2001-02 Events

Fall 2001 

  • October 5th-7th – Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
  • October 10th – Brown Bag: “For the Love of the Tune: Irish Women and Traditional Irish Music”, Carol Spellman, folklore, 330 Hendricks Hall, 12-1PM
  • October 10th – Teaching and Tea: “Minding the Gaps: The Feminist Humanities Project Does England:, Judith Musick and Dan Gilfillan, CSWS, 330 Hendricks Hall, 4-5:30PM
  • October 15th – Reception: CSWS affiliates and new women faculty members, Collier House, 3:30-5:30PM
  • October 17th – Brown Bag: CSWS Grants Workshop, S. Marie Harvey, CSWS research director, 330 Hendricks Hall, 12-1PM
  • October 25th – Ecological Con versations Public Lecture: Imelda Bacudo, “ Healers in Contemporary Third-World Economic Realities,” Kight Library Browsing Room, 7PM
  • November 7th – Teaching and Tea: “Poesie en ling: Poetes du Quebec”, Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, 330 Hendricks Hall, 4-5:30PM
  • November 8th – Ecological Conversations Public Lecture: Veronica Brady, “Recovering Sacred Ground,” Knight Library Browsing Room, 7PM
  • November 14th – Brown Bag: “Native Women, Identity, and Cultural Survival,” Leece Lee, international studies, 330 Hendricks Hall, 12-1PM
  • November 28th – Brown Bag: “Transparence and Transcendence in a Dance Aesthetic: The Language of Self Portrayed in Contemporary Concert Dance”, Jennifer Knight Dills, dance instructor, 330 Hendricks Hall, 12-1PM
  • December 4th – Teaching and Tea: “Hints form Hildegard: Medieval Medical Recipes form Hildegard of Bingen,” Jan Emerson, CSWS, 330 Hendricks Hall, 4-5:30PM

Winter 2002

  • January 16th - Brown Bag: Karen McPherson, Romance Languages, “Memory Work in Canadian Women Writers Fictions of Loss”, 330 Hendricks Hall, noon to 1:00 PM
  • January 16th Teaching and Tea: Louise Bishop, “The Medicine of Gender: New Images from British Manuscript Collections”, 330 Hendricks Hall, 4:00 to 5:30 PM
  • January 30th - Brown Bag: Leah Williams, Comparative Literature, “Writing on All Fronts: Gender, Testimony, and the Literature of War” 330 Hendricks Hall noon to 1:00 PM
  • February 7th – Ecological Conversations Public Lecture: Edrie Sobstyl, “Finding the Sacred in Ecofeminist Science Fiction”, Knight Library Browsing Room, 7PM
  • February 12- Teaching and Tea, Amanda Powell and Stephanie Wood, “Sor Juana as Icon: Then and Now”, 4:00 to 5:30 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall
  • February 13th - noon to 1PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: Tina Eskes, Creative Writing, “River and the Sea”, a novel in progress
  • February 21st – Ecological Conversations Public Lecture: Nimachia Hernandez, “Mokakssini: A Blackfoot Theory of Knowledge”, Knight Library Browsing Room, 7PM
  • February 27th - noon to 1PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag - Mary Fechner, anthropology, “A Change of Heart: A Cultural Study of Heart Disease in Post-Socialist Germany”
  • March 6th - noon to 1PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: Marie Harvey, CSWS Grants Workshop
  • March 8th - 8:45 AM to 3:00 PM, Gerlinger Lounge, Women's History Day
  • March 13th - noon to 1PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: Matthew Dennis, history, “Seneca Possessed: Witchcraft, Gender, and Colonialism on the Frontier of the Early Republic”
  • April 18th – Ecological Conversations Public Lecture: Sarah McFarland Taylor, “The Genetic Monastery: Green Nuns, Seed Sanctuaries, and the Crusade Against Biotech Colonization”

Spring 2002 

  • April 10th - noon to 1:00 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: Elke Hackner, Germanic Languages and Literatures, “Unruly Modernities: Gender, Sexuality, and the Temporality of Exclusion”
  • April 11th - 4:00 to 5:30 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Teaching and Tea: Tina Richardson, English, and CSWS “(In)scribing the Body, Feminist Environmental Literature”
  • April 18th - 7:00 PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Ecological Conversations Lecture: Sarah Taylor, “The Genetic Monastery: Green Nuns, Seed Sanctuaries, and the Crusade Against Biotech Colonization.”
  • April 24th noon to 1:00 PM 3/30 Hendricks Hall brown bag Jill Waigt sociology the work of motherhood after welfare reform
  • April 29th 7:00 PM night library browsing room BRINDA space Rao of Bombay India the feminine principle in Hindu religion, Co-sponsored by the department of religious studies and others
  • May 1st - noon to 1:00 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: 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 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.”
  • May 6th - 7:00 PM, EMU Ballroom, Ecological Conversations Colloquium Public Lecture: Andrea Simpson, “Who Hears Their Cry? African American Women and Environmental Justice”
  • May 8th - noon to 1:00 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: 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 8th - 7:00 PM, EMU Ballroom, Ecological Conversations Colloquium Public Lecture: Pramila Jayapal, “A Crisis of Immigration: Spirituality and Community”
  • May 9th – 4 to 5:30 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Teaching and Tea, Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Consuming History in Post-Socialist China: the Vanishing of Class and Gender.”
  • May 9th - 7:00 PM, EMU Ballroom, Ecological Conversations Colloquium Public Lecture: Ursula Goodenough, “The Sacred Depths of Nature.”
  • May 22nd - noon to 1:00 PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Brown Bag: Wendy Larson, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “In Their Own Words: Women Writers in Contemporary China”