Re-Entry/Non-Traditional Student Coffee Hours

Wednesday, September 24 – Friday, September 26
8:30 – 10:00 am
Reception / Re-Entry Non-Traditional Student Resource Center
Student Resource Building Rm 1109
This is your wake up call for Fall Quarter! Come enjoy a cup of coffee or tea while meeting other re-entry and non-traditional students in a friendly, relaxed setting in the resource center. The coffee hours provide a unique opportunity to get acquainted with UCSB’s resources and to talk with UCSB staff members who work with re-entry students. This is also the chance for you to offer your suggestions on how we can better serve the needs of re-entry and non-traditional students and their families. Feel free to bring children and other family members. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Election 2008

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
Propositions: The Pros & Cons
Monday, October 13 • 5 pm
Voter Education/SRB MultiPurpose Room
The League of Women Voters presentation will present the facts about the twelve propositions that will appear on California State ballots this November. While examining the statements that the supporters and opponents are making about these measures, the League talk will be impartial and nonpartisan. After hearing this information, the audience will be better prepared to make an informed decision about their vote.

TEATRO CHICANA:

A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Thursday, October 16 • 6:30 pm
Reading and Book Signing / MultiCultural Center Lounge
The 1970’s and 1980’s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theater group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were part of the Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral and Teatro Raíses) come together to share why they joined the theatre and how it transformed their lives. Co-sponsored with Chicana/o Studies and MultiCultural Center

MANGOS WITH CHILI

the floating cabaret of queer and trans POC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares
The 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour
Friday, October 17 • 8 pm
Performance/MultiCultural Center Theater
Using theater, spoken word, drag, dance and performance art to tell stories of class, survival, desire, dreams, color, and trans, femme, and genderqueer identities that span Sri Lanka to Aztlan to the Phillippines to the Caribbean; to Brooklyn to migrant small town Washington state, Mangos With Chili launches The 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour over Columbus Day weekend. This tour features new works addressing themes of border transgressions, migrations, deportations, relocation, displacement, legacy, and the struggle to create new worlds. Co-presented with the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies

DIANE ACKERMAN
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Sunday, October 19 • 3 pm
Book Talk/Campbell Hall
Diane Ackerman, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, received the 2008 Orion Book Award for The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. This ground breaking work of nonfiction recounts the story—as powerful as Schindler’s List—of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who saved over 300 doomed Jewish refugees and Polish resistance fighters by hiding them in the bombed-out cages of the Warsaw Zoo. Courtesy of Borders, copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing at this event. Presented in partnership with Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, and others.

“This is What Democracy Looks Like!”

Thursday, October 23 • 4 – 6 pm
Art Opening/Women’s Center Art Gallery
October 23 – December 5
Art Exhibit/Women’s Center Art Gallery
In recognition of the significant factors associated with the 2008 presidential election, and the increasing numbers of candidates from previously under-represented populations at all levels of government, this exhibition addresses the changing faces and principles in the political arena. Do your elected officials represent you? Do they look like you? How does this make you feel? These images are the expressions of local artists’ political perspective in light of these changing demographics.

Santa Barbara Reads Featured Author

MARILYNNE ROBINSON
An Evening with the Author of Gilead, Housekeeping and Home
Fri, October 24 • 7:30 pm
Victoria Hall Theater, 33 W. Victoria Street
In 2005, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead introduced thousands of enthralled readers to the luminous voice of protagonist John Ames. Now, Robinson’s companion novel to Gilead, Home, transpires concurrently in the same locale and the home of Ames’ closest friend, in a moving work about families, family secrets, and the passing of generations. Robinson will read from her hauntingly beautiful new novel, a moving meditation on family and forgiveness, and answer audience questions.
Co-presented with Santa Barbara Public Library’s “Santa Barbara Reads” program, this fall featuring Marilynne Robinson’s book Housekeeping.Books will be available for purchase and signing. Co-sponsored with Arts & Lectures.

Academic Job Market #5: Non-Tenure Track Jobs for PhDs

BARBARA HERR HARTHORN, ZIA ISOLA and MARISELA MARQUEZ
Wednesday, April 30 - 3:30pm
Workshop / Women’s Center Conference Room
You finished the PhD or will in a few months. The stories you’ve heard about life as a professor and the academic job market leave you unsure if you want to pursue the tenure track. Or, you just don’t want to endure another year looking for a tenure track position. Barbara Herr Harthorn, former director of ISBER, Zia Isola, Diversity Coordinator for Graduate Division, and Marisela Marquez, Executive Director of Associated Students will discuss other options.

