Women's Studies Events 2007-2008
2007 Events
September : October : November : December
2008 Events
January : February : March : April : September : October : November : December
SEPTEMBER 2008
11 ThursdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: 210 Behrakis
OCTOBER 2008
2 ThursdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: 210 Behrakis
NOVEMBER 2008
6 ThursdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: 210 Behrakis
DECEMBER 2008
4 ThursdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: 210 Behrakis
SEPTEMBER 2007
5 WednesdayFSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
19 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
26 Wednesday
Board Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 204 RY
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
OCTOBER 2007
3 WednesdayGender Matters at Northeastern University
"I Come From Women: Peggy Seeger Sings Traditional and Original Songs"
Peggy Seeger, Visiting Scholar
Reception to follow.
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Center
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
9 Tuesday
Brownbag Lunch Series
Time: 12:00-1:00PM
Location: 540 HO
The Graduate Students of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology cordially invite you to join us as Anne Jenichen, visiting scholar at the Brudnick Center, presents from her doctoral research: "Explaining political change in a post-war state: The case of women's rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina." A chapter outline will be available for download at http://www.socant.neu.edu/graduate/graduate_sociology prior to the seminar.
10 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
17 Wednesday
Board Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 210 SH
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
24 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
31 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
NOVEMBER 2007
1 Thursday - 11 SundayThe 19th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival
Visit www.bjff.org for more specific information
1 Thursday "Aviva My Love"
A Boston Jewish Film Festival presentation co-sponsored by the Women's Studies, Cinema Studies, and Jewish Studies Programs.
Time: 7:30PM
Place: MFA
7 Wednesday
Board Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 210 SH
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
14 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
15 Thursday
Works in Progress: Talking Feminism at NU
"Looking Good for Jesus: The Afterlife of Born-Again Beauty Queens"
Karen Tice, Visiting Scholar
Time: 2:50-4:30PM
Location: 270 West Village F
This lecture analyzes how former black and white born-again beauty queens have merged religiosity, popular culture, spiritual and body makeovers, beauty pageantry, race/ethnicity, entrepreneurship, and embodiment. It also examines the ascension of Christian beauty pageants and the myriad of faith-based pageant/makeover businesses established by former beauty queens that designed to uplift both sagging spirits and bust lines as well as promote personal gain, empowerment, and material prosperity.
21 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
28 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
DECEMBER 2007
1 SaturdayNU Graduate Student Sociology Society Conference
Time: 10:00AM- 2:00PM
Location: TBA
Please visit www.gss.neu.edu.
5 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
12 Wednesday
FSO Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 439 RY
JANUARY 2008
16 WednesdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 210 SH
17 Thursday
Works in Progress: Talking Feminism at NU
"Strategies of Activism: The Campaign to Increase Women's Political Participation in Pakistan"
Afshan Jafar, Visiting Scholar
Time: 2:50-4:30PM
Location: 270 West Village F
FEBRUARY 2008
20 WednesdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 210 SH
21 Thursday
Reception with Sandra Harding
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Location: 178 WVF
Sandra Harding is a Professor of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research and teaching interest are feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and the philosophy of science. She is considered one of the founders of the field in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. Harding is the author or editor of numerous books, including the much-debated Is Science Multicultural? (1998) and most recently Science and Social Inequality (2006). From 2000-2005, Harding co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has served as a consultant to a number of United Nations organizations including the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the UN Development Fund for Women; and the Pan American Health Organization. Harding is a Phi Beta Kappa lecturer for 2007-2008.
22 Friday
Meeting Myra Marx Ferree, IFFY Scholar in Sociology and Women's Studies
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Location: 440 Egan
Myra Marx Ferree is the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. Her recent books include Global Feminisms: Transnational Women’s Organizing, Activism, and Human Rights (co-edited with Aili Mari Tripp, NYU Press, 2006) and Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the US (with William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, Cambridge University Press, 2002). In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the Maria-Jahoda Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. Her current work focuses on comparisons between US and German feminist movements and gender policy developments since the 1960s.
MARCH 2008
19 WednesdayBoard Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: 210 SH
20 Thursday
Works in Progress: Talking Feminism at NU
"Satis and Wives: Jain Women's negotiations with competing ideologies"
Whitney Kelting, Assistant Professor of Philosphy and Religion
Time: 2:50-4:30PM
Location: 270 West Village F
26 Wednesday and 27 Thursday
Lectures by Susannah Heschel
***CANCELLED***
APRIL 2008
2 WednesdayGender Matters at Northeastern University
Electing Women Political Leaders: Why the United States Is Such a Laggard
Eileen McDonagh, Professor of Political Science at NU
Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM
Location: 333 Curry Student Center
10 Thursday
Works in Progress: Talking Feminism at NU
"Media Representations of Polygamist Fundamentalist Mormon Women"
Sarah Whedon, Visiting Scholar
Time: 2:50-4:30PM
Location: 270 West Village F
23 Wednesday
Board Meeting during Activities Period
Time: 11:45AM—1:25PM
Location: TBA
More events to come. Please check back soon.
For more information about any of these events, please contact l.wang@neu.edu.