SWAG Events - Spring 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 6:30-8:30PM
No Woman, No Cry, a documentary film by Christy Turlington Burns
Minor Hall, Room 125
Wednesday, February 1, 4:00-6:00 PM
Part I: “War, Women & Peace: Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
Minor Hall, Room 227
Film and Discussion with Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Denise Walsh
Wednesday, February 15, 4:00-6:00 PM
“What I Want My Words To Do To You”
Minor Hall, Room 227
Film and Discussion with Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Amanda Davis
Wednesday, February 29, 4:30-6:30 PM
East Village Women and Francesca Woodman's *Temple Project*
Newcomb Hall, Board Room (Note Location Change)
Lecture by Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Claire Raymond
Friday, March 23, 4:00-5:30 PM
"Words, Not Swords: How Women Are Transforming the Muslim World"
Minor Hall, Room 125, Virginia Festival of the Book
Talk and Reading by Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Farzaneh Milani
Tuesday, March 27, 11:00-1:00 PM
Studies in Women and Gender Alumni Panel: How to Use a SWAG Degree After Graduation
Newcomb Hall, Kaleidoscope Room
Wednesday, April 4, 7:00-9:00 PM
“Sin by Silence”
Minor Hall, Room 125
Film and Discussion with Women’s Center Director of Sexual & Domestic Violence Services, Claire Kaplan
Monday, April 16, 9:00-4:45 PM
“Alternative Biographies in the Middle East and South Asia: The Porous Boundaries of a Genre”
The Rotunda, University of Virginia
Symposium presented by the Department of Middle East and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Past Events
2011-2012
Wednesday, September 21, 4:00-6:00PM
OFF AND RUNNING, an American Coming of Age Story, a film by Nicole Opper
Introduction and discussion led by Studies in Women & Gender Director, Charlotte J. Patterson
Wednesday, October 19, 4:00-6:00PM
BULLS**T, a film by PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
Introduction and discussion led by Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Kendra Hamilton
Saturday, November 5, 12:45-2:45 p.m.
!Women Art Revolution, a film by Lynn Hershman
Panel discussion with Doro Bachrach, Producer and Carmenita Higginbotham, Assistant Professor of
American Art, University of Virginia
Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-6:00PM
..SPRINKLE SOME GAY ON MY STRAIGHT
Transformations in Sexual Prejudice among Heterosexual Men
Lecture by Studies in Women and Gender faculty member, Tristan Bridges
Friday, November 18, 4:00-5:00 PM
The Queer Politics of Television
A group discussion with Samuel Chambers, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins
University.
Friday, December 2, 3:30-5:00PM
SEXUAL FLUIDITY: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire
Lecture by Lisa M. Diamond, Professor of Psychology, The University of Utah. Reception follows
immediately after this event.
2010-2011
“Faith and Dancing: A performance lecture on mapping femininity, missing America, and other natural disasters”
Lois Weaver, Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London and Artistic Director of Split Britches Company
Thursday, April 14, 2011
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.,
McLeod Hall Auditorium at the School of Nursing
"SWAG/Women's Studies Alumni Panel"
Candace Burton ('96), Susan Miller ('96), Ken Nguyen ('04), and Carly Romeo ('08)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.,
Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room
"What is to be Done? Prison Expansion and Opposition to It, in Globalizing Perspective"
Ruthie Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Torture: The Feminine Touch"
Coco Fusco, Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design
"A Global Perspective on Gender: Some Reflections Against the Grain"
Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan
2009-2010
Performing and Talking: A Street Theater Named Desire
Abe Rybeck, Founder and Artistic Director
Eugene Tan, Community Engagement Director
The Theater Offensive, Boston
"The Transnational Trials of Taslima Nasrin"
Brinda Bose, Associate Professor of English, Hindu College, Delhi University
"Translation and the Predicament of Transversal Anthropology"
Smadar Lavie, Associate Professor of Studies in Women & Gender, University of Virginia
2008-2009
"What the Water Has Given Me: Frida Kahlo's Postcolonial Map of Mexico"
Margaret A. Lindauer, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies Coordinator, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Shaking Shells and Writing Books: A Cherokee Woman's Journey toward a Radical Indigenism"
Eva Marie Garroutte, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College
2007-2008
“Reading the Past to Write the Future: Iranian Facts and Fictions"
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France
“Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood”
Elizabeth Gregory, Director of the Women Studies Program, University of Houston
“Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy”
Anita H. Clayton, Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences & Clinical Professor of Ob-Gyn, University of Virginia
2006-2007
“Singled Out: Taking on Singlism and Matrimania”
Bella DePaulo, Visiting Professor at University California, Santa Barbara
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