newsletter spring 2002

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Christina Vogt (Rossier School of Education) went to Cuba to present at Havana University on Women, Technology, Gender and Multilateral Agencies. She reports, “we run our website at www.genderwatchers.org (we get about 500 hits per day and send out news to about 30 countries worldwide, including several human right’s groups and women’s organizations).” She will attend the Women's Equality Summit in April and then will be presenting in Uganda for the 8th World's Women Congress on "Establishing A Global Feminist Epistemic Network". Vogt speaks regularly at Society of Women Engineers Meetings to help women struggling in the science and engineering pipeline, as she was a computer scientist/engineer before entering graduate school. Vogt presented the paper she co-authored with Peiying Cheng “Multilateral Organizations, Worldwide Information Technology Projects and Gender” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Alice Marie White (English) gave her paper “Pleasure Disrupted: Little Women” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Liz Willis (History) attended the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference to present her work “Girls into Goddesses: The Manipulation and Commodification of Glamour.”

Eric Blanchard (International Relations) presented his paper “International Relations and the Gendering of Information Technology” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Serena Chou (Comparative Literature) gave her paper “Elegy for the Yellow Butterfly Valley: The Myth of Dam Construction vs. the Reclaiming of Hakka Folk Tradition in Meinung, Taiwan” at the Literature, Eco-Criticism and the Environment conference in Albuquerque which she attended with Gloria Orenstein.

Nzuji H. Z. De Magalhaes (Fine Arts) exhibited her yarn paintings featuring women from Angola “The Stories I remember” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Jennifer Ho (Rossier School of Education) gave her paper “A Non-Formal Education Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Programs for Rural Chinese Women—the Case of Yunnan” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Marci McMahon (English) presented her work “Staging the Domestic in the Museum: The Work of Patssi Valdez” at the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference.

Reina A. Prado (American Studies and Ethnicity) attended the 12th Annual UCLA/USC “Thinking Gender” conference to present her paper “Creating an I/Erotic Myth”.