Are you interested in pursuing a career in a nonprofit or other kind of social change organization? Do you want to cultivate new professional and personal skills? Are you curious about the relationship between the theories that you are learning about in the classroom and the "real world?"
If yes, the WGS Intership is for you.
Semester: Spring 2020
Course: Spring Graduate Course: WGS Internship (WGS 601/WGS 602)
When: Monday 3:30 - 6:20, Dr. Lisa Levenstein
Who: Open to all UNCG Graduate Students
Contact: Questions: please contact Dr. Lisa Levenstein: levenstein@uncg.edu
The WGS internship involves a 3-credit course (WGS 601) in which students perform internship hours at a community agency or nonprofit and a 3-credit course (WGS 602) in which they come together with other students to discuss their experiences in their placements, read articles about feminism and social change, and produce written work that probes the nexus between their internship and their academic learning. The two-credit sequence serves as a culminating experience for WGS MA students and is open to students in any other program or department in consultation with the instructor.
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This course invites students to engage with Latin American intellectuals' and activists' ideas about women, gender, and sexuality from the first decades of the 20th century until now. From a positionality of decolonial feminism and recognizing De Sousa Santos' idea that "there is no social justice without global cognitive justice" (Epistemologies of the South) this course hopes to serve as a starting point of inquiry on the rich history of modern feminist and queer thought in Latin America.
We will study the history of feminism in the region from the beginning of the twentieth century, where a debate around the status of women and gender roles emerges across the continent from diverse groups such as anarchists, socialists and suffragists, to our current century, where feminism engages with transfeminism, decolonial discourses and queer/cuir studies. Finally, we will look at the intersection between current ideas regarding women, indigenous, poor and trans bodies as targets of state, institutional and social violence and the massive protests and multimedia campaigns that are defying patriarchal, conservative states and elites in Latin America.
Semester: Spring 2020
Course: WGS 760
Professor: Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt
When: Tuesdays 4:00pm - 6:50pm
Historical Time Frame: 1900 - Present
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Distinguished Alumna Lecture
"Rediscovering a Lost Art Form: Women's Poetic Recitation with Music"
Professor Wilson Kimber will present her research on the lost musical art of elocution, widely practiced by women in 19th-century America and Europe. Fun fact: Albertine Zehme, the woman who commissioned and first performed the modernist icon Pierrot lunaire, was an elocutionist!
When: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at 4:00pm
Where: Music Building, room 221
Presenter: Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology, University of Iowa
Sponsor: UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts Distinguished Alumna in Music for 2019
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HELS (Harriet Elliott Lecture Series) - Fall 2019
Just Futures
Equity & Sustainability
- Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at 6:30pm - 8pm at Sullivan 200 : "From PCBs to Coal Ash: Environmental Justice in North Carolina," Panel Discussion: Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Bobby Jones, Naeema Mohammed, Dr. Louie Rivers, and Moderator: Dr. Anthony Ladd
- Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 at 6-8pm at Bryan 111 : "Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice," Panel Discussion: Alicia Leecee Jones (community liaison, Town of Princeville, NC), Mentzie Abdul Rahman (BSW student, Social Work, NC A&T), Rev. David Fraccaro, Esmeralda Mendez (BSW Alumna, UNCG / MSW student, UNC Charlotte), Dr. Meredith Powers, Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith, and Moderator: Dr. Marcia Hale
- Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 at 1:30pm - 3pm at Faculty Center : "Rachel Carson & Environmental Justice in North Carolina," Dr. Robert Musil
- Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 at 5-7pm at Music 217 : "Saving the Songwood: Global Consumption, Sustainability, & Value," Alex Smith & Tijan Dorwan
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Patient No More
People with disabilities securing civil rights
In April of 1977, protesters occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to push lawmakers into protecting civil rights for persons with disabilities. Come see the travelling exhibit in remembrance of the long fight for Disability Rights this Fall at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
When: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 - Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 : Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Discussion Panel: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at 2:30pm-4:30pm
Where: International Civil Rights Center and Museum
Contact: For any questions or concerns please email uncgpnm@gmail.com
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Battling Bigotry focuses on developing innovative techniques to identify, prevent, counteract, and remediate communication that targets under-served and marginalized populations and exploits their vulnerability. The course is organized around different population groups and the major communication strategies that are employed to fuel their oppression. The overall objective is to build resilience by resisting and responding to oppressive communications with the research teams involved in the NCA Center for Communication, Community Collaboration, and Change "Cultivate Resilient Communities" grant project.
Semester: Spring 2020
Courses: CST 400x, section 1: Battling Bigotry ; CST 600x, section 1: Battling Bigotry
When: Tuesday 5:30pm - 8:20pm
Instructor: Dr. Roy Schwartzman, Shoah Foundation Institute International Teaching Fellow
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