GST 2300 Instructions for Review Papers #1 and #2

These are 3-page papers summarizing and reviewing some university or community presentation, lecture, exhibit or function related to gender.  Paper #1 is due on Thurs. 28 Oct.  Paper #2 is due Thurs 2 Dec.  Some suggested events are listed below.  I will enthusiastically approve others. 

What I�m looking for:

(1)   A clear statement of the argument, purpose or goal of the lecture, exhibit, or function.

(2)  Your thesis or argument about the lecture, exhibit or function (that is, you take a position about what--if anything--this function, exhibit, lecture is good FOR that a reasonable person could disagree with you about).

(3)     Evidence that supports your position.

First, give the basic info�what are you reviewing�time, place, date, exhibit, speaker, etc.

Present / summarize the speaker�s / exhibitor�s project

1.  What is the topic or subject of the exhibit / talk / presentation?  Is it broken down into sub-topics or parts? 

2.  What is the central argument or thesis or purpose of the presentation / exhibit / talk?   Are there more than one?  

3.  What kind of evidence is offered in support of that argument (survey data, interviews, analyses of popular culture, historical documents--letters, diaries, etc.)? 

4.  Who is the desired / imagined audience for this (scholars, activists, housewives, businesspeople, etc.)?

5.  Who funded/sponsored the program/lecture/exhibit and why?  Do you think this shaped the way material is presented?  How/why?

Evaluate the project

6.  Is the purpose/mission/project a worthy one? 

7.  Did the curator/speaker/organizer do a good job of meeting that mission?

8.  Are the central arguments substantiated by the evidence?

 9.  Is the discussion / display clear and easy to follow? 

10. Subjective stuff--was it boring, stimulating?  Did you learn anything?  Would you recommend it to others, and if so, to whom?

11.  Place this in the context of our class readings and discussion.  Did it give new information on a topic or issue we have covered?  Did it offer a competing theory or explanation for a problem we have discussed?

*  Questions above are designed to help you with the PROCESS of writing.  Answer the ones that are relevant / helpful on scratch paper, THEN write the paper in more polished form.  Please don�t just answer the questions in order and turn it in.

*Keep in mind that the thesis or purpose of the exhibit / talk / function you review and YOUR thesis (an argument about the quality and usefulness of it) are two different things.  Be sure that your value judgments about the strengths/weaknesses of it are supported by evidence (examples, quotes, paraphrased comments, etc.).  Remember that this is a review (you evaluate how well it does what it sets out to do and how important that project is) vs. a report (you summarize it). 

Papers should be typed, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins and standard font size.  Please number pages and staple papers in the upper, left-hand corner.  Turn in programs, exhibit maps, tickets (whatever you�ve got) with the paper.  They will be returned. 

You should hand in the paper on the due date in two forms: (1) hard copy to me at the start of class; and (2) an electronic copy to turnitin.com.  Go to www.turnitin.com.  Class number is 3445028.  Password is "mismeasure"

If you are ill or have a family emergency and can document it, I will accept late papers without penalty.  If not, the grade drops one full letter grade for each business day it is late.  E-mailed and fax-ed papers are not acceptable.  Have a 3-min. �rap� about your paper ready to present � what you reviewed, your argument, your most convincing/interesting evidence.  The oral report is ALSO part of your grade (i.e if you don�t do it and do not have a documented, pre-approved excuse, you will lose a letter grade on the paper grade). 

I am WAY more interested in these topics than it is socially acceptable to be.  I would be thrilled to talk about papers, look at outlines, talk about theses, etc. at any point.  E-mail and phone work if in-person does not.  ((972) 883-2338 / [email protected] / Office:  Green 2.208)

Suggested Exhibits / Talks / Functions (more TBA):

Wed. 1 Sept. 7:00pm, Jonsson Performance Hall, Free - Cinematheque: The End of Poverty?

