Men and Feminism Photos

More photos from our second symposium, Men and Feminism. Thanks again to Patrick for uploading these!

Feminism and Sexuality Photos

Here are some photos from our first symposium, Feminism and Sexuality. You can click on the thumbnails to view the larger pictures. Thank you to Patrick for providing us with these!

Men and Feminism Flyers

New flyers for our upcoming Men and Feminism colloquium event on March 27, 2007 at 5 pm in the basement lounge of Anne Arundel Hall, University of Maryland, College Park. See this post for more details. Please help us advertise this event by informing friends, family, classmates, and anyone you think will be interested in gender issues! Below are two fliers you can help pass out to give people more information (or direct them to this site).

Feminism Now Teaser Flyer

Men & Feminism Flyer

If you have any trouble with Adobe Acrobat, just leave a comment and I will be happy to convert them to image files for you.

Minority and Women's Health Policy Opportunity

Interested in policy reform? Think you have no power because you're just a student? Think again. The Roosevelt Institution is the nation's first student think tank, aiming to put your policy ideas and research into the hands of our leaders at both the local and national level . UMD's upcoming chapter of the Roosevelt Institution will include centers of research related to Minority and Women's Health, Climate Change, Pharmaceutical Ethics, Education, and other potential areas that YOU find interesting. Sign up and get involved to make real change happen. If you are interested in health issues relating to women and minority populations, contact Cara Chervin at carachervin@gmail.com. If you are interested in learning more about what work you can do with the Roosevelt Institution, contact Alex Lessin, President, at alessin@umd.edu.

Second Symposium

"Men & Feminism: A conversation about identity, activism and the trouble with gender"

Hosted by the Honors Humanities Gender Caucus

March 27, 2007 @ 5 pm

Anne Arundel Hall, Basement Lounge

Please join us for the second event in the Feminism Now discussion series, hosted by the Honors Humanities Program's Gender Caucus. This event will feature a panel of University of Maryland faculty and graduate students discussing their identification as and relationship with the contested term "feminist." As men committed to social justice and equality, what roles do identity and power play in fostering solidarity and alliances across boundaries of sex, gender and race? How does sexuality complicate identification as a feminist man? How does one "become" a feminist man? How does such an identity change over space and time? Join us for a challenging and exciting conversation -- bring your thoughts, your experiences and your questions. As with all events in this series, we hope to focus less on academic theory and more on practice and activism, especially the ways in which "traditional" academics can find and create outlets for their activist work.

Featuring:

Angel David Nieves, PhD (Assistant Professor, Historic Preservation; Director of Graduate Research and Training, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity)

Anthony Hatch (Doctoral Candidate, Sociology)

Justin Maher (PhD Student, American Studies)

Moderated by Patrick Grzanka (Co-Director, Honors Humanities and advisor to the Gender Caucus)

Food and refreshments will be served.

More information is available at www.honorshumanities.umd.edu

National Conference of Organized Resistance

The tenth annual NCOR is a conference that anyone interested in social change and activism should seriously consider attending. It will be held the weekend of March 9th on the campus of American University in Washington, DC, with workshops, music, tables, and lots of discussion.

If you plan on attending the conference, we strongly recommend that you register first. It saves you money and it helps us tremendously in planning and logistics. We cannot guarantee space to anyone who does not register in advance. There are three easy ways to register this year:

1) Go to the website, www.organizedresistance.org, and click on "Registration." Submit the form and mail your check (for $2 less than the price at the door!) to the address on the website.

2) Repeat option 1, but instead of the check-in-the-mail, pay when you arrive at the conference.

3) Register and pay in person at the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop at 1426 9th St NW, Washington D.C.

We are also in need of volunteers! Not only do we need lots of help during the conference to run registration, set up and clean up, hand out food, and other jobs, we also need help making food at the Maryland Food Co-Op the week before the conference. If you are interested in helping out, having fun, and getting a spiffy t-shirt for your time, check out the volunteers page on the website (www.organizedresistance.org/volunteers.php) and let us know.