WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
LECTURE SERIES
2015-2016
“HEADSCARVES AND
HYMENS”
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY:
FEMINIST, QUEER,
CRIP:
MONA ELTAHAWY
MANISHA DESAI
ALISON KAFER
Monday, October 5
Tuesday, March 8
Thursday, March 17
6:00 P.M.
12:00 P.M.
8:00 P.M.
McKenny Hall
Carillon Room, Halle
Halle Auditorium
WOMEN’S and GENDER LECTURE SERIES 2015-2016
Fall 2015
Oct.5th
Mona Elthahawy, Egyptian journalist and author Lecture:
“Headscarves and Hymens”
Oct.23rd
40th Anniversary Celebration of WGST, University House Dr.
Estelle Freedman, Stanford University, “Reflections: 40 years of
Women’s and Gender Studies”, 5:30-7:30
Feb.3rd
Fatima Sadiqi, Center for Arabic & Islamic Studies, Fez
“Jihadism and the Escalation of Violence Against Women and
Girls: Policies Combating Gender-Based Violence in the Middle
East and North Africa” 6:00-8:00pm 300 Halle
Feb. 10th
Solange Simoes, “Resisting Economic Precarity and Fighting
Gender Inequality in the Global South: Brazilian Women and
Public Policy” 12:00-1:30, 217 Halle
Nov.3rd
March 3rd
Jessi Quizar Lecture, “Water in A Bucket: Race & mass Water
shut Offs in Detroit” 7-9pm; Carillon Room Halle
Inspiring Women in History Panel, 4-5:30, Honors College
Auditorium, 511 W. Forest
WGST Performance Showcase, 7:00-9:00pm, SC Auditorium
Nov.6th
An Afternoon of T.S Elliot’s “The love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock” Poem 3:00-5:00 Halle Auditorium
Nov. 18th
Peter Drucker: “The Political Economy of Homonationalism
/Islamophobia”, WGST and LGBT RC
7:00pm Kiva Room, Student Center
Dec.3rd &4th
WGST Graduate Student Conference: “Intersectionality: Theory
and Action, Interweaving Scholarship, Activism, and
Community”, McKenny Hall
March 8th
International Women’s day: Manisha Desai
Guest speaker and panel 12:00 - 2:00 pm: “Transnational Feminism
and CEDAW (Convention on the elimination of all forms of
discrimination against women)”, Carillon Room, Halle Library,
WGST and WRC
March 17th
Alison Kafer, McAndless Scholar, “Haunting the Edges of Social
Justice: Disability Across Movements” Reception at 7:00pm in
Carrillon Room, Halle Library. Talk at 8:00pm in Halle Aud
March 22nd
Winter 2016
Lora Lempert, “Eating the Life Sentence Elephant: One Day at a
Time” 4:00-6:00, 300 Halle
Jan. 27th
March 29th
Andrea Mukavetz, Assistant Professor of English, Bowling Green
University, “Taking Up Space: Usin Indigenous Feminism to
Navigate Institutional Spaces”
4:30-6:30, 300 Halle
Aleksandra Bednarowska, “German Jewish Feminists and the
Holocaust” 7:00pm, Room 330 SC. WGST & Jewish Studies
April 5th
Liat Ben-Moshe “Disability Inc. (Incarcerated)” 6:00-8:00pm, 300
Halle