2009:”Caution:Women at Work”
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Topics:
Mama PhD
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Della Fenster, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Richmond, Elisabeth Gruner, Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Linguistics at Occidental College
Stand-Up Sister!
Marga Gomez, Stand-Up Comedian and Social Critic
On Meaningful Work
Andrea Veltman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at James Madison University
Roundtable Discussion
Barber, Gomez, and Veltman, moderated by Prof. Jennifer Cognard-Black
2008:”Gender B(l)ending:Beyond the Binary”
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Topics:
“Mirror in the Bathroom: Queer Identity in Art and Pop Culture”
Joe Lucchesi
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
“With Respect to the Third Sex: Negotiating Sexuality and Social Difference in India”
Gayatri Reddy
U. of Illinois at Chicago
“On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us”
Kate Bornstein
Performance Artist and Author
“Male & Female Doesn’t Necessarily mean Men & Women”
Milton Diamond
U. of Hawaii
Roundtable Discussion
Lucchesi, Reddy, Bornstein, and Diamond, moderated by Prof. Jennifer Cognard-Black, Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at St. Mary’s
2007:”Hitched: Marriage in America”
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Topics:
“From Runaway Brides to Rose Ceremonies: A Discussion of Media Portrayals of Marriage”
Jennifer Tickle
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Film Screening:”Tying the Knot”
Jim de Sève
“Tying the Same-Sex Knot: What’s at stake for same-sex couples and why you should care”
Jim de Sève
Documentary Producer & Director
“Courting Trouble? The World Historic Transformation of Marriage.”
Stephanie Coontz
The Evergreen State College
“Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage”
Claudia Card
University of Wisconsin
Roundtable Discussion
Colloquium guests (moderated by Ruth Feingold, WGSX Coordinator).
2006:”The War on Women’s Rights:Money/Body/Movement”
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Topics:
“Women Workers’ Coping and Survival Strategies for Global Restructuring”
Kathryn Ward
Southern Illinois University
“The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic”
Joni Jones
University of Texas
“Freeing Women/Changing U.S. Global Policies”
Eleanor Smeal
President of the Feminist Majority Foundation
“Slippery is the Perception of Women”:a roundtable discussion
with colloquium participants, moderated by Carrie Patterson
2005:”Representations of Sex(uality):Pornography, Obscenity, Deviance”
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Topics:
“I’m Offended”
Laura Kipnis
Northwestern University
Gay Power Circa 1970: Visual Strategies for Sexual Revolution
Richard Meyer
University of Southern California
Orders of Intercourse: Regulating Scopophilia at the Boundary of Sexology and Pornography
Jennifer Terry
University of California, Irvine
Roundtable Discussion
with colloquium participants, moderated by Sahar Shafqat assistant professor of political science at SMCM, who will speak on (Mis)Reading Lolita in Tehran