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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Presentation of the Major
(for Smith students only)
Meet the faculty advisers and student liaisons, get information on paid research fellowships, internships and annual prizes, learn about course requirements, and more! Light lunch will be served.
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Seelye Hall 207
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Monday, October 5, 2009
"Queer Pleasures:
The Technologies of Disability and Desire"
Margrit Shildrick, Reader, Gender Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, UK and Adjunct Professor of Critical Disability Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Shildrick’s lecture is based on the ideas in her latest book, Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality, an innovative and adventurous book that examines disability using feminist and postmodernist analysis. She will explore what motivates the discrimination, devaluation and alienation directed at disabled people, and asks sharp questions about our understanding of what it means to be a person living in a body deemed different. Co-sponsored by the Programs in American Studies and in the Study of Women and Gender. Get the poster.
Time/Location: 4:30 pm, Neilson Browsing Room
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Poets Honor Moore and Joan Larkin, with special guest Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, Read from Poems From the Women’s Movement
A celebration of and reading from the anthology Poems From the Women’s Movement, edited by Honor Moore and published by Library of America, now in its second printing. During the event, poets Joan Larkin and Honor Moore will read their poems and the work of others in the book. Audre Lorde’s daughter, Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins and several students from the Five Colleges will join them in reading other poems in the anthology. “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? / The world would split open.” These lines by Muriel Rukeyser epitomize the spirit that animated a whole generation of women poets, from the 1960s to the 1980s, who in exploring the unspoken truths of their lives sparked a literary revolution. Moore’s anthology presents 58 poets whose work defines an era, among them Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, May Swenson, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Ann Waldman, Sharon Olds, Diane Di Prima, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, Alice Notley and Eileen Myles. Poems From the Women’s Movement , selected by O Magazine, is number 15 on Oprah’s Book Club’s summer reading list. Larkin’s newest book, My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press), received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. Moore’s recent memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins is a poet and a physician who practices adolescent gynecology in New York City. Sponsors of the gathering include Program for the Study of Women and Gender and the Poetry Center at Smith College, the Amherst College English Department and Creative Writing Program, The Massachusetts Review, Perugia Press, and The Everywoman’s Center at the University of Massachusetts. The reading, which will be followed by a reception and book signing, is free and open to the public.
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Cole Assembly Hall, Amherst College