Spring 2008 Events

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Current Events

Spring 2009

Wednesday, April 15~~ 6:00-8:00 pm in Chapin Auditorium
MHC Celebrates Hortense Parker Day
The College will celebrate the legacy of women of color at Mount Holyoke by honoring the first known woman of color to graduate, Hortense Parker, class of 1883.


Thursday, April 2 ~~ 7:00 pm in 216 Shattuck Hall
Panel Discussion: "Shifting Places: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration"


Thursday, February 12, 2009 ~~ 5:00 pm at Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Panel Discussion: "Dressing for Work" Click here for a QuickTime presentation.


Thursday, March 5, 2009 ~~ 5:00 pm at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center
Tabitha Mulyampiti
Gender, Health and HIV/AIDS in Africa
Gender and health covers the broad discussion of gender as a determinant of health or well-being. Mulyampiti explores how sex and gender interact with other factors to influence health and considers the different health behaviors and expectations of men and women (the social construction of gender and health). The paper will also consider gender-based health problems with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Other related problems including violence against women, child abuse, trafficking, and commercial sex work will also be examined.

 

Fall 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008 ~ ~ 6:45 pm in Gamble Auditorium

Panel Discussion:
Post-Conflict Resolution in Bosnia and Rwanda--Beyond National Recovery

Robert L. Mugisha, Africa program manager in Survivor Corps who formerly worked in the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda and the Rwandan Justice Ministry, will lead a panel discussion with Elmina Kulasic, executive director of the Bosniak American Advisory Council in Washington, DC. An exhibition of the Srebrencia Memorial Quilt will precede the panel discussion.


Wednesday, November 5, 2008 ~ ~ 12:00-1:15 pm in the Cassani Room, Shattuck Hall
Gathering for Prospectives
Gender Studies will host its pre-advising luncheon for current and prospective majors and minors and anyone interested in learning more about Gender Studies

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 ~ ~ 4:30pm - 6pm
TABOO: Abortion and the Election: Where Are We Headed?

What are our reproductive rights and how will this election affect them? This taboo session will provide an opportunity to examine how the candidates for the 2008 presidential election define reproductive justice while also allowing space for you to explore what this means to you. Should Roe v. Wade be overturned? Should it be maintained or strengthened? What would be the consequences locally, nationally, and globally? How will they affect you?
Facilitators: Gender Studies 391
Blanchard Campus Center Lounge (227)


The Center for Research on Families announces a two day symposium:
“WOMEN AND WORK: Choices and Constraints”
University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 30-31, 2008

 

A Reading by Professor Elizabeth Young
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
The Odyssey Book Shop
October 29 • Wednesday • 7 pm

For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley’s English novel, Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonance in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.

Standards of Care
Performance Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8:00
Umass Student Union Ballroom
Free for students with college ID, $5.00 for the public


Lunchtime Preview of Trans Theatre:
Scenes from Standards of Care

a play by Tobias K. Davis
presented by the 20% Theatre Company
Including discussion with director Claire Avitabile and members of the cast

Friday, October 3, 12:15-1:15
Cassani Room, 102 Shattuck Hall
Mount Holyoke College

About Standards of Care:
"Meet David and Jason - two transgender female-to-males (FTMs) trying to figure out their lives. When they both are in need of support the most - David from his gender therapist, and Jason from his mother - they find that their support systems are one and the same: Nancy! What will happen when Nancy's two worlds collide? "Standards of Care" is humorous and honest, serious and sexy - and without a doubt, ground-breaking new work that is not to be missed!"

Three German Filmmakers: Three Decades of Filmmaking
Tuesday, October 7th at 7:30 PM, Dwight 101


BLACK EUROPEANS
RACE AND THE NEW EUROPE
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
AY 2008-09 schedule of events


AY 2007-08 Events
Spring 2008

February 20
Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks
Robin Blaetz
7:00 pm, Odyssey Bookshop


February 25-26
Children and War
Feb. 25, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115), Amherst College from 7:00-9:30 pm
Feb. 26, Blanchard Great Room, Mount Holyoke College, 7:30 pm


February 26
I’m Looking Through You Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir
Jennifer Finney Boylan
7:00 pm, Odyssey Bookshop


February 29
Building Bridges: Honest Conversation about Race
An interactive workshop and group dialogue on race, differences, silence, stereotypes, solidarity, community, and change. Naomi Tutu and Rose Bator, facilitators.
9:30-11:30 am, Willits-Hallowell Conference Center


