events 2003-2004

Margaret Cho "Cho Revolution" tour stop | Raina Lee "Gaming Journalism is Boring, So Do Your Own Instead! Creating 1-Up, a Feminist Video Game Culture Zine" | Ann Kaneko "Overstay" | Nadera Shalhoub Kervorkian "Women, Culture, and the Law in the Middle Eastern Countries" | Marsha Kinder, Mark Harris and Kristy Kang on their video game "Runaways" | Alex Juhasz Dear Gabe | Walter Williams "History of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement" | Judith Halberstam "Dude, Where's My Gender?" | Felicia Luna Lemus Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties | Yvonne Venegas "The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California" | Niko Besnier "Silenced Discourse of Attachment among Transgender Tongans" | Raina Lee zine making workshop | Lois Banner Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle | Tania Modeleski on the sexploitation films of Doris Wishman | Maria Lepowsky "Copra Boats and Crepe-de-Chine: Gendered Travels in the Coral Sea" | Sharon Sekhon "The Origins of the Los Angeles Anti-Myth: Navigating a Mediated Landscape" | Michael du Plessis "Unearthly: Empire and Virtuality in Postcolonial Women's Fiction" | Ann Tickner "Difficult Conversations: Feminisms Meet International Relations" | Diana York Blaine "'They're for Me': Why Smart Women Get Breast Implants" | Laura Shamas "A Friend In Deed: Issues of Female Mentorship in 21st Century Pop Culture" | Tiffany Lopez "'How Low Will Lopez Go?': Navigating the Footpaths and Bridges of Chicana Feminist Research, Pedagogy, and Programming" | Connie Rogers "Christine Jorgensen: The Private Life of a Celebrity Transsexual"

special programs 2003-2004: the 13th Annual USC/UCLA Graduate Student "Thinking Gender" Conference

CFR co-sponsorships 2003-2004: Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp "Performing Protest: Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret" | Ruth Behar "Adio Kerida" (Goodbye, Dear Love) | Carol Adams "The Sexual Politics of Meat" |Charlotte Brundson "Do Feminsits Keep Writing the Same Article About Women and TV?" | Virginia Scharff "Man and Nature! Sex Secrets of Environmental History" | Lisa Bitel " Gender in the Land: The Religious Geography of 6th-Century Ireland" | Isao Takahata | Animation and the Contemporary Japanese Imagination | Tricia Rose "Black Women's Sexuality and the Possibilities for Intimate Justice"|

partnering organizations during 2003-2004 include the Women's Student Assembly; the Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender Student Assembly; USC Center for Women and Men; the Graduate Student Feminist Network; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; USC Critical Studies Program; USC Center for Visual Anthropology; USC Center for Interdisciplinary Research; USC Sociology Department; USC Annenberg Center; USC Annenberg School for Communication; USC English Department; USC Anthropology Department; USC Program in American Studies and Ethnicity; USC Program in African American Studies Program; the New Feminist Council