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• Mentoring Spaces.
Informal meetings which began in 2007 continued through the beginning of 2008. We used the ilearn.ucr.edu portal to create a treasure trove of information on work/family balance issues in the academy, steps to publishing, surviving and thriving to tenure etc. This has been useful to faculty across the college and to colleagues in other institutions as well. Please contact Tammy Ho or Piya Chatterjee if you would like to access this site.
• A Permanent Office.
CWiC now has its own office in the INTN second floor WMST suite. We shifted out of our temporary digs at the Center for Ideas and Society and remain deeply grateful to CIS’s generosity in sharing that space with us. We now have a working office and hang-out space. Many thanks to Kris King and Renee DeGuire who facilitated the move-in. Please come and check it out!
• Talks, Lectures and Panels.
We co-sponsored several events on campus. These included Native and U.S. women of color veterans speaking about militarization; Betita Martinez, the eminent Chicana activist speaking about her life’s work, Amrita Basu talking about gender politics and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, as well as discussions about the politics of midwifery.
We were delighted to support the work of colleagues and allies in Media and Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Chicano Student Programs, Religious Studies, English, Center for Ideas and Society, History, Labor Studies, Mujeres Unidas and M.E.Ch.A de UCR.
[ Amrita Basu's "Why Women are to Movements..." ] (Word Doc)
[ Setsu Shigematsu's "Embedded Elsewhere" ] (PDF)
[ Elizabeth Betina Martinez's "La Mujer Vencera" ]
[ Chikako Takeshita's "Business of Being Born" ] (Word Doc)
[ Lan Duong's "Crossing Boundaries" ]
• Conferences and Workshops.
CWiC was proud co-sponsor of a film festival and conference organized by Board members, Lan Duong (Media and Cultural Studies) and Tammy Ho (WMST). “The Supernatural in Southeast Asian Studies” was held in Fall, 2008. A second conference, Agent Orange, will take place at the California Museum of Photography. Co-organized by CWiC board member Lan Duong (Media and Cultural Studies), Christina Schwenkel (Anthropology) and David Biggs (History). CWiC is also building links with the regional Gender and Sexualities Studies Consortium and will be co-hosting a Queer Pedagogies and GSSC meeting in May 2009.
[ The Supernatural Conference ]
[ Agent Orange Conference ]
[ Queer Pedagogies and GSS Consortium ]
• The Ya Basta Editorial Collective.
CWiC has also supported a publication initiative which is putting together an anthology of creative writing by womyn and non-gender conforming people of color about militarization, violence and war. The manuscript, of primarily poems, will be going into production in 2009. The editorial collective includes Ching-In Chen (Grad Student, Creative Writing), Sarah Grant (GS, Anthropology), Sonia Valencia (WMST major), Edith Vasquez (Faculty, Pitzer College) and Piya Chatterjee (WMST, CWiC Board). If you are interested in our work, please contact yabastacollective@gmail.com
• Governing/Advisory Board for 2007-2008:
The following colleagues have been invited to participate as Board members for this coming year. They include: Lan Duong (FVC/WMST); Tracy Fisher (WMST); Sheila Givens (GS, Sociology); Tammy Ho(WMST); Kris King (WMST); Laura Lozon (CIS); Priya Srinivasan (Dance); Chikako Takeshita (WMST); Jane Ward (WMST); and Piya Chatterjee (WMST).
CWiC thanks Amy Nguyen ('09) for her generous volunteer work during Winter and Spring 2009. This included updating the website.
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