Lectures

Women's Studies Center College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Women of Distinction Series and Other Events, Fall 09 - Spring 10
WSGSA Faculty-Student Mixer	September 10, 2009, 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.	GC 243
Florida Commission on the Status of Women Gender Bias in the Media Roundtable Discussion AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST HELEN AGUIRRE FERRÉ WILL SERVE AS MODERATOR OF THE EVENT TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING PANELISTS: MIRIAM MARQUEZ, MIAMI HERALD OPINION PAGE EDITOR GLENNA MILBERG, WPLG CHANNEL 10 JOURNALIST FLORIDA SENATOR NAN RICH KATY SORENSON, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COMMISSIONER FLORIDA REPRESENTATIVE ANITERE FLORES FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE DOROTHY BENDROSS-MINDINGALL DR. JUDITH STIEHM, FIU POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AND PAST PROVOST JANE DAUGHERTY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, FIU SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION ANN HERBERGER, PRESIDENT OF THE WOODS-HERBERGER GROUP Co-sponsored with the Sheppard Broad Lecture Series, the School of International & Public Affairs, and College of Arts & Sciences.	September 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Frost Museum Classrooms
	October 2, 2009, 8:00 (reception at 7)	GL 100
	October 15, 2009, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.	GC 243
GEMS: Empowering Women Through Bellydance (Tickets are available at DM 212)	October 17, 2009, 7:00 p.m.	Performing Arts Center
Judy Chicago Panel: with Professors Carol Damian, Aurora Morcillo, Meri-Jane Rochelson, Dionne Stephens, and Laurie Shrage	November 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m.	Jewish Museum
The 11th Eric Williams Memorial Lecture: Ms. Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller Former prime Minister of Jamaica, current Leader of the Opposition, and President of the People's National Party. A New Vision for a New World Reality: Prospects for the Anglophone Caribbean This event is organized by the African & African Diaspora Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of International & Public Affairs and the Broad Lecture Series, the Women Studies Center, and the Latin American and Caribbean Center.	November 6, 2009 6:30 p.m.	Wertheim Performing Arts Center
Professor Joanna Regulska The Emergence of Transnational Subjects: The EU Eastern Enlargement and Women's Activism in Poland Co-sponsored with the EU Center & European Studies Program	November 9, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.	GL 220
Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Fall 2009 Laurie Shrage “Anatomy is Not Destiny: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Meet Transgender Studies” This talk is open to all members of the FIU community. Any further questions can be directed to Sean Hermanson in the Department of Philosophy, hermanso@fiu.edu	November 12 3:30 p.m.	CP 197

SPRING:
Dr. Michaela Moura-Kocoglu, Visiting Scholar, WS, FIU "Indigenous Women's Studies and Feminist Theory"	January 2010	BA
Professor Susan David Bernstein co-sponsored with Judaic Studies	February 2010 (TBA)	TBA
International Women's Day Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Panel Discussion on the Liberian Civil War and Human Rights Panelists: Dean Alexander Acosta (FIU Law School), Professor Ophelia Weeks (FIU Biology Department), Professor Peggy Maisel (FIU Law School), and Professor Jean Rahier (FIU African and African Diaspora Studies Program)	March 8	5:00-6:30 GC Ballroom
Professor Zine Magubane "Madonna, Oprah, and Angelina: Gender and the politics of celebrity activism in Africa" Co-sponsored with African and African Diaspora Studies	March 9, 2010
International Women's Week: Women and Work Internationally Co-sponsored with The Wolfsonian and Frost Museums	March 8 - 12, 2010	Frost Museum
Women as Healers	March 12 & 13	TBA
WSSA production of the Vagina Monologues	March 26-28, 2010, TBA	TBA
Spring Gala	TBA	TBA
Faculty Authors Book Panel featuring Professor Aurora Morcillo The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic Co-sponsored with the EU Center & European Studies Program	April 2010, TBA	FIU Bookstore

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