FALL 2009

Global Gender Faculty Seminar
Jennifer Wilks, Univeristy of Texas, Austin
“Diasporic Carmens"
Respondents: Carol Muller (Music) & Andrea Goulet (Romance Languages)
Friday, September 25th, 12 pm, 436 Cohen Hall

Judith R. Berkowitz Lecture in Women's Studies
"Positive Thinking:
Women's Health and the Health of the Economy"
BARBARA EHRENREICH
journalist and best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed
Wednesday, September 30th, 5:00 pm, 200 College Hall

Cosponsored Event with English:
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
"The Gas Chamber and the Metro: Space, Mobility, and Disability"
Thursday, October 1st ,4pm, Fisher-Bennett Hall

Cosponsored Event with Cinema Studies and others:
film screening of "The Glass House"
followed by Q&A with Director and Producer
Wednesday, October 7th, 5pm, B-1 Meyerson

"Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the Era of Obama:
Challenges and Possibilities"
Sponsored by the Alice Paul Center, Women's Studies Program and Penn Law School

Chair: Demie Kurz, Co-Director, Women's Studies & The Alice Paul Center
Panel:
"Partial Birth and Total Death:  Violence, Heroism and the Politics of 'Late-Term' Abortion,” Anita Allen, Deputy Dean and Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, Penn
“The Legacy of Dr. George Tiller," Carole Joffe ,Professor, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
"Why Abortion Politics Matter for the Infertile,"
Kim Mutcherson, Rutgers-Camden Law School
“Reproductive Justice in the Post-Feminist Era," Salamishah Tillet, Professor of English, Penn
"Violence against Abortion Providers: the Pennsylvania Experience," Susan Frietsche, Women’s Law Project

Wednesday, October 21st, Reception 6:30- 6:45, Panel, 6:45- 8:30 p.m.
Penn Law School, Gittis 214

This event is co-sponsored by The Penn Women’s Center, Penn Law Bioethics Society, The Feminist Working Group, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Penn Law for Reproductive Justice

Works-in-Progress Faculty Seminar
Beth Wenger (History and Jewish Studies)
“Jewish Masculinities”
Respondents: Max Cavitch (English) and Amy Kaplan (English)
Friday, October 23rd, 12 pm, 436 Cohen

Women’s Studies Program & Alice Paul Center present their
35TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
(Click Here for Full Schedule)
Friday, October 30th
All day, Houston Hall

GasWorks Seminar
Simon Richter (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
“On the Backside of Narcissus”
Respondents: Karen Beckman (Art History & Cinema Studies) and
Andrei Dombrowski (History of Art)
TBA

SPRING 2010

Cosponsored Event with History:
Margot Canaday
"The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th-Century America"
Wednesday, January 20th, place and time TBA

Global Gender Faculty Seminar
Peggy Sanday (Penn, Anthropology) and Mary Condren (Institute for Feminism and Religion, Ireland)
“Gender, Myth, Ritual, and the Sacred”
Friday, February 5th, 12 pm, 436 Cohen

Alice Paul Lecture
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON
musician, historian, producer, director
Wednesday, February 24th, 5 pm, location TBA
Co-sponsored with Center for Africana Studies

GasWorks Seminar
Gary Ferguson, University of Delaware
“(Hi)stories of Sexuality: Same-Sex Marriages in 16th-Century Rome”
Respondents: David Wallace (English) and Ann Matter (Religious Studies)
Friday, March 19th,12 pm, 436 Cohen

Cosponsored Event with Jewish Studies & The Middle East Center:
Conference on Gender in Judaism and Islam
Monday, March 22, place and time TBA 

R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought & Sexuality Studies
WENDY BROWN
Professor of Political Science, UC Berkely
Wednesday, March 24th, 5 pm, location TBA

ICOWHI Conference at Penn School of Nursing
18th Congress on Women's Health Issues
Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives
April 7-10, 2010

Tenure Workshop
Friday, April 30th, 12 pm, 436 Cohen Hall