[URBANTH-L]COSWA Events at the AAA Meeting
Tara Lynn Hefferan
heffera2 at msu.edu
Wed Nov 21 11:09:33 EST 2007
The Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA) is pleased to
announce the following events scheduled for the AAA meeting next week.
In the "Family Gap:" Children, Motherhood, and Work
COSWA Special Event
2007 AAA Meeting, Washington DC
Friday, 11/30/2007
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Women caring for children face heightened career challenges: lower wages,
"glass ceilings," insufficient maternity leaves and breastfeeding support.
From finding quality childcare-especially when a child is ill-to having time
for oneself, multiple and competing demands confront women who have children
and work outside the home. This special session is designed to provide a
relaxed forum for such women to come together, connect with one another, and
share their stories. This session will be loosely organized around
audience-generated discussions covering common concerns, coping strategies,
and suggestions for institutionalizing family friendlier policies within the
AAA and beyond. Barbara Rose Johnston (Center for Political Ecology) and
Rosemary Joyce (UC-Berkeley) will facilitate discussion. COSWA warmly
invites children to this family-friendly session; as mother-anthropologists
create support networks among themselves, their children can make new
friends, too.
Barbara Rose Johnston (Senior Research Fellow, Center for Political Ecology)
does action-research on human rights and the environment. She advised the
World Commission on Dams on reparations and the right to remedy, serves as
an advisor and expert witness in Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal
deliberations on the consequential damages of nuclear weapons testing, and
serves a UNESCO-IHP advisor on water and cultural diversity. In 2002, the
AAA presented her the Solon T. Kimball Award for work in human rights and
environmental justice and this year she receives the Lourdes Arizpe Award
for work on reparations and nuclear militarism.
Rosemary A. Joyce (Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California, Berkeley) has engaged in archaeological fieldwork in Honduras
since 1977. She received the PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana in
1985. At Harvard University from 1985 to 1994, she served as Assistant
Director and Curator at the Peabody Museum and Assistant and Associate
Professor of Anthropology. She moved to Berkeley in 1994 Associate Professor
of Anthropology and was Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of
Anthropology from 1994 to 1999. Her recent books include Gender and Power in
Prehispanic Mesoamerica, The Languages of Archaeology, Embodied Lives, and
the forthcoming Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives.
Please join us in honoring Joan Gero, the 2007 recipient of the Squeaky
Wheel Award. The award will be presented at 12:15, Friday October 30, at
the COSWA Special Event.
Family and Profession: A Gendered Perspective
COSWA Invited Session
2007 AAA Meeting, Washington DC
Friday, 11/30/2007
1:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Washington Room 1
Oftentimes women and men are faced with choosing between professional
development opportunities and familial responsibilities, choices which may
impact their advancement within their chosen profession, and/or may alter
their overall career trajectory. This panel brings together a myriad of
perspectives on balancing work and family responsibilities within the field
of anthropology, and includes discussion of both academic and practicing
work environments. The women and men who will speak in this skill-building
session will use their personal experiences to offer insight into the range
of possibilities available to anthropologists seeking a balance between
their professional and personal well-being. COSWA welcomes its audience to
invite their family members and partners to attend this session.
Points of discussion include:
• The choice to become a parent (or not). Timing of parenthood. Impact on
professional advancement.
• Taking families (or not) into “the field” and their outcomes
• The tenure process – through various lenses (teaching institutions,
research institutions, from before tenure, after tenure, to chair / dean)
• The role family has played in influencing chosen career paths
• Tips to find work/life balance
Speaker Schedule:
1:45-2:00 Introduction by Keri Brondo
2:00-2:15 Holly Dygert (Michigan State University
2:15-2:30 Matt Gutmann (Brown University)
2:30-2:45 Carol Colfer (CGIAR)
2:45-3:00 Gregory Starratt (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
3:00-3:15 Geraldine Moreno-Black (University of Oregon)
3:15-3:30 Discussion (Carla Guerron-Montero, moderator)
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:00 Kathy Dettwyler (University of Delaware)
4:00-4:15 David McMurray (Oregan State U)
4:15-4:30 Katherine DeWalt (U of Pittsburgh)
4:30-4:45 Crysta Metcalf (Motorola Labs)
4:45-5:00 Laurie Wilkie (University of California, Berkley)
5:00-5:15 Florence Babb (University of Florida)
5:15-5:30 Discussion (Keri Brondo, moderator)
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