Spring 2015 | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Events

Spring 2015

Student Paper Prize Competition Deadline

May 12, 2015 (All day)

Submissions are due for the undergrad, grad, and dissertation paper prizes. See:

http://www.gsws.pitt.edu/students/paper-prize

GSWS Documentary Screening: "She's Beautiful When She's Angry"

April 25, 2015 - 7:30pm
Regent Square Theatre

GSWS presents a screening of a new feminist documentary SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY this Sat 4/25 7:30PM at Regent Square Theatre, introduced by our very own visiting scholar & adjunct professor Dr. Kerrie Kauer, PhD., who will moderate a Q&A discussion afterwards!

 

Saturday 4/25 7:30PM at Regent Square Theatre

April SC meeting

April 24, 2015 - 10:00am - 11:30am

Meeting will NOT be held. We will meet again in early September.

Undergraduate Sexuality Studies Symposium

April 16, 2015 - 4:00pm - April 17, 2015 - 5:00pm

Undergraduate Sexuality Studies Symposium April 16-17, 2015

To view the full schedule, click here.

 

Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4:00-5:15

Keynote Undergraduate Lecture

Location: 324 Cathedral of Learning

Lecture: 'Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance'

April 10, 2015 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Speaker/Participants: 
Todd Reeser (French/GSWS)
Room 206 Cathedral of Learning

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program

Work in Progress Discussion: '’Visual-Cognitive Eliciation: Crafting Ethnography with a New Visual Methodology"

April 10, 2015 - 10:00am - 11:30pm
Speaker/Participants: 
Chelsea Wentworth (GSWS)
402 Cathedral of Learning

Lecture by Sandra Steingraber: "Fracking is a Feminist Issue: Women Confronting Fossil Fuels and Petrochemicals in an Age of Climate Emergency"

April 6, 2015 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
William Pitt Union - Assembly Room

Sponsored by GSWS, the Provost’s Sustainability Fund, and the University Honors College. Cosponsored by Environmental Studies Program, Humanities Center, the Departments of Sociology, Biology, Communication, and English; the Charles Crow Fund, and the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies.

The contemporary environmental movement in the United States is really two parallel movements: the fight against chemical pollution and the fight against climate change.

Student book discussion with Sandra Steingraber on "Raising Elijah"

April 6, 2015 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

At 4:00, we will host a book discussion for students on Sandra Steingraber's book _Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis_ (2011). Preregistration required. Contact Karen Billingsley to request a place and to receive the book. 501 Cathedral of Learning.

Moderated by Olga Kuchinskaya (Dept. of Communication). 

 

Work-in-Progress Discussion: “When the Rainbow is Not Enuf: Reviewing London