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Upcoming Events Throughout the year, WRIN sponsors events that provide a forum for scholars to talk about their research with university colleagues, students, and community members. |
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Join us in celebrating WRIN's Tenth Anniversary, Open House Reception, Marjorie Barrick Museum Wed. October 14, 4-6 pm click here to view the invitation Fall 2009 Gender Research Series [first Wednesdays] Barbara Roth, Engendering Prehistoric Households in the Southwest Wed. Oct 7, Noon, CBC-B225A Gender was a major structuring principle of household organization in the Mimbres River Valley of southwestern New Mexico. Yet, given that the houses were occupied over 1000 years ago, it is sometimes difficult to "find" gender roles and gender interaction in these houses. Roth discusses the challenges of reconstructing gender in the past as well as the insights to be gained about households with a gendered viewpoint. Barbara Roth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology & Ethnic Studies. Her research interests in gender have focused on the activities of women and men at prehistoric sites. She is now investigating gender roles and gender relations in prehistoric households, including a current excavation of a large pithouse village in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico.
Ann Cammett, The Status of Incarcerated Women in the State of Nevada Wed. Nov 4, Noon, CBC-B225A This talk will focus on the status of incarcerated women in the state of Nevada. The presentation will feature the work of the students of Boyd Law School's Family Justice Clinic, which will explore the particular concerns of women involved in the criminal justice system. Ann Cammett is an Associate Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law. After graduating from the City University of New York School of Law, she worked with the Legal Aid Society of New York representing formerly incarcerated women facing civil consequences from criminal convictions. She also served as a policy analyst and assisted with the development of model programs to facilitate more positive prisoner reentry outcomes.
Tiffiany Howard, Weak States, Terrorism and Sexual Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa Wed. Dec 2, Noon, CBC-B225A At the time of this writing there exist a handful of studies that examine the relationship between fragile states and the emergence of political violence; few that restrict their research to the study of Africa, and even fewer that assess the impact this relationship has on women. In conflict ridden societies, where the state has collapsed and there are fledgling political infrastructures, there has been a gross negligence in the protection of women and girls. In failed states, women are overwhelmingly the victims of rape and other gender based violence, and while studies have examined this phenomenon, there are no existing studies that evaluate the impact exposure to violence has on women’s attitudes towards certain socio-political issues. I mainly raise the question that in societies where women are made to feel powerless through sexual dominance and violence, is there a propensity for these women to support and engage in acts of terrorism and political violence? The female terrorism literature points to the victimization and powerlessness of women as the major impetus that motivates females to engage in acts of terrorism. Consequently, using sub-Saharan Africa as the unit of analysis, where state failure and gender based violence are pandemic, I evaluate the attitudes of women who have been victimized regarding their support for the use of political violence. The argument is that women who have been sexually victimized are more likely to blame the state for failing to protect them, and as a consequence are equally likely to support the use of terrorism and political violence against the state. This is an important avenue of research because it raises the question that if the increasing trend of sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa remains, will the international community soon see an emergence of terrorist threats from Africa, with female faces?
Tiffiany Howard is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her fields of expertise include International Relations, State Failure, Conflict and Security, and Refugee and Immigration Policy. She is the author of The Tragedy of Failure forthcoming from Praeger Security International Press and numerous articles.
Spring 2010 Coming Attractions
Please click here to view some of WRIN's past events.
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