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Spring 2012

Department Meetings-
          Tuesday, January 24th (Day 1) - 4:15 pm, Quad 268
          Tuesday, February 21st (Day 3)- 4:15 pm, Murray 003
          Tuesday, March 20th (Day 6)- 4:15 pm, Quad 268
          Tuesday, April 17th (Day 5)- 4:15 pm, Murray 003

Thursday Forum- Family Education of the Hmong/Miao Communities in Minnesota and Southwest China
Faith Xiong & Sophia Geng
 Thursday, February 9th (Day 1)- 4:15 pm, Gorecki 204C - CSB
Comparing and contrasting the importance of family education, as a way to hold the unique Hmong/Miao identity, between the Hmong in Minnesota and the Miao in Southwest China after years of diasporas.

Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter - former Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State
"Women & Foreign Policy: How Women-Centric Policy Benefits Us All"
Thursday, February 9th (Day 1)-  7:00 pm, Gorecki 204A, CSB

Thursday Forum- Pain, Loss, and Harm in Transnational Adoption:  Implications for Maternal Practice
Dr. Jean Keller
Thursday, February 16th (Day 6)- 4:15 pm, Gorecki President's Conference Room, CSB
Loss is frequently addressed in the adoption literature and adoptee memoirs often relate stories full of pain. But there's little or no discussion of harm and no discussion of the relation among the three. In this paper I develop a philosophical account of the nature of the harms associated with transnational adoption, focusing on S. Korean adoption in particular. While some harms are intrinsic to transnational adoption and others are best addressed by changes in international and domestic laws, my aim is to identify and describe those harms that are at least in part the result of a failure of adoptive maternal practice. By developing this account of harm, my goal is to provide the normative basis for grounding an account of the goals of trans(national/racial) adoptive maternal practice. In this paper I argue that often the needs of adoptees run counter to the interests/wishes/desires of adoptive parents. This mismatch surely is partially responsible for the harms that adoptees experience and complicates the process of motivating adoptive parents to develop more effective childrearing practices. Hopefully, developing a clearer account of the nature of these harms, coupled with a description of the goals of trans(national/racial) adoptive maternal practice, will help address this problem.

 

Lisa Cahill - Gender and the Church
"Gender, Feminism, and the Catholic Tradition" 
Thursday March 22nd (Day 2) - 7:30 pm, Gorecki 204A, CSB

Michelle Garvey- Feminism and Climate Change/Environmental Justice
"Restoring Ecological Livability in a Climate of Uncertainty: Feminist Approaches to Climate Change-Induced 'New Natures'"
Wednesday, March 28th (Day 6)- 4:15 pm CSB, Location TBA

Ruth Milkman- Gender and Work
"Gender and Labor"
Wednesday, April 11th (Day 1)- 7:30 pm, Gorecki 204A, CSB

Michael Kimmel- Men's Studies
"Guyland"
Monday, April 16th (Day 4)- 7:30 pm, Quad 264, SJU

Institute for Women's Leadership Events Spring 2012

Upcoming Gender Conferences