Wednesday, September 30, 7:30 p.m., Chellis House
Women's Leadership Discussion: If you are interested in women's leadership opportunities, then come to a campus meeting of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Gail Smith, Associate Director of Athletics and AAUW representative on campus, Dot Rand, Vermont AAUW president, and Karin Hanta, director of Chellis House, will talk about how you can participate in a national student leadership conference in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2005. We are also developing a J-term internship for a "Sister-to-Sister Program" (1 credit) to mentor and empower Addison County middle school girls during a one-day gathering in February. Refreshments will be served.
Monday, October 4, 7:00 p.m., Gifford Annex Lounge
"Fernando Pessoa: The Man Who Wasn't?" Lecture by Richard Zenith, editor and translator of The Book of Disquiet and Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Poems.
It is commonly said that Pessoa, the Portuguese poet who wrote much of his best work through alter-egos he called "heteronyms," had virtually no life of his own. Pessoa himself promoted the idea that he had invested his heart and soul into these invented "others," so much so that he was less real than they. But the man behind the masks remained—a man who was culturally, linguistically and sexually divided. The heteronyms were, one could argue, his way of being himself, in all his multiplicity. Or were they, on the contrary, a strategy for avoiding himself—a kind of voluntary, permanent self-exile?
Wednesday, October 13, 12:15 p.m., Chateau Grand Salon
"Are Italians White?" Lecture and discussion by Jennifer Guglielmo & Kym Ragusa
Jennifer Guglielmo is Assistant Professor of History at Smith College. She recently co-edited a collection of essays entitled "Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America" and is currently completing a book on Italian women's political and cultural activism in New York City (1880-1945).
Kym Ragusa is a writer and filmmaker. Her films, including the documentaries Passing and fuori/outside draw upon her African American and Italian American family histories to explore the politics of race and community.
Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
"I Will Not Be Silenced." One-woman show about the life of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mexico's first feminist poet and playwright, by Nuyorican performer Maria Aponte. Through this monologue, Ms. Aponte gives her own interpretation of the emotional challenges Sor Juana might have faced in preparing her famous letter The Response to the Archbishop of Mexico. Ms. Aponte addresses Sor Juana's femininity, independence and defense of her rights as a woman, writer, and the consequences of losing those rights.
Thursday, November 4, 11:00 a.m., Rehearsal Hall 221, CFA
"Women in Community -- Making the Arts Public in Women's Lives." Lecture by Anne Babson.
Thursday, November 4, 7:30 p.m., Fireside Lounge, Ross Commons
Poetry reading by feminist poet Anne Babson. Anne Babson's first chapbook, "Uppity Poems", was called a "must read" by Carpe Laureate Diem, and The American Dissident called her poems "lasers of passion and commitment." Another chapbook, "Dictation", received favorable reviews in Beggar's Press, Iconoclast, Pemmican and Monkeyfist. A chapbook of poems about the tension between Arab and United States cultures and the aftermath of September 11th, "Counterterrorist Poems", was released by Pudding House Publications and excerpted on the nationally syndicated Arnie Arneson radio talk show. Anne Babson wrote the libretto for Middlebury Professor Su Lian Tan's new opera "Upbringing," which will be performed by Meridian Arts Ensemble in 2006.
Friday, November 5, 7 - 10 p.m., Ross Commons Deanery (40 College St.)
Art Opening: Paintings and Collages by Patricia LeBon Herb. This show includes still lives, figures, landscapes, and abstract collages from 1999 to 2004. They are inspired by several years of living in Belgium and Germany. Also featured are landscapes of Vermont. Patricia LeBon Herb describes her collages as abstract-representational and influenced by the German and Flemish expressionists.
Note: 20 percent of the purchase of each painting, and 50 percent of the purchase of boxes of note cards, will go to WomenSafe.
Tuesday, November 9, 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 House
"Gender, Ethnicity, and Urban Space: Life and Perils in Colonial Latin American in Comparative Perspective." Lecture by William H. Beezley, professor of history and interim director of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona; director of the Oaxaca Summer Institute on Modern Mexican History.
Thursday, November 11, 4:30 p.m., Twilight Hall
"Boundary Event." Lecture by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor in the departments of Women's Studies and of Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California Berkeley. Vietnamese-born Minh-Ha is a writer, filmmaker and composer. Her work includes two large multi-media installations (The Desert Is Watching, 2003 with Jean-Paul Bourdier and Nothing But Ways, 1999 with Lynn M. Kirby); seven feature-length films that have been honored in thirty retrospectives around the world (including the international art exhibition Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany 2002); and seven books, of which the more recent are: Cinema Interval, 1999 and in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Drawn from African Dwellings, 1996. Professor Minh-Ha has just completed a new feature, Night Passage.
Thursday, November 11, 7:30 p.m., Dana Auditorium
"Night Passage" (USA 98 mins., color, 2004). Film screening followed by discussion with Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Amnesty International
Symposium on Sex Trafficking
Tuesday, November 16, through Saturday, November 20
Tuesday, November 16, 7:00 pm, Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Lecture by Janice Raymond, Co-Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Wednesday, November 17, 7:00 pm Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Lecture by Suzanne Tomatore, Esq., Program Director, Immigrant Women & Children Project, Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.
Thursday, November 18, 7:00 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Lecture by Vivian Itchon Gupta, Education Director, GABRIELA Network
Friday, November 19, 12:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Lecture by Stephen Kiernan '82, Reporter, Burlington Free Press
Friday, November 19, 9:00 p.m., Forest Basement Lounge
"Jamnesty," Concert featuring student musicians to raise awareness about issues of human trafficking worldwide and in the United States.
Saturday, November 20, 3:00 p.m., McCardell Bicentennial Hall
"The Selling of Innocence." Film screening followed by a discussion led by Ruchira Gupta, Producer and Anti-Trafficking Expert, Development Alternatives, Inc.
Saturday, November 20, 6:00 p.m. Redfield Proctor Lounge
Keynote Address: Ruchira Gupta, Anti-Trafficking Expert, Development Alternatives Inc.