OTHER LECTURES AND EVENTS:
November 22-23, 2008
David Mamet's play "Boston Marriage," directed by Annamaria Pileggi, senior lecturer in drama, explores the relationship between Claire and Anna, two Victorian women whose intimate, long-term relationship is euphemistically referred to as a "Boston marriage." This event is sponsored by PAD and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Tickets available for purchase at the Edison Theatre.
September 26, 2008
Rus Funk, MSW will speak on "Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Issue" in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. He will present a discussion titled: "Aw Sweet Skeet!" Masculinity and Hip Hop Forum, a discussion on the wild popularity of hip hop across racial and class boundaries and its implications. This event is sponsored by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, MORE, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and GWB VAWA. The event will take place at 4:30 pm in Ursa's Fireside Room.
September 15, 2008
Ms. Silvia Kater, Argentine born performer residing in Mexico, will present a one-woman play entitled "Moliere, by Herself." The performance is sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Performing Arts Department, International and Area Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Upstream Theater. The event will take place at 8:00 pm in the black box theater located in the lower level of the Village House.
Spring 2008
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 schedule
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March 23, 2007
Sandra Gilbert, M. H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, Cornell University, and Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California at Davis, will give a talk entitled, "Finding Atlantis: Thirty Years of Exploring Women's Literary Traditions in English" on Friday, March 23 at 4 PM in Hurst Lounge, Duncker.
Poet, critic, and a former president of the Modern Language Association, Gilbert is coeditor, with Susan Gubar, of the new two volume Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English. The talk is being sponsored by the English department, Women and Gender Studies, and the American Culture Studies Program.
Please join us for this event, which will be followed by a small reception.
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March 7, 2007
Washington University's International & Area Studies Program and the Sigma Iota Rho International Studies Honorary Society will host a town hall "Coming Out Around the World."
Expert panelists include Julie Dorf, founding executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, John Scagliotti, Emmy Award-winning director of Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, Winifred Poster, PhD, visiting professor in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Scott Long, director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.
The event will include presentations by each of the panelists followed by a question and answer session. Co-sponsors include the School of Law, the Women and Gender Studies program, Residential Life, and Outlaw.
The event will take place at 7 pm in the Law School's Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. Click for program flyer
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March 5, 2007
Linda Babcock, Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, will present a lecture titled: "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide." Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 314-935-6790, ext. 3. This event is free and open to the public and will take place at 7 pm in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. Click for program flyer
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February 14, 2007
Carla Freeman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interim Chair, Department of Women's Studies at Emory University, will present a lecture titled: "Respectability and the 'Reputation' of Neoliberalism." The lecture will take place in McMillan Café at 4 pm. Click for program flyer
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February 5, 2007
Tani Barlow, Ph.D., Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Washington, will present a lecture titled: "Vernacular Sociology and the Sexy Modern Girl Advertising Icon in Chinese Advertising Culture During the Inter-War Years." The lecture will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201 at 2 pm. Click for program flyer
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February 3, 2007
Washington University will host a "Teach-In" with student and community leaders to discuss domestic abuse: the causes, the implications, the research, and volunteer opportunities. Co-sponsored by WGS, the event will begin at 11:30 at Ursa's Fireside. Click for complete program
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January 23, 2007
Linda Mizejewski, Ph.D., Professor of English and Chair of the Women's Studies at Ohio State University, will present a lecture titled: "Queen Latifah, Unruly Women, and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy." The lecture will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201 at 4 pm.
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January 15, 2007
Carolyn Sargent, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies Program at Southern Methodist University , will present a lecture titled: "Managing Maternity, Problematizing Polygamy: Gender and the Politics of West African Immigration in France." The lecture will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201 at 4 pm.
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November 29, 2006
Shabana Azmi, feminist, activist, and perhaps the most beloved actress in India, will speak Wednesday at Graham Chapel at 6:30. The lecture, "Bollywood and Beyond" is free and open to the public. Click for program flyer
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Week With... presents three events with Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at NYU. They include:
November 13
"Errant Scribes: Travel and Translation"
Women's Building Lounge, 3:00pm
November 14
Workshop with Graduates and Undergraduate Students
Ridgley 219, 5:00pm
November 15
"Property Rights: Autobiographies, Fictions ad Quotes" Brookings 300, 4:00pm
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October 30, 2006
"IslamoFeminism: Women's Rights in Sharia, Theory and Practice." Moot Courtroom, Anheuser Busch School of Law, 4:30pm
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October 26, 2006
A panel discussion with Croatian playwright Lydia Scheuermann Hodak, Milica Banjanin (Prof. Emerita, Russian), John Garganigo (Acting Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures), and Dr. Zvjezdana Prizmic Larsen (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Psychology) will explore the ravages of war depicted in Hodak's play Marija's Pictures.
McDonnell Hall, Room 362, 4:00pm.
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