Fall 2009 Events
Tuesday, September 29, 12:15 p.m., Chellis House
“Prom Dresses & Pregnancy”
Student talk by Genevieve Dukes (’13)
Genevieve Dukes (’13) was the director of the Tulsa chapter of “Becca’s Closet,” a national organization that provides formal attire to high school students who would otherwise not be able to attend their prom/homecoming. In cooperation with the Margret Hudson Program, an alternative school for teenage mothers, she and her schoolmates were able to help coordinate a prom for teenage mothers and fathers.
Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, Sept 29, 5:30 pm, Chellis House
Informational dinner for WAGS students and WAGS interested students
Wednesday, September 30, 12:15 p.m., Carr Hall
Ethnicity, Gender, and Citizenship in Eastern Europe and Beyond.
Brown bag lunch discussion with Kevin Moss (Russian) and Nikolina Dobreva (Film & Media Culture)
In cooperation with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, International Studies, Eastern European Studies, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
In Commemoration of Gay History Month
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Monday October 5, 12:15 pm, Chellis House
A Conversation with David Leavitt
Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday October 6, 4:30 pm, Dana Auditorium
The Mathematician as Creative Artist: Turing, Hardy, Ramanujan
Lecture by David Leavitt
David Leavitt (University of Florida, Dept. of English) is an internationally acclaimed author whose novel The Indian Clerk was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize. In his lecture on Turing, Hardy, and Ramanujan, he will be addressing the connections between Turing's sense of himself as an outsider (a function of his sexuality) and the originality of his thinking and discuss how his later writings on artificial intelligence encode a plea for equality and liberation.
In cooperation with the Department of Mathematics and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity.
Lecture Series: Health Care – A Human Right or a Commodity?
Tuesday, October 6, 12:15 p.m., Chellis House
Single Payer Option: What’s in it for Women and Children
Faculty Talk: Ellen Oxfeld (WAGS/SoAn)
Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, November 11, 4:30 p.m., Library 201
A Basic Human Right
Talk by James Haslam (Vermont Workers’ Center)
Sunday October 18, 11:30 a.m., location TBA
A Colored Girl’s College Tour: A One Woman Show
Theater performance by Sheyenne Javonne Brown (’09)
In cooperation with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, WOC, DMC, and AAA.
Monday, October 19, 4:30 p.m., Twilight 201
Philosophy, Religion, and Early Modern Women’s Letters: Anne Conway and Damaris Masham
Lecture by Sarah Hutton (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, University of Aberystwyth, Wales)
“Life of the Mind” and student lunchtime talks Tuesday, November 3, 12:15 p.m., Chellis House
Respect, Empower, Include: A First Anniversary Review of Organizing on the Obama Campaign
Student talk by Jennifer Ridder (‘09), who worked for the Obama campaign
Thursday, November 5, 12:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art
Crafting the Virgin in Renaissance Florence
Gallery talk by Katy Smith Abbott (Art History) on the depiction of the Virgin Mary in early 15th century Italian paintings currently featured in the exhibition “The Art of Devotion”
Friday, November 13, 12:15 p.m., Chellis House
Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol
Talk by Brett Millier (English & American Literatures) on her recently published book.
Lunch will be available for all talks. Please RSVP to khanta@middlebury.edu if you would like to attend.
Academic Events
Wednesday, November 11, 7 p.m., Axinn 109
Como Agua Para Chocolate
Movie screening of Alfonso Arau’s 1992 movie based on Laura Esquivel’s novel
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Thursday, November 19, 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 Conference Room
Women, Alterity, and Mexican Identity in Como Agua para Chocolate
Lecture by Tina Escaja (Spanish Dept., University of Vermont)
Friday, November 13, 12:15 p.m., R. A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room
Fumatrici: Women and Cigarettes in Italy from the Belle Epoque to the 1960s
Lecture by Carl Ipsen (Dept. of History, Indiana University)
For a lunch reservation please e-mail Martha Baldwin (cfia@middlebury.edu) or call 443-5324.
16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence
Each year since 1991, tens of thousands of activists from every region of the world have taken part in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, initiated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University. The campaign’s central messages – women’s rights are human rights and violence against women constitutes a violation of human rights – have been a rallying call of the women’s movement.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Tuesday, November 17, 7 p.m., Library 201
Chasing the Butterflies
Talk and Slideshow Presentation by Julia Alvarez on the Mirabal Sisters, to whose memory the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was dedicated.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day
Tuesday, December 1, 5 p.m., Axinn 220
The AIDS Game
Our AIDS Game is a great way to test your knowledge of HIV and AIDS. To complete the game you'll need skill, quick thinking and a good grasp of the facts. The more you play our AIDS Game, the more you will learn. You can then use this knowledge to educate your friends and family.
7 p.m., Library 201
Odô Yá! Life with AIDS
Film by Tânia Cypriano (Brazil/USA, 1997)
This is the affirming story of how Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion, has become a source of strength and power for a group of AIDS sufferers. Shot in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Bahia, it shows the rituals of Candomblé and the celebration of Carnival. It features the personal struggles and words of wisdom from those whose faith have brought endurance and pride. Rather than denying the sexuality of the population, Odô-Yá!, an innovative education program, advocates the use of condoms so that sexuality need not be repressed.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
Wednesday, December 2, 7 p.m., Gamut Room
Candlelight Vigil and Talk
The Montreal Massacre, during which Marc Lepine shot 14 female engineering students on December 6, 1989 because he “hated feminists,” went down in history as one of the worst single-day femicides. It has led to stricter gun control laws in Canada and the world-wide propagation of the “White Ribbon Campaign” to signify opposition to violence against women.
Watch for white ribbons around campus!