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2009

September
- 03 Thursday
  - Breakfast with Dr. Hope Sadza
    Time: 8:30 am - 10:30 am
    Location: 346 Curry Student Center
    Speaker: Dr. Hope Sadza, Fulbright Scholar
    Dr. Sadza is Vice Chancellor and founder of the only Women's University in Africa: opened with 145 students in 2002, now has a student population of 1,500, staff of 90, a farm of 285 hectares for commercial dairy (serves as the growth engine of the University). She is an eminent educationist who had a vision for opening a university for mature women who failed to access university education. The vision seeks to be the best African University in the promotion of gender equity and equal opportunities in tertiary education. The numerous awards the applicant has won nationally, regionally and internationally prove her unwavering interest in research and education for women. At the level of a Vice Chancellor, the result of her publications, research papers have cascaded in Africa to help mature men and women, especially in stamping out poverty through education for sustainable development - a theme that runs throughout her publications.
    Dr. Sadza obtained her M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Missouri and her Ph.D. from the University of Zimbabwe in 1997.
- 11 Friday
  - Visiting Scholars Orientation
    Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall
- 17 Thursday
  - Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Case of Our Bodies Ourselves
    Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 135 Shillman Hall
    Speaker: Kathy Davis, Institute of History and Culture Utrecht University, The Netherlands
    Organizer: Joan Collins
    Contact: j.collins@neu,edu, 617-373-2686
    Distinguished Lecture Series in the Social Sciences
    Kathy Davis, Institute of History and Culture Utrecht University, The Netherlands
    Kathy Davis is the author of four books on gender, power, and cultural influences bearing on women’s bodies. Her most recent book The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders (Duke, 2007) explores how feminist knowledge and body/politics circulate transnationally, using the feminist classic on women and health, Our Bodies, Ourselves, as a case in point. This book was the recipient of several prizes: the Distinguished Book Prize for 2008 from the American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender, the Eileen Basker prize from the American Anthropological Association, and the Joan Kelly Prize for Women’s History from theAmerican Historical Association.
    Book signing and reception to follow at 4:30 p.m. in 440 Egan Research Center.
    Sponsored by Northeastern University’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology; the Women’s Studies Program; and International Affairs Program.
- 30 Wednesday
  - Progress for Women: A European Perspective
    Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Location: 340 Egan

October
- 08 Thursday
  - Women's Studies Undergraduate Open House
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 318 Curry Student Center
    Find out more about Women’s Studies minor and dual major, courses, student organizations including the Feminist Student Organization, NUBiLaGA, Students for Choice, EMERGE, and more! Refreshments will be provided.
- 15 Thursday
  - Meet the Author Series: Daughters of the Stone
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Location: 90 Snell Library
    Speaker: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
    Organizer: Maria Carpenter
    Contact: m.carpenter@neu.edu, 617-373-2821
    This novel focuses on five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women from the mid-1800s to the present. The story takes place in Africa and follows Fela and her husband, who perform a tribal ceremony, pouring the essence of their unborn child into a stone. The couple is then separated by slavery. Throughout the next four generations, the power of this stone is revealed.
    Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries, the Northeastern Latino/a Student Center, the Northeastern University Women's Studies Program, and the Northeastern Bookstore.

