Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Representatives of the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance report on statewide efforts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. Lunch will be served.

J-term is play term: directors, producers, and actors will compare notes about their upcoming performances on January 21 (The Pussygrabber Plays) and January 29 and 30 (Jane: Abortion and the Underground). A free sushi lunch will be served.

Please join It Happens Here for a discussion about the Fall 2018 results of the Map Project, in which students could submit locations at which they had experienced sexual assault or harassment.

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Feminist Resource Center at Chellis House is organizing a speed-friending event to build community. Meet new people while discussing fun questions and savor chocolate-covered strawberries.

Please join us for final thesis and senior essay presentations by Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies majors and minors, as well as other majors with feminist content projects. There will be a approximately 12-15 presenters throughout the day. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. All are welcome to attend.

Rana Abdelhamid ’15, an internationally recognized human rights advocate with a black belt in Karate, returns to Middlebury where she earned her bachelor’s degree in international politics and economics. She then earned a master’s degree in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School public. Currently Abdelhamid works for Google’s central brand team for Google Cloud. While a student, she founded the nonprofit Malikah, which is aimed at supporting women’s empowerment through self-defense, entrepreneurship, and organized trainings.

Henry Burnett ‘18.5, Kelsie Hoppes ‘18.5, and Will Simpson ‘18.5 will present their senior theses for which they conducted overseas research funded by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Summer Research Grants.

Claudio Medeiros will talk about directing The Baltimore Waltz. Diagnosed with a mysterious, fatal disease that’s rampaging through the country’s elementary schools, a schoolteacher embarks on a lust-driven tour of Europe with her brother, a newly laid-off librarian from San Francisco. But in reality we are in the late 1980s, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and the brother has died of the disease. Written by Paula Vogel, this whimsical odyssey is revealed to be a sister’s deep and idiosyncratic expression of sorrow and love.
A sushi lunch will be served.

A former professor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Pulitzer-Price-nominated writer Lore Segal is best known for her autobiographical novel Other People’s Houses, in which she describes her escape from Hitler’s Vienna in 1938 on a Kindertransport and subsequent exile in England, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. Ms. Segal, recipient of an O. Henry Prize, will read from her forthcoming collection of essays, The Journal I Didn’t Keep: New and Selected Writing.

Sponsored by the Holocaust Film Fund, Jewish Studies, Brainerd Commons, Hillel,