Berea College Department of Women's Studies Events for 2005/2006

Berea College Department of Women's Studies events for 2005-2006 (Open to the Public--Free)


October 21
11:55 a.m.­ 12:55 p.m. Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Fair Trade and the Struggle for Life in the Americas
Daysi Granada, Nicaraguan women’s movement leader, and advisor to Christians for the Poor, talks about ways that privatization of Nicaragua’s utilities have impacted her community, and the ongoing struggle of Nicaraguan civil society. Co-sponsored with Campus Christian Center.

November 2
11:55 a.m.­ 12:55 p.m. Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Under the Veil
Dr. Carole Garrison, Jewish American Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies, and Dr. Jaleh Rezaie, Muslim Iranian Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Eastern Kentucky University, describe the interfaith friendship that started and then grew from their journey to Jaleh’s homeland.Co-sponsored with Campus Christian Center.

November 9
3:00 p.m. Women in the Global Economy
Phelps Stokes
Room 204
Chiapas and the Sixth Declaration
Gabriela Martinez Lopez, researcher at the Center of Political Analysis in Chiapas, Mexico, will speak on the recent declaration of the Zapatista movement, and the work of indigenous women’s communities to claim their fundamental freedoms.

11:55 a.m.­ 12:55 p.m. Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Africa, Islam, and Female Circumcision
Dr. Abdur-Razaq B. Adesina, Islamic scholar and Fulbright lecturer from the University of Portharcourt in Nigeria, discusses the role of Nigerian women in African Muslim cultures. Co-sponsored with International Center.

November 21 (This is likely to be changed to December 5th)
5:00 p.m.
Monday Night Feminism
Conversations with bell hooks
Women' Studies Parlor
Second floor Phelps Stokes: light supper provided
Childcare upon request; Contact Barbara Lakes x3217
Special guest, Bandra Bartky, author of Feminity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

November 30
11:55 a.m.­ 12:55 p.m. Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Opposing Currents: Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America
Sonia Davila, Bolivian-Mexican scholar and author of Opposing Currents, outlines the international debate on water rights and recounts the gender struggle against water privatization in Bolivia. Co-sponsored with International Center and SENS.

3:00 p.m. Women in the Global Economy
Phelps Stokes, Room 204
Water Wars in Bolivia
Sonia Davila, author of Opposing Currents, speaks about the role of women in the civil struggle to regain water rights in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

February 22
11:55 ­ 12:55 Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Power and Resistance in the Interstices
Muriel Shockley, doctoral candidate and faculty member at Goddard College, introduces her work with Cherie Sandoval on transnational collective efforts to resist the effects of neo-liberal globalization, violence against women, and war.

March 8
11:55 ­ 12:55 Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Feminist Philosophers in North America: An Audio-Visual Sampler
Dr. Joan Callahan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky, presents highlights of her national research project on influential feminist philosophers in the United States.

March 22
11:55 ­ 12:55 Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Radical Multiculturalism and Women of Color Feminisms
Dr. Maria Lugones, feminist philosopher and founder of Escuela Popular Nortena, shares her recent work on women of color feminisms and radical multiculturalism.

March 22
3:00 p.m. Women in the Global Economy
Phelps Stokes, Room 204
Modern Colonial/Gender Systems
Dr. Maria Lugones, author of Pilgrimages/Pereginajes:
Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions, discusses current schemes for understanding neo-colonialism and gender systems.

April 12
11:55 ­ 12:55 Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Date Rape Prevention as Social Justice Training: Transforming Male
Privilege and Creating Non-Rape Prone Campus Cultures
Dr. Pam Remer, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky, presents a model of campus rape prevention that challenges male privilege, rape myths, and rape-supported attitudes on the college campus.

April 21
11:55 ­ 12:55 Peanut Butter and Gender
Phelps Stokes, Room 205, Lunch is Served
Gender Lessons in School-Based Sex Education
Using her ethnographic data from middle school sex education classes, Dr. Jessica Fields, Assistant Professor of Sociology at San Francisco State University, applies a feminist lens to the oppressive lessons about femininity and masculinity at work in sex education programs for boys and girls.