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2008-2009 Calendar of Events

 

Sept. Oct.
May  June


 
Ongoing Exhibitions
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September 22 to December 8, 2008
Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, part of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series.
Never Has She Ever: Renée Cox
Renowned contemporary American photographer Renée Cox, celebrates black womanhood at the same time she challenges the roles assigned to Blacks and women in our culture.
Douglass Library Galleries
Sponsored by Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, and Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Visual Arts Department/MGSA,  Institute for Research on Women, Office of the Dean- Douglass Residential College, and Women’s and Gender Studies Department

October 14 - October 31, 2008
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
Never Has She Ever…. A thematic group show by 10 women artists featuring large-scale works by Renée Cox
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Civic Square Building
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries,  and  Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Visual Arts Department/MGSA

November 1 to December 31, 2008
Human Rights from Rutgers University Collections
Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library
Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Rutgers University Libraries

January 20 to March 9, 2009
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture: Jenny Polak, a juried exhibition that provides a visual arts component to the IRW interdisciplinary seminar.
Jenny Polak “designs and installs fictional architectural hiding and dwelling places for people without immigration papers… In alluding to illegal assistance of undocumented and stateless people, I draw on my life as a resident alien, my migratory family history, and current events.”
Douglass Library Galleries (204A)
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, and the Institute for Research on Women

February 19- March 12, 2009
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture: Loren Schwerd, a juried exhibition that provides a visual arts component to the IRW interdisciplinary seminar.
Loren Schwerd has created a series of memorials to the communities of New Orleans that were devastated by the flooding following Hurricane Katrina, using human hair as one of her materials.
Douglass Library Galleries (204B)
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, and the Institute for Research on Women

March 19 to June 8, 2009
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
Etched in Memory
Two-person exhibition of photographic works by Ernestine Ruben, Princeton, NJ, and Cathy Stein Greenblat, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Rutgers, Visiting Researcher, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France, and Artist Fellow at Rutgers Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.  Each artist has been working on the visual imagery of life and death, one metaphorically and one documentarily.
Douglass Library Galleries
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries

May 8 to June 30, 2009
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
Faith Ringgold
Solo exhibition of work by the internationally recognized New Jersey-based artist, author and activist.
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, and Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Visual Arts Department/MGSA

Permanent Installation
Community of Women
Exhibit of sculptures by Evelyn Wilson
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
September –
November, 2008

Visiting Global Associate in Residence
Mary Jane Real of the Philippines, coordinator of the International Campaign on Women’s Human Rights Defenders
Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and the Institute for Women’s Leadership

September

September 16
(Tuesday)

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of Estelle Ishigo (Steven Okazaki, 1990) 28 min; 
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field, 1999) 65 min
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Douglass Residential College, and the Office of Undergraduate Education

 
September 17
(Wednesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Professor Nikol Alexander Floyd, Rutgers University
“ ‘Written, published, cross-indexed, and footnoted’: Plotting the
Disciplinary Production of Black Women’s and Gender Studies

12:00 Noon
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building

Making Way for Women: DRC Night at the Movies
Iron Jawed Angels
8-11 pm
Outdoors, Antilles Field
Alternate Location: Trayes Hall, DCC
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College; Women's and Gender Studies
Department; RUPA; Office of Undergraduate Education.
 
September 18
(Thursday)

IRW  Distinguished Lecture Series
"Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights"
Charlotte Bunch
, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership; Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
4:00 Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women

 
September 22
(Monday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series
Professor Dagmar Herzog, CUNY Graduate Center
Sex in Crisis
4:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building

 
September 24
(Wednesday)

The Douglass Society Induction Ceremony
The highest achieving Douglass alumnae are inducted into The Douglass Society in front of the first-year Knowledge and Power Class at Douglass.
10:55 am – 12:15 pm
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Residential College
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College

 

 

October

October 6
(Monday)

Suffrage: Transformative Effects; Unfulfilled Promise
Professor Susan Carroll, Rutgers University
Professor Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
Professor Lubica Kabova, Comenius University, Slovakia
Professor Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
12 Noon-2:00 pm
Center for European Studies, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Center for European Studies

 

October 7
(Tuesday)

Defending Women, Defending Rights: 
60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
Mary Jane Real, Coordinator, International Campaign on Human Rights Defenders and 2008 Visiting Global Associate at Rutgers University
Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
4:30-6:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and the Institute for Women’s Leadership


 

October 8
(Wednesday)

Negotiating Basics for the Academic Job Market
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Office of the Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematic

 

October 10
(Friday)

Institute for Research on Women Faculty Forum
Gender, Race & Ethnicity:  Global Perspectives
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Center for Race and Ethnicity

 

October 14

(Tuesday)

Senior Leadership Program for Professional Women Special Event
“Insights on Executive Leadership in Times of Change” featuring:
Sara Mathew, President and Chief Operating Officer, Dun & Bradstreet
Elizabeth G. Possillico, Ph.D., President and CEO, Elusys Therapeutics, Inc.
Pam Cheng, VP, Supply Chain Management, Merck and Company
Jean T. Burgdorff, former owner, Burgdorff Realty
Panel Moderator:  
Mary S. Hartman, director, Institute for Women’s Leadership
8:00 -10:00 am
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Center for Women and Work with The Next Level, Inc.