Exploring the history of poverty in developing countries, filmmaker Philippe Diaz contends that today's economic inequities arose as a result of colonization, military conquest and slavery, with wealthier countries seizing the resources of the poor.

Tues. 21 Sept. 4:45 p.m.  Student Union Galaxy Room - Regina Montoya, Attorney and CEO, New America Alliance, "As Latinos go, So Goes America," sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Regina Montoya, a nationally-recognized attorney and community leader, will discuss the impact and importance of the growing Latino population.  This special Hispanic Heritage Month presentation  will focus on the inspirational stories of Hispanic leaders and will provide advice and a blueprint for success for the next generation of America's leaders.
 

Regina Montoya is the Chief Executive officer of the New America Alliance (NAA), promoting the advancement of the Latino community with a focus on economic and political empowerment.  Prior to joining the NAA, she was the Founder and President of WORKSRules, Director of a law firm Godwin and Carlton, P.C. and served in the White House as an Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.  Montoya was a co-chair of the Latino Advisory Committee for KERA-TV (PBS), a regular panelist on PBS's "On the Record" and "Between the Lines," and moderator for the WFAA-TV program "Nuestra Dia."  She has been honored by the Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the U.S., and received the Latina Excellence Award for Leadership from Hispanic Magazine.  Montoya earned her BA from Wellesley college, where she is a member of the board of Trustees, and her JD from Harvard Law School, where she served as Vice President and Elected Director of the Harvard University Alumni Association. 

Thurs. 23 Sept.  5:30 p.m. Mc Dermott Suite MC4.402 -- "Struck by Living:  From Depression to Hope," by Julie Hersch, sponsored by the Gender Studies program and the Women's Center (972) 883-6555

When looking at just the United States alone, about 1.1 million adults have attempted to commit suicide in the past year, and 2.3 million more have a suicide plan just waiting on the back burner.  Julie Hersch became an advocate for mental health awareness in a brave attempt to bring attention to those unheard millions.  Hersh's Struck by Living  is her own brutally honest narration of her personal struggles through a period of clinical depression.   

Wed. 6 Oct., 2 p.m., UTD Conference Center, Rear Admiral Clara H. Cobb, Regional Health Administrator, Public Health Service, Region IV, title TBA, sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Rear Admiral Clara Cobb, RN, MSN BSN, FNP serves as the principal federal public health leader, reporting directly to the Assistant Secretary for Health.  She provides executive level leadership in policy development, planning, implementation and evaluation of public health programs and directs five regionally based programs designed to protect and promote the health of all communities within the eight southeastern states. 

Thurs. 7 Oct., 5:30 p.m., McDermott Suite, MC4.402 "The Psychological Transition to Motherhood and Perinatal Depression," by Anna R. Brandon.  Sponsored by the Gender Studies Program and the Women's Center (972) 883-6555.

Anna R. Brandon is a licensed clinical psychologist and currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Women's Mental Health Center of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.  She specializes in mood and anxiety disorders occurring across women's reproductive events.  Dr. Brandon was the recipient of the 2010 March of Dimes Young Scholar Award in Perinatal Bioethics for the paper, "Ethical Barriers to Perinatal Mental Health Research and Evidence Based Treatment:  An Empirical Study"

Thurs. 14 Oct., 2 p.m. Student Union Galaxy Room, SU2.602, Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of business at Dartmouth, title TBA.  Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Bell served on the faculties of Yale University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College, MIT, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  She was also present of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.  Dr. Bell served as Founder and President of ASCENT:  Leading Multicultural Women to the Top; Advisory Board Chairperson, Working Mother Media; and Advisory Board  Member, National Women's Leadership Summit on the White House Project.  In 2003, Bell answered readers' questions about work and money in an Essence Magazine column entitled "working it."  her book, "Our Separate Ways:  Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity," has been widely acclaimed in the U.S.  She earned her BA from Mills College of Education, her MA from Columbia University, and a PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. 

Oct. 19-31, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Theatre Division, The Secretaries by The Five Lesbian Brothers, directed by Jim Crawford.

