News and Events

NEWS AND EVENTS

2007-2008 Global/Transnational Feminisms Lecture Series

This year's exciting lecture series focuses on Global/ Transnational Feminisms and Gender Justice. We define justice broadly to include questions of ethics, historical memory, work, health, and human rights.
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February 20, 2008
Shefali Chandra, Assistant Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present a lecture entitled “Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Sexuality, Caste and the Agenda of Transnational Studies." The event will take place in McMillan Cafe, McMillan Hall, at 4 pm. Click for program flyer

October 24, 2007
Jean Allman, Ph.D., Professor of History at Washington University will present a lecture entitled "The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Nationalism, Feminisms, and the Tyrannies of History." The event will take place in the Women's Building Formal Lounge at 4 pm. Click for program flyer

September 6, 2007
Alison Jaggar, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present a lecture entitled “Justice and the Feminization of Global Poverty." The event will take place in Wilson Hall, Room 214, at 4 pm. Click for program flyer

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 spring schedule

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

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

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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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