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A Feminine Palette: Women Artists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM

Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the work of three [...]

Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School

Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street — Room 510
New York, NY

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY.

Merging the creative and the critical, this event will feature [...]

From Turbulence to Transformation

Presented by the National Council for Research on Women

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
3 to 5 PM

A SPECIAL EVENT WITH:

Edith Cooper, Managing Director, Global Head of Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs

Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

Letty Chiwara, Manager, UNIFEM Cross Regional Programmes (invited)

Moderated by Jacki Zehner, Founding Partner, Circle Financial Group

At this critical yet promising [...]

Women’s History Month Lecture with Cecilia Fire Thunder

Thursday, March 11, 2010
6 PM

Former President of the Ogala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Ms. Fire Thunder will discuss the role of Lakota women, past and present.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Diker Pavilion
One Bowling Green
New York City

Free

Call for Writers: Gender Across Borders

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, is planning a series to run mid-December on Women, Art and War. The site is currently soliciting writers to contribute articles relating to this topic. If you enjoy writing and have a passion for the visual or performing arts as well as women’s studies, international politics or human [...]

Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impact of Small Arms and Light Weapons

Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:15pm to 2:30pm

Conference Room 7
UN Headquarters
New York, New York

For more information, visit the ONY-UNU website.

United Nations University/Office at the United Nations is holding a Book Launch to discuss issues raised in Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History

“Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”

June 9-12, 2011

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Proposals due March 1, 2010.

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011.

2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the 100th anniversary of [...]

Thirty Year Reflections on Women on the Line: Changes and Continuities in Women’s Work

Miriam Glucksmann, author of Women on the Line

Presented by the NYU the Center for the United States and the Cold War at the Tamiment Library; co-sponsored by the New York Labor History Association

October 26, Monday
5 to 7 PM

Comments by Linda Gordon, History, NYU

The Tamiment Library
Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
10th Floor
between LaGuardia Place and Greene Street

For [...]

RECAP: Teaching Sex – De/Constructing Bodies, Categories and Norms

“Teaching Sex – De/Constructing Bodies, Categories and Norms: Feminist Sex Shops in the U.S. and Sweden”
Nina Lykke, Gender Studies, Linköping University, and director of the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel)
@ the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
October 12, 2009

Dr. Lykke’s packed presentation was a great kickoff to the Brown Bag Lunch [...]

The Facisization of Everyday Life in Sri Lanka

November 9, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM

Mangalika de Silva, Visiting Scholar, CSGS

Based on prior activism as director of the NGO “Women for Peace” and on current ethnographic research on the minoritization of women and Muslims, this talk explores genealogies of formal and informal state terror.  Counterinsurgency nationalism in Sri Lanka is theorized as a key component [...]