Pitt Women's Studies Program to Sponsor Events During Women's History Month
PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program is sponsoring the following events during March, which is designated as Women's History Month. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 412-624-6485.
March 15
Noon, 2201 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland
Brown Bag Lecture-"In Small Print: Women and the History of the Small Press"
Poet and Pitt MFA candidate Tiffany Merriman will examine the history of women poets in the small press, the politics of inclusion and exclusion in small press literature, and the position of presses that are explicitly for women authors.
March 23-24
Mini-conference-Teaching Gender/Gendered Teaching, 501 Cathedral of Learning,
4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland
4-5:30 p.m., March 23
Panel: Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective
Panelists-editors of Feminist Teacher, a journal of the practices, theories, and scholarship of feminist teaching-are as follows:
Monica Barron, professor of English, Truman State University;
Gail Cohee, director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Brown University;
Theresa Kemp, associate professor, director of undergraduate studies in English, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; and
Sandy Runzo, associate professor of English and women's studies, Denison University.
9:30 a.m.-noon, March 24
Working Groups on such topics as teaching introductory women's studies courses, mainstreaming gender studies in required courses, and teaching queer theory.
Noon-1 p.m., Lunch
1-3 p.m., March 24
Looking Forward: Teaching Gender/Gendered Teaching
Workshop led by Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective
March 29
Noon, 2201 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland
Brown Bag Lecture-"Motherhood and Activism in Peruvian Women's Organizations"
This talk will be presented by Pitt Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Blenda Femenias, a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests center on questions of identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, language, and nationalism. She is the author of Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru (University of Texas Press, 2005).
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