Women's Studies Program
Events of Interest for Women's Studies
and Gender Studies at IWU
2012-2013

 

Spring 2013

March 7, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. - Beckman Auditorium-Ames Library

Jayita Sengupta
Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Faculty
Comparative Literature Department
Stanford University

Dr. Sengupta is also Reader/ Associate Professor & former Head, Department of English at South Calcutta Girls’ College, and guest faculty for graduate courses in Lady Brabourne College, affiliated to Calcutta University

"Translating Gender: Music, Myth, and Desire in India"

There will also be a reading of excerpts from her English translation of Gandharbi by Bani Basu, to invite discussions from the audience on the subject of translatability of cultural nuances, narrative subtleties where music is imbedded in the semiotic matrix of the text, yielding to narrative desire

March 8, 2013 - 11:30 - Davidson Room (Memorial Student Center)

Brown bag lunch with Jayita Sengupta. The discussion will be on "Indian Feminism"

March 22-13, 2013 - Council for IWU Women

The schedule of activities will be listed on Face Book at:

https://www.facebook.com/CouncilforIWUWomen?ref=ts&fref=ts

March 30, 2013 - 3:00 p.m. - IWU Evelyn Chapel

Senior Voice Recital of Hannah Elyse McCoy

A recital of songs by women composers.

 Reception immediately following in the basement of Evelyn Chapel.

 

 Fall 2012

October 2 - 6, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. and
Sunday October 7, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.
McPherson Theatre

Play by Barbara Lebow: A Shayna Maidel,
Directed by Nancy Loitz, IWU Theatre Arts Professor

Monday, October 8, 2012, 7:00 p.m. - CNS C101

Film: All my Girls (Alle meine Mädchen, 1979)
Directed by Iris Gusner.

Tuesday, October 9 at 4:00 p.m., Beckman Auditorium-The Ames Library

Lecture: "Socialist Patriarchy? East German Policy on Women"
By Ursula Schroeter, Sociologist and Vice-Chairwoman of Germany's Association of Democratic Women
(Note this lecture is in German with the English translation provided on handout and PowerPoint. The Q&A will be in both languages.)

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m. - CNS C101

Film: If The Earth Weren't Round (Wäre die Erde nicht rund, 1981)

Special Q & A after the film with film director Iris Gusner and sociologists Ursula Schroeter

Thursday, October 25, 2012, 4:00 p.m., Merwin Gallery, School of Art

Poetry reading by Virginia Bell, including poems from her new collection, From the Belly

Her themes vary but include images of the body, mother-child relations, the family; food, desire and sex.  (http://siblingrivalrypress.com/from-the-belly-by-virginia-bell/)