News and Information:
SEWSA CONFERENCE, 2008
The 2008 SEWSA Conference will be at UNC Charlotte the first weekend
of April, 2008. The program looks excellent, so consider a road
trip to attend some of the sessions!:
Upcoming Women's Studies
Public Lectures and Colloquia:
Women’s Studies: Upcoming
Events
2008
Thursday, February 28, 4-5:30, Commons 345
Poetry and Community
in the South:
A Reading and Panel Discussion with Jean Anaporte-Easton, Julie Enszer,
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Sally Rosen Kindred, Cheryl Pallant, Susan Settlemyre
Williams, and Susan Williamson. This event is co-sponsored by the
Glasgow Endowment, the Women's Studies Program, and University Lectures;
it is free and open to the public.
There will be a catered dinner afterward (5:30-7, Commons 214). If you would like to attend the
dinner, make sure to write to Lesley Wheeler at
wheelerlm@wlu.edu by Wednesday, January 23.
Thursday, February 28, 7:30 p.m., Commons Stackhouse Theater
Michael Kimmel, internationally-known gender scholar will
give a lecture,
"'Mars and Venus', or Planet Earth: Women and
Men on Campus in a New Millennium." The lecture assesses the state of
male-female relationships on campuses today. In particular he discusses
a variety of issues such as work, family, friendship and sexuality and
the ways men and women together are facing these issues in the 21st
century. He will be making the case that the things women have
identified that will make their lives better—balancing work and family,
ending rape and sexual violence, ending sexual harassment, etc—are also
in men's interests and that men should support gender equality.
Sponsored by
Women’s Studies
Program, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Office of Leadership
Development, Office of Health Promotion, Office of Religious Life,
Gender Relations Committee, One in Four, SPEAK, KEWL, IFC, and
Panhellenic.
Friday, February 29, 10am-3pm, Moot
Court Room
The Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice,
together with the Frances Lewis Law Center, is sponsoring a symposium
called "A Queer Definition of Equality: Exploring Major Issues in Sexual
Orientation and the Law:
10:00: Prof. Marc Poirier, Seton Hall Law School, speaking on civil
unions and same-sex marriage
Commentator: Prof. Caprice Roberts, Univ. of West Virginia Law School
11:00: Prof. Lee Badgett, Economics Dept, UMass-Amherst, Economics of
Gay Life
Commentator: Prof. Josh Fairfield, W&L Law School
12:00 (luncheon): Judy O'Kelley, Esq., Lambda Legal Defense, Atlanta,
Recent Sexual Orientation Litigation
1:00: Brad Sears, Williams Institute, UCLA, Discrimination on the
Basis of HIV Status
Commentator: Prof. Tim Jost, W&L Law
2:00: Kathi Westcott, Servicemembers' Defense Network, Current Status
of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Commentator: Dean Rod Smolla, W&L Law
March 5, E hour (12:20-1:15), Elrod
University Commons 216
Visiting Professor of
Law Qudsia Mirza of the University of East London will give a talk
titled “Islam, Scripture, and Feminism.” Sponsored by the
Women’s Studies Program and the School of Law.
If you would like to
have lunch, please contact Ellen Mayock (mayocke@wlu.edu)
by Friday, February 29.
SAVE THE DATES:
March 13-15, Northen Auditorium:
Theater in
Academe, International Symposium on Theater.
Professor Domnica Radulescu directs the theater conference, at which
dozens of world-renowned theater critics and practitioners will present
their work. Friday, March 14 will be devoted to themes specific to
women and theater.
March 31, 4:30 p.m., Northen Auditorium:
English
Professor Becky Gould Gibson will do a reading from her poetry
collection titled Need-fire (2007). The collection treats the
life of Hild of Whitby, a 7th-century abbess in
Northumberland. Sponsored by the Department of Religion and Women’s
Studies.
April
28-29:
Sociologist Judith A. Levine will give a public lecture and a lunch
colloquium on women and welfare. Sponsored by University
Lectures and the Women’s Studies Program.
-
WST Lunch
Colloquium, Monday, April 28, 12:20-1:15 p.m., Commons 216:
Please e-mail
mayocke@wlu.edu by April
21 to reserve a lunch.
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University
Lecture, Monday, April 28, 7-8 p.m., Northen Auditorium
May
26-27:
Hispanist Carla Olson Buck will give a public lecture and a lunch
colloquium on the women of Ciudad Juárez. Sponsored by the Latin
American and Caribbean Studies Program and the Women’s Studies Program.
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Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Lecture, Monday, May 26, 7-8 pm, Northen
Auditorium
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WST Lunch
Colloquium, Tuesday, May 27, 12:20-1:15 p.m., Commons 216:
Please e-mail
mayocke@wlu.edu by May
19 to reserve a lunch.
Past Women's Studies
Colloquia:
Monday,
January 21, E hour, Commons 216
DESIRE*: Editor Lisa Solod Warren and
Contributors Cathryn Hankla and Sharon Leiter will read and discuss
their work. Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program.