November
- 05 Thursday
  - Behind the Scenes of Science: Gender practices in recruitment and selection of full professors in the Netherlands
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 320 Behrakis
    Speaker: Dr. Marieke van den Brink
    Dr. Marieke van den Brink
    Institute for Management Research
    Radboud University Nijmegen
    This presentation will discuss the findings of a research on gender practices in recruitment and selection of full professors in the Netherlands. I will unmask some persistent myths related to recruitment and selection which are often used to explain away the under-representation of women in senior academic positions in the Netherlands. These myths are unmasked by revealing the various gender practices tied in with professorial recruitment and selection, such as gatekeeping, male networks and the construction of scientific excellence. This presentation challenges the view of an academic world where the allocation of rewards and resources is governed by the normative principles of transparency and meritocracy, and highlights the distance between the ideal ethos of science and the actuality of social interaction in daily working situations.
- 10 Tuesday
  - Boston Jewish Film Festival screening: Off and Running
    Time: 7:00 pm
    Location: Coolidge Corner, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA
    Off and Running is Nicole Opper's acclaimed documentary about an African American teen who was adopted and raised by a white Jewish lesbian couple.
    Co-sponsored by the Northeastern University Jewish Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, Cinema Studies Program, and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
    Visit http://www.bjff.org/ for more details.
- 13 Friday
  - The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound
    Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Location: John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, Cabral Center
    Contact: www.northeastern.edu/humanities
    Alice and John Coltrane have made important contributions to a multicultural
    American and global humanism. A diverse group of musicians and scholars
    will assess and discuss those contributions in the form of a roundtable of
    speakers, including the distinguished musician/scholar Yusef Lateef, joined
    by Professor Tammy Kernodle of Miami University of Ohio and Northeastern
    University Professors Emmett Price and Leonard Brown. A conversation with the
    audience will follow, allowing us to address not only the Coltrane legacy, but
    also the relationship between music and Black America’s struggles for freedom
    and equality.
    Sponsored by the Northeastern University Humanities Center, Women’s Studies
    Program, Department of Music, Department of Sociology & Anthropology,
    Department of Artican-American Studies, Department of Philosophy & Religion,
    and John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute.
- 19 Thursday
  - Women's Studies Graduate Open House
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 320 Behrakis
    Come learn about the Women's Studies Program: how to receive a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, classes at the Graduate Consortium with universities around Boston, research opportunities, and more! Refreshments will be provided.

2010

January
- 27 Wednesday
  - Apart in the Ivory Tower: African-American women at Radcliffe, 1880's-1930's
    Time: 12 pm - 1:30 pm
    Location: 320 Behrakis
    Speaker: Dr. Lynne Benson, Visiting Scholar
- 28 Thursday
  - Christina Asquith - Author of "Sisters in War: A Story of Love"
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: Alumni Center
    Speaker: Christina Asquith
    An award-winning journalist for over 14 years, Christina has written for The New York Times, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian and was a staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her book, “Sisters in War: Love, Survival and Family in the New Iraq” is based off of the 18 months she lived in and reported from Baghdad, Iraq.
    Ms. Asquith is also the author of “The Emergency Teacher” (Skyhorse Press, 2007) , a non-fiction account of her year as a 6th grade teacher in low-income Philadelphia middle school. Critics hailed the book as honest and hard hitting. “Through vivid and personal anecdotes, Asquith captures the exhausting intensity of teaching in a chaotic environment. . . . Exactly the kind of truth telling that is needed.” – The New York Post
    Christina received her BA in Political Science from Boston University and her MA in Philosophy and Policy from The London School of Economics. In 2007, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a board member of ASUDA-USA, an organization that empowers female immigrants and refugees of Iraq descent, that are either victims of violence or vulnerable to violence, to attain economic independence and judicious social adjustment.
    Born in New York City to British parents, she travels frequently to the UK. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Burlington, Vermont, where she is senior editor of The Solutions Journal and adjunct professor at the University of Vermont where she teaches about women in Islam.
    Co-sponsored by Northeastern University International Affairs Program, Northeastern University Libraries, and the Northeastern University Women's Studies Program

2010

February
- 18 Thursday
  - Potluck dinner
    Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Hosted by Debra Kaufman, director of Women's Studies
- 24 Wednesday
  - Board meeting
    Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Location: 204 Holmes Hall
- 25 Thursday
  - Mississippi Women Voices on Hurricane Katrina
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 320 Behrakis
    Speaker: Dr. Ophera Davis, Visiting Scholar

2010

March
- 11 Thursday
  - Gender Matters: "War, States, and Women's Activism: a Conversation Between Two Historians"
    Time: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 440 Egan
    Speaker: Professors Laura Frader and Christina Gilmartin
    Christina Gilmartin and Laura L. Frader both former Directors of Women's Studies at Northeastern, talk about how periods of war and post-war recovery in the twentieth century have shaped women's activism and gender-based state policies. Professor Gilmartin, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, is a specialist on Modern China, She is author of Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Movements, Communist Politics , and Mass Movements in the 1920s; and is co-editor of several works. Laura L. Frader, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, is a specialist on women and gender history of modern Europe. She is author of Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model; and is co-editor of Gender and Class in Modern Europe among other books.
  - William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 90 Snell Library
    Speaker: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler
    Organizer: Humanities Center
    Contact: 617-373-4140
    Synopsis: William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. The New York Times called him "the most hated and most loved lawyer in America." His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier. Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore their father's life, from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer. (Courtesy of imdb.com)
- 24 Wednesday
  - Morton Lecture "Wth Justice for All"
    Time: 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
    Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
    Speaker: Morris Dee
    Presented by Morris Dee for Holocaust Awareness Week. Free to all but tickets required. Contact the Spiritual Life Center (203 Ell) or Interdisciplinary Studies (209 Lake).

