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October
Thursday, October 1st
4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 432 (English Student Lounge)
  • Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Gender and Women's Studies Feminist Chat. Tea, cookies, and snacks provided!

4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 432 (English Student Lounge)
  • Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Gender and Women's Studies Feminist Chat. Tea, cookies, and snacks provided!

4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 432 (English Student Lounge)
  • Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Gender and Women's Studies Feminist Chat. Tea, cookies, and snacks provided!

4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Grise Hall Room 432
  • Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Join Gender & Women's Studies for the first “Feminist Chat” of the semester this Thursday, Oct. 2nd from 4:00-5:00. This is a welcoming, informal space to discuss pop culture, current events, your favorite book, campus concerns—or anything else that interests you—with other WKU feminists (of all genders). We’ll be in Grise Hall room 432 (the English student lounge) while Cherry Hall is closed for renovations. Hope to see you there! Everyone is welcome! 
5:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Due to Trini- see description
  • Time: 5:00pm - 5:00pm

AY 27 sabbatical applications due here: Submit via email to Trini

5:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Workflow
  • Time: 5:00pm - 5:00pm

Tenure and promotion applications due to workflow

Friday, October 2nd
2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The saying “academia is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie” feels like my Friday, every Friday. This Zoom time is open to grads and faculty, and you are welcome to drop in any time you want to check some tasks off your list before the weekend—get your emails out of the way, do a little bit of writing, tidy up some grading. It’s a nice way to “body-double” for accountability. We do a quick check in on what folks are working on, focus for an hour, and check in before signing off for the weekend. I’ll send out the Zoom link for this co-working time on Friday mornings.

Friday, October 9th
2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The saying “academia is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie” feels like my Friday, every Friday. This Zoom time is open to grads and faculty, and you are welcome to drop in any time you want to check some tasks off your list before the weekend—get your emails out of the way, do a little bit of writing, tidy up some grading. It’s a nice way to “body-double” for accountability. We do a quick check in on what folks are working on, focus for an hour, and check in before signing off for the weekend. I’ll send out the Zoom link for this co-working time on Friday mornings.

Monday, October 12th
3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 3rd floor
  • Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Writing, accountability, and community time for grads and faculty.

6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Location: Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Room 171
  • Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join the League of Sculptors, the Queer
Student Union, and the Gender & Women’s
Studies program for a fun night of crafting
and making art. Art supplies provided!
Thursday, October 15th
2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Location: FAC Colonnade Lawn
  • Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

PCAL Fall Festival

Friday, October 16th
2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The saying “academia is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie” feels like my Friday, every Friday. This Zoom time is open to grads and faculty, and you are welcome to drop in any time you want to check some tasks off your list before the weekend—get your emails out of the way, do a little bit of writing, tidy up some grading. It’s a nice way to “body-double” for accountability. We do a quick check in on what folks are working on, focus for an hour, and check in before signing off for the weekend. I’ll send out the Zoom link for this co-working time on Friday mornings.

3:30pm - 5:30pm
  • Location: TBD
  • Time: 3:30pm - 5:30pm

FA26 Colloquium

Monday, October 19th
3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 3rd floor
  • Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Writing, accountability, and community time for grads and faculty.

Friday, October 23rd
3:15pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 3:15pm - 5:00pm

Tenure and promotion meeting (tenured faculty only): 6 applications

Zoom link

3:15pm - 5:30pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 3:15pm - 5:30pm

Tenure and promitoon committee will meet to vote on applications.

3:30pm - 4:45pm
  • Location: TBD
  • Time: 3:30pm - 4:45pm

These are for grad professional development, they are FREE!, and they are open to MFAs, MAs, and grad certificate students in any year of their programs. Part-time folks and instructors who would like a little professional support are also very welcome to join.

5:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Location: Spencer's Beer Garden (after the grad workshop)
  • Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Grad happy hour!

Monday, October 26th
3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Location: Grise Hall 3rd floor
  • Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Writing, accountability, and community time for grads and faculty.

Wednesday, October 28th
4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: HCIC multipurpose room
  • Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Please join us for the Gender & Women's Studies annual Genderations Lecture, where we showcase local feminist scholarship and community engagement. 
 
Abstract:
 
Small Is All: Fractal Patterns: of Feminisms and Rhetorics
 
Picture a fern: The tiny curled end unfurling from the larger pattern of its fronds is a fractal—a pattern that is the same at every scale. How do we make big change in the world when we often feel small and vulnerable? Through fractals, Dr. Jessi Thomsen
(English) opens a conversation about the small ways we use language and feminisms to contribute to patterns of surviving and thriving. Our collective engagement in feminist rhetorical action scales up to big changes, reaching far beyond us. Small is all.
 
Jessi Thomsen, PhD, is a teacher-scholar-mentor and an assistant professor of professional writing at WKU. She is curious about the entanglements of
rhetoric and writing with our more-than-human world. Her pups—Janeway and Tendi—supervise her work.
Friday, October 30th
2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The saying “academia is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie” feels like my Friday, every Friday. This Zoom time is open to grads and faculty, and you are welcome to drop in any time you want to check some tasks off your list before the weekend—get your emails out of the way, do a little bit of writing, tidy up some grading. It’s a nice way to “body-double” for accountability. We do a quick check in on what folks are working on, focus for an hour, and check in before signing off for the weekend. I’ll send out the Zoom link for this co-working time on Friday mornings.

3:15pm - 4:45pm
  • Location: Grise 439
  • Time: 3:15pm - 4:45pm

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