*A captivating collection of essays,
Desire
delves headfirst into its subject matter and explores the complexity of
desire with essays about the things that women want, crave, lust after,
and covet. Within the pages of
Desire,
women tackle difficult and taboo subjects—from Debra Magpie Earling’s
desire to hurt someone to
New York Times
writer S. S. Fair’s less than diminishing sensual and sexual desire,
despite her increasing age, and Julia Serano’s strong emotional impulse
to be a woman before she decided to transition from male to female. Many
of these essayists examine the feelings and experiences that surround
the things they want but can’t—or shouldn’t—have.
Desire makes the private public and illuminates the rich and
varied yearnings women so often keep secret.
If you would like to
have lunch, please let Ellen Mayock (mayocke@wlu.edu)
know by Wednesday, January 16.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Special sneak preview screening of
the new documentary film, "The Business of Being Born"
The Women's Studies Program, in conjunction with the grand opening of
Rockbridge Midwifery Care's birth center in Buena Vista, will present
the 85-minute film, followed by Q&A with two local midwives and a doula.
Since this film will open in only a few cities when it's officially
released in March, this may be your only chance to see it!
Date: Thursday, November 29
Time: 6pm
Location: Northen Auditorium (Leyburn Library)
"Deadbeats, Taxpayers and
Dependent Children: Gender, Welfare and Child Support Policy,
1950-1974" by Professor Molly Michelmore, W&L History Department.
Date: October 29th at E hour in the Women's Resource Room, E Hour with a
catered lunch.
Please RSVP to Melina Bell (bellm@wlu.edu)
by October 14 for the catered lunch.
"Doing Gender in Language " by
Ellen Contini Morava from the University of Virginia, a specialist in
linguistic anthropology.
Date: October 26th at E hour in the Women's Resource Room, E Hour with a
catered lunch.
The event is sponsored in collaboration with Simon Levy from Computer
Science
Collaborative Poetry: Carolyn Ogburn
and Margo Solod
Date: Monday October 30th, 12:20-1:15 (E Hour) in
the Women's Resource Room
Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and the
Office of the Dean of the College
Contact Lesley Wheeler at
wheelerlm@wlu.edu or 458-8758 for more information. This event is free
and open to the public. Lunch will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis.
- W&L Student on Summer Internship with
NOW:
Check out Jessica Hopper
('08), Journalism major and Women's Studies concentrator, as she does a
summer internship with the National Organization for Women in D.C. On
the very first day, the orientation session was disrupted so that the group
could go protest the federal marriage amendment. You can see a photograph of
Jessica protesting if you visit
http://www.now.org and click on the news story about the FMA (Federal
Marriage Amendment).
Past Events:
Consider participating in the ACS Women's
Studies Conference! Here's the information:
WOMEN'S/GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2006
Plan now to attend the ACS 2006 Women's/Gender Studies Conference at
Centenary College in Shreveport, LA. It's not too early to plan your
attendance at the
conference and to start mentoring your students' presentations.
Dates: March 24-25, 2006
Theme: Governing Bodies: Reflections on the
Self,
Society and the State Organizers: Kim VanHoosier-Carey,
kvanhoos@centenary.edu and Michelle Wolkomir,
mwolkomi@centenary.edu
Contact
Kim, Michelle or Teresa Wise at ACS, twise@colleges.org to get involved.
For archives of ACS publications, please go to:
http://www.colleges.org/palladian/
Lecture on January 16,
2006, 7pm, Lee Chapel:
Poet Nikki Giovanni will
speak for Martin Luther King Day
Reading and Discussion
on Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Lips and
Other Parts / January 19, 7:30-9pm, Elrod Commons 345 (Reception to
follow):
Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon, editors of Naked: Black Women Bare All
About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts (Perigree Trade
Paperback, August 2005) will give a reading and facilitate a discussion.
National Symposium on
Theater in Academe (features presentations on women in theater), March 9-11,
2006:
Program Head Domnica
Radulescu has organized this three-day symposium on theater and,
particularly, on women in theater.
Conference on May
9th and 1oth, 2005:
New Medicines: A Festival of Native American Writing at Washington
and Lee
Sponsored by the English Department, the Glasgow Endowment, the Women's
Studies Department, and University Lectures. All events are free and open
to the public.
Monday 5/9:
4 p.m., Room 345 in Elrod University Commons.
A Roundtable on Gender and
Native American Writing, moderated by Professor Deborah Miranda
8 pm, Northen Auditorium at Leyburn Library
Poetry Reading: Janet McAdams,
Deborah Miranda, and Allison Adele Hedge Coke
Tuesday 5/10:
4 p.m., Room 345 in Elrod University Commons
A Roundtable on the Native
American South, moderated by R.T. Smith
8 pm, Northen Auditorium at Leyburn Library
Poetry Reading: Ron Wellburn,
Karenne Wood, and Linda Hogan
For more information, please contact Professor Lesley Wheeler (540 458-8758)
or Professor Deborah Miranda (540 458 8755).
Alumni
Weekend 2005:
Reunion Seminar: A Generational Perspective of
Women's Studies at Washington and Lee (presented by a coed, alumna, and
professor). Participants: Karlyn Gold (current
student), Carroll Thompson (alumna), and Dr. Ellen Mayock (Associate Professor
of Romance Languages and Associate Dean of the College).
Friday, May 20th (2:00-3:30 p.m., Commons 216).
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