2010

April
- 07 Wednesday
  - My Israel: Revisiting the Trilogy
    Time: 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
    Location: 90 Snell Library
    Organizer: Inez Hedges
    Contact: i.hedges@neu.edu
    Screening time and location: April 7, 90 Snell Library, 11:50-1:30 p.m.
    Personal appearance by Julie Cohen, April 8, 90 Snell Library 2:50-4:30 p.m. followed by a reception
    Synopsis: Few filmmakers have probed issues of Israeli nationalism and Israeli-Palestinian relations more completely or intimately than Tel Aviv-born Yulie Cohen. In My Israel, Cohen revisits her acclaimed trilogy My Terrorist (2002), My Land Zion (2004), and My Brother (2007) with new footage, fresh perspective, and her trademark fearlessness. For Cohen, Israel is the land of her ancestors, the land her parents fought for during the 1948 war and the land she herself served as an Air Force officer during the Entebbe crisis. In 1978, working as an El Al stewardess, she survived a terrorist attack in London that killed a colleague and left her with shrapnel in her arm. Embarking on a difficult and emotional journey, she attempts to free the surviving terrorist who attacked her, to question the myths of the state that she grew up in, and to reconcile with her ultra-orthodox brother after 25 years of estrangement. My Israel is an account of remarkable courage and understanding set against the last turbulent decade of Israeli history. (Northeastern University Libraries)
    Yulie Cohen’s visit is co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies, The Middle East Center, Women’s Studies, International Affairs, Interdisciplinary Studies, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Humanities Center.
- 08 Thursday
  - Yulie Cohen, Jewish-Israeli film maker
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: 90 Snell Library
    Speaker: Yulie Cohen
    Organizer: Inez Hedges
    Contact: i.hedges@neu.edu
    Personal appearance by Julie Cohen, April 8, 90 Snell Library 2:50-4:30 p.m. followed by a reception
    Yulie Cohen’s visit is co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies, The Middle East Center, Women’s Studies, International Affairs, Interdisciplinary Studies, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Humanities Center.
- 12 Monday
  - Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: From Innovative Research to Innovative Policy?
    Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Location: UMass Boston, Alumni Lounge, Campus Center, room 2552
    Organizer: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
    Contact: rsvpconsortiumevent@umb.edu
    A panel discussion with Jennifer Leaning, Elisabeth Wood, Pamela Delargy and Jennifer Klot
    
    Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
    Time: 6:30-8:30p.m.
    Place: University of Massachusetts Boston
    Alumni Lounge, Campus Center, 2nd floor, Room 2552
    
    Jennifer Leaning, a public health expert with extensive field experience in human rights crises, is a professor of the practice of global health in the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population, co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and director of the University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
    
    Elisabeth Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research and writing analyzes variation in war-time sexual violence, and focuses on questions such as when is wartime rape rare?
    
    Pamela DeLargy, Chief of the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Humanitarian Response Unit (HRU), is responsible for provision of UNFPA's reproductive health support in conflict, natural disaster, and refugee situations. She has worked on refugee, forced migration, and women's health for twenty years, primarily in Africa and the Middle East.
    
    Jennifer Klot is a Senior Advisor for the Social Science Research Council on HIV/AIDS, Gender and Security. She previously served as a Senior Adviser at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) on Governance, Peace and Security, and as a Policy Advisor on peace and security at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
    
    Please RSVP to: rsvpconsortiumevent@umb.edu
- 13 Tuesday
  - Women's Studies Pizza Night
    Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Location: 109 Ryder
    Organizer: Lihua Wang
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu, 617-373-4984
    Join Women’s Studies minors and the Feminist Student Organization for pizza and beverages!
- 21 Wednesday
  - Conversations in Women's Studies
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
    Location: Frost Lounge, Ell Hall
    Women's Studies visiting scholars 2009-2010 Dr. Linda Fuller, Dr. Ophera Davis, and Dr. Seyda Aylin Gurses. Light lunch provided.
- 22 Thursday
  - Graduate Spring Tea
    Time: 2:50 pm - 4:30 pm
    Location: Frost Lounge, Ell Hall
    Organizer: Lihua Wang
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu, 617-373-4984
    Join fellow Women's Studies graduate students and faculty for light refreshments!

