Events Archive
Winter and Spring 2009
NO! The Rape Documentary
with special guest
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
7:00 pm
International House Assembly Hall
1414 East 59th Street
NO! The Rape Documentary is a groundbreaking video exploring the international reality of rape and other forms of sexual assault through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism and cultural work of African-Americans. NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.
Director/Producer/Writer, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, is an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is an Artist-in-Residence at CSRPC for Spring Quarter, 2009.
Q & A with the audience will include Simmons and Vicki R. Sides, Director of Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) at the University of Chicago
Free & open to the public. Dinner served.
Co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Film Series, Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and the Canadian Consulate General of Chicago.
Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact CSRPC in advance at
773-702-8063
Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention, Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Delta Kappa Epsilon present:
Drunk Sex or Date Rape: Can You Tell The Difference?
Featuring Guest Speaker Brett Sokolow
Thursday, April 30
6:00-8:00
BSLC 109
Dinner from Noodles Etc. Will Be Served
All attendees will be eligible to win an iPod Nano!
Brett Sokolow is a risk management consultant, author, editor, and higher education attorney admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars. He is also the president and founder of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM), a national multidisciplinary risk management consulting firm.
Winter 08
A Self-Defense Class Taught by Instructors from Thousand Waves
TUESDAY December 2, 2008
6:00pm to 9:00pm
for an event flyer click here
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:
- Rev. Phyllis V. Pennese, Pastor of Pillar of Love Fellowship Church
- Dr. Ann Russo, Author and Professor, DePaul University, Gender and Women's Studies
- Dr. Francesca Royster, Author and Professor, DePaul University, English Department
- Coya Paz, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Performance Studies
- Rachel Caidor, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland , Women's Studies
TUESDAY December 2, 2008
6:00pm to 9:00pm
for an event flyer click here
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents’ Dining Hall
800 South Halsted Street
Chicago
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."
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).
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:
APRIL 2007
Sexual Violence Awareness Month (SVAM) Events
Sponsored by Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP)
All Events are Free and open to the entire University Community
Operation Sexucation Event tabling!
Friday, April 6, 2007, 6:00pm to 8:00pm - Hutch Commons
Please join RSVP, along with other campus organizations for:
Operation Sexucation: Celebrating Activism, Responsible Information and Pleasure
Description: Info fair, bands, art and free Chipotle - all geared towards making sex education better!
Film Series Thursday April 24th and 29th
RSVP presents Dreamworlds 3 on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7:00pm in the BSLC - room 001. Food from Rajun Cajun will be provided.
RSVP will do a viewing and discussion of the documentary film Killing Us Softly 2 on Sunday, April 29th at 3:00pm in Bartlett Lounge - Pizza provided
Porn vs. Erotica Presentation
Tues., April 12 at 12:30 p.m.
RSVP will have representatives from Early to Bed come to campus to do a presentation about the differences between pornography and erotica. In addition, they will discuss healthy sexuality with the audience.
Bring a bag lunch. Dessert and beverages from Medici Bakery will be provided. Location: Reynolds Club - South Lounge.
RSVP will also offer a Self-defense seminar. This seminar will be taught by instructors from Thousand Waves Martial Arts Center on Wednesday, April 25th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.
Location details to follow. Please call (773) 834-7738 for more information.
RSVP in collaboration with UCSC presents....'Simple Service', Monday, May 5, 2007 from 11:00am to 2:00pm in the Reynolds Club Marketplace. Please stop by our table to participate in the Simple Service project.
Stay tuned for other important RSVP events occurring throughout the spring quarter!
DKE Week Event - Monday, 5/7 @7:00pm in Stuart Hall (More details to follow)
Power Relationships Panel 5/17 in the GSB at 7:00pm - Dinner from The Nile provided. (Tentative)
This Film is not yet Rated - screening and discussion (location and date: TBA) Please check back for details.
January 2007 Events
SPEAKOUT
Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Ida Noyes 1st Floor Library (Woodlawn at 59th St.)
For the 15th year, Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, along with several other campus groups, are sponsoring the SpeakOut Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, a supportive space for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and dating violence. At this unique and powerful event, 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. All are warmly invited to attend.
November 2006 Events
Sexual Violence Awareness Week Events
Please watch for RSVP's Consent Poster Campaign called "Educational Guidelines For Sexual Consent" around campus.
RSVP's Peer Educators will be Tabling in the following locations for the week:
Bartlett (Tuesday 11/14 and Thursday 11/16)
Hutch Commons (Monday 11/13, Wednesday 11/15 and Friday 11/17)
Friday - 11/10/2006: Brown Bag co-sponsored by Gender Studies
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speaker: Poet/Activist Janine Stone
Topic: Art From Wreckage
Location: Gender Studies Conference Room 5733 S. University
RSVP Film Festival: Film and Discussion Series
Please watch for RSVP's Consent Poster Campaign called "Educational Guidelines For Sexual Consent" around campus.
Monday - 11/13/2006
6:00 PM 8:30 PM in BSLC 115
Film: Bastard out of Carolina
Wednesday - 11/15/2006
6:00 PM 8:30 PM in BSLC 115
Film: 'Speak'
Friday - 11/17/2006
6:00 PM 8:30 PM in BSLC 115
Film: The Prince of Tides
* This event has been cancelled
Thursday - 11/16/06
Interactive discussion event Co-sponsored with the Office of Family Planning and Contraception Research.