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race (Lawrence E. Walker, 1997)  59 min; Into the Fire:  American Women in the Spanish Civil War (Julia Newman, 2002) 58 min
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Douglass Residential College and the Office of Undergraduate Education

 
October 15
(Wednesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Professor Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
Children’s Nutritional Status and Mother’s Education:  An Examination of Son Preference in Cambodia
12 Noon
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department

 
October 16
(Thursday)

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Event
Never Has She Ever…. A reception for the thematic group exhibit by 10 women artists featuring large-scale works by Renée Cox
5:00-7:00 pm
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Civic Square Building
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Visual Arts Department/MGSA, and Global Initiatives

Making Way for Women: DRC Night at the Movies
The Shape of Water (Kum-Kum Bhavani, 2006) 70 min
8-11 pm

Trayes Hall, DCC
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College; Women's and Gender Studies
Department; RUPA; Office of Undergraduate Education.

 

 
October 22
(Wednesday)

Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Public Lecture
Renée Cox
6:00 pm Reception
6:30 pm Lecture
Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library
Sponsored by Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Visual Arts Department/MGSA,  Institute for Research on Women, Office of the Dean- Douglass Residential College, Women’s and Gender Studies Department and Global Initiatives

“A Conversation with Ayesha Imam”
Board Member of the Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws
and Founding Executive Director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights
5:30 pm Reception
6:00 pm Conversation
Alexander Telecommunications Conference Room, CAC
Sponsored by Institute for Research on Women and Global Initiatives

 
October 23
(Thursday)

AADC Extern Program Kick-off Reception
1:00 -2:30 pm
NJC Lounge, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College
IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
“Our Rights, Our Cultures: Muslim Women in West Africa and Struggles
over Definitions, Entitlements and Power”

Ayesha Imam, Board Member of the Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws;
Founding Executive Director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights;
Working Group of the African Feminist Forum.
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Global Initiatives

Zagoren Lecture
“Exploring the Garden in New Jersey”
Karen Irvine DC ’92 president, Culinary Communications
7:30 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College

 
October 28
(Tuesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series
“Five Million IVF Babies Later: The Cultural Legacy of IVF”
Professor Sarah Franklin, London School of Economics
4:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
 

November

November 11
(Tuesday)

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
Coming Out Under Fire (Arthur Dong, 1994) 72 min
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Douglass Residential College, and the Office of Undergraduate Education

 
November 12
(Wednesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Professor Carlos Decena, Rutgers University
To Be Someone, Somewhere:
Eroticized Returns and US-Caribbean Circuits of Desire
12 Noon
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

 
November 13
(Thursday)

Please note: POSTPONED until April 2009

Jody Williams (invited) Nobel Peace Prize winner for work to ban landmines, co-founder Nobel Women’s Initiative to promote women’s human rights
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership

 
November 17
(Monday)

RU-FAIR Studies of Women in Science, Engineering and 
Mathematics Lecture Series

Symposium on Research on Academic Women in Science
“Work and Family/Household Interference:  Women and Men Faculty in
Science and Engineering” - Dr. Mary Frank Fox,
Georgia Technological University
“Ninety-nine Status of Women Reports:  Academic Leadership Role in
Improving the Status of Female Faculty” –
Dr. Monica Gaughan,
University of Georgia, Athens 10am-2 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by Office of the Associate VP for Promotion of Women
in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
 
November 19
(Wednesday)

RU-FAIR Studies of Women in Science, Engineering and 
Mathematics Lecture Series

Symposium on Research on Academic Women in Science
“Work and Family/Household Interference:  Women and Men Faculty in
Science and Engineering” - Dr. Mary Frank Fox,
Georgia Technological University
“Ninety-nine Status of Women Reports:  Academic Leadership Role in
Improving the Status of Female Faculty” –
Dr. Monica Gaughan,
University of Georgia, Athens 10am-2 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by Office of the Associate VP for Promotion of Women
in Science, Engineering and Mathematics

 
  Making Way for Women: DRC Night at the Movies
"Bend It Like Beckham"
8-11 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College; Women's and Gender Studies
  Department; RUPA; and Office of Undergraduate Education
 

November 25-
December 10

 

16 Days of Activism Against Gender  Violence
Dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights

For more information about this global campaign,
visit www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16Days/home.html
Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership

