Women in History

"Passing the Torch"

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:27pm
Member Organization: 
Center for the Education of Women
Date/Time: 
03/22/2010

Location: School of Social Work, Educational Conference Center 1080 S. University Avenue

Presentation "Chicana por mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism"

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:17pm
Member Organization: 
Center for the Education of Women
Date/Time: 
03/17/2010

Location: CEW, 330 E. Liberty Street

 

A Question of Habit: A documentary film on images of religious women in U.S. popular culture

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 3:31pm
Member Organization: 
Ann Ida Gannon Center for Women and Leadership
Date/Time: 
04/08/2010

Dr. Bren Ortega Murphy, a faculty member in communication studies and women and gender studies, will discuss and present portions of her film that examines the wide variety of visual images of Catholic nuns and sisters used in contemporary U.S. popular culture and contrasts these images with the lives of actual women religious, both historical and current.
 

Location: Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor Gathering Space
 

The Library Speaker Series is free, but RSVP is requested.
Contact Carol Franklin at 773.508.2641 or cfrankl@luc.edu

 

“(Hi)stories of Sexuality: Same-Sex Marriages in 16th-Century Rome”

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 1:19pm
Member Organization: 
Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality
Date/Time: 
03/19/2010

Gary Ferguson, University of Delaware
 

*Respondents: David Wallace (English) and Ann Matter (Religious Studies)

 Location: 436 Cohen

Angela Davis Honors Beverly Guy-Sheftall During NWSA Conference

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 11:46am

Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. She has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Davis served as the keynote speaker for the 2009 National Women's Studies Association's annual conference where she honored Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., NWSA President & Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Womens Studies at Spelman College.

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Member Organization: 
Women's Research & Resource Center

Women Soldiers: History and Recent Experience

Submitted by jmumbey on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 5:48pm
Member Organization: 
Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Date/Time: 
04/15/2010

Joshua S. Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University (Washington, DC); and Research Scholar, University of Massachusetts

Women in Corporate America, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan

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04/16/2010

 

Presenters: Linda Basch, National Council for Research on Women; Melissa Fisher, Georgetown University

CEW presents a panel discussion focused on women in corporate America, both on Wall Street and in fund management. Panelists include Dr. Melissa Fisher, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University whose forthcoming book is an ethnography of the first generation of women on Wall Street (the 1950s to the present). The second panelist is Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women. Dr. Basch along with Jacki Zehner (Women in Fund Management), examined if the recent U.S. financial system's economic meltdown might have been avoided if more women had been in the fields of hedge funds and mutual funds.
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International Women's Day

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 1:01pm
Member Organization: 
Legal Momentum
Date/Time: 
03/08/2010

International Women's Day

Thirty-Three Years of Women in S&E Faculty Positions

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:42pm

The relatively low proportion of women in academic science and engineering (S&E) has been the topic of numerous recent books, reports, and workshops. Data for 2006 show that women continue to constitute a much lower percentage of S&E full professors than their share of S&E doctorates awarded in that year. Even in psychology, a field heavily dominated by women, women were less than half of all full professors, even though they earned well more than half of doctorates in 2006.

URL: 
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08308/

Activists Who Yearn For Art That Transforms: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements in the United States

Submitted by jmumbey on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:35pm
Member Organization: 
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Date/Time: 
04/13/2010

 

Through this offering of comparative cultural and intellectual history, Professor Collins exposes links between the Black Arts Movement and the Feminist Art Movement in the United States to address a critical question that is too often tackled without seeing these movements as central: How did postwar cultural workers deeply immersed in sociopolitical movements in the United States see their role and work?
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