Recent Updates
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We have added several new members to our affiliated faculty roster.
Recently, several women's studies students, under the guidance of Dr. Stella Oh, have recruited a broad spectrum of students to form the Felions.
Nancy Jabbra, Ph.D.
Nancy Jabbra presented a paper entitled "Creating a Women's Studies Department and Major: Fair Weather and Shoals," at the Biennial Conference of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, held in June at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June, 2006.
She published "Women, Words, and War: Explaining 9/11 and Justifying U.S. Military Action in Afghanistan and Iraq" in the November, 2006, issue of Journal of International Women's Studies.
She also published "The Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society in Southern California: Celebrating Twenty Years" in Al-Raida XXIV, nos. 116-117, Winter, 2007, pp. 65-66.
She is continuing her research on changes in women's roles and globalization in Lebanon.
She participated in "Deconstructing the F Word," a student-sponsored panel held during Women's History Month in 2006. She also participated in the Sigma Lambda Beta panel on race (Respecting All Cultures Equally), held in October, 2006. Finally, she served as a panelist in "The Effects of Proposition 209: Ten Years Later," held on October 18, 2007 and sponsored by LA Urban League Young Professionals.
She was interviewed twice on the southern California NBC TV affiliate on her experiences in the evacuation from Lebanon during the Israeli attacks of 2006.
She serves as a member of the Editorial Board of al-Raida. She is also a member of the Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society, and served on its Executive Board.
Stella Oh, Ph.D.
Dr. Stella Oh was a co-organizer of The World Conference on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery held at UCLA from October 4-7, 2007. The Conference was an international gathering of academics, non-governmental organizations, human rights activists, attorneys, artists, and most importantly, survivors, to honor the bravery and struggle of the "comfort women." As an outcome of this conference, we look forward to formulating a unified plan of action to obtain reparations due to the aging survivors of Japan's horrific military sexual slavery. The World Conference intended not only to raise awareness about the "comfort women" issue and achieve their demands, but also to mobilize global communities around social justice and human rights. Finally, the Conference addressed contemporary issues in trafficking, as well as gender-based and sexual violence during wartime.
Dr. Oh published two articles this fall: "From America Town to America: the Ethics of Interracial Relations in South Korea's Camptowns." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. 33.2 (September 2007), 127-48; and "Distance, Desire, and Diseuse: Conceptualizing Diasporic Identities." AJWS: Asian Journal of Women's Studies 13.1 (2007), 1-40.
She was on the planning committee for the recently concluded Bellarmine Forum for 2007. Along with Dr. Juan Mah y Busch, Dr. Michael Datcher, and Dr. Tomo Hattori, she co-organized a panel on "Poetic Passages: Literature, Language, and Migration" and served as its moderator.