 

December
November 25-
December 10

 

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
Dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights

For more information about this global campaign,
visit www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16Days/home.html
Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership


 
December 3-5
(Wednesday-
Friday )

The Future of Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education: 
A National Forum on Innovation and Collaboration

The Heldrich, New Brunswick, NJ
For program and registration information, visit http://www2.law.columbia.edu/ssturm/conferences/diversity_opportunity/

Sponsored by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Center for
Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School; Columbia University;
and the College Board
 
December 4
(Thursday)
 

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
"Suspicious Centerings: Third World Women, the Rhetoric of Rights
and the Politics of Rescue and Empowerment"

Uma Narayan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities,
Vassar College
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women    



 
December 7
(Sunday)
 
Yule Log
4:45 pm
Voorhees Chapel
Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College


 

January
January 29
(Thursday)

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
“Missing Pakistanis:  Gendered Political Economy,
Culture and the War on Terror”

Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor of Women’s &
Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women


 

February
February 3
(Tuesday)

IWL Leadership Scholars Program
Young Leaders and Social Change Forum
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Mabel Smith Douglass Library
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership

 

February 4

(Wednesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Samiha Matin, Rutgers University
Fashioning Femininity Through the Past: 
Film Costume, Female Subjectivity and the Uses of History

12 Noon
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

 
February 19
(Thursday)

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Gallery Talk
The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture: Jenny Polak
12 Noon
Douglass Library Galleries
Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library.
Sponsored by Institute for Research on Women, the Mary H. Dana
Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and
Art in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries, and Global Initiatives

 

 
February 23
(Monday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series
Professor Evan Stark, Rutgers University, Newark
Re-framing Battered Women: From Domestic Violence
to Coercive Control

4:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
 

Douglass/Wyeth Lectureship
Virginia W. Cornish, Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
4:00 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College

 
February 24
(Tuesday)

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Gini Reticker, 2008) 72 min.
Featuring a discussion with producer Abigail Disney
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department,
Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Douglass Residential College,
and Office of Undergraduate Education

 

 
February 26
(Thursday)

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
“Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular:
Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide”
Sally Engle Merry, Professor of Anthropology and Law & Society,
New York University
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women

 
February 27
(Friday)

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
“Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular:
Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide”
Sally Engle Merry, Professor of Anthropology and Law & Society,
New York University
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women


Symposium: The Culture of Rights/ The Rights of Culture
8:30 am-5 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women

March
March 5-6
(Thursday-
Friday )

Telling Histories: Black Women in the Ivory Tower
A conference organized by Rutgers Professor Deborah Gray White
featuring leading scholars from across the country including:
Evelyn M. Hammonds, Harvard University; Cathy J. Cohen,
University of Chicago; and Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland
Location to be Announced
Sponsored by Department of History, Institute for Research on Women,
and Center for Race and Ethnicity

 

March 10
(Tuesday)

Institute for Women and Art Visiting Scholar Lecture
“Cinematic Collage:  The Experimental Films of Yvonne Rainer,”
Dr. Gwen Raaberg, Professor, English and Women’s & Gender Studies,
Western Michigan University
Lecture location and time TBA
Sponsored by the Institute for Women and Art

 

March 12
(Thursday)

Bridging the Gap—Leadership Scholars Alumnae Panel and Dinner
6:00-8:30 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership

 

March 20
(Friday)

Etched in Memory
A one-day forum for artists on record-keeping, archiving, establishing an
artistic legacy, and estate planning.
9 am to 4 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass Residential College campus
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Women and Art with WAAND:
Women Artists Archives National Directory, and Rutgers University Libraries

 

March 20-21
(Friday - Saturday)

Ready to Run™
Training for potential women candidates and appointees; learn how to get Ready to Run from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants and party officials. Special pre-program workshops for women of color on Friday: Run Sister Run: Women of the African Diaspora Changing the Political Landscape; Rising Stars: Educating Asian American Women for Politics; and Elección Latina.
Trayes Hall, Douglass College
Sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics
 

March 26
(Thursday)

“Ways of Water:  Human Rights, Gender, Security, and Environment”
Peter Gleick, Water Human Rights and Gender Activist
5:00-6:30 pm
4th Floor Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, College Avenue Campus
Sponsored by SAS International Programs and Rutgers University Libraries

Thursday, March 26, 2009    
Jersey Roots, Global Reach: 25 years of the
Laurie-New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Douglass College

Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
Jacquelyn Pitanguy, CEPIA, Brazil
Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM Representative to the African Union
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center