March 10
Feminist Conceptualizations of War: Geographies of Thinking
Dubravka Zarkov
Ford Associate, The Institute of Social Studies
Talk, 4:00 pm
83 College Street, Five College Women's Studies Research Center


March 31
Globalizing Gender?: Militarization, ‘New Wars’ and the Global Economy
Dubravka Zarkov
Ford Associate, The Institute of Social Studies
Talk, 4:00 pm
83 College Street, Five College Women's Studies Research Center


April 2
Gathering for majors, minors, faculty, prospectives and friends
Wednesday, April 2, 4:15 - 5:30 pm in Shattuck 102


April 11
Iranian Feminism 1848
Stories of Qurratu'l Ayn
Farzaneh Milani "From Badasht to Seneca Falls"
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani "Reading the Past to Write the Future: Iranian Facts and Fictions

The New York Room
4:00 pm Friday, April 11, 2008


May 1
Gender and Justice: Spanish Politics in the 21st Century
Professor Lisa Vollendorf
California State University, Long Beach

Thursday, May 1
4:30 pm in 203 Kendade

Fall 2007

September 28
"Blind Shots: Reviewing Pedro Almodóvar's Matador"
Brad Epps, Harvard University
4:00 pm, 305 Kendade

October 15
Sex Slaves: Stripped of Human Rights
7:00 pm, Gamble Auditorium, Side A
see the MHC Events Calendar for more information

November 1
Gathering for Prospective Majors & Minors
4:00-6:00 pm, The Cassani Room, Shattuck Hall

November 8
Hide and Seek: Filmmaker Su Friedrich Discusses Her Work
7:30 pm, 101 Dwight Hall

November 16-17
Women's Poetry Open Mic
Featuring and Hosted by Patricia Smith
at el Mercado Cafe, Holyoke on Nov. 16 & at Union Station, Northampton on Nov. 17

November 26-December 1
World AIDS Awareness week
Sponsored by CAUSE

 

AY 2006-07 Events

Spring 2007

May 8, 2007
Shattuck Picnic
click to view a photo Slideshow

April 28 & 28, 2007
THE GLOBAL & THE INTIMATE: GENDER STUDIES AND THE PRESENT CRISIS OF CITIZENSHIP
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts
Friday, April 27
2:00 p.m., Dwight 101, Registration and Welcome
8:00 p.m., Dwight 101, Joy James, Keynote

Saturday, April 28
9:00 a.m., Hooker Auditorium, Sessions continue
For more, visit The Global & The Intimate


April 9, 2007
The Bad Girls' Genealogy and the Politics of Femme: Notes Towards a Science of Queer Femininity
Ulrika Dahl, Lecturer of Gender Studies, Södertörns Högskola
PhD in Anthropology and Women's Studies from UC Santa Cruz

 

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Fall 2006

Dress Codes and Modes: Women’s Clothing in Muslim Countries and Communities

A visual exhibition focusing on various types of dress worn by women in selected Muslim contexts, Dress Codes and Modes, will be on display in The Cassani Room, 102 Shattuck Hall at Mount Holyoke College from Monday, October 30 through Sunday, November 26.

Click here to view a slide show from the Dress Codes and Modes Opening Reception. The photos will advance automatically, or you may use the arrow keys on your keyboard move through the images. You can use the escape key on your keyboard to exit the slideshow.

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News & Articles

Moriah Silver '09 Lands White House Internship

Hortense Parker Day to be Annual Event

Radcliffe Fellow tells tale of first woman to play professional baseball

Emily Usher Shrair '08 wins Davis Award

Martha Ackmann wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Moriah Silver '09 selected as 2008 Truman Scholar

Martha Ackmann to give Albion Lecture

Eleanor Townsley receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant, March 2008

Martha Ackmann named a Fellow in Creative Writing--Nonfiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for 2008-2009. I will be writing a book called "Curveball" about Toni Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball on men's teams. Stone played in the old Negro Leagues of the 1950's (Spring 2008)

Robin Blaetz receives the MHC Faculty Prize for Teaching

Elizabeth Young to Discuss Her Life Journey

Questioning Authority: Elizabeth Young on Frankenstein

Elizabeth Young, associate professor of English and gender studies, gives Baccalaureate Address during May 2007 Commencement

Martha Ackmann, "Female pilots reached for the stars" Story Here

Meet The Women Of Mercury 13: Women Who Secretly Trained To Be Early Astronauts Honored" Story Here

"Women would-be astronauts to get honorary doctorates" Story Here

Honoring the Mercury 13 Women, visit Oshkosh.edu, for photos and video

Dickinson Family Tombstone Unearthed Story Here

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