FALL & WINTER SERIES 2010-2011
Description: The theme of the 2010-2011 Series is Gender, Militarism/Militarization and Violence. This series is meant to broaden our regional focus and to engage with scholars working on these issues in different regions of the world. Our goal is to challenge taken-for-granted assumption and deconstruct essentialist understandings of gender, violence and militarism/militarism –especially when these issues are discussed in the context of regions that are too often “otherized” as particularly violent.
Format: Each session will count with a UBC professor with expertise on the issues raised. The reading sessions are conceived to generate rich discussions among graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members. If you are interested in participating in any of the the reading & discussion sessions, please be prepared to discuss the readings, contribute your knowledge and experience, and engage in a fruitful and friendly conversation with fellow participants.
Light refreshments will be served. Childcare subsidy may be available upon request.
Schedule Fall 2010
1) Thursday October 28: “Gender, Racialization and Violence in Mexico and Guatemala”
Liu Institute, Boardroom, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs
Guest commentator: Dr. Juanita Sundberg (Dept. of Geography)
Readings:
1. Nelson, Diane. (1999). Gendering the Ethnic-National Question: Rigoberta Menchu Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identities In A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala. Pp. 170-205 Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: California University Press.
2. Stephen, Lynn. “The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico” in Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation edited by Mathew C. Gutmann, Félix V. Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen and Patricia Zavella. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
If you want information on how to access the readings, please contact Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan: mariaeva@interchange.ubc.ca or Manuela Valle manola.valle@gmail.com
2) Friday November 19: “Gender, War, and Memory in Columbia”
Liu Institute, Boardroom, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs
Guest commentator: Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (Liu Institute for Global Issues, Dept. of Social Work)
Readings:
1. Theidon, K. (2009). Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia. Human Rights Quarterly, 31(1), 1-34.
2.Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar. (2006) Dwellers of Memory. Youth and Violence in Medellin, Columbia. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers Pp 131-150
Schedule Winter 2011
3) Thursday March 31 : “Gendered Ideologies of Militarism in Chile and Argentina”
Liu Institute, Boardroom, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs
Guest commentator: Dr. Rita de Grandis (Dept. of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies).
Readings:
1. Taylor, Diana. (1997). Chapter 3 “Military Males, ‘Bad’ Women, and a Dirty, Dirty War. In Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ Pp.: 59-89. Durham: Duke University Press.
2. Bunster, Ximena. (1987). Watch out for the Little Nazi Man that all of us have inside: The Mobilization and Demobilization of Women in Militarized Chile. Women’s Studies International Forum. 11 (5): 485-491.
4) Thursday April 28 and Friday April 29: Special events with anthropologist Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University, in attendance
Co-organized with the Transitional Justice Network, Liu Institute for Global Issues.
a) Thursday April 28th, 17:00 -21:00: Film Screening of The Milk of Sorrow followed by an opening reception
Opening comments by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and Manuela Valle (Phd candidates, UBC)
Q&A by Dr. Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University) whose ethnographic work inspired the film
Caseroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
b) Friday April 29th, 11:00-13:00: “Militarized Masculinities, Gender and Transitional Justice”
A conference by Dr Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University) with opening remarks by Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (UBC)
Multipurpose room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
If you have any question, please contact Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan: mariaeva@interchange.ubc.ca