Gender and Women's Studies

Events

March 27-28, 2008 - " ' The Right to Security of Person: Creating a Campus Free of Sexual Assault' " A Human Rights Conference. For students, administration and staff.	Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Office of Student Life Schedule of Events (pdf)
April 2005 - An organic meal prepared with native New England foods, a film festival, a panel discussion and a tree dedication attended the appearance at Connecticut College of globally renowned physicist, environmentalist and feminist scholar and activist Vandana Shiva. Read the news release. Click the image at right to view a slide show of the event.
January 27, 2003 - Men, Movements and Gender Transformation in South Africa - A lecture by Dr. Robert Morrell, professor of education at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
April 26, 2002 - Wangari Maathai: Transforming Lives, Transforming Culture, The Green Belt Movement and the Women of Kenya. Professor Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Conservation Movement in Kenya, foremost environmentalist and advocate for women's freedom. She is the living woman in whose honor the Fuller-Maathai endowed Chair in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies is named.
December 7, 2001 - Transnational Perspectives on Terror: What's Sex Got To Do With It? - This daylong teach-in included panel discussions, arts performances and poetry readings with Angela Y. Davis, a social activist and feminist scholar, as the featured speaker.
February 16 & 17, 2001 - Dis/Locating Whiteness: Inverting the Gaze - This conference explored the ways in which whiteness shapes the lives not only of people of color, but the lives of white people, just as masculinity as a gender shapes the lives of men as well as women.
March 3-4, 2000 - Poets on Location - A panorama of poetic expressions, artistic performances and cultural and political dialogues, bringing together international, national, and local musicians, poets, teachers and activists, members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and Connecticut College students and faculty. This event commemorated the 20th anniversary of the publication of THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR and paid tribute to poets: Chrystos, Adrienne Rich, Dionne Brand, Mitsuye Yamada, Cherrie Moraga, and Sonia Sanchez
February 15, 2000 - Race, Gender, Class and Transnationalism in the Making of America - A panel discussion that engaged the question of how the transnational is constructed in cities within the United States.
October 18, 1999 - The Marjorie R. Dilley Lecture of 1999, Dr. Joy Kwesiga - Kwesiga is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Makere University, Uganda. Former head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makere, and founding member and chairperson of ACFODE, Action for Development, a multi-issue, 300 member NGO organization.
November 3, 1998 - Gender and Women's Studies, Mythologies and Realities: Everything you ever wanted to know but have been afraid to ask - A panel discussion, and Patricia Powell read from her novel "The Pagoda".