2011

March
- 09 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Group Meeting
    Time: 9:00 - 10:30
    Location: The Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Suite 202
    Richard Juang will present his work entitled , "Don't You Clean Up Nice: Grooming and Dress Codes in American Law, Notes on a Transgender Anti-Subordination Approach to Critical Inequity". Lisa Folkmarson Kall will be with us and we can brainstorm with her about our long term project.
- 17 Thursday
  - Women's History Month Film Festival
    Time: 1:00 - 5:00
    Location: Cabral Center
    This is our contribution to a month-long series of film events hosted by universities in GCWS. We will be screening a film and having a panel discussion with the director and scholars.
    On Monday, 3/14, and Wednesday, 3/16, we will be screening the film 'Girlfriends',
    by Claudia Weill, at 6pm in 173 Dodge Hall.
    On Thursday, 3/17, we will be showing the film from 1:00-3:00pm in the Cabral Center, with the panel discussion immediately following.
- 23 Wednesday
  - Gender Matters Series
    Time: 12:00 - 1:30
    Location: 440 Egan
    Panel Discussion on Women, War, and Violence (Editors Robin Chandler, Linda Christian and Lihua Wang) moderated by Debra Kaufman, Director of WGS.
- 31 Thursday
  - Executive Board Meeting
    Time: 9:00 - 10:00
    Location: 334 Curry Student Center
    This meeting has been moved from the normal Wednesday schedule due to conflicts. Please note the new date/time/location.

2011

April
- 06 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Group Meeting
    Time: 9:00 - 10:30
    Location: 540 Holmes
    This meeting is open to the whole Executive Committee and Advisory Board, and the topic will be Gendered/Bodied Images and Holocaust Memorialization. Bodies and Embodiment Group Meeting
  - Lecture and Panel Discussion on Feminism and Contemporary Post Holocaust Narratives
    Time: 12:00 - 1:30
    Location: 102 West Village G
    Panelists will include Janet Jacobs (author of Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory), Debra Kaufman (author of forthcoming book Post Holocaust Narratives and Contemporary Jewish Identity), Laurel Leff (author of Buried by the Times) and moderated by Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor and Director of Jewish Studies. This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and the Humanities Center in their series, "Memory, Trauma, and Location".
    Reception to follow at 1:30pm.

2011

May
- 11 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Group Meeting
    Time: 9:00 - 10:30
    Location: The Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Suite 202
    Bodies and Embodiment Group Meeting

2011

August
- 31 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Room 202
    The group will go over the table of contents for book project, read abstracts, and discuss them; Decisions will be made about the order of presentations for Fall meetings. Presenters should send draft to group one week before presentations.

2011

September
- 21 Wednesday
  - WGSS Community Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall, Sociology Conference Room
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
- 25 Sunday
  - An Evening with Andrea Gibson (LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED)
    Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
    Location: 200 RI
    Speaker: Andrea Gibson
    Organizer: Feminist Student Organization
    Contact: nufeministstudentorg@gmail.com
    This event is being held in 200 Richards Hall (no longer in AfterHours)
    Andrea Gibson is not gentle with her truths. A powerful live performer Gibson is the winner of the 2008 Women’s World Poetry Slam, and has placed 3rd in world on two International Poetry Slam stages. Andrea’s first book, published by Write Bloody Publishing, POLE DANCING TO GOSPEL HYMNS won the DIY Poetry Book of the Year and was nominated for the prestigious PUSHCART PRIZE.
- 28 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Room 202
    Jenny Björkland, and Anne Fleche will be leading the discussion.

2011

October
- 01 Saturday
  - Our Bodies, Ourselves 40th Anniversary Webcast
    Time: 9:00AM - 5:30PM
    Location: West Village F Room 20
    This year is the 40th Anniversary of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the landmark book about women's health, reproduction and sexuality. Boston University and Our Bodies Ourselves are co-hosting this day-long symposium that will bring together our global partners that are adapting Our Bodies, Ourselves to their unique cultural needs and bringing evidence-based, culturally reliable health resources to their communities in different print, digital and social interactive formats.
    
