News/Events
Women's Studies Program
Fall Calendar 2009
SEPTEMBER
Sun. Sept. 13, 5 - 9 pm - Jean Ferguson Carr's home
Women’s Studies Potluck
Tues. Sept. 15, 4:30 pm - 501 Cathedral of Learning
James R. Kincaid (Aerol Arnold Professor of English, Univ. of Southern California)
“Here's Looking at You, Kid!: How We Look at The Child and Why We Shouldn't Look That Way”
Sponsored by English and Children’s Literature
Wed. Sept. 23, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - 501 Cathedral of Learning
Film: “I was a Teenage Feminist” (2005 documentary film by Therese Schechter)
Discussion and Undergraduate Reception
Tues. Sept. 29, 4:00 p.m. - 3703 Posvar Hall
Ellen Herman (Professor of History, University of Oregon)
“Scientific Rules for Realness: Matching and Its Critics in American Adoption”
Sponsored by the Consortium for Adoption Studies, Arts & Sciences, History, Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies
OCTOBER
Thurs. Oct. 1, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - 2501 Posvar
PACWC/Women’s Studies Annual Reception for New Women Faculty (Lecture at 3:00; Reception at 4:00)
Lecture by Nancy E. Davidson, M.D. (Director, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers), “Breast Cancer in the Molecular Era.”
RSVP to women@pitt.edu.
Fri. Oct. 2, 12:00-1:30 p.m. 2431 Posvar
Ziad Munson (Asst. Prof. of Sociology, Lehigh University)
"What Makes Pro-Lifers Tick: Understanding Mobilization Against Legalized Abortion"
Sponsored by Sociology and Pittsburgh Social Movements Forum; co-sponsored by Women’s Studies
Thurs. Oct. 8, 12:30-2:30 p.m. - 526 Cathedral of Learning
Sharon Marcus (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Colloquium on Professor Marcus’ book, Between Women; Respondents: Todd Reeser, Susan Andrade, and Brie Owen
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading under discussion.
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute, University of Pittsburgh; co-sponsored by Women’s Studies
Thurs. Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m. - 501 Cathedral of Learning
Sharon Marcus, (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
“Salome and the Drama of Celebrity”
Fri.-Sat. Oct. 9-10
(des)articulaciones: Memory and Transgression
Keynote: Mayra Santos-Febrese (Universided de Puerto Rico)
Graduate Student Conference sponsored by Dept. of Hispanic Languages and Literature, CLAS, Arts & Sciences; cosponsored by Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies. For program information and locations, see website: http://www.pitt.edu/~nam36/index.htiml
Wed. 21, 12:00 p.m. - 2201 Posvar Hall
Peace Medie (Doctoral candidate, GSPIA)
“Gender and Security in Post-Conflict Peace-Building: A Study of the Concept of Security in Post-Conflict Liberia”
Wed. 28, 3:00 p.m. - 2201 Posvar
Joseph Alter (Professor of Anthropology, Univ. Pittsburgh)
“Wrestling with Masculinity in Modern India ”
NOVEMBER
Tues. Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m. - 501 Cathedral of Learning
Daisy Delogu (Asst. Prof., Romance Languages & Literatures, Chicago),
Katherine Crawford (Assoc. Prof. of History, Vanderbilt)
Two lectures on “The Idea of France in the Middle Ages and Renaissance”, “A Natural King and a Free People: Philippe de Mézières's 'Dream of the Old Pilgrim' (1386-89)” and, “Salic Law and the Politics of Exclusion”
Reception to follow
Sponsored by the Humanities Center and Dept. of French, co-sponsored by Women's Studies
Wed. Nov. 4, 12:00 p.m. - 2201 Posvar
Emily Bailey (Graduate student, Religious Studies, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
“Eating Habits: An Ethnographic Study of Social Food Practice in Female Catholic Religious Life.”
Wed. Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m. - Babcock Room, 40th floor Cathedral of Learning
Directions: Take CL elevator to the 36th floor, then take the service elevator around the corner to the right.
Daisy Delogu (Asst. Prof. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Chicago) and Katherine Crawford (Assoc. Prof. of History, Vanderbilt),
Colloquium on “Gender and the Medieval/Renaissance French Nation”
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the texts to be discussed.
Sponsored by the Humanities Center and Dept. of French; cosponsored by Women’s Studies
Tues. Nov. 10, 1:00-3:00 p.m. - Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union
Undergraduate Internship Expo
Wed. Nov. 11, 3:00 p.m. - 2201 Posvar
Edward Slavishak (Assistant Professor, History, Susquehanna Univ.)
“Brawn and Bruises: Imagining Pittsburgh's Bodies of Work ”
Wed. Nov. 18, 12:00 p.m.- 2201 Posvar
Edouard Machery (Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh)
"Can we hold people responsible for their implicit biases against women and minorities?"
Wed. Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m.- 202 Cathedral of Learning
Sheila ffolliott (Professor Emeritus, Art History, George Mason University)
"How Renaissance Women Viewed Portraits"
Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture; Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and Women's Studies
DECEMBER
Fri. Dec. 11, 3:00 p.m. - 3106 Posvar
Pardis Mahdavi (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Pomona College, and Woodrow Wilson Fellow)
Sponsored by Anthropology; cosponsored by Women’s Studies
For further information contact: wstudies@pitt.edu. Watch this space for periodic updates.
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