm to 1:30pm
Lunch Buffet (Graduate Student Association Lounge ­ Upstairs from the
MultiCultural Center Theater)


1:30pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Gendered Desires (HSSB 5024)
Susan Cook: Reviewing Masochism: Desire and the Rearticulation of Female Power
in Secretary
Susan Driver: Playful Identities and Passing Pleasures: Erotic dialogues across
transitioning selves
Cathy Hannabach: Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic
Practices
Respondent: Lydia Sausa


Discussion: Visual Artists’ & Performing Artists’ Roundtable (McCune Conference
Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Mel Corn
Elizabeth “Liz” Guenthner
Maxx Sizeler
Moderator: Turner Schofield


Workshop: Battling the Trans-Enough Blues (Women’s Center Library)
Eli R. Green


3:15pm-3:45pm
Conference Wrap Up (McCune Conference Room ­ HSSB 6020)
Conference Organizing Committee



Ongoing Events


DIGITAL ART SHOW (Girvetz 1115)
SHORT FILM/VIDEO SERIES (Girvetz 1116)
Saturday 9:00 to 3:30
Sunday 9:00 to 3:00



Important Accessibility Information


(Dis)ability Access is a Social Justice Issue!!


***All GQ/QG events are wheelchair accessible.


***There will be ASL interpreters at the Friday evening and Saturday morning
plenaries. Presenters in other sessions have been asked to provide read-along
copies of their presentations.


***The GQ/QG Conference is designated a scent free event. In order to make this
space accessible to people with immune disorders, asthma, allergies, and
chemical sensitivities, no perfumes, colognes, or scented products may be worn
to GQ/QG events.



GQ/QG is made possible with the generous support of:
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Office of the Provost, College of Letters and Sciences
The MultiCultural Center
The Hull Chair of Women’s Studies
Chancellor Henry Yang
Women & Conflict Conference
Graduate Student Association
EUCALYPTUS
Dramatic Arts
Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs Michael Young
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Women’s Studies
The Women’s Center
Queer Student Union
Law & Society
Religious Studies
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Studio Art
Comparative Literature
Sociology

Location:

URL: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/queergender/

Dr. Ian Haney López: Racism On Trial

UCSC Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and The Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community Present:

Dr. Ian Haney López

Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Racism On Trial

Presentation and Book Talk

Friday, February 11th,

6:00pm Presentation

Namaste Lounge, College Nine
UC Santa Cruz

Dr. Ian Haney López is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. Haney López writes about race relations and law. His most recent book, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), uses the legal history of the Mexican-American civil rights struggle in Los Angeles to explore the relationship between
legal violence and self-conceptions of racial identity. His previous book, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (N.Y.U. 1996), examined a series of cases brought under U.S. naturalization law between 1970 and 1952 that maintained a racial bar on citizenship. In addition, Haney López's numerous articles have appeared, among other places, in the
Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. His work also appears in numerous anthologies, encyclopedias, and case books.

Sponsorship also provided by Sociology, and UCSC Social Psychology Graduate Program in Social Justice.

For more information about this event, please contact the LALS Departmentat 831-459-4284.

Location:
Namaste Lounge, College Nine
UC Santa Cruz

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

David Rovics

Come hear famous activist/folk singer David Rovics live in concert to help raise funds for la Raza self-determination!
Doors open at 6:30pm

(408) 885-9785
www.barriodefense.org

Location:
Centro Atzlan Chicomostoc
520 S. Second St.
San Jose, CA

Cost: $15 in advanced/$20 at door (sliding scale)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.davidrovics.com

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

See you on Friday at Next Door, our delicious, warm and cozy indoor Guerilla Drive-In location. Bring yoself and at least two friends...

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents

Nineteen Eighty-Four

The fine and stunning screen adaptation of George Orwell's prophetic 1948 novel about a world in which the government completely controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and even changing the meaning of language to suit its needs. Winston Smith tries to discover love in an upside down world of never-ending war, criminalized dissent, pervasive disinformation, paranoia, and surveillance. If you see this film, and think Thank God, it isn't that bad here yet, you're missing the point.

John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney would rather you didn't understand all the ramifications of this film.

Friday February 11th, 8:00pm
Next Door, right next to the Rio Theater
1205 Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz

BRING blankets, pillows, friends, wine, & food to share for intermission. Donations are greatly appreciated and directly support the project and the Revolutionary Garden Society who sponsors Guerilla Drive-In. (We are currently saving to get a spare projector bulb.)

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is exactly what it sounds like -- an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Guerilla Drive-In is helping reclaim public space and transform our urban environment into the joyful playground it should be.

MORE INFO schedule & do-it-yourself: www.thespoon.com/drivein

BREAKING NEWS: Join our low-volume Guerilla Drive-In announcement list:
guerilla-drive-in-subscribe (at) lists.riseup.net. In fact, that's really the only way you'll find out about Guerilla Drive-In Winter Series movies.

Location:
1205 Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz

Cost: FREE!

Directions: SUBURBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Ocean St., L on Soquel Ave, up to the Rio Theater at 1205 Soquel. Next Door is next door to the theater.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.thespoon.com/drivein

Krank It Up Open

Krank It Up! community bike project will be open on Fridays from 2-5pm. Krank It Up! provides the knowledge and the tools of a full service bicycle shop, minus the capitalism! Krank It Up is run by non paid community volunteers. Everyone is welcome. Krank It Up encourages self education and creativity through hands on learning. The project is funded on donations. Call 222 6927 for more details. Krank it Up is located inside of THE CAMP @ 663 Industrial Dr. at Railroad square

Location:

Hillsborough County Progressive Democrats of America meeting

There will be an organizational meeting of The Hillsborough County, Florida PDA on Friday, February 11, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., at Sacred Grounds Cafe, 4819 East Busch Blvd., Tampa. All progressives and liberals residing in Hillsborough County, whether or not they are registered voters, are encouraged to participate. This will be your opportunity to be a charter member of the group that will work within the Hillsborough County Democratic Party to make it a party of and for the people, and to support progressive issues and candidacies.

For more info about PDA, go to pdamerica.org and pdflorida.org.

Location:
Sacred Grounds Cafe, 4819 East Busch Blvd., Tampa

Cost: Sacred Grounds has a one drink minimum.

Self-Determination for the Palestinian People: The Current Stage of the Struggle

Location:
La Place Shopping Center
1441 E. Fletcher Ave., second floor
Tampa, Florida 33617

Cost: Donation $4./Students, unemployed $2.

Directions: Shopping Center is on southwest corner of 15th and Fletcher Avenue. Park and enter by stairs in rear of building.

Organizer:

Trax night!

We are going to the south end to hang out at Trax. We'll be meeting before hand to carpool. Further details pending.

Location:

Cost: however much you want to drink