2001-02 Events

Brown Bag Series:

330 Hendricks Hall, 12:00 to 1:00 PM

October 10th – “For the Love of the Tune: Irish Women and Traditional Irish Music,” Carol Spellman, Folklore
October 17th – CSWS Grants Workshop, S. Marie Harvey, CSWS research director
November 14th – “Native Women, Identity, and Cultural Survival,” Leece Lee, International Studies
November 28th – “Transparence and Transcendence in a Dance Aesthetic: The Language of Self Portrayed in Contemporary Concert Dance,” Jennifer Knight Dills, Dance instructor

Teaching and Tea:

330 Hendricks Hall, 4:00 to 5:30 PM

October 10th – “Minding the Gaps: The Feminist Humanities Project Does England," Judith Musick and Dan Gilfillan, CSWS
November 7th – “Poesie en ling: Poetes du Quebec,” Karen McPherson, Romance Languages
December 4th – “Hints form Hildegard: Medieval Medical Recipes form Hildegard of Bingen,” Jan Emerson, CSWS

Ecological Conversations Public Lectures:

7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room

October 25th – Imelda Bacudo, “Healers in Contemporary Third-World Economic Realities”
November 8th – Veronica Brady, “Recovering Sacred Ground”

Events:

October 5th-7th – "Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China"
October 15th – Reception: CSWS affiliates and new women faculty members, Collier House, 3:30-5:30PM

Brown Bag Series:

330 Hendricks Hall, 12:00 to 1:00 PM

January 16th - Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, “Memory Work in Canadian Women Writers Fictions of Loss”
January 30th - Leah Williams, Comparative Literature, “Writing on All Fronts: Gender, Testimony, and the Literature of War”
February 13th - Tina Eskes, Creative Writing, “River and the Sea”, a novel in progress
February 27th - Mary Fechner, anthropology, “A Change of Heart: A Cultural Study of Heart Disease in Post-Socialist Germany”
March 6th - Marie Harvey, CSWS Grants Workshop
March 13th - Matthew Dennis, history, “Seneca Possessed: Witchcraft, Gender, and Colonialism on the Frontier of the Early Republic”

Teaching and Tea:

330 Hendricks Hall, 4:00 to 5:30 PM

January 16th - Louise Bishop, “The Medicine of Gender: New Images from British Manuscript Collections”
February 12th - Amanda Powell and Stephanie Wood, “Sor Juana as Icon: Then and Now”

Ecological Conversations Public Lectures:

7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room

February 7th - Edrie Sobstyl, “Finding the Sacred in Ecofeminist Science Fiction”
February 21st - Nimachia Hernandez, “Mokakssini: A Blackfoot Theory of Knowledge”
April 18th - Sarah McFarland Taylor, “The Genetic Monastery: Green Nuns, Seed Sanctuaries, and the Crusade Against Biotech Colonization”

Events:

Brown Bag Series:

330 Hendricks Hall, 12:00 to 1:00 PM

April 10th - Elke Hackner, Germanic Languages and Literatures, “Unruly Modernities: Gender, Sexuality, and the Temporality of Exclusion”
April 24th - Jill Waigt, Sociology, "The Work of Motherhood after Welfare Reform"
May 1st - Mark Carrato, International Studies, “Economic Justice Empowerment and Microfinance: an Analysis of the Relationship between Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in the Guatemalan Altiplano”
May 8th - Florence Ramond Jurney, Romance Languages, “Telling their Own Stories: Defiant Daughters- Stories of Motherhood and Constitution in the Female Self in Contemporary Works from the Caribbean.”
May 22nd - Wendy Larson, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “In Their Own Words: Women Writers in Contemporary China”

Teaching and Tea:

330 Hendricks Hall, 4:00 to 5:30 PM

April 11th - Tina Richardson, English, and CSWS “(In)scribing the Body, Feminist Environmental Literature”
May 9th - Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Consuming History in Post-Socialist China: the Vanishing of Class and Gender.”

Ecological Conversations Public Lectures:

7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, unless otherwise stated

April 18th - Sarah Taylor, “The Genetic Monastery: Green Nuns, Seed Sanctuaries, and the Crusade Against Biotech Colonization.”
May 6th - Andrea Simpson, “Who Hears Their Cry? African American Women and Environmental Justice”
May 8th - Pramila Jayapal, “A Crisis of Immigration: Spirituality and Community”
May 9th - EMU Ballroom, Ursula Goodenough, “The Sacred Depths of Nature.”

Events:

April 29th - 7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Brinda Rao of Bombay, India, "The Feminine Principle in Hindu Religion", Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies.
May 3rd - 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall, Seminar: Francis Fox Piven, Sandra Morgan, and others will discuss, “Welfare policy: Discipline, Seduction, and the Regulation of the American Working Class.”