Events 

Winter 08

 

RSVP Presents...

Story Of A Rape Survivor (SOARS), a performance program of A Long Walk Home INC.

 

SOARS is a two hour performance about one woman’s journey to reclaim her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women and featuring photographs taken by her sister during the recovery process, SOARS uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that rape victims too often feel with a story of hope and healing.

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008Time: 7:00p.m.Location: GSB, 5807 S. Woodlawn, Room 104

Food Provided.

Event Co-Sponsors: Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture [CSRPC]  Office of Multicultural Student Affairs [OMSA]  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

No! The Rape Documentary 

followed by a facilitated discussion

with Rachel Caidor

February 28, 2008, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

@ 5710 S. Woodlawn

This event is a collaboration with OMSA.

SPEAKOUT

Against Sexual and Domestic Violence

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Ida Noyes, 1st Floor Library (Woodlawn at 59th St .)

For the 16th year, Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention is sponsoring the Speak Out Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, a supportive space for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence. At this unique and powerful event, spoken word artists/performers, survivors and their supporters are provided a safe space in which to share their stories of violence, survival, and recovery. By telling our stories, we overcome the isolation that feeds the violence. By listening to others, we show our support and care.  Together, we become a community united against violence. 

Our featured artists will be activists and poets E. Nina Jay and Nikki Patin.

Survivors/Allies/Activists/campus and community members are warmly invited to come and listen or share.

Light refreshments provided.

OFF-Campus Event 

Getting Off: Sex, Pornography, and Masculinity in the 21st Century

Thursday, January 31
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents’ Dining Hall
800 South Halsted Street
Chicago

Free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made online, by e-mail, or by calling 312.422.5580.

How does pornography shape relationships and identity? What does it say about what it means to be a "real man"? In his new book, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, author Robert Jensen examines these questions and more, arguing that mainstream pornography creates a toxic masculinity that encourages the objectification and subjugation of women.

But can there be a feminist pornography? Throughout history, desire and passion have often been repressed. How are these powerful emotions expressed in emancipatory movements and, more generally, what does sexual expression look like in the 21st century?

Join us for a provocative discussion about pornography's effect on contemporary sexuality from varying perspectives with Robert Jensen, a scholar whose work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence, and Barbara DeGenevieve, an interdisciplinary artist who examines sexuality, gender, trans-sexuality, censorship, ethics, and pornography through her work.

MORE ABOUT GETTING OFF
Pornography is big business, a thriving multi-billion dollar industry so powerful it drives the direction of much media technology. It also makes for complicated politics. Anti-pornography arguments are frequently dismissed as patently "anti-free speech," "anti-sex"—and ultimately "anti-feminist"—silencing at the gate a critical discussion of pornography's relationship to violence against women and even what it means to be a "real man."

In his most personal and difficult book to date, Robert Jensen launches a powerful critique of mainstream pornography that promises to reignite one of the fiercest debates in contemporary feminism. At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and paths toward genuine social justice.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication. In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism. In addition to Getting Off, he is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005) and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004).

Barbara DeGenevieve is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, video, and performance. She lectures widely on her work as well as subjects including sexuality, gender, trans-sexuality, censorship, ethics, and pornography. Her writing on these subjects has been published in art, photographic, and scholarly journals, and her work has been exhibited internationally. DeGenevieve received her MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico in 1980, and the same year began teaching at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. Before joining the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994, she taught at San Jose State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Art. She has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, and has been the recipient of three Illinois Arts Council grants among others. DeGenevieve is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This Artists, Activists, and Authors After Hours (AAAH) event is co-sponsored by The Public Square at the IHC, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of Chicago.

Note: This panel will be co-moderated by RSVP Director, Vickie R. Sides. RSVP Necessary. 

 

Fall 2007

Please join us for the nextGENDER STUDIES BROWN BAG LUNCH (Co-Sponsored by RSVP) 
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 12:15pm - 1:30pmCenter for Gender Studies, 5733 S. University Ave.1st Floor 
“Rethinking Statutory Rape Laws” Michele Goodwin Visiting Professor of Law,
University of Chicago Professor Goodwin’s talk critiques contemporary and historical rationales for a statutory rape law. Goodwin argues that the early existence of statutory rape laws was less about penalizing violence against women, but rather, to promote a “virtuous young women” ideology. She argues that although the rationales for such laws have morphed to take into account harms against young women, statutory rape laws no longer are the best means to protect young people from sexual assault and further that they can actually harm the interests of young people.  She recommends that an enhancement mechanism, similar to that used in hate crimes be applied to cases where the victim’s are underage and cases meet the standard that she is developing. 
This event is Co-Sponsored by Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP). 
People with disabilities who believe they may need assistance, please contact Gina Olson, 702 9936 or golson@uchicago.edu 
This year, Gender Studies is focusing its Brown Bag series on the work of new and visiting faculty.    

May 2007

What is Consent?
Love?
Desire?

Please join us for an invigorating discussion where we look at "problematically asymmetrical power imbalances" in intimate relationships

Consent and Desire: The Making of a Love Story
Thursday, May 17th
I-House Map Room
7:00pm

Drawing on a wide variety of love stories both past and present, our panelists will use art, popular culture and the Bible to explore ‘consent' in the context of unequal power in relationships.

Dinner from The Nile will be provided.


Panelists include:

View event poster (PDF)

 

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