Topic: How are Reproductive Rights Restrictions and Violence Against Women Both Forms of Gender Oppression?
Location: Ida Noyes
To Be Confirmed for:
East Lounge 4:30pm to 6:30pm Or Library Lounge 3:30pm to 5:30pm
April 2006 SAAM Events
April 4, 5, 11,12,18,19, 25 & 26 from 11am to 2pm RSVP will do tabling every Tuesday in the Reynolds Club and every Wednesday in Bartlett. We will provide information about sexual assault, about our program and do some recruiting for next year’s class of PE’s. In addition, we will have information available regarding all upcoming SAAM events.
On Wednesday April 5, at 7pm, RSVP will do a film and discussion of “Tough Guise�?. This event will be held in the BSLC – room 001.
On Tuesday April 11th, RSVP will have Lester Munson, a U of C Law School alum and Sports Illustrated investigative journalist come to campus to do a presentation about celebrity athletes charged (or not charged) with domestic violence and sexual assault (and other crimes celeb athletes commit). The event will take place at 7pm on 4/11.
Location: TBA
On Friday April 21st, RSVP presents Attorney Kathe Morris Hoffer for lunchtime discussion: Empowering Sexual Assault Victims - Civil Lawsuits against Rapists.
Kathe is a Chicago area attorney who co-authored the Illinois Gender Violence Act.
This event will take place on Friday, April 21st at 12:30pm.
Bring a brown bag lunch. RSVP will provide drinks and dessert.
This event will take place in the Gender Studies Conference room and is co-sponsored by Gender Studies.
On Tuesday April 25th RSVP presents a self-defense workshop by Impact Chicago.
The workshop will take place from 5:30pm to7:00pm in the Ida Noyes Cloister Club.
On Thursday, April 27th, RSVP will co-sponsor a writer’s workshop (along with Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture). The workshop, which will focus on how to marry your art and your activism, will be facilitated by nationally renowned poet and activist Stacey Ann Chinn. This event will be held from noon until 1:30pm in the Gender Studies/CSRPC Conference Room.
On Friday April 28th at 3:00pm RSVP, along with Anne’s House will bring a group to Chicago from No More Rape - National Organization of Men's Outreach for Rape Education. You can visit their website www.nomorerape.org for more information.
They will be doing a presentation, called 1 in 4 that they do all over the country on university campuses.
Location: TBA
2005
Sexual Violence Awareness Month
March 31st - April 30th
KICK OFF PERFORMANCE: STORY OF A RAPE SURVIVOR
Ida Noyes 3rd Floor Theater
thursday, march 31st 7pm
A Long Walk Home, Inc.'s program A Story Of A Rape Survivor (SOARS) features a diverse cast of women who explore the impact and aftermath of sexual assault by documenting one woman's journey from sexual assault victim to survivor. Through photograph, modern and West African dance, spoken-word, music, and oral testimonies, SOARS recreates the actual story of sexual trauma and healing and helps educate people about sexual assault. co-sponsored by Center for Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and Center for Gender Studies.
FILM SCREENING: RODGER DODGER
BSLC 001
tuesday, april 5th, 7pm
A free screening of the 2002 comedy "Roger Dodger" followed by a mediated discussion of the more subtle elements of the film such as dating communication, prostitution, and the role of alcohol in rape. Food provided.
SELF-DEFENSE CLASS
(BEGINNER CLASS) wednesday april 6th 6:30-8:30pm
(BEGINNER CLASS) wednesday april 13th 6:30-8:30pm
(ADVANCED CLASS) wednesday april 20th 6:30-8:30pm
All classes located in the Pool Classroom, Ratner Athletic Center
Led by Rachel Lavin. These classes are open to both men and women. $5 for students; $10 for non-students. Pre-register by e-mailing ucrsvp@gmail.com (please put "SDC" in the subject line). space is limited.
S-E-X-Oh!
Kent 120
thursday, april 14th, 7pm
"Virgins, whores and everything in between." Teatro Luna's live ensemble performance about the complicated and often hilarious relationship between gender, culture "and the very thing our abuelas made us promise we'd never do (tan siquiera no antes de casarnos vestiditas de blanco)." Teatro Luna is Chicago's first and only all-Latina theater.
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS
Center For Gender Studies, Conference Room
friday, april 22nd, 12:15-1:30pm
A brown bag discussion led by Mia Muhammad about our growing knowledge about dating violence, its prevalence amongst youth, and efforts to address it. Ms. Muhammad is the Prevention and Education Specialist with Friends of Battered Women and Their Children. co-sponsored by Center for Gender Studies.
DUDE LAW: SKITS ON MANHOOD
Kent Hall, Room 107
thursday, april 28th, 7pm
A hilarious one-man show led by Christopher Kilmartin about "being a guy." Dr. Kilmartin is a professor, author, stand-up comedian, and professional psychologist. He is a professor of Psychology at The University of Mary Washington co-sponsored by Student Care Center and Noctis Sero
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RAPE
Center For Gender Studies, Conference Room
friday, april 29th, 12:15-1:30pm
A brown bag discussion led by Christopher Kilmartin. This discussion will explore the historical, psychological, and cultural factors that contribute to sexual assault. Special attention will be paid to the roles of men and masculine culture as they relate to both perpetration of rape as well as prevention efforts. co-sponsored by Center for Gender Studies.
