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