Laurie Chair Legacies: New Ways of Knowing
Featuring former Laurie New Jersey Chair Occupants:
  Sara Ahmed, Goldsmith College, University of London
  Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
  Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM Representative to the African Union
  Paula Giddings, Smith College
  Carol Gilligan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
  Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Diana Tientjens Meyers, University of Connecticut
  Jacquelyn Pitanguy, CEPIA, Brazil
7:30 pm                      
Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Douglass
Residential College, Institute for Women’s Leadership and Global Initiatives

 

March 27-28
(Friday)

Taking Stock: Transformative Scholarship, Transforming Practices
40th Anniversary Celebration of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers
In conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association Conference

Friday, March 27
Engendering/Degendering Knowledge
Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder
Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
Diana Tientjens Meyers, University of Connecticut
Joan Tronto, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
9:30 – 11:30 am
Mabel Smith Douglass Library

2009 Laurie Lecture and MAWSA Keynote Address
Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmith College, University of London
“Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness”
3:00 – 4:30 pm           
Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass Campus

Saturday, March 28, 2009
“But Some of Us Are Brave:
Black Women’s Studies and the Transformation of the Academy”
Nikol Alexander Floyd, Rutgers University
Cheryl Clarke, Rutgers University
Paula Giddings, Smith College
Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
Cheryl Wall, Rutgers University
10:45 am – 12:45 pm
Mabel Smith Douglass Library

 

March 31
(Tuesday)

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
Guardian of the Frontier (Maya Weiss, 2006) 100 min
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department
with Douglass Residential College

 

April

April 1
(Wednesday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Professor Ishani Maitra, Rutgers University
“Speech and Silence”
12 Noon         
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

 

April 8

(Wednesday)

Douglass Founders Day
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College

 

April 14

(Tuesday)

Conflict and Comfort: Women’s and Gender Studies Film Series
The Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis, 2006) 97 min
6:30 pm
Art History 100, Douglass Campus

Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Douglass Residential College, and the Office of Undergraduate Education
 
April 15
(Wednesday)

2009 Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for Work to Ban Landmines
And Lifelong Global Activist
JODY WILLIAMS
Sam and Cele Keeper Endowed Professor in Peace and Social Justice
Graduate, College of Social Work, University of Houston
"Women, Peace & Human Security"
Public Lecture
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
8:00 p.m.
Busch Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

 
April 16
(Thursday)

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Exhibition
Etched in Memory
Two-person exhibition of photographic works by Ernestine Ruben, Princeton, NJ,
and Cathy Stein Greenblat, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Rutgers,
Visiting Researcher, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France,
and Artist Fellow at Rutgers Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions. 
5:00-7:00 pm Reception
Douglass Library Galleries
Sponsored by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the
Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries

 

April 22

(Wednesday)

Women's and Gender Studies Honors Presentations and Dinner
3-7 pm  
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building Conference Room
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies Department
 
April 23
(Thursday)

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series
"Radical Universalism"
Karima Bennoune, Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
4:00 pm Reception
4:30 pm Lecture
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women

 
April 30
(Thursday)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Briefing
Professor Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
“The Long Suffrage Movement 1776-1965”
12 Noon         
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

Douglass Scholarship Dinner
6:00 pm
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College


  
 
 
May

May 2

(Saturday)

10th Anniversary Celebration for the IWL  Leadership Scholars Program
Salute to Young Women’s Leadership
5:00 pm Reception
6:00 pm Dinner, Program and Party
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership
 

May 3

(Sunday)

Sacred Path
5:30 pm
Voorhees Chapel
Sponsored by Douglass Residential College
 

May 18
(Monday)

Reflections on Leadership Learning
IWL Leadership Scholars Graduation
3:30-5:00 pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership


 
 
 
 

June
 
June 4-9
(Thursday-Tuesday)
NEW Leadership™
New Leadership™ New Jersey summer institute is an exciting residential program designed to educate college women about politics and encourage them to get involved in the political process. Each year approximately 35 students from colleges and universities across New Jersey are selected to attend.
More information available at www.cawp.rutgers.edu/NEWLeadership.
Eagleton Institute of Politics
Wood Lawn Mansion
191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick
Sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics.
 
 
June 5-7
(Friday-
Sunday)

Douglass College Reunion
Sponsored by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College

 

 

FOR REGISTRATION AND EVENT INFORMATION:

Institute for Women’s Leadership: 732-932-1463

Center for American Women and Politics: 732-932-9384

Center for Women and Work: 732-932-4614

Center for Women’s Global Leadership:  732-932-8782

Department of Women’s and Gender Studies:  732-932-9331

Douglass Residential College:  732-932-2900

Institute for Research on Women:  732-932-9072

Institute for Women and Art: 732-932-3726

Associate Alumnae of Douglass College:  732-932-2880

Office for the Promotion of Women in Science,
Engineering and Mathematics
: 732-445-5425

Global Initiatives 

FOR DIRECTIONS: 
To Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building

For other Rutgers locations.