Ann Dunham: A Personal Reflection

An article from Anthropology News, written by Dr. Alice Dewey and Dr. Geoffrey White.

news related to our previous panel on Ann Dunham

We organized a panel discussion on the contribution on Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barak Obama, in last September (see previous post). Here are some news related to the conference.

"A woman of the people:A symposium recalls the efforts of Stanley Ann Dunham to aid the poor "(Star Bulletin)

"Obama's mother's work focus of UH seminar" (Honolulu Advertiser)


"Long-range love of Obama’s absent mother" (Times online)

100 years of women at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Link to women's history walking tour at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. This site was created by Dr. Ruth Dawson and her students. Enjoy!

January 30 (Friday) WS Colloquium

Women's Studies Colloquium Series (Spring 2009)
January 30 (Friday) 12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Riding Astride: Self-Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West

By Kristin M. McAndrews (Department of English, UHM)


Abstract

In “Riding Astride: Self Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West,” I will discuss the way in which female identity emerges in a collection of stories I gathered from women who work with horses in Winthrop, Washington, a legally mandated Western theme town. To understand the complex cultural dynamics of these women and the humor they employ in storytelling, I found it necessary to commit myself to this geographic location in order to begin comprehend humor and gender in the American West. I also discovered the need to include my own experience, analyzing my off-centered relationship with the women I interviewed and the community I researched. What resulted from my work was another way in which to consider scholarship of women’s narratives.


Speaker bio: Kristin M. McAndrews is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She works with folklore, oral narratives, auto/biography, humor, tourist and gender studies and culture and cuisine. Most recently, she has researched on the 1850 visits to Paris by Lot Kamehameha and Alexander Liholiho. Working at Bishop Museum and the National Library of France in Paris, she is looking at the ways in which these future rulers of Hawai`i enter and exit the discourse of the Grand Tour, a traditional narrative of upper class European young men.

Spring 2009 Women's Studies Colloquium at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Jan 30 (F) Kristin M. McAndrews (UHM, English)

“Riding Astride: Self-Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West”

Feb 20 (F) Mari Matsuda (UHM, Law School)

“Moving Education from the Public to the Private: A Critical Race Theorist and Feminist Analysis of the School Problem”

Feb 27 (F) Njoroge Njoroge (UHM, History) and Jenn Rose (UHM, Gender Equity Specialist)

“Critical Reflections on Structural Violence: Linking Race and Gender”

--Organized by Collective for Equality, Justice, and Empowerment (CEJE)--

March 13 (F) Yuma Totani (UHM, History)

“Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience”

--Cop-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

March 20 (F) Trina Kudlacek (UHM, Office of Student Athlete Academic Services)

“The Battle of the Sexes in a New Millennium: Examining Sport and Gender”

April 16 (R) Chris Yano (UHM, Anthropology)

“A Japanese in Every Jet”: Gender, Mobility, and Modernity in Postwar Japan

--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies and anthropology department--

*note that this talk is at Moore Hall 319 and starts at 3:00.

April 17 (F) Rumi Yasutake (Konan University)

“Japanese Women's Participation in Transnational Women's Activism, 1870s-1880s”
--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

April 24 (F) Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate capstone presentation

“Feminism, Nationalism and Indigenous Women Writers” by Sarah Smorol

May 1 (F) Ruth Dawson (UHM, Women’s Studies)

“Memory sticks: a backward look at UHM Women's Studies”


12:30-2:00, Saunders 541 unless otherwise noted

Fall 2008 Women's Studies Colloquium at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Sept 12 (F)
“DR. Stanley Ann Dunham: An Extraordinary Woman and Her Work”
Alice Dewey (UHM anthropology), Nancy Cooper (UHM anthropology), and Bron Solyom (Jean Charlot Collection at UHM Library)

Sept 19 (F)
“Sexuality and Ethnicity: Issues from a Philippine Perspective”
Lilia Quindoza Santiago (UHM Indo-Pacific Languages)
co-sponsored with Center for Philippine Studies

Sept 26 (F)
“Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific”
Kathy Ferguson (UHM Women’s Studies and Political Science)
Monique Mironesco (UH West Oahu, Political Science)
co-sponsored with Department of Political Science

Oct 10 (F)
“The Women of Liulichang: Female Collectors and Bibliophiles in Late-Qing China”
Shana Brown (UHM History)
co-sponsored with Center for Chinese Studies

Oct 31 (F)
“'Japanese Eyes, American Heart': Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Japanese American Veterans' WW II Narratives”
Mire Kokari (UHM Women’s Studies)

Nov 14 (F)
“Smoke, Sex, and “Masculine” Women: Tobacco in the Early Modern World”
Matt Romaniello (UHM History)