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Thursday, March 24, 2011 -Seminar in Gender and Sexuality- Jonathan Metzl

PLEASE JOIN US; FREE VEGETARIAN LUNCH PROVIDED

Women’s Studies Certificate Program and Center for the Study of Women and Society

Seminar in Gender and Sexuality: JONATHAN METZL Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

Thursday, March 24th, 2011 12:00-2:00 pm Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

JONATHAN METZL, Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, co-editor [...]

March 29th: Native Peoples Forum: Tz’uninija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement on Mining & Women’s Rights in Guatemala

MINING AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA Victoria Cumes Jochola of the Tz’ununija’ Indigenous Women’s Movemen­­­­t

Tuesday, March 29th 4:00pm-6:00pm 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

Victoria Cumes Jochola of the Tz’uninija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement will be visiting NYU as part of a three-week speaking tour coordinated by the Network [...]

Creating Proper Men: Masculinities, Embodiment & Agency in the West Bank

April 6, 2011 – 12:00PM-1:30 PM

Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Hall, Room 502

435 West 116th Street (Amsterdam avenue)

New York, NY

Maria Malmstrom, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), New York University Visiting Scholar

In this talk, Dr. Malmstrom will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among [...]

Calls for Papers! Gender, Bodies & Technology 2012

Proposals are invited for our second, biannual interdisciplinary conference:

“Gender, Bodies & Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames” April 26-28, 2012 Roanoke, Virginia

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2011

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and [...]

Kristen Springer- March 22nd, “Macho Men” and Preventive Healthcare: CU Seminar Series in Gender, Sexuality, and Health

The Columbia University Seminar Series in Gender, Sexuality and Health presents:

‘Macho Men’ and Preventive Healthcare: Implications for Men in Different Social Classes

March 22, 2011 9:30 – 11:00 am

Presented by: Kristen Springer, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Rutgers University

The Gender, Sexuality and Health Seminar Series is held in the 9th [...]

Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism: March 11

The American History Workshop @ NYU presents…

William P. Jones University of Wisconsin

“Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism”

Friday, March 11th at 10 a.m.

NYU King Juan Carlos I, Room 428 53 Washington Square South NYC

Lunch will be served!

**The paper is pre-circulated—email khary.polk(at)gmail.com [...]

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place film screening

KE KULANA HE MAHU: REMEMBERING A SENSE OF PLACE

a film screening and discussion with producer Connie Florez

April 5, Tuesday 6 to 9 pm

a film by Brent Anbe and Kathryn Xian 67 minutes, 2001, USA

For more film information, please visit http://www.zangpictures.net/Projects/KeKulanaHeMahu.html

This documentary examines how colonialism has profoundly shifted [...]

Egyptian activist and author Dr. Nawal El Saadawi @ NYU March 22 & 24

March 22nd and March 24th

Fresh from the revolution in Tahrir Square, Dr. El Saadawi will discuss the current political developments in Egypt and her life as a writer, physician, feminist, and human rights activist.

Creativity, Dissidence & Women: A Multidisciplinary Conference

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South [...]

March 18: Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today

New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women presents:

Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today: A panel for the Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Speakers:

Vesna Kesic, Croatian feminist activist, journalist, researcher, “Activism and culture as [...]

Creating Proper Men: Masculinities, Embodiment & Agency in the West Bank

CREATING PROPER MEN: MASCULINITIES, EMBODIMENT AND AGENCY IN THE WEST BANK

a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Maria Malmström

March 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm

Maria Malmström, CSGS Visiting Scholar

In this talk, Dr. Malmström will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank through [...]