 A satiric exploration of the truths and myths of female bonding within a murderous cult of Slim-Fast drinking, high-heel wearing, big-haired secretaries working in the front office of a lumber mill in Big bone, Oregon.  The Brothers are the recipients of an Obie Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie"), a GLAAD Media Award, and a New York Press Award as Best Performance group. 

http://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasOfStudy/Theatre/OurSeason.aspx

Fri. 29 Oct., 3-4 p.m., place TBA.  Prof. Yuval Yonay, University of Haifa, Israel.  "The Gay Melting Pot:  The Encounter of West and East and the Construction of Gay Identity in Mandatory Palestine and Israel." 

Yuval Yonay got his PhD at Northwestern University in1991 and has taught since 1993 at the University of Haifa.  He published a book and articles on the history and epistemic culture of Mainstream economics and on Israeli Palestinians' status in the Israeli labor market.  During the 1990s Yuval was active in the Haifa GLBT organization and he belongs to the first generation of Israeli scholars studying and writing on GLBTq issues.  This year Yuval is a visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley, where he plans to write a book on the gay history of Israel. 

This presentation is based on in-depth interviews with several dozen gays interviewed in the early 2000s when they were 70 years-old or older.  Yonay uses their stories to show how they remember their encounters with the "others" and how a Western gay identity and culture has been learned in these encounters.  He will discuss how the gay culture of Israel is similar to that found in the big metropolises of the West and how local cultures have created unique variants of gay identity. 

Wed. 3 Nov., 2 p.m. Student Union Galaxy Room SU2.602, Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum, Texas Southern University, Title TBA.  Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement. 

Wardlaw was previously Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.  She is also a member of the Scholarly Advisory council of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and a co-founder of the National Alliance of African and African American Art Support Group.

Wardlaw is one of the country's leading experts in African American art and is well known for her exhibitions on Houston artist John Biggers and "Black Art Ancestral Legacy:  The African Impulse in African American Art," furthering appreciation and recognition of African American accomplishments in the visual arts.  Her exhibition on "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," a collection by outstanding Alabama quilters, claimed the 2003 International Association of Art Critics Award.  She earned her BA in art history from Wellesley college, an MA in art history from NYU Institute of Fine Arts, and became the first African American to receive the PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Nov. 5 - Dec. 5, Rain by Regina Taylor, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Dallas Theater Center

www.DallasTheaterCenter.org

Thursday 11 Nov., 4:00 p.m., McCord Auditorium (Dallas Hall 306), SMU, "Islam and Power in Colonial India:  the Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Prince(ss)" by Dr. Barbara Metcalf.

Dr. Metcalf is current President of the American Historical Association.

Shah Jehan Begum, the Muslim woman ruler of the princely state of Bhopal in colonial India, was a prolific author and poet.  She also sponsored an impressive array of architectural and urban planning works.  Dr. Metcalf will discuss the Begum of Bhopal's entanglements with the colonial government, which tried to marginalize her as a ruler and accused her consort of plotting "jihad." 

Nov. 13 - Dec 11 (Thurs - Sat at 8 p.m., Wed. 11/24 and 12/8 at 8 p.m., Sun 11/21, 11/28, and 12/5 at 2 p.m.) CHARM  by Kathleen Cahill, Kitchen Dog Theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau get knocked off their respective pedestals by free spirit Margaret Fuller. Magical, surreal, and transcendentally goofy, Charm has been captivating audiences around the country with its humorous look at societal expectations and the ridiculous rules of love.  Celebrating the bicentennial year of feminist icon Margaret Fuller's birth!

Any time: 

The Women�s Museum, Fair Park, Dallas, www.thewomensmuseum.org

*  see also their calendar of special events:  http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/womens_museum/newsevents/NWS_calendar.asp

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, http://www.cowgirl.net/

Mary Kay Museum, Addison

*also check programming sponsored by UTD�s Multicultural Center or additional programs sponsored by the Women�s Center or Homage