Upcoming Events

Engaging Hearts and Minds Conference: An Agenda for Global Citizenship Education

Date: April 16-17, 2012

Location: Centennial College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity at Centennial College will be hosting this two day conference that will engage in productive dialogue with a lasting effect on our hearts and minds. The goals of the conference are: to provide a place for academics, people in academic institutions as well as community organizations to be engaged with each other on global issues; to promote dialogue and exchange on global issues; to share ways of getting involved locally, nationally and internationally; and we hope to promote awareness and activism that will benefit our local, national and global communities. For more information, visit the conference website.

Females for Firearms: Observe Open Holster Week

Date: Week of April 16th

As part of Open Holster Week, Females for Firearms, a student organization, will lead a march from the Memorial Union to the Wilkerson Fire Pit at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19.   It will be followed by a bonfire to promote awareness of campus weapon policies and Second Amendment issues in the UND community.

Also, as part of Open Holster Week, which begins April 16, members of the group will wear empty gun holsters on their hips to promote discussion and awareness of campus policies on concealed weapons and gun safety. – Females for Firearms UND.

 

"When Men Speak: Masculinities and Fathering in Millennial Norwegian Literature"

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012

Time: Reception - 4:00 pm; Lecture - 4:30 pm

Location: North Dakota Museum of Art

Melissa Gjellstad, assistant professor and Norwegian Program director in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota, will present the fifth and final lecture of the 2011-2012 Faculty Lecture Series.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Melissa Gjellstad, an assistant professor in the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department and Norwegian Program director, has been a faculty member since 2008. She's also a Graduate School and Gender and Women Studies Program affiliate. Her strong advocacy for Norway's storied culture, the land and its people has resulted in an expansion of the Norwegian Program at UND in her short tenure here.  She has created a thriving program, designing many of the language, literature and culture courses from scratch.

Since taking over the program, the number of students majoring and minoring has doubled. Students studying abroad also have increased.

Gjellstad, a native of Velva, N.D., took her first Norwegian class to fulfill an undergraduate language requirement and following a study-abroad program in Norway at the University of Oslo, her passion was ignited. With curiosity now fueling her interest, she completed a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington in 2004 after finishing her master's there and her bachelor's at Concordia College in Moorhead.

Gjellstad has been recognized for many achievements throughout her professional career; her most recent include: Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2011), Summer First-Year Experience (FYE) Pilot Development Project Award (2011), and the Faculty Star Award (2009). She also received several notable fellowships, some of which include the American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship to research at the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Oslo in Norway (2006), and the Fulbright Fellowship to research at the University of Bergen also in Norway (2002-2003).

Her expertise is in contemporary Scandinavian literature, primarily Norwegian, and the literary representation of motherhood and fatherhood in those texts. Her research focus is on feminist and masculinity theory inform, among other topics. Prior to her arrival at UND, Gjellstad completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where she worked with a team on a project titled "Different Families; an Investigation of Family Understandings in Legal Texts and Literature." Gjellstad has published on several contemporary Norwegian authors.

Gjellstad has earned an international reputation for innovative teaching approaches and research. Last year, she was elected to the advisory board of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, promoting Scandinavian languages, literature, history, culture and society in North America. Gjellstad also launched online beginning Norwegian language classes at UND, the only courses for university credit in this language currently offered online.

Recently, Gjellstad has been instrumental in her planning and coordination of a national traveling exhibit titled "Cold Recall: Reflections of a Polar Explorer," which currently is staged at the UND Chester Fritz Library. The exhibit examines one of the greatest adventures of the early 20th century: the race to the South Pole.

As part of the "Cold Recall" exhibit, Gjellstad worked with others on campus to attract Ann Bancroft, modern-day polar explorer and educator, to UND for a Great Conversation event, which Gjellstad moderated on April 12.

Helpful links:

University Faculty Lecture homepage: http://und.edu/provost/faculty-lecture-series/index.cfm

Melissa Gjellstad's faculty profile: http://und.edu/studyabroad/profiles/faculty-staff/melissa-gjellstad.cfm

NDGLBTQA 2012 Conference

Date: April 20-22, 2012

Location: UND

It is an event full of great speakers (especially our keynote, Kate Bornstein), stimulating workshops, and entertainment. This conference provides a fun and interesting way to learn about diversity and the LGTBQA community.

The conference is free of charge, excluding a $15 fee for the Saturday night event which included a catered dinner (with vegetarian options), a stunning drag show, live music, and a dance.

Registration and more information is available at www.ndglbtqa.org<http://www.ndglbtqa.org/>, and we have a Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ndglbtqa2012> page with updated information as well!

Women & Gender Studies Logo Contest

Deadline: April 30, 2012

The Women and Gender Studies is changing their logo!!! Submit your version of Women and Gender and your logo could be used to represent the Women & Gender Studies Program.  Winner will receive an ample reward (still to be determined).  For more information, please call or email Prof. Kathleen Dixon: 777-4115, kathleen.dixon@email.und.edu or Tom Harlow: thomas.harlow@my.und.edu.  Entries can be submitted to: genderstudies@mail.und.edu.

National Women's Studies Assiociation Scholarship Applications

NWSA Graduate Scholarship

Deadline: May 15, 2012

NWSA will award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall year of the award, will be engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master's Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies.  The research project must be on women and must enhance the NWSA Mission

Lesbian Caucus Award

Deadline: May 15,2012

The purpose of the annual NWSA Lesbian Caucus award is to provide a $500 research award in recognitaion of a Master's Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation research project that resonates with the mission of NWSA and the goals of the Lesbian Caucus.

Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards

Deadline: May 15, 2012

The purpose of the Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist or womanist issues concerning women and girls of color in the United States and the diaspora.  There are four $500 awards available for women of color currently enrolled in a graduate or professioal program and are current members of NWSA.

Applicants must be current 2012 members before the deadline, use the online forms for submission, and meet the requirements as described in each application.  Incomplete application or application without a membership will not be considered.  Forms can be found at www.NWSA.org.

Women's Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War: Moving Across Borders

Date: May 26-28, 2012

Location: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN

The conference is currently accepting proposals for papers and/or panels that deal with the work of women’s organisations or female activists during the period under investigation are invited. For more information about submitting a proposal or about the conference itself, please visit the NWSA conference page.

NWSA Annual Conference "Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future"

Date: November 8-11, 2012

Location: Oakland, CA

For more information visit www.nwsa.org

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