Globalizing Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:

The Global & Regional Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Programs

Wednesday, September 30

The Incurable Feminine: Women Without a Country in East Asian Cinema
by Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree, Assistant Professor, Film and Television Studies Program
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill 325, 12:15 - 1:15 pm

Wednesday, October 28

Toward a Shameless Criticism: Nation, Gender, Sex and Globalism in the Post-Crack Era
by John Waldron, Associate Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill 325, 12:15 - 1:15 pm

Thursday, November 5

Second-Class Nationalism vs. Second-Class Citizenship: Puerto Rican Women and Debates over Political Status Within the U.S. Cold War Empire
by Anore Horton, Dept. of History
Billings Marsh Lounge, 12:15 - 1:15 pm

Wednesday, November 11

Competing Universals in Latin American Queer Theory
by Ignacio Lopez-Vicuña, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill 325, 12:15 - 1:15 pm

Tuesday, December 1

Gender, Participation and Community: Rethinking Development in Contentious Waterscapes
by Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill 325, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Sponsored by the Department of Geography

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

“Mines and Communities in Andean Peru: Labor
Conflict in an Age of Corporate Social Responsibility”

by Matthew Himley
Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Geography

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

“Women’s Rights in Occupied Iraq”   

 by Christina Asquith, Journalist and Author

See article on Christina's lecture covered in the Burlington Free Press

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

“The U.N. and Elections: Expectations Fulfilled?”

by Robin Ludwig, U.N. Electoral Assistance Unit

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

“In the Shadow of the Dragon: China-Tibet Relations”

 by Ken Bauer, Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

“Searching for Home in the Himalayas: Reflections on
the Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability”

 by Ann Armbrecht, Cultural Anthropologist and Author