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SWG/WST Alum K8 Hardy '00 in the news...
Read the NYTimes article about K8 Hardy, "31-year-old video artist, founder of the queer feminist art collective LTTR, occasionalfashion stylist, creator of the cult zine FashionFashion and an inveterate shape-shifter whose first one-woman show of photographs opened this month...." (October 1, 2009, pg E1, New York print edition).
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Marilyn Chin, Poetry Reading
Poet and novelist Marilyn Chin will read from her three volumes of poetry Dwarf Bamboo, The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty, and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, as well as her debut novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (Norton, 2009). Cosponsored by the Smith College Departments of English, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Study of Women and Gender, the College Lecture Committee, Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies, and Norton Publishers, the reading will be followed by a book-signing and reception. All are welcome. Get the poster.
Time/Location: 4:30 pm, Graham Hall
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Land to the Tillers! Women's Land Rights in Africa
A lecture by Meredeth Turshen, Professor, Edward J. Boustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. Turshen's research interests include gender and health in Africa, and she will speak concerning her recent work on African women's land issues, a pressing issue in the AIDS-torn Africa that has left many widows landless and without legal protections due to customary law regimes. Sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Government, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Third World Development Studies, the Smith African Studies Program, the Five College African Studies Program, and the Smith Lecture Committee.
Time/Location: 4:30 pm, Neilson Browing Room
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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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Five College Women's Studies Research Center - FCWSRC events are free and open to the public. No preregistration is required. Regular talks are held on Mondays and Thursdays at 4:00pm. Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the Center at 83 College Street on the Mount Holyoke campus
Women's Studies, UMass-Amherst - Event Calendar