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Monday February 8, 2010
"The Black Republic: The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Black Political Consciousness, 1817-1861"
Leslie M. Alexander, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
Dr. Alexander is a specialist in African American and American history. Her first monograph, entitled African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861, explores Black culture, identity, and political activism during the early national and antebellum eras. Her current research project, tentatively titled "The Cradle of Hope: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century, is an exploration of early African American foreign policy. Sponsored by the Departments of History, Afro-American Studies, French Studies, Latin American and Latino/a Studies, the American Studies Program, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and the Smith College Lecture Committee and is part of a month long celebration of Black History Month. Get the poster.
Time/Location: 4:30 p.m., Neilson Library Browsing Room, Reception immediately following the lecture
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Poetry Reading by Martha Rhodes
Martha Rhodes' poetry is variously described as lucid, savage, haunting, and hilarious. Author of three collections, she is a master of tone and compression. Robert Pinsky declared her latest book, Mother Quiet, to be “abrupt, unsettling, artfully distorted, indelible.” Rhodes is the founding editor and Director of Four Way Books and teaches at Sarah Lawrence and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. This reading is co-sponsored by the Poetry Center and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender. Time/Location: 7:30 pm, Stoddard Hall Auditorium
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Darwinian Puzzle of Female Orgasm: Evolutionary Solutions and Feminist Responses
Elizabeth Lloyd,
Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science,
Indiana University at Bloomington
Part of the 2009-2010 lecture series "Charles Darwin: His Philosophical Legacy" sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Biology, Psychology, English,
the Offices of the President and of the Provost, the Programs for the Study of Women and Gender, Logic, and History of Science, and the Smith College Lecture Committee. The series begins October 1, 2009 - view the complete schedule here. Time/Location:
5:00 pm, Seelye Hall 106
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Reconstructing Black Womanhood in Puerto Rican Literature: Mayra Santos Febres
Zaira Rivera Casellas, Universidad de Puerto Rico
The opening lecture of the Spring 2010 Women, Race and Culture lecture series 'Collaborative Solidarities'
Mayra Santos Febres, a most prolific and prominent international Puerto Rican author whose books have been translated to English, French and Italian, is an innovative and gender-inclusive writer regarding the images of Blacks, lesbians, homosexuals and transgender subjects in contemporary Puerto Rican literature. This talk will explore the reconstruction of Black womanhood in Puerto Rican literature, as well as its relation to other marginal subjects from diverse theoretical frameworks. The discussion will concentrate on some of her short stories and hopes to highlight Santos Febres’ narrative as a privileged site for rethinking about issues of writing at the intersection of Black female subject reformulations and, indeed, omissions within Puerto Rican history and culture. At the Graduate Center of Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies in Old San Juan, Professor Casellas' courses address topics such as Puerto Rican and Caribbean Literature, Transatlantic African Texts, and Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, among others. Her current work is a collection of essays for publication titled: The Racial Discourse in Puerto Rico Under the Shadow of the Text, Silence and Criticism. Each year, SWG colleagues create a consortium of courses around a thematic link that shapes the series, integrating public lectures into ongoing class discussions and readings, and working to build broad-reaching conversations around issues that spread beyond the porous borders of women and gender studies classes. This year's series is organized by Elisabeth Armstrong (Study of Women and Gender), Michelle Joffroy (Spanish and Portuguese) and Jina Kim (East Asian Studies) and is co-sponsored by the Departments of Afro-American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese and the Programs in American Studies , East Asian Studies, Environmental Science and Policy, and Latin American and Latino/a Studies, and the Connections Fund and the Lecture Committee at Smith College. Complete event and series details here.
Time/Location: All lectures in the WRC series take place at 4:30 pm, Seelye Hall 201 and are free and open to the public.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
A Bloomsbury Tea: Virginia Woolf in America
A talk by the renowned literary scholar Mark Hussey, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, Pace University, on the role of Second Wave American feminism in Virginia Woolf studies. A Bloomsbury tea will follow in the Sophia Smith Collection. Sponsored by the Mortimer Rare Book Room and the Study of Women and Gender Department. Thi Sping be sure to visit the Smith College Art Museum to view the exhibit "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections" from April 3 - June 15, 2010.
"A Room of Their Own" exemplifies the breadth and strength of the complex artistic output of the visual artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group, focusing particularly on the work of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and Dora Carrington. The exhibition features over 100 works —prints, paintings, watercolors, drawings, books from the Hogarth Press, and decorative works from the Omega Workshop (1910-1950s)—drawn from public and private collections in the U.S. The exhibition and its catalogue were organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in conjunction with the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, NC. Presentation of the exhibition at SCMA was made possible by the Museum of Art Program Fund. Image above: Vanessa Bell. British, 1879-1961. Virginia Woolf, c. 1912. Oil on paperboard. Gift of Ann Safford Mandel, class of 1953. © Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnet. Photograph by Petegorsky/Gipe.
Time/Location: 4:30-6:00, Neilson Library Browsing Room
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Comadres y Mitoteras: Transborder Women's Organizing for Environmental Justice
Teresa Leal, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
The second lecture of the Spring 2010 Women, Race and Culture lecture series 'Collaborative Solidarities.'
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Poetry Reading by Tracy K. Smith
(and high school prize winners)
Tracy K. Smith’s poems treat grief and loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, prompting Yusef Komunyakaa to write, “Here’s a voice that can weave beauty and terror into one breath.” Joy Harjo has called her work “a true merging of the ancient roots of poetry with the language of an age of a different kind of sense.” Author of two collections, The Body’s Question and Duende, and recipient of many honors, Smith teaches creative writing at Princeton.
Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender and the Poetry Center at Smith College. Time/Location: 7:30 pm, Neilson Browsing Room
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
"The 'New' or 'Advanced' Woman in Nineteenth-Century English Literature"
Valerie Fehlbaum, University of Geneva
Sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, the Department of English, and the Office of the Provost. Time/Location: 4:30 pm, Seelye 201
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
International Adoption, Defectors, and Multicultural Families: Nation and Nationalisms in South Korea
Katharine Moon, Wellesley College
The third lecture of the Spring 2010 Women, Race and Culture lecture series 'Collaborative Solidarities.'
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