    We are requesting that you RSVP since we will be providing light refreshments. RSVP to Patricia Farrell at 617 272 2022 or p.farrell@neu.edu
- 05 Wednesday
  - Markets in Assisted Reproduction: Should we Pay for Eggs, Sperm, and Wombs?
    Time: 12:00PM - 1:30PM
    Location: 240 Dockser Hall (Law Building)
    Speaker: Adrienne Asch
    Feminist Bioethics Expert Adrienne Asch is the Edward and Robin Millstein Professor of Bioethics at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both at Yeshiva University in New York. Much of her scholarship examines issues of bio-ethics, reproduction, and disability. She is currently working on a book on assisted reproduction.
- 19 Wednesday
  - WGSS Community Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall, Sociology Conference Room
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
- 20 Thursday
  - Snell Library's Meet the Author Series: Joumana Haddad
    Time: 12:00PM
    Location: 421 Snell Library
    In an effort to break the silence Arab women have kept for so long, Haddad writes I Killed Scheherazade, in which she argues that “every woman has not only the right, but the duty to ignore social, political, and sexual expectations and be true to herself.” She challenges the widespread ideas of identity and womanhood in the Middle East and speaks of her own liberating development and the profound effect literature has had on her life. This book breaks the silence of social norms in what Amazon.com calls a “fiery and candid” text and “a provocative exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today [that] will enlighten and inform a new international feminism.”
  - An Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston
    Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
    Location: Cabral Center
    Speaker: Humanities Center
    On October 20, 2011 from 5:30-7:00PM (followed by a reception) at the Cabral Center, the Humanities Center will host Maxine Hong Kingston. She is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an acclaimed author of many books including the award-winning THE WOMAN WARRIOR.
    PDF Flier
- 22 Saturday
  - Snell Library's Meet the Author Series: Linda Cohn
    Time: 2:30PM
    Location: Curry Ballroom
    Speaker: Linda Cohn
    LOCATION CHANGE: This event was originally taking place at Snell Library, but since we have received over 300 RSVPs for this event, it has been moved to Curry Student Center Ballroom.
    Attendance is by RSVP only. To RSVP for this event please contact Nina Shah at nin.shah@neu.edu or 617-373-5452.
    Join us for an author talk and book signing with one of the first full-time female sports anchors, and now Northeastern parent, Linda Cohn. Linda has been an anchor for ESPN’s SportsCenter for over 19 years and has long been considered a pioneer for women sportscasters. Her recent book, Cohn- Head: A No-Hands-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club, talks candidly about Cohn’s dreams, victories, disappointments, obstacles and her determination to win in the sports industry.
- 26 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Room 202
    Peter Forsberg and Lihua Wang will be leading the discussion.
  - Opening Day of Traveling Exhibit: Emma Lazarus, Voice of Liberty, Voice of Conscience
    Time: 10/26 - 12/16
    Location: Snell Library
    Contact: nin.shah@neu.edu
    The exhibition will be open to the public at Snell Library starting on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 through Wednesday, December 16, 2011. It is composed of eight informative panels featuring photographic reproductions of historical images and original works by Lazarus, including “1492,” “The Creation of Man,” and “The New Colossus.” The exhibition will be located on the First Floor of Snell Library behind The Hub.
    Emma Lazarus: Voice of Liberty, Voice of Conscience explores the life and legacy of Emma Lazarus – a poet, critic, advocate for the poor, early feminist, and champion of immigrants and refugees. Curated by Lazarus’ biographer, Esther Schor of Princeton University, this exhibit traces Lazarus’ life intellectual development, work, and lasting influence, and reminds us of the iconic words of her poem, “The New Colossus,” engraved on a plaque now located in the Statue of Liberty Museum.
- 27 Thursday
  - Emma Lazarus Opening Program: Issues of Immigration in Today's America
    Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
    Location: Snell Library First Floor
    Contact: nin.shah@neu.edu
    Featured Panelists: Silvia Dominguez, Northeastern University Assistant Professor of Sociology; Kitty Dukakis,social activist, author, and wife of former Governor of Massachusetts, Barbara Gottschalk, Executive Vice President of Seeds of Peace, Rachel Rosenblum, Northeastern University Assistant Professor of Law
    Refreshments will be served.
    PDF Flier

