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Once again WGSS worked with the Women and Gender Resource Center to offer this important workshop to graduating UH female students.
Posted on June 6, 2016 Posted in Spotlight: Staff, Spotlight: StudentTagged 2015-2016, graduatesLeave a comment	
Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Butler, an amazing WGSS instructor who just earned her PhD in History and recent grad Genny Joshi, Women’s Studies Minor, who is heading to the UH College of Social Work this fall.
Posted on June 6, 2016 Posted in Events, UncategorizedTagged 2015-2016, Graduate Certificate, graduation, WGSS Major, WGSS MinorsLeave a comment	
Rikki Bettinger (History) is a doctoral candidate in the History Department, specializing in Latin American History. Her dissertation examines the diaries of North Atlantic women who traveled to Mexico and the Caribbean in the early nineteenth-century. She enjoys blending the discipline of history with her women’s studies work, and is invigorated by the atmosphere in the WGSS office, where she works as Graduate Assistant and Advisor. Prior to coming to UH, she earned her M.A. in History from the University of Texas at San Antonio after completing four years teaching history in the secondary classroom.
Yvonne Chen (Sociology) is a master’s student in the Sociology department. Her thesis focuses on how teacher’s enforcement of the dress code reproduce gendered, racial, and class discrimination through the hidden curriculum. Some of her other research projects examine mental health stigma and the portrayal of Asian Americans in U.S. media. She is also a student advisory board member of the academic journal, Social Problems. Yvonne will be pursuing her Sociology Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University this fall. She plans to research the barriers that Asian Americans face when accessing mental health services and how they navigate the healthcare system.
Fernando Clark (Sociology) is a master’s student in the Sociology Department. He graduated from Beloit College where he developed his sociological and feminist perspectives. His research centers on criminology, Latina/o sociology, gender, and inequality and poverty. His master’s thesis examines how mass media portrays Latina women who have come into contact with the criminal justice system. Other current manuscripts include how gender roles are portrayed through the music genre of Urban Bachata and examining the barriers that Latina/os encounter when trying to seek mental health services. He is a member of the student advisory board in the academic journal, Social Problems. This upcoming fall, Fernando will be attending the University of Georgia-Athens as a Ph.D. student in sociology. There he plans to continue his work on Latina women and post-incarceration and the barriers Latina/os face when trying to enter college.
Julia Taylor (English) graduated with a M.A. in English in December of 2015. While at UH, she served as the Graduate Research Fellow in the Carey C. Shuart Women’s Archives. This fall, Julia will be transplanting to Eugene, Oregon, where she will pursue a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Oregon, where she will emphasize in Gender Studies and Ethnic Literatures.
Posted on June 6, 2016 Posted in Events, WGSS LecturesTagged 2015-2016, Daya, Sexual AssaultLeave a comment	
April is sexual assault awareness month. We teamed with Daya Houston to offer a workshop to UH WGSS students dispelling myths on sexual assault.
Posted on June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016 Posted in Events, Living ArchivesTagged 2015-2016, Women in SportsLeave a comment	
Check out the full length video below if you missed the panel or would like to listen to the conversations again.
The Barbara Karkabi Living Archives Series features interviews with women from the Houston area, which are videotaped and collected in the Carey C. Shuart Women’s Archive at the UH library, Special Collections.
Thank you to everyone who joined the Friends of Women’s Studies for our 19th Annual Table Talk in support of WGSS! It was absolutely inspiring to be in the room with so many amazing women — building a sense of community through engaged conversation.
Table Talk is a fascinating combination of conversations over lunch, led by dynamic women of various cultures, professions and experience at each table. Table Talk benefits the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Carey C. Shuart Women’s Archive and Research Collection at the University of Houston.
The Shuart Women’s Archive collects, preserves and shares the stories of women’s contributions to Texas and Houston. The WGSS Program combines theoretical and empirical studies, to give students the tools to analyze gender dynamics of the past and present to build a fair future.
Program collaboration continued with the Black Women’s Conference in March. It was presented by UH African American Studies Program in conjunction with UH WGSS Program & UH WGRC. The Keynote Speaker was Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College + Guest Speakers from UH, TSU, TWU, and Prairie View A&M University.
Posted on May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 Posted in Events, WGSS LecturesTagged 2015-2016, Digital Activism, Muslim Women, Muslima, Samina AliLeave a comment	
Also this February, WGSS Faculty Affiliate Dr. Leandra Zarnow (History) worked with the UH Center for Public History, Dr. Abdel Takriti (UH Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History), and the WGSS Program to bring Samina Ali to campus for a talk, book signing, and reception.
Samina Ali is an American Muslim author who was born in India. For over a decade, Samina has worked on diverse projects with the aim of promoting gender justice.
