Events: FALL 2009
Women's Studies and Gender Studies and Gannon Center for Women & Leadership Events
FALL 2009 EVENTS
August
Feminist Pedagogy Workshop
Thursday, August 20, 2-5 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Welcome Reception
Glottal Attack Madrigal Singers perform "A Few Summer Songs"
Friday, August 28, 5 PM
Piper Hall 1st Floor
September
A Tribute to Eve Sedgwick
Readings of selected passages from a founding member of Queer Studies
Thursday, September 3, 3:30-5:30 PM
Information Commons, 4th Floor, LSC
*Co-sponsored with the English Department
Virginia Valian
“Why so Slow? The Advancement of Women”
Monday, September 14, 3 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
New Transnationalism Lecture Series
Susan Stanford Friedman
“Global Epistemologies of the New Transnationalism in Literary and Cultural Studies”
Wednesday, September 30, 12-1
Information Commons, 4th Floor, Hussey Lounge
*Co-sponsored with the English Depatment
October
Rana Husseini
“Murder in the Name of Honor”
Monday, October 19, 3 PM
Piper Hall, 1st Floor
*Co-sponsored with International Studies, Loyola Universirty and the American Institute of Indian Studies, University of Chicago
Gannon Scholar Reading Group
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Wednesday, October 14, 3-4 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Gathering Space
Welcom Reception for Faculty featuring Susan Ross
"Global Feminist Theologies in Postcolonial Spaces: A Collaborative Service Project"
Thursday, October 22, 3:30 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
WSGS 30th Anniversary Celebration
“Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future: 30 Years of Women’s Studies at Loyola”
Thursday, October 29, 4:00-5:30 PM
Piper Hall, 1st Floor
November
Reception
Women of the World: A Colloquium of Catholic Women Poets
Thursday, November 12, 4:00-5:30 PM
Piper Hall, 1st Floor
*Co-sponsored with the Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage
Gannon Scholar Reading Group
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Wednesday, November 4, 2:45-3:45 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Gathering Space
Maaike de Haart
"Tasting the Divine: Religious Reflections on Everyday Life"
Thursday, November 5, 3:30 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
WSGS Major/Minor Information Sessions
Thursday, November 5, 12:30 PM
Monday, November 9, 12:30 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor Gathering Space
Sustainable Dinner and Discussion
Reflections on Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food
Monday, November 9, 5-7 PM
Piper Hall, 2nd Floor
Women of the World: A Colloquium of Catholic Women Poets
Reception
Thursday, November 12, 4-5:30 PM
Piper Hall, 1st Floor
Co-sponsored with the Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage
New Transnationalism Lecture Series
Michelle Wright
“The Physics of Blackness: Agency and Morality in the Postwar Era”
Wednesday, November 18, 12-1
Information Commons, 4th Floor, Hussey Lounge
*Co-sponsored with the English Department
