News and Events

NEWS AND EVENTS

October 23, 2009
Urvashi Vaid, a prominent activist, lawyer and author who has devoted her career to fostering equal rights for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered communities, will present the talk: "Beyond the Wedding Ring: LGBT Activism in the Age of Obama"
4:00 pm
Graham Chapel

October 6, 2009
Thomas Maier Lecture
5:00-7:00 p.m.
McMillan Cafe, McMillan Hall

October 1, 2009
Film "A Powerful Noise"
5:30-7:00 with panel discussion 7:00-7:45
Danforth University Center Room 276
This is a film about three women in vastly different worlds who overcome significant gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Through their empowerment and ability to empower others remarkable changes occur in fighting AIDS, rebuilding communities, and educating girls. Following the film is a panel discussion led by Washington University faculty, including Dr. Linda Cottler, Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical School, Barbara Baumgartner, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Shanti Parikh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies Program, Carolyn Sargent, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, moderated by Mary Ann Dzuback, Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Professor of Education.

April 2, 2009
Joanne Bober, J.D.
"Strategies for Women's Success at Work"
11-noon
McMillan Cafe

Workshop with Joanne Bober
"Negotiating the Workplace: Attitudes and Approaches"
4-5:30 pm
McMillan Cafe
Reservations required
Call 935-5102 or email to reserve your spot!
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February 24, 2009
Anita Diamant
St. Louis Hillel is thrilled to host an exciting evening with renowned author and Washington University alumna Anita Diamant, author of the Red Tent. For more information please contact the St. Louis Hillel office at 314-935-9040.
Flyer

February 26-20, 2009
The Committee on Women and Art is a student group dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of female artists and promoting the discussion of feminist issues on Washington University's campus. This year we bring to you three diverse artists:

Alyssa Monks
Painter and Professor at New York Academy of Art
Monday, Feb. 16 at 8:00pm in Hurst Lounge (located upstairs in Duncker Hall). Alyssa will lecture on her photorealistic paintings of the human figure.

Gail Arnold
Printmaker, Wash U Class of 2007
Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 8:00 pm in Ursa's Stageside on the South Forty. Gail will lecture on "Making Feminist Spaces Here and Now."

Marla Phelan
Dancer, The Juilliard School
Friday, Feb. 20 at 6:00pm in Mallinckrodt 207
Marla will be performing from her repertoire and will be viewing some of her most recent performances in New York City. She will also take part in a brief Q & A with the audience about her life as an up and coming dancer in New York.

2009 Colloquium Series

The Women and Gender Studies Colloquium Series offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present ongoing work to colleagues in or affiliated with the program. The Colloquium Series highlights and facilitates our work as an intellectual community. Click for fall schedule

2009-2010 Global/Transnational Feminisms Lecture Series

October 7, 2009
Kamala Kempadoo, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Social Science at York University will present a lecture entitled: "The Politics of the War on Sex Trafficking: A View from the South." The event will take place in McMillan Cafe at 4 pm. Click for the flyer

Other News and Events of Interest to Students, Faculty, and Scholars of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

March 3, 2010
Gloria Steinmen
"Human Trafficking"
12:00 pm (noon)
Location: TBD

November 18, 2009
History Colloquium
"Honey, I'm Going to See a Magistrate: Rethinking Women's Political Action in the Nineteenth Century South"
Laura Edwards, PhD (Duke University)
3:30 pm, Busch 18

October 29
Keith Boykin will address the intersection of race and sexuality. Sponsored by Pride Alliance in cooperation with the Association of Black Students and The Gender and Sexuality Forum (X-Mag).
4:00 pm
Lab Science 300

September 30, 2009
Matthew Coles, a constitutional and civil rights expert who helped bring about some of America's legal milestones in gay rights, will present a talk: "The State of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Movement"
4:00 pm
Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot
Courtroom Rm. 310

April 29, 2009
On Bleeding Stigmata and Swallowed Flies: Combating the Devil in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
Tamar Herzig, Senior lecturer in History, Tel Aviv University
4 pm, Eliot, Room 300M
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Wednesday, 4/15
Women in Rural Development
7:00pm
Moot Court Room in the Law School
Free Indian food at 6:30pm!
Sigma Iota Rho, Wash U's International Area Studies Honorary, is proud to present their biannual Town Hall. This semester the Town Hall will investigate the role of women in rural development. The speakers will include Denise Kruger, sales manager of the Blessing Baskets Project, who works mostly with women in rural communities to combat poverty in Madagascar, Ghana, Indonesia, Uganda and Bangladesh. She will discuss the role of women in their projects and how mothers and daughters are essential to the success of their program. Virginia Klein, Director of the Institute of Integrated Rural Development (IIRD) will discuss women's role in her organizations development activities in Bangladesh. Lastly, Dr. Winifred Poster will present some of her observations on the role of women in rural development across the globe through her research here at Washington University.