Her critically acclaimed novel, MADRAS ON RAINY DAYS, is about a young, Muslim woman trapped between American and Islamic expectations. It received the Best First Novel Award (Prix du Premier Roman Etranger Award) from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Poets & Writers Magazine named MADRAS Best Debut Novel.
Samina went on to curate an internationally acclaimed art exhibition for the International Museum of Women (now part of Global Fund for Women), Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices. The revolutionary exhibition showcases Muslim women from around the world: from the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and the first American Muslim woman to translate the Qur’an into English, to graffiti artists involved in the Arab Springs and provocative young ‘zine creators.
Samina has worked with the State Department to help build bridges in certain European countries with their Muslim populations. In the U.S., she led a peaceful five-woman march into a mosque to demand women’s equal treatment in the prayer space — which was granted later that same year as a result of her activism.
Samina has been featured in a diverse range of media, including The Economist, The Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, Huffington Post, and Vogue Magazine, as well as Voice of America and several times on NPR. She is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Daily Beast.
February was a very busy month for the WGSS Program. We collaborated with numerous entities to bring exciting new scholarship to our UH community. Electric Santería was no exception.
In collaboration with UH Hispanic Studies, we hosted Dr. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús from Harvard University who presented her new book and research on the transnational experience of Santería. Beliso-De Jesús’ presentation provided keen insights in the study of African diaspora religious practices as well as a sophisticated example of transnational feminist scholarship.
This February we were excited to collaborate with the HCC Office of International Initiatives, UH Dept of English, UH African American Studies, UH Relgious Studies, UH Hispanic Studies, Arté Publico Press, and the Caribbean Film Series of the UH Center for the Americas to bring film screenings of Cimarrón Spirit, panel discussions, a concert, and conversations to two Houston campuses. Shout out to Assistant Professor of WGSS and CCS Rachel Afi Quinn for her work on this documentary.
The engaging panel discussion included: Rubén Durán, Director; Xiomara Fortuna, Afro-Dominican singer-songwriter; Dominican studies scholars Silvio Torres-Saillant (University of Syracuse) and Rachel Afi Quinn (University of Houston); with translations by scholar Mabel Cuesta (University of Houston)
The screenings were complemented by talks with Dominican singer-songwriter Xiomara Fortuna and Latina/o Studies scholar Silvio Torres-Saillant
The visit included a special concert by Xiomara Fortuna, and time for connecting with old and new friends.
Posted on May 24, 2016 May 24, 2016 Posted in Events, Living ArchivesTagged 2015-2016, Women and PleasureLeave a comment	
The 2015-2016 Living Archives series continued this Spring with a thought-provoking January panel titled “Women and Pleasure.”
Check the full length video below if you missed the panel or would like to listen to the conversations again.
Another successful school year with a growing WGSS program meant for a very special WGSS Graduation Luncheon, honoring WGSS minors, graduate certificate recipients, and, our first WGSS BA!
Our tireless supporters, the Friends of Women’s Studies, continued their networking during the Spring Fast Friends speed-networking social:
We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Mark Anthony Neal on our campus this fall for the McGovern Lecture (October 27th).
Frankly, when posed with questions about how I came to Black Feminism, I am often at a loss for a response. While I can easily recall a genealogy of articles, books, lectures and critiques, there simply…
With the upcoming consecration of a friend to the episcopacy, I’m offering a little more on episcopal vestments for your edification.
The sakkos, from the Hebrew sakk meaning “sackcloth” was part of the emperor’s wardrobe in Byzantium. This garment had no sleeves and was donned over the head and buttoned on the sides.In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, emperors began to give sakkos as a gift to patriarchs in Constantinople. Patriarchs often wore the sakkos only on Christmas, Pascha, and Pentecost. Several bishops began to wear the sakkos in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but the phelonion continued to be the traditional hierarchical vestment.[1] By this time the sakkos had a acquired short sleeves. Saint Gregory Palamas, the archbishop of Thessalonica, is depicted on icons wearing the omophorion and sakkos with short sleeves. Many Greek bishops began to wear the sakkos in the sixteenth century. By that time the sleeves of the sakkos had become longer, yet shorter than the sleeves of the sticharion.
It is difficult to determine exactly when bells first appeared on the sakkos. It is evident, however that they serve as a reminder of the bells worn by Aaron on his robe, that their sound
“will be heard when Aaron is serving as a priest, entering and leaving the holy place before the Lord” (Ex. 28:30).
