Program
of Events
- February
19th (Wed): Teaching Nickel and Dimed brown bag featuring
Denise Albanese, Byron Hawk, Lorna Irvine and Peggy Yocom. Come share your
ideas on ways to present this book in the classroom. Free lunch provided at
this event! 12:00-1:30, Robinson A447.
- April 9th
(Wed): Multi-Disciplinary Panel Discussion on Nickel and Dimed featuring
Peter Boettke (Economics), Mike O' Malley (History), Mark Jacobs (Sociology),
Julie Mahler (Public and International Affairs), Barbara Melosh (English)
and Claire Snyder (Public and International Affairs). 5:55-7:10, Lecture
Hall One.
- March 6th
(Thur)(date still tentative): Film Screening: Real Women Have Curves.
A popular contemporary movie directed by Patricia Cardoso that features
working women as central characters. (The advertising blurb for the movie
runs as follows: "Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living
in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Because she is a
talented writer, a caring teacher urges her to apply to college. Ana secretly
is excited about the possibility, but her overbearing and hypercritical mother
Carmen insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working
in her sister's sewing factory. When a crisis arises at the factory, it seems
as if Ana's fate is unhappily sealed, but her indomitable will to reach beyond
a sweatshop life eventually leads her to burst, defiant and resplendent, through
every restriction on her life." See www.realwomenhavecurves.com
for more information.) Time TBA, Johnson Center Cinema.
- April 3rd
(Thur): Lecture: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, author of Sweatshop
Warriors: Immigrant Worker Women Take on The Global Factory. Louie
has devoted over three decades to empowering Women of Color, immigrant women
workers, and grassroots Asian communities. Her book, Make Room for the
Pinata-Busters: Asian and Mexican Immigrant Women Workers and Their Organizations
(South End Press, 2001), features the stories of Chinese, Mexican, and Korean
women grassroots leaders in "bleeding edge" anti-sweatshop and anti-corporate
movements for justice. For more information, go to: www.coloredgirls.org/about_board.html
(Text and Community is a sponsor of this event which is being presented by
the Women's Studies Research and Resource Center and the Office of Diversity
Programs.)Time and location TBA.