Fall 2009

All events will be held in 147B Greenwood Library
 

October 7, 4pm

"The Red Flag Campaign Against Domestic Violence"

Sasha Gregory

Wellness Coordinator

November 4th, 4pm

"Longwood's Women Artists"

Johnson Bowles

Director, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts

November 18th, 3pm
 

"Good Girls Gone Bad or Bad Boys Gone Good?" The new face of juvenile delinquency.

Marquis Mapp

Senior, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies

Spring 2009

February 4  3-4 pm

147B Greenwood Library

"African American male Teachers and the Search for Alternative Masculinities"

Dr. Warren Holmes

Director, Call Me Mister

March 4 3-4 pm

147B Greenwood Library

"Women's Health 101"

Margo Potts, R.N.

University Clinician

April 1 3-4 pm

147B Greenwood Library

"My Love! My Vampire! My Pedophile?"

Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais (and students)

Fall 2008

September 10 12-1
WGS Open-House in the Library Atrium

Join us for food, drink, and information

September 10   3-4 PM
147B Greenwood Library

Father’s Day in the Rain: Selections from Waterwalk
Dr. Steven Faulkner,  Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

October 15   4-5 PM
147B Greenwood Library

Savage Sexuality: Constructing Male  Victims in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Matthew Prickett, Instructor of English  

November 12   3-4 PM
147B Greenwood Library

Capitalist Productions:  William Pope.L & the Racialized Body.
 Erin Devine, Instructor of Art        

Spring 2008

February 20 at 3:00

Greenwood Library 147B

Gender and Popular Culture Double Feature

The Gayest Show On Television? Depictions of Gay and Gender Non-Conforming Men on Ugly Betty

Andrew Cason

Junior  in Communication Studies

Defending the Base: The Reinforcement of Popular Gender Ideology in  Red vs. Blue  

Mark Johnson

Junior in English

March 5 at 4:00 (special time)

Greenwood Library 147B

No One Can Hurt Me But Me: Illness as Agency, the Pro-Anorexia Community, and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory

Melanie Goss

Senior in English

March 19 at 3:00

Greenwood Library 147B

Consuming Desires:  How Advertisers and Publishers are Teaming up in the Bestselling Teen Novels Gossip Girl, The A-List, and The Clique

Dr. Naomi Johnson, Lecturer

Department of Communication Studies and Theater

April 9 at 3:00

Greenwood Library 147B

The Curiously Conservative Feminism of Mary Astell (1666-1731)

Dr. Derek Taylor, Associate Professor

Department of  English and Modern Languages

Seminar Series

Fall 2007

Presentations are held in the library,

147B 3:00.-400 All are invited.

19 September

“Women Writers Unleashed”

MARY CARROLL-HACKETT

Director, Creative Writing with

Amanda Walton + Katelyn Romaine

10 October

“Growth from Coming Out”

MICHELLE VAUGHAN

University Counselor

14 November

“Sexed Bodies and Sexual Beings:

19th-Century Art + Literature”

ESTHER GODFREY

Assistant Professor of English

With Niki Swann and Cheryl Adams Rychkov

Seminar Series

Spring 2007

February 7

Dr. Lucia Lu, Department of Education, Special Education,

Social Work & Communication Disorders

“Calls for the Sick Rose: Feminism from a Multicultural Perspective.”

March 21

Dr. Pam Tracy, Department of Communication Studies and Theatre

“Why Don't You Act Your Color’: Pre-teen Girls, Popular Music and Identity.”

April 11

Dr. Carmen Phelps
Department of English and Modern Languages

“Neo/Soul, Hip-Hop, and Funk in the Writing, Music, and

Lyricism of Contemporary Black Women.”