The mitre was not an attribute of the hierarch’s vestments during the earliest days. The scholar Aleksei Dmitrievsky believes
“nothing but a complete silence is maintained regarding the mitre in all ancient and later services for consecrating not only a bishop, but also a metropolitan and even a patriarch, which includes Greek, south-Slavic, and also our Slavonic-Russian service books, hand-written as well as printed and even those used in the practice of serving in the East and in Russia”.[2]
Although it is a relatively new phenomenon that the mitre is attributed to every bishop, the use of the mitre by individual hierarchs reaches back to deep antiquity. The origin of the mitre is found in the turban, the liturgical headdress of the Old Testament high priests. Saint John Chrysostom refers to the mitre is this very context.[3] There are numerous testimonies of the mitre as an attribute of the Alexandrian patriarchs. Saints Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria are often depicted in ancient frescoes wearing white hats having black crosses. It was the custom of the Alexandrian patriarchs to wear such mitres. During the time of Saint Simeon of Thessalonica (fifteenth century), many other bishops in the East wore mitres, but traditionally it was still considered an attribute primarily of the Alexandrian patriarch. To the question,
“Why do bishops and priests, with the exception of the Alexandrian patriarch, serve with uncovered heads and why is it better to serve with an uncovered head,”
“All eastern hierarchs and priests, with the exception of the Alexandrian (patriarch), conduct the sacred serving with uncovered heads… But, perhaps, somebody will ask whether it is not irreverent that the Alexandrian patriarch covers his head with the sacred covering (Gr. hieron epikalymma) as do countless others in accordance with ancient tradition? I do not ask this, for those who act in this way (and it serves as a justification) act according to the most ancient, or more accurately—“most lawful”[4]—tradition. Actually, the “lawful”[5] high priest wore on his head a turban (Gr. kidarin), which is called a mitre (Gr. mitran), as bishops who wear it like to call it. Perhaps they have it as the likeness of the image of the crown of thorns of the Master and King—which was on his head.” [6]
In the sixteenth century, when the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Jerusalem celebrated the divine services together, only the Alexandrian patriarch wore a mitre. A Russian envoy present at the service in Constantinople in 1585 bore witness to this fact.[7] Performing the service alone, the patriarch of Constantinople donned a mitre shaped like a king’s crown. The mitre may have been a gift from one of the Byzantine emperors to the Constantinopolitan patriarch. Another possibility is that the patriarch of Constantinople began to wear the mitre after the fall of Byzantine Empire.
“For Greek national self-love it was completely natural, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, to place the crown of the emperors, who no longer existed, on the head its ecumenical patriarch, the chief and single guardian of the interests of Orthodoxy and the nationality itself in the entire Muslim east.”[8]
Gradually the patriarch of Constantinople passed the crown-shaped mitre down to other Greek bishops.
Every metropolitan wore a sakkos, and all were without caps.[9] Furthermore, nobody wore a cap anywhere, except for the patriarch. They have no caps and never had any. The metropolitan of Nazareth, having a worn-out hat, humbly asked the sovereign if he might deign to order a new one made, and the bishop of Nazareth, when he had arrived, gave this sovereign’s cap to the patriarch as well as a sakkos. And from the beginning there were no caps in Nazareth and at the present time they will not wear them. And it is said that the patriarch, receiving it, pawned it. And while he was with us the metropolitan of Nazareth did not wear a cap when serving both with and without the patriarch.[10]
Originally the liturgical headdress of Russian hierarchs was the kukol (a rounded klobuk). Beginning in the fifteenth century, the mitre emerged in the service of Russian hierarchs, when it had the appearance of a prince’s hat. They were decorated with embroidery and precious stones and were sometimes lined with fur on the bottom. The Russian mitre-cap differed in shape from the crown-shaped Byzantine mitres. For this reason, the latter caused bewilderment for connoisseurs of church rituals. One such connoisseur who was present during the service of the patriarch of Jerusalem Theophan in Moscow in 1619 observed,
“The cap he was wearing was without a border on black velvet… like a gilded crown with stones planted and with no depictions of saints, but on the top is placed a cross and on the sides four cherubim and seraphim.”[11]
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Greek hierarchs were pleased to receive Russian mitre-caps from Russian tsars, metropolitans, and patriarchs, but they did not use them but rather pawned them or refashioned them. Russian mitre-caps with sable linings did not conform to the eastern climate.[12]
The crown-shaped mitre appeared in Russia in the seventeenth century when it was adopted from Greek hierarchs by Patriarch Nikon in 1653.[13] All hierarchs in Russia began wearing mitres of that style. Mitres were also given to some archimandrites. This was made permissible by the decree of Peter the Great in 1705. In 1786 Catherine the Great awarded a mitre to her spiritual father, Archpriest John Pamphilov, and beginning in 1797, by the decree of Tsar Pavel I, the mitre came to be awarded to deserving archpriests as a mark of special distinction.
