Past Events
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Ginny Greenberg (516) 463-6819
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY'S WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS FALL 2007 LECTURE SERIES
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY… Hofstra University's Women's Studies Program has announced a lectures series for the spring 2007 semester. All events are free. For more information call Karyn Valerius, director of the Women's Studies Program, at (516) 463-6817 or e-mail.
"The Shameful Times of Torture and Terror" A Lecture by Temma Kaplan
September 28, 2007
12:50 p.m..
Hofstra University's Guthart Cultural Center Theater Sponsored by Women's Studies, the Center for Civic Engagement, History Department, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies
This event is free and open to the public. For more information call or e-mail Director of Women's Studies Karyn Valerius at (516) 463-6817 or karyn.valerius@hofstra.edu or Assistant Professor of History Brenda Elsey at (516) 463-7003 or brenda.elsey@hofstra.edu.
The lecture will focus on the connection of torture and terrorism to the politics of gender and shame. By examining four women activists accused of terrorism in Argentina and Chile and how they reclaimed their political identities despite torturers' attempts to shame them, Dr. Kaplan considers the inverse relationship between shame and political solidarity.
Dr. Kaplan is a professor of history at Rutgers University whose research has focused on how gender affects people's capacities to envision alternative situations and the creative means they use to achieve goals. Her work has focused on women, gender, sexuality, social movements and political popular culture in Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain and the United States.
Her books include: Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (1993); Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements (1997); and Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy (2004).
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Ginny Greenberg (516) 463-6819
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY'S WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS SPRING 2007 LECTURE SERIES
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY… Hofstra University's Women's Studies Program has announced a lectures series for the spring 2007 semester. All events are free. For more information call Karyn Valerius, director of the Women's Studies Program, at (516) 463-6817 or e-mail.
Poetry Reading with Purvi Shah
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Purvi Shah is the author of Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press 2006), which won a Many Voices Project Prize. Her poetry explores migration as potential and loss. She is also executive director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic violence organization.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History"Women Taking Action for Peace" – A Panel Discussion
Monday, February 26, 2007
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Plaza Rooms, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus.
Featuring: Dana Balicki, organizer, CodePINK Women for Peace; Colleen Eren, organizer, New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty; and Kerry Bishe, actress, My Name is Rachel Corrie.
This event is co-sponsored by Hofstra University's Center for Civic Engagement.
"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History: From Academe to a Bumper Sticker"
Featuring: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Harvard's 300th Anniversary University Professor, Phillips Professor of Early American History, and director of the Charles Warren Center. She is also the author of many articles and books on early American history, including A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book is The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001). This event is co-sponsored by Dean Bernard Firestone of Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Cultural Center, Honors College, and the Departments of History and English.
"Getting On the Same Page:
What the Millions of Women Who Become Pregnant Each Year in the United States Have in Common"
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
12:45 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Featuring: Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D., executive director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women