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Item Announcements (1982-03-17)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1982-03-17) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Women's Studies Program. Women's Coordinating CommitteeItem Announcements (1982-04-08)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1982-04-08) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Women's Studies Program. Women's Coordinating CommitteeItem Announcements (1982-05-07)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1982-05-07) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Women's Studies Program. Women's Coordinating CommitteeItem The History of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, 1973-2013(2013) Bedosky, LaurenItem Intercultural relations: re-visioning an interdisciplinary field through the global lens of women(2013-12) O'Brien, Nancy LynnIn this project, I conceptualize the interdisciplinary field of intercultural relations through the global lens of women. This study is a two-phased, mixed-methods study situated in feminism and feminist research. I use a broad definition of intercultural relations that transcends multiple disciplinary areas including, among others: education, communication, psychology, and business. In Phase One (survey study) I address the questions: Who are the women? What are their contributions to the field of intercultural relations? Survey results name 420 women and their associated work/ideas, representing multiple countries and cultures worldwide. Findings indicate widespread global influence by women and their work in intercultural relations. Women are working across disciplinary lines and across geographical and regional areas. They have been (and continue) to influence the field through their roles in academia, consultancy, leadership, and organizational management. In Phase Two (interview study) I address the questions: How have women engaged with and come to know the interdisciplinary field of intercultural relations? How do women envision an intercultural relations history that includes everyone? In this phase, I conduct 27 face-to-face interviews with women from across the globe using a mapping exercise to facilitate rich data collection. Results from the interview study demonstrate that feminism and social justice issues have influenced (and continue to influence) how women engage with, and have come to know, the intercultural field. Further, participant stories exemplify different facets of intercultural relations work, including: the role of bridging; the topic of cultural marginality; refugee and immigrant issues; and expatriate and sojourner experiences. Finally, several stories illustrate the role of professional associations, education, and leadership in developing professional applications. Overall, this study argues the need to consider more carefully that, a) intercultural knowledge continues to be constructed through multiple ways of knowing and being in the world; and that, b) globally, women are participating in intercultural knowledge production; and that, c) by adding women's knowledge and perceptions to the historical context, implications and research considerations for the intercultural relations field are ostensibly endless.Item Multicultural Nests: Finding a Writing Voice about Literature by Women of Color(University of Minnesota, 1993) McNaron, Toni A. H.; Olano, Pamela J.This project was predicated on the belief that writing about literature written by nonwhite writers must entail a radically different approach. We know by now that it is insufficient and indeed mischievous merely to alter syllabi slightly to include literary works by women and/or ethnic writers. We must design innovative assignments that encourage students to build contexts into which such fictive creations may be placed with less danger of expropriation or simple misreading. Multicultural Nests, an honors course in Women's Studies, provided us an opportunity to design a unique multicultural literature course with an innovative writing component. Students read four fictive works, each by a woman from a different culture: Night-Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker (Native American), The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Asian American), Beloved by Toni Morrison (African American), and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Hispanic). In the first unit, cultural information was provided to students through lecture. For the remaining three, we organized students into four "families," each responsible for reporting to the class on one area of culture (visual arts; mythology, religion, and spirituality; music; and family and state structure/governance). The assumption behind all our writing assignments was that white students interacting with literature written by nonwhite authors require new critical criteria and modes for analyzing and discussing texts. Writing assignments were designed to empower students to find their voices, particularly by connecting the texts with their personal experience, and to deepen understanding of the texts by connecting them to their cultural contexts. We particularly wanted to block routine literary analysis and cultural expropriation ("they're just like us"). Our desire to propel students into the texts in unambiguous and respectful ways led us to design several fresh writing assignments. We first asked students to respond to an open-ended questionnaire about their attitudes, background, and self-concept. Students kept journals, reflecting on course material and on their own attitudes and experiences in relation to issues of diversity/multiculturalism. Students were also asked to write personal narratives, recount family legends, compare women's ways of knowing, select journal entries as examples of their best writing, and freewrite on provocative passages, characters, or thematic ideas in the novels. One writing assignment asked students to follow threads of their own experiences/perceptions in the personal narratives and weave a tapestry between/among the perceptions expressed by the texts they encountered in the class. At the end of the quarter, students were again asked to respond to the questionnaire. Based on student feedback and our own perceptions, this course was very successful. The combination of contextual nests and innovative writing allowed a class of mainly white students to discover fresh and non-appropriational modes for expressing their responses to the multicultural literature. For future offerings of this kind, we would focus on two cultures instead of four, allowing greater immersion in the culture and the opportunity to study several works from each, and we would spend more time building in mechanisms to foster trust and comfort among students.Item North Shore Visions (1987-10)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1987-10) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1987-11)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1987-11) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1987-12)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1987-12) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-01)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-01) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-02)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-02) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-03)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-03) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-04)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-04) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-05)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-05) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-10)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-10) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-11)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-11) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1988-12)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-12) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1989-01)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1989-01) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's StudiesItem North Shore Visions (1989-02)(University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1989-02) University of Minnesota, Duluth. Institute for Women's Studies