In contrast to the Greek Church in which all mitres are topped with a cross, two types are used in the Russian Church—with and without a cross. Originally the mitre with a cross appertained to the patriarchs of Moscow. In 1686 the right to wear a mitre with a cross was extended to the metropolitan of Kiev. Later, all metropolitans received this right while all archbishops, bishops, and archpriests as well as archimandrites and mitred archpriests wore the mitre without a cross. At the end of the of the 1980s, during the patriarchate of Patriarch Pimen, the Holy Synod established, in accordance with the Greek custom, that all hierarchs of the Russian Church are to wear mitres with a cross. The mitre without a cross now is worn by archimandrites and mitred archpriests.[14] (Orthodox Christianity Vol. III, The Architecture, Icons, and Music of the Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev. pp. 98-102)
[1] St. Nicholas Cabasilas mentions the phelonion and omophorian as the basic elements of the hierarch’s vestments in the fourteenth century and does not mention the sakkos at all. See, ‘Concerning Sacred Vestments’, 3, SC 4-bis, 366.
[14] In the West the mitre acquired the shape of a pointed crown, widening from the base and becoming narrow on the top. Such pointed mitres can be seen in paintings from the Middle Ages. The mitre was worn by western bishops including Roman popes. Beginning in the fourteenth century, popes wore the tiara—an egg-shaped hat from three crowns, symbolizing the secular and spiritual power of the pope on earth and also his power over the next life. The tiara in the Roman Church was eliminated by Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) and subsequent popes have worn mitres identical to those worn by other Latin bishops.
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Daniel Henney, the 6ft 2 inches tall American actor and model, has earned the millions heart with his charming face and his professional success. But, the 38-year-old Daniel, known for his notable appearance in Seducing Mr. Perfect (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Shanghai Calling (2012), and Big Hero 6(2014), is yet to be married.
Daniel seems shy when it comes to the disclosure of his relationship stature and datings. He was rumored to be dating Japanese-American actress Ru Kumagai, so what's the truth? Also, Henney had a past affair with Maggie Q. What's up with his current relationship status and his plans for marriage? Let's know.
Having played in the Criminal Minds season 13 alongside Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, and Thomas Gibson, Daniel Henney seems to be busy with his career workload, not even being able to manage the time for datings, it seems.
As of October 2018, Daniel Henny is not reported to have any girlfriend and also no news on his datings are out. Rather Daniel uses his leisure time to spend with himself and his dog.
Having said that, fans are not convinced that this handsome hunk is not in a relationship as Daniel Henny has not claimed himself single. Chances are the Michigan-born actor is dating secretly and has avoided the media's attention.
Although Daniel has not officially claimed of being in a romantic relationship, he is not free from the rumors. Back on April 9, 2018, a rumor claiming Daniel to be dating Japanese-American actress Ru Kumagai made it in the media.
Soon after that, Daniel Henney’s agency Echo Global Group responded that the rumors were not true and commented:
After checking with him, we are letting you know that they are actor colleagues that met at a friendly gathering and that he is just close colleagues with Ru Kumagai. It is not true that they are dating.
But it can't be denied that Daniel will give a surprise with his appearance with his girlfriend in the future. Fingers crossed!
Back in 2005, Henney was in a relationship with Maggie Q, who has a net worth of $6 million. The couple was even photographed together on a couple of occasions. Daniel and Maggie were in a secret link up and broke up shortly without any disclosed reasons.
Soon after his split with Maggie, Daniel Henney was seen cozy with Korean- American actress Jung Ryeo-Won. The romance didn't stay for long.
Also, Daniel Henny had an encounter with American actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Chinese singer and actress Xun Zhou.
Beautiful marriage and settling with a happy family, it's a dream for many. So is for the My Father actor Daniel Henney.
Back on December 23, 2016, Daniel Henny told his views on marriage in an interview with MBC’s I Live Alone. In the episode, Daniel invited a couple of friends over to his house for dinner where his friends asked about his relationship and following the denial of his datings, Daniel said:
I realized I didn’t introduce myself when I wrote my first blog, so here goes! I am Kayleigh; I am the Equestrian Program Coordinator which basically means I oversee Mustang village and our Equestrian Day Camp programs. I have been coming to Frost Valley for 12 years so it is basically my home away from home! I have just completed a degree in Film Studies and Production but my passion is working with children which is why I find myself coming back here year after year. I will be writing blogs over the course of the session, so you can see what your girls have been up to, I hope you enjoy them!
So on Tuesday we had a little rain shower that meant that the girls were unable to ride, but that did not dampen anyone’s mood and they spent the afternoon learning about all the different breeds and colors of horses there are and making stick ponies to ride around inside!! They also enjoyed painting pictures of their horses which I’m sure they will want to take home with them! They also had the best time playing games in the theater with our very talented activities staff.
On Wednesday they were all super excited that the sun was shining so they not only got to swim at waterfront, but they also got to ride their assigned horses! They all did a great job and the barn staff are excited about the potential they have!!
As a super secret surprise we let the girls have their overnight in the hay loft at the barn last night, they all had an awesome time and absolutely loved it!