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Gender & Women's Studies Schedule of Events

Gender & Women's Studies 2012-2013 Schedule of Events

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Fall 2012

  • September 13—Film: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

     CH 125—7:00 pm

     with Dr. Adrian Switzer

  • September 25 —Genderations

     11:30-1:00 Faculty House (RSVP required)
     Janisse Ray—"Poetics of the Earth: Will Stories Save the Planet?"

     (email renee.purdy@wku.edu to RSVP)

  • September 25—Janisse Ray "Our Earth, Our Money, Our Selves"

     FAC Recital Hall—4:00 pm

  • September 26—Janisse Ray—Garden Organically with Heirloom Seeds

     Felts Log Cabin—8:00—10:00 am

  • October 17—Film: All About My Mother

     CH 125—7:30 pm
     with the WKU Film Club

  • October 23—Anita Sarkeesian "'I'll Make a Man Out of You':

     Redefining Strong Female Characters"
     Gary Ransdell Hall Auditorium—7:00 pm

  • November 2—Genderations—Trans

     11:30-1:00 Faculty House (RSVP required)
     Joanne Wheeler Bland

     (email renee.purdy@wku.edu to RSVP)

  • November 13—Film: Paris Is Burning

     CH 125—7:00 pm
     with the Student Identity Outreach & Dr. Lindsey Powell

Spring 2013

  • Early February —Film: Citizen Ruth

     with Dr. Kristi Branham

  • February 28—Genderations—Medieval Women

     11:30-1:00 Faculty House (RSVP required)
     Alison Langdon, "Figuring Eve Within the Heroic Context of Genesis B"
     Merrall Price, "Painting the Lion: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Privilege"

     (email renee.purdy@wku.edu to RSVP)

  • Mid March—Film: Leona's Sister Gerri

     with Dr. Jane Olmsted

  • March 19—Vagina Monologues

     7:30 pm DUC Auditorium

  • Early April—Kathleen Dean Moore, "It's Wrong to Wreck the World:

     A Moral Response to Climate Change"

  • April 5—Genderations (RSVP required)

     11:30-1:00 Faculty House
     "Reproductive Rights"—Leigh Gaskin & GWS students

     (email renee.purdy@wku.edu to RSVP)

  • April 29—GWS Annual Awards Ceremony & Luncheon

     Faculty House—4:00—5:00 pm

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