April 2nd, 2009
Man Up: Masculinity and Sports Culture
7 PM - 8 PM
Friedman Lounge, Wohl
Come out for a discussion on how sports culture can be analyzed to reveal aspects of masculinity that feed into violence against women. Food will be provided

March 24, 2009
Ann Fessler, author of The Girls who Went Away: The Hidden Story of Women Who Surrendered Their Children in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, will open NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri's speaker series on Tuesday, March 24th at the Central Reform Congregation located at 5020 Waterman Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri at 7 p.m. The Girls who Went Away details the personal histories of women and teens forced to give up their children in an era when unwed motherhood was cause for expulsion from school, family and society. Interwoven in this account of the 1.5 million women who gave up their children between World War II and the landmark 1973 Roe decision is Fessler’s own story. A child adopted in the 1960s, Fessler recounts her search for her birth mother and the forces that led her mother to give Fessler up for adoption.

March 27-30, 2008
The African Film Festival begins Thursday, March 27 and continues through Sunday, March 30th. All campus screenings begin at 7:00 PM in Brown Hall, Room 100. A special program for youth will be presented at the St Louis Art Museum. Click for complete schedule

November 16, 2007
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture will open with a panel discussion in Steinberg Hall Auditorium at 6 pm. The panel will feature curator Catharina Manchanda, as well as feminist scholar Maria Elena Buszek and artist Lynn Hershmann Leeson. A public reception will follow from 7 to 10 pm in the Kemper Art Museum. Panel discussion, reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. The Kemper Art Museum is located near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Steinberg Hall is located immediately adjacent.

November 13, 2007
Gendered Expressions - What is Female Art? Featuring Professors Jill Downen (Sculpture), Denise Ward-Brown (Digital Media), Susan Stiritz (Women and Gender Studies) and Barbara Baumgartner (Women and Gender Studies). The event runs from 7:00-8:30 in Hurst Lounge.

Work, Families, and Public Policy, a series of lunch-time events, begins October 8th with a lecture by Michele Tertilt of Stanford University entitled "Women's Liberation: What was in it for Men?" On November 19, Tanika Chakraborty and Sukkoo Kim of Washington University will present "Caste, Kinship and Sex-Ratios in India." On December 3, Robert A. Pollak of Washington University will present "Marriage, Commitment, and Investment in Human Capital." All events take place in Eliot Hall, Room 300 from 12:00 to 1:00. For more information email Bob Pollak or Michael Sherraden.
Click here to download papers.

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Additional Events Co-Sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

October 7, 2008
Alisa Tang, reporter for the Associated Press in Kabul will present a lecture entitled: "Unwanted Advances - Reporting on the Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan." The event will take place in Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300 at 7 p.m. Click for flier

October 9, 2008
Kathryn Zerbe, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University will present a lecture entitled: " Breaking the Silence of Secret Suffering: Recognizing Eating Disorders in the 21st Century." The event will take place in Steinberg Auditorium at 7 pm. Click for flier

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Faculty and Student Scholarly Activities

December 14, 2007
Mona Lena Krook was an invited speaker last week at a seminar organized and sponsored by the Ministry of Women, Family, and Community Development and the United Nations Development Program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on "Best Practices Towards Achieving at Least 30 Percent Participation of Women at Decision-Making Levels in Malaysia." The Ministry is in the midst of preparing a government action plan to promote women's participation in parliament, local government, the civil service, the courts, universities, and the private sector. Her talk, entitled "Quotas for Women in Elected Politics: Measures to Increase Women’s Political Representation Worldwide."addressed strategies for increasing women's representation in parliament. Click for more on the seminar.

On another note: Mona Lena Krook and Diana O'Brien received the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award from the Midwest Political Science Association for the best paper on women and politics presented at last year's conference.

October, 18, 2007
Graduate student Tarah Demant presented her paper, "Gender, Market, and the Anxiety of Achievement in Popular American Women's Fiction," at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Calgary, Albert. Click for more on the conference.

July 10, 2007
A panel session at the Law and Society Conference in Berlin was devoted to a multidisciplinary exploration of the clitoris, building on a paper by WGS faculty member Susan Stiritz, entitled: "Cultural Cliteracy: The Contexts of Women's Not Coming." Two other Washington University WGS-affiliated faculty also presented papers: Susan Appleton, Professor of Law, who chaired the session, presented a paper entitled: "Legitimating the Clitoris? Lessons for Family Law from Popular Culture" as did Laura A. Rosenbury, Associate Professor of Law, who presented a paper entitled: "Lapdance Lessons."

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