Thursday through Saturday, September, 14-16
“Bad as I Wanna Be: A Hip Hop Symposium”
September 14
7:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
Film Screening
“Godfathers and Sons” (2003, Marc Levin)
September 15
3 p.m., Twilight 201
“Oh I Think They Like Me”
Discussion on Hip Hop Facilitated by Students
4:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
Film Screening
“Nobody Knows My Name” (1999, Rachel Raimist)
8 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
Keynote Speech
“Hip-Hop Masculinities”
Greg Tate, Journalist, Village Voice
9:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
Student performances
Music, dance, spoken word
September 16
9 a.m., Twilight 201
Music Workshop
Larry Hamberlin, Assistant Professor of Music, Middlebury College
10:30 a.m., Twilight Auditorium
“Boyz in the Hood” Panel Discussion
"Hood Work: Youth Advocates Confronting the Hip-Hop Industrial Complex."
Murray Forman, Northeastern University
“Hip Hop Masculinities”
Greg Tate, Journalist, Village Voice
“Hip Hop, Masculinity, and African American Literature”
Will Nash, Middlebury College
Discussant: François Clemmons, Middlebury College
12:30 p.m., Twilight 201
“Hip Hop Activism”
Lecture by Asha Jennings, New York University
2:00 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
“Uplift the Sex” Panel Discussion
“Women, Rap and Hip Hop Feminism”
Gwendolyn Pough, Syracuse University
“Gender Ideologies in Hip Hop Feminism: F’ing Wit the Grays”
Elaine Richardson, Penn State University
Discussant: Tanji Gilliam, University of Chicago
Twilight Hall Auditorium 2:00 PM
4 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
Film Screening
That Crack In The Concrete (Tanji Gilliam, 2006)
Q&A with Tanji Gilliam, University of Chicago
8 p.m., McCullough Social Space
Hip-Hop Duo Performance
Tavi & Phes, Hip-Hop Performers and Co-Founders of DFW Records
Wednesday, September 27, 4:30 p.m., College Library “Portrait of Americans Who Tell the Truth”
Art exhibition by and with Robert Shetterly
Robert Shetterly has painted over fifty portraits that represent historic and contemporary “Americans Who Tell the Truth.” Eight of these portraits, including those of Emma Goldman, Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston, will be on display in the library atrium. Shetterly’s goal is to honor those writers, thinkers and activists, who, he says, "form the well from which we must draw our future." This project aims at stimulating dialogue about truth and democracy.
Tuesday, October 10, 4:30 p.m., Dana Auditorium “Global Women’s Activism and Reproductive Health”
Talk by Jane Roberts, author of 34 Million Friends of Women
The “34 Million Friends” campaign is a grass-roots movement that was independently initiated in July 2002 by two American women, Jane Roberts of California and Lois Abraham of New Mexico. Although they had never met, Lois and Jane were both outraged by the government’s withdrawal of $34 million approved for UNFPA and they decided to take action. Each woman started her own email campaign, urging men and women across the United States to donate $1 or more to help bridge the funding gap. Their goal is to find 34 million friends to help UNFPA continue its invaluable work as the largest multilateral provider of family planning and maternal health care. So far, over 100,000 individuals and donors have contributed nearly $3 million.
Wednesday, October 11, 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 Conference Room “Gender(ed) Tricks: Transvestisms and Gay Cruising in Beograd”
Lecture by Kevin Moss, Professor, Middlebury College in commemoration of National Coming Out Day
Tuesday, October 24, 12:15 p.m., Library 201 “Population Politics: Old Maps and New Terrain”
Lecture by Betsy Hartmann, Director, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College
Dr. Betsy Hartmann is a longstanding activist in the international women's health movement. She writes and speaks frequently on international population, environment and security issues. She is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and a thriller about the Far Right, The Truth about Fire. She is co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the recent anthology, Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties.
Wednesday, October 25, 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 Conference Room The Hijab Seen Through the Prism of Western Liberalism
Lecture by Falguni Sheth, Assistant Professor, Hampshire College
In the five years since September 11, 2001, Muslim men and women have been subjected to remarkably cruel treatment in the name of stopping or preventing terrorist activity. What are their transgressions which engender such treatment? I suggest that one of the Bush Administration's, and Western society's, more urgent concerns is the danger of radical cultural heterogeneity or the threat to the safety of cultural homogeneity. The treatment to which Muslims have been
subjected reflects a fundamental hostility that sovereign institutions direct towards individuals whose comportment seems to threaten the fundamental political-cultural order on which the state is based. This hostility is a response to "unruly" signs or practices that conspicuously violate a dominant "neutral" cultural or political norm, such as public secularism. These signs also serve as proxies for other more elusive threats to a cultural-political regime, in this case, Western liberalism. With reference to Muslims, the most immediate symbol that I will focus on in this paper concerns the hijab or some aspect of purdah, although there can be many other symbols.