Welcoming New Women to UCSB
Monday, October 27 • 2:30- 4 pm
Reception/Women’s Center Library
Come join Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, and the UCSB Women’s Center for this annual reception welcoming new women administrators, faculty, dissertation scholars, and staff to the UCSB community. Stop by to meet the newly arrived, renew friendships and conversations with colleagues, and exchange ideas and experiences as the new academic year gets into full swing. Enjoy a delectable choice of sweet and savory treats. Introductions will begin at 3 pm.
Co-sponsored with Office of the Chancellor and Office of Executive Vice Chancellor.

Faculty Lecture

PEI-TE LIEN
The Emergence of Women of Color as Political Leaders
Tuesday, October 28 • 5 pm
Lecture / Women’s Center Conference Room
Although the term “women of color” literally refers to all groups of women who share the attribute of being nonwhite, it was, for many years, synonymous with Black women because of their pioneering and leadership role in expanding the concept of feminist ideology beyond white women. Using a first-of-a-kind survey that includes over 500 women of African American, Latino, Asian American, and American Indian descent (as well as over 800 men of color) who served as popularly elected officials at state and local levels nationwide in 2006–7, this research explores the extent to which the perspectives and experiences of Black women represent the experiences of other women of color in the United States in their pursuits for public office.

MAYRA SIRIAS

Nicaraguan Women Against Violence
Thursday, October 30 • 11 am
Lecture/ Embarcadero Hall 1100
Mayra Sirias is a member of the coordinating body of Nicaragua’s Red de Mujeres en Contra a la Violencia (Network of Women Against Violence) and an attorney. She will share her personal experiences as a dedicated activist as an advocate for policies to end domestic and sexual violence; reproductive rights including those that specifically pertain to abortion and LGBT rights; and feminist movement building throughout Central America and internationally.
Co-sponsored with Feminist Studies.

MEET THE FILMMAKER

Black./womyn.:conversations with lesbians of African descent
Wednesday, November 12 • 6 pm
Film Screening and Discussion/MultiCultural Center Theater
A groundbreaking and highly important documentary, black./womyn.:conversations with lesbians of African descent finally gives voice to a potent and diverse community ignored by the mainstream media. Eager to address this deficit in representation as a queer black woman herself, up-and-coming Philly based filmmaker Tiona M. interviewed 49 “out” black lesbians between the ages of 18 and 60 to describe their experience in a world that rejects unconventionality. Fraught with both agonizing honesty and joyous personal celebration, this extraordinary work is a remarkably balanced dialogue about what it means to meet the triple challenge of race, gender and sexuality head-on in order to become one’s authentic self. Tiona M. will facilitate a conversation following the screening.
Co-sponsored with MultiCultural Center

An Evening with Maureen Dowd

Wed, November 19 • 7:30 pm
Lecture/Campbell Hall
$15 / $10 UCSB students, Arts & Lectures ticket office, 893-3535
Known for her witty, incisive and often acerbic portraits of the powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winner Maureen Dowd, the only female op-ed columnist at The New York Times, became a media celebrity for her withering attacks on President Bill Clinton’s infamous affair and his accusers. A former Glamour Woman of the Year, Dowd’s distinguished news career spans more than three decades from sports columnist to metropolitan reporter and feature writer to White House correspondent and author of the bestsellers Bushworld – Enter at Your Own Risk and Are Men Necessary? – When Sexes Collide.

Generously supported by Meg & Dan Burnham. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Co-sponsored with Arts & Lectures.

A Conversation With the Author

ADINA NACK
Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Monday, December 1 • 5 pm
Book Talk/Flying A Room, UCen
In recognition of World AIDS Day, we present this program to address the positive ways in which we can lead healthy sexual lives by removing the stigma associated with sexually transmitted diseases. How do chronic STDs like herpes and HPV affect how individuals see themselves as sexual beings and how they make decisions about their future? All too many of us are faced with this healthcare dilemma and wonder in isolation how to manage. Dr. Adina Nack will discuss her new book, Damaged Goods? (Temple University Press), and explain why STD-infected women often question their ability to have happy relationships and healthy children. Dr. Nack will also address the facts and fiction around the marketing of the Gardasil vaccine. A book signing will follow her talk.

Co-sponsored with Health Education in Student Health Services, including Sex & Relationship and Wellness programs.
ACADEMIC JOB MARKET SERIES will be announced later in the quarter, please check in at the Women’s Center for more information, 893-3778, Student Resource Building, room 1220.