Spring '22 Course Highlights
GWST 100, GWST 210, GWST 340, GWST 344
GWST 100 - Introduction to Gender + Women's StudiesThis course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of gender and women's studies, feminist scholarship, and feminist activism. We will examine the relationship between gender, power, and the production of feminist knowledge in a variety of fields, including psychology, sociology, literature, media studies and history. The course provides critical perspectives on the social construction of gender and sexuality, social inequalities based on gender and sexuality, and how those norms function interactively with categories of difference such as race, class, nation, ability and age.
GEP: Culture, Social Sciences
GWST 210 - Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies
This course introduces students to the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the role of sexuality in shaping personal, social, economic, and political life. The course focuses on patterns of subordination and exclusion based on individuals sexual practices and identities, explains the origins and persistence of those patterns, and considers ways of challenging them. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability.
GEP: Culture, Social Sciences
Transnational Feminist GWST Electives
GWST 340 - Women, Gender + Globalization
This course focuses on how gender influences social, economic, and political forms of globalization, development, labor and migration, international sexual and health politics, and activism in various regions outside of the United States. We start with representations and consider how "women" have been constructed as a group cross-culturally and as part of feminist imaginaries. We analyze case studies of global and transnational movements for change led by women around the world. Finally, we discuss the ways in which gender matters as a framework for understanding global relationships and politics.
GEP: Arts and Humanities, Culture
GWST 344 - Transnational Femininities
This course studies femininity in a trans/national context. "Trans" suggests that we will discuss femininity as something performed by and written on many kinds of bodies, not only those assigned female at birth. "Transnational" denotes that we will situate femininity in the US, across multiple nations, and within a broad sociocultural framework. We will discuss how class, bodily comportment, sexuality, nation, ability, and religion affect feminine performance and feminine/feminist/queer politics. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST 100 or GWST 210.
GEP: Arts and Humanities, Culture
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Winter 2022 - Social Work Course
SOWK 374 - Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees
The Department of Social Work will be offering SOWK 374- Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees during Winter Session 2022! Take a 3 credit SOWK class with a Culture GEP designation over the mini semester!
This course provides an introduction to the information and skills necessary for generalist social work practice with immigrants and refugees. Its purpose is defined as the restoration, maintenance, and enhancement of the social functioning of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities and the promotion of social justice.
The class is fully ONLINE
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10am-12pm
01/03/2022 - 01/28/2022.
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CSJ: Disability Justice Winter Reading Group Kick-off
Thursday, November 4th @noon
Reposted from the Women's Center:
From November to January, the Women's Center is hosting our Critical Social Justice: Disability Justice Reading Group. All of our readings will be sent out each month and participants are invited to join us for monthly discussions!
But before we start our reading journey, we're going to have a kick-off meeting to preview our readings, co-create discussion agendas, and set intentions!
All of our CSJ 2021 events for the fall are virtual and open to all!
CSJ 2021: Winter Reading Group Kick-Off
Thursday, November 4 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/npr-gmib-kms
Or dial: (US) +1 585-666-1343 PIN: 453 878 260#
This discussion group will be hosted through Google Meet. If this platform presents accessibility challenges for you, please be in touch so we can consult on the best ways to make this experience accessible for you.
Please note: UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, faculty, and visitors. If you have difficulties accessing any of the materials on our site or any of our events or discussions, please contact us so that we can provide an alternative format and/or remedy any accessibility challenges.
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NSF Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
***featured external grant opportunity***
NSF Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
Full Proposal Due Date: February 7, 2022
An academic career often does not provide the uninterrupted stretches of time necessary for acquiring and building new skills to enhance and advance one’s research program. Mid-career scientists in particular are at a critical career stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research.
The MCA offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution. Projects that envision new insights on existing problems or identify new but related problems previously inaccessible without new methodology or expertise from other fields are encouraged.
Partners from outside the PI's own subdiscipline or discipline are encouraged, but not required, to enhance interdisciplinary networking and convergence across science and engineering fields.
By (re)-investing in mid-career investigators, NSF aims to enable and grow a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities) at high academic ranks, who remain engaged and active in cutting-edge research.
The MCA is the only cross-directorate NSF program specifically aimed at providing protected time and resources to established scientists and engineers targeted at the mid-career (Associate Professor rank or equivalent) stage. Participating programs in the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO), Geosciences (GEO), Engineering (ENG), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR) will accept MCA proposals. PIs are encouraged to discuss the suitability of their MCA proposal with a program officer from the appropriate directorate (see https://www.nsf.gov/bio/MCA_contacts.jsp).
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The Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet in Residence
The Department of Music is thrilled to welcome the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet as artists in residence at UMBC on November 20th-21st. The residency will include concerts, masterclasses, and a lecture for the UMBC Community. The quartet will coach members of the orchestra and wind ensemble, and present a lecture/demonstration, in Spanish, on the evolution of tango music and its connection to Argentine identity. On Saturday, November 20th, the quartet performs a concert of original and classic tango selections, followed by an introductory Argentine Tango dance class presented by master tango dancers and teachers Aja Fenn and Masha Abapolnikova. The culmination of the residency will be a concert presented by the UMBC Symphony Orchestra with the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet as featured soloist, performing works by Astor Piazzolla and Pedro Giraudo juxtaposed with Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s “Estancia Dances” and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.
The Latin GRAMMY Award winning Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet represents the evolution of tango, from its roots in the traditional Orquesta típica, to tango nuevo as epitomized by Astor Piazzolla, and now to a contemporary sound that respects the past and looks to the future. Pedro Giraudo, who has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina, brings something new and exciting to the form while retaining all the lushness and beauty of tango. In 2018 Giraudo’s album ‘Vigor Tanguero’ won a Latin GRAMMY award for ‘Best Tango Album’.
As bassist, composer and arranger, Pedro Giraudo’s biography includes two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango. Among the many noteworthy events in his career, he recorded bass on Ruben Blades’ CD “Tangos”, which won a Grammy and a Latin Grammy. He has also performed with Paquito D’Rivera, Pablo Ziegler, Hector Del Curto, and Luis Bravo’s “Forever Tango”.
The other members of the quartet are three of the most prominent musicians in the tango world: Nick Danielson (violin) is Assistant Concertmaster of the NYC Ballet Orchestra and enjoys a distinguished career in both the classical and tango worlds; Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneón) is recognized as one of the most distinguished solo bandoneonists in the United States, performing at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center; Ahmed Alom (piano) has been considered a prodigy since the age of 14, winning numerous international prizes in piano competitions, and now living in New York, where he continues to garner acclaim.
Renowned tango dancers Aja Fenn and Masha Abapolnikova of Fábrica Tango present a socially distanced Argentine Tango Dance Workshop. Masha and Aja have been serving the Washington metropolitan area and the global tango community as teachers, performers and event organizers for conjointly 20 years. They have run popular milongas, brought high quality instructors to town, worked with musicians, built a non-profit, trained new teachers, appeared in documentaries and theater productions, and taught hundreds of people how to dance tango! Their student base spans the full spectrum from beginner to teachers-in-training. During their time in the non-profit sector they served populations such as veterans, seniors, kids and the LGBTQ+ community. Masha and Aja met in 2010. Their combined vision, skills and creativity have been explosive ever since.
The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs orchestral literature from the 18th to the 21st centuries including both standard repertoire and contemporary works, from a broad range of musical styles. Membership is open to all UMBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the local community by audition, with preference given to qualified UMBC students. The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Dr. Nell Flanders
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This residency is made possible by the support of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), the Department of Dance at UMBC, Dresher Center for the Humanities, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication, and the Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association.