Thursday, October 26, 4:30 p.m., Johnson 304 “Travels with Myra Hudson”
Lecture by Dawn Clements
Dawn Clements, former artist-in-residence at Middlebury and focus of this fall's edition of the ongoing Art Now exhibit series, will talk about her work from the last ten years. Dawn Clements explores a world of interiors, arduously rendering either her own immediate environment in a series of detailed and expressive drawings or capturing the staged sets of films and soap operas by continually replaying and carefully observing them. Her recent drawing, "Travels with Myra Hudson", depicts the many interior spaces that the main character inhabited in the 1952 film, "Sudden Fear". The drawing reads as a series of large film cells or a storyboard with one scene leading to the next. Three smaller drawings focus on the connecting his & hers bedrooms which are in pivotal in the story. Notations and observations are drawn in the borders, like clues about an implied narrative dropped along the way.
Friday, October 27, time and location TBA “Telescoping of Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Problems in Women”
Lecture by Suzanne Thomas, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Alcoholism is disease that, in some ways, affects the genders differently. While more men than women are alcoholic (4:1 ratio), women develop alcoholism faster than men (aka "telescoping") and experience more damage from alcohol, both in the brain and other organs. Dr. Suzanne Thomas will discuss how and why these gender differences exist, and how this information might be used in prevention and treatment efforts.
Monday, November 6, 8:00 p.m. Mead Chapel
Lecture by Dedé Mirabal & Minou Tavarez Mirabal As part of the “Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence” Campaign (November 25-December 10), Dedé Mirabal and Minou Tavarez Mirabal will speak at Middlebury College about the Mirabal sisters, the three “Butterflies,” who were killed by Dominican dictator Trujillo's henchmen in 1960 for their involvement in efforts to overthrow his government. The United Nations now marks the anniversary of their assassination, November 25, as the International Day to End Violence Against Women. The three sisters’ lives have been immortalized in Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies. Dedé is the last surviving sister of the “Butterflies,” Minou is her niece and daughter of the late Minerva Mirabal.
Tuesday, November 14, 7:00 p.m. Twilight 201
“By Invitation Only”
Film screening of Rebecca Snedeker’s latest work Inclusion in New Orleans' old line Carnival society remains "by invitation only," but this new documentary gives viewers an unprecedented look at the inner workings of this insular world through the lens of one of its own. Questioning its racial exclusivity, filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker decided to forego the debutante tradition that was a birthright of women in her family - but still she could not ignore its hold on her identity.
Thursday, November 16, 7:00 p.m. Robert A. Jones ('59) Conference Room
"Female Minority Leaders at the UN"
Lecture by Annette Richardson
Saturday, November 18, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kirk Alumni Center “Sister to Sister Summit”
One-day event for middle school girls from Addison County organized by Chellis House in cooperation with Middlebury Union Middle School, Vergennes Junior High School and Mount Abraham Junior High School. A day-long event full of thought-provoking and fun activities for 7th and 8th grade girls. Workshops include hip hop and Latin dancing, creative writing, art projects, leadership exercises to help girls achieve their fullest potential. For further information, please contact Karin Hanta ( khanta@middlebury.edu , 443-5937)
Program for the
16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute at Rutgers University in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights. This 16-day period also highlights other significant dates including November 29, International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, December 1, World AIDS Day, and December 6, which marks the Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. This year’s theme is: “Celebrate 16 Years of 16 Days: Advance Human Rights -- End Violence Against Women.”
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Chellis House have organized two events to highlight the mission of the “16 Day Campaign:”
Friday, December 1, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones (‘59) Conference Room
Global AIDS Awareness Panel
A panel discussion with Glen Elder (Professor & Chair of the Geography Department, UVM), Terje Anderson (founder of Vermont CARES), Bob Cluss (Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Middlebury College), and Alicia Battle (Director of Health Education, Middlebury College) examining the local and international impact of AIDS
Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
Monday, December 4, 4:30 p.m.,
Robert A. Jones (‘59) Conference Room
“Disposable Women: Factory Workers on the U.S.-Mexican Border” Lecture by Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Literature, University of Houston
Since 1993, over 370 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexican border, many after suffering sexual abuse and torture; and murders showing similar characteristics have spread to the city of Chihuahua. Approximately 100 cases are suspected to be the work of one or more serial murderers – the rest are most likely murders that flourish in a city where women can be killed with complete impunity. The Mexican and American authorities have done little to investigate or prosecute those responsible.
Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and Feminist Action at Middlebury.