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Welcome to IRWG’s new online home! We’re the go-to site for all things related to women and gender at the University of Michigan.

Our improved Web site means simple navigation, better access to the Institute’s faculty and staff, clear information about programs and funding, the latest faculty news, up-to-date calendar listings, and more ways to assist faculty and graduate students.  Thanks for visiting!

Events

Women's Studies & IRWG MLK Day Lecture

Prof. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College) speaks on Revisioning the Life of Coretta Scott King. Thursday, January 26, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Michigan Union Pond Room.

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New at IRWG

Funding Opportunity for Humanists


IRWG and the Institute for the Humanities have issued a call for proposals for new Collaborative Planning Grants in the Humanities and Humanistically Oriented Social Sciences. The application deadline for the 2012-13 academic year is March 15, 2012.

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China Workshops CFP

This project, supported by the Luce Foundation, is an opportunity for teams of U-M faculty members in the humanities and social sciences to lead monthlong, summer workshops on gender studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.

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IRWG Establishes Program on the Middle East and South Asia

IRWG has established its newest program, the Middle East/South Asia Gender and Sexuality Studies Initiative. Under the direction of Prof. Kathryn Babayan (Near Eastern Studies, History), the program will foster intellectual debate across traditional national and ethnic lines (Arab, Iranian, Turkish, Jewish, Indian, Pakistani) and explore new uses and meanings for gender and sexuality in academic and activist practices.

IRWG now sponsors five programs. We welcome program applications from all U-M faculty members. Applications for the next awards are due January 12, 2012.

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Faculty News

Holly Hughes Performance Nominated for GLAAD Award


For the second year in a row, a performance by Holly Hughes has been nominated for a distinguished GLAAD award.

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Deborah Dash Moore Wins 2011 National Jewish Book Award


The Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies has been honored for Gender & Jewish History (Indiana, 2010), a volume she edited with Marion Kaplan.

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Holly Hughes Show in Top 10


The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) was honored by the Baltimore City Paper, which also celebrated Hughes as a "performance superstar" and "one of the pioneers of 1980s-inspired autobiographical storytelling in performance art."

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Tiya Miles Receives Ethnohistory Award


The chair of Afroamerican and African Studies is honored for The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story.

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