Calendar of Events
Gender & Women’s Studies
Spring 2014
FEBRUARY
2/26
 Women’s Center General Meeting: 6:00 p.m. 214 Mahar
2/27
 Speaker and comedian Sam Killerman, It's Pronounced Metrosexual:
7:00-8:00 Hewitt Union Ballroom
o A comedic show about gender judgment and stereotypes
Sponsored by Residential Life
MARCH
Every Tuesday night in March at 8 p.m. in 231 CC: meeting of Two and a Half, a sexual
assault and domestic violence awareness organization. Contact Tiffany Jenkins for more
information and topics of weekly discussions. (tjenkins@oswego.edu)
3/2
 Rehearsal for Vagina Monologues: CC 205
(For more information, contact womenscenteroswego@gmail.com)
3/5
 Association of Black Psychologists (ABPSi) screening “Dark Girls”:
6-8pm CC Auditorium (132 CC)
o The film explores the prejudices that dark-skinned women face
throughout the world.
Sponsored by the Gender & Women Studies Program, the Black
Student Union, the Women’s Center and the African/African
American Studies Program.
3/6
 Unsinkable Woman: A One-Woman Show by Deborah Jean Templin
6:30 p.m. CC Auditorium (132 CC)
“It is a play about women from diverse backgrounds who survived the
Titanic and went on to live notable lives. They contributed to the continuing
struggles for women’s rights and emancipation in the United States. Based
on actual diaries, letters and interviews Unsinkable Women brings to life
these famous figures including Madeline Astor (the beautiful teenage bride
of John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest men in America) and Margaret
Tobin Brown – the ‘Unsinkable Molly’ herself – whose account of the
Titanic’s final moments brings the evening to its dramatic climax.”
Sponsored by Artswego, Gender & Women’s Studies Program, and others.
3/6
 Pride Alliance meeting:
7:30-8:30 (CC 133)
Meeting will be centered around Herstory Month and will pertain to
emotional abuse in relationships, both queer and heterosexual
3/10
 Rehearsal for Vagina Monologues: CC 205
(For more information, contact womenscenteroswego@gmail.com)
3/20-3/22
 Conference at Syracuse University “Looking Back, Moving Forward: 50th
Anniversary Conference on the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-2014”
o Dinner on Saturday 3/22 features performances by artists and
activists Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon. Conference
information & registration: http://www.syr.edu/coldcaselaw/
(Registration is free). For information on attending the conference as
an Alternate Spring Break, please contact Dr. Patricia Clark
(patricia.clark@oswego.edu) or Dr. Mary McCune
(mary.mccune@oswego.edu)
3/24
 Rehearsal for Vagina Monologues: CC 205
(For more information, contact womenscenteroswego@gmail.com)
3/27
 Ernst & Young Lecture: 6:00-7:30 CC Auditorium (132 CC)
Dee Moskoff, Humphrey Fellow, Syracuse University and Director,
Connect Network, South Africa
“How HIV Affects the Workplace of South African Women”
o This talk will examine the impact of HIV in the workplace regarding
South African women. Despite having the strongest economy in
Africa, the country has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the
world due to lack of published information in the workplace.
Supported by Robert ’78 and Robbi Feinberg and Ernst & Young
Sponsored by the Gender & Women’s Studies Program and the
Institute for Global Engagement
3/27
 Skye, a transgender youTube vlogger will be joining us to discuss
Trans* 101: 7:30-9:30; Location TBA
3/28 & 3/29
 Vagina Monologues, Sheldon Hall, time TBA
APRIL
4/3
 Ernst & Young Lecture: 4:00-5:30 CC Auditorium (132 CC)
Ruth Baltus, Oswego ’77, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson
University
o Professor Baltus will present some historical perspectives on women
in STEM fields using her own family’s experiences, discuss how things
have changed over her 30-year career, and share her lessons learned
during that career.
Supported by Robert ’78 and Robbi Feinberg and Ernst & Young
Sponsored by the Gender & Women’s Studies Program and Science
Today.
4/7
 Lecture by Kevin Mumford, Professor of History, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
“Neither Straight Nor White: Reinventing Black Gay History from the
March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis”
6:30 p.m. CC 114
Sponsored by the History Department, the Gender & Women’s Studies
Program, and the African/African-American Studies Program
4/16
 Women’s Center General Meeting: 6:00 p.m. 214 Mahar
4/23
 SlutWalk featuring Stephanie Gilmore: “an activist, educator, and writer
who -- in the traditions of Ella Baker, Grace Lee Boggs, bell hooks, Cherrie
Moraga, and Anne Braden -- listens to, learns from, and shares knowledge
with young people with the explicit goal of developing informed activist
communities. She also writes, edits, and builds community workshops to
help facilitate an end to sexual violence.” Find out more on her website.
Time and location TBA
4/24
 Pride Alliance Meeting: 7:30-8:30 CC 133
Meeting will be devoted to Non-Gender Binary Identities
MAY
5/2
 Women’s Center Annual Banquet: location and time TBA