2011

November
- 09 Wednesday
  - Boston Jewish Film Festival Screening: DEAF JAM
    Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
    Location: Coolidge Corner
    Speaker: TBA
    Contact: j.sartori@neu.edu
    Teen Aneta Brodski attends school for the deaf in Queens and inhabits the exuberant world of American Sign Language (ASL) poetry. Filmmaker Judy Lieff chronicles Aneta’s bold entry into Manhattan’s spoken-word slam scene, where Aneta, an Israeli immigrant, meets Tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet. The two collaborate on a powerful duet that mirrors the complex worlds they share. Deaf Jam uses innovative film techniques to honor ASL as a three-dimensional language that exists in space, like dance. In English and ASL, fully captioned.
    BJFF Website
- 16 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Richard Juang and Milou van der Hoek will be leading the discussion.
  - Meet the Author of Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders
    Time: 12:00PM
    Location: 90 Snell Library
    Speaker: Author Emily Fox-Kales
    Body Shots shows how Hollywood films, movie stars, and celebrity media help propagate the values of an “eating disordered culture” which promotes constant self-scrutiny and vigilance, denial of appetite and over control of weight in the compulsive pursuit of an eternally elusive body ideal of slenderness and fitness. In a unique approach that merges the disciplines of film analysis, gender studies, and psychology, clinical psychologist and cinema studies scholar Emily Fox-Kales demonstrates how the body narratives of such Hollywood celebrities as Lindsay Lohan, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Oprah Winfrey and their battles with bulimia, post-maternal weight gain, and yo-yo dieting not only serve as public enactments of the same eating and weight struggles their fans endure, but create a “new normal” which naturalizes and even valorizes the chronic body dissatisfaction and weight obsession that are established risk factors for eating disorders in women and girls.
- 30 Wednesday
  - An American Poet in the 21st Century: A Reading and Discussion
    Time: 5:00PM
    Location: 421 Snell Library
    Hosted by: Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Featuring: Louise Glück, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award
    Please join us for the second program in the Emma Lazarus series, which will feature a reading by American poet, Louise Glück. She is the author of numerous books of poetry including A Village Life: Poems; Averno, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages; and Vita Nova, winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry.
    This program will be hosted by Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about programs presented by the Northeastern University Libraries, visit our News & Events page.

2011

December
- 02 Friday
  - WGSS Community Meeting
    Time: 3:30PM - 5:00PM
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall, Sociology Conference Room
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
- 07 Wednesday
  - Bodies and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00AM - 10:30AM
    Location: Humanities Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, Room 202
    Jacob Bull and Michael Lundblad will be leading the discussion.
- 08 Thursday
  - Visiting Scholar Works in progress Panel
    Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
    Location: 540 Holmes

2012

January
- 17 Tuesday
  - Screening & Discussion: Miss Representation
    Time: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
    Location: 20 WVF
    Join us for a screening and discussion of the film Miss Representation. This award winning film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.
    About Miss Representation: Like drawing... back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation (90 min; TV-14 DL) uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.
    Brought to you by the Human Services Program, Social Justice Resource Center, Strong Women Strong Girls, UHCS, ViSION, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
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- 18 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
    Linda Blum and Peter Forsberg will be leading the discussion.

2012

February
- 01 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
    Kara Suanson will be presenting.
- 02 Thursday
  - Genes, Guns, and Gays: Tolerace and the Politics of Analogy
    Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    Location: 400B Holmes Hall
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu
    Suzanna Walters, author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory, and Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture, will be giving a talk hosted by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
    A reception will follow.
- 15 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
    David Grotell will be presenting.
- 16 Thursday
  - The Other "Sex Work": The Persistence of Stigma in Sexuality Research
    Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
    Location: Frost Lounge
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu
    Janice Irvine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States, Sexuality Across Cultures: Working with Differences, and Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent identities. Irvine will be giving a talk hosted by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
    A reception will follow.

2012

March
- 13 Tuesday
  - March Film Festival: You and Me Screening
    Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu
    You and Me, an internationally acclaimed film by one of China’s few women directors, tells the poignant story of the growing emotional bond between an isolated elderly woman and the younger woman who rents a room from her when she moves to the city to pursue a college education. Exploring changing gender and family dynamics in contemporary China, this film is of interest to China specialists, world cinema fans, and all those concerned with elder-care in aging societies, sustainable urban communities, and the changing status of global women and families. Please join us!
    Liwen Ma will be joining us via Skype for a Q&A after the screening.
    Light refreshments will be served.
    March_Film_Festival_Flyer
- 14 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu
  - An Evening with Jessica Valenti
    Time: 7:00 PM
    Location: 103 Churchill
    Organizer: Feminist Student Organization
    Jessica Valenti is an American blogger and feminist writer known for founding the feminist blog, Feministing, in 2004. She is the author of Full Frontal Feminism, He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and The Purity Myth. Valenti was named in March 2011 as one of The Guardian's top 100 women, for what the newspaper described as her pioneering work in bringing the feminist movement online and into the 21st century.
    Valenti's writing style is upbeat and contemporary. She states her opinions and facts in an up front and unapologetic way. She speaks at colleges and universities all the time and is know for her powerful and lively speaking style. Her writing discusses equality between women and men as well as the double standards and antiquated traditions and norms of our society. Regardless of whether you are new to feminism or a feminist scholar Valenti's ideas are clear and understanding.

2012

April
- 03 Tuesday
  - How to Complete a Great Feminist Dissertation!
    Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    Location: 400 B Holmes Hall
    Contact: k.uhly@neu.edu
    The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program invites you to the Visiting Scholars New PhD Breakfast!
    This is an event organized specifically for graduate students to meet with the new Ph.D. Visiting Scholars from WGSS:
    Liz Son, American Studies, Ph.D., Yale University and Jennifer Lynne Musto, Women’s Studies, Ph.D., UCLA
    for a brief presentation of their research and an in-depth discussion about moving through graduate school - from comps, through the dissertation, to the job market. Please come with your questions – plenty of time will be allocated for conversation! Please RSVP to Katrina Uhly, k.uhly@neu.edu, refreshments to be served.
- 09 Monday
  - Lecture on Chinese Population Policy with Professor Zhou
    Time: 2:50 PM - 4:30 PM
    Location: 140 Richards Hall
    Prof. Zhou will informally present research on Chinese population policy within Lihua Wang’s WGSS seminar on transnational feminism. Please RSVP to L.wang@neu.edu
- 10 Tuesday
  - Lunch with Chinese Demographer Professor Zhou
    Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    Prof Zhou will share information on the Women’s Studies Center at Beida, including her own and colleagues’ teaching and research interests. Please RSVP to Lihua Wang, l.wang@neu.edu.
- 11 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu

2012

May
- 23 Wednesday
  - Body and Embodiment Meeting
    Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    Location: Humanities Center
    Contact: l.blum@neu.edu

2013

January
- 16 Wednesday
  - Upcoming Body/Embodiment Research Cluster Meeting
    Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall
    Organizer: The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu

2013

March
- 20 Wednesday
  - "Women Take the Reel: A film festival celebrating Women's History Month"
    Time: 7PM - 9PM
    Location: 421 Snell Library, 360 Huntington Ave.
    Treyf, a film by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky
    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives.
- 28 Thursday
  - Visiting Scholar Lecture Series -- "Tainted Witness:Women's Testimony in a Transnational Frame, 1990-Present"
    Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    Location: 540 Holmes Hall
    Speaker: WGSS Visiting Scholar Leigh Gilmore and Professor of English Carla Kaplan
    Organizer: The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
    Contact: l.wang@neu.edu
    A feminist dialogue between WGSS Visiting Scholar Leigh Gilmore and English Professor Carla Kaplan

2013

April
- 18 Thursday
  - "Vulnerable Bodies & Bodily Boundaries: A Symposium of the NU-Uppsala Body/Embodiment Collaboborative Research Cluster"
    Time: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
    Location: 440 Egan Center
    WGSS will be hosting a discussion on the "Body/Embodiment" research project, a collaborative work between Northeastern University and Uppsala University in Sweden. This symposium is cosponsored by the Northeastern Humanities Center and the Sociology Department. Open to the public. For more information contact Professor Linda Blum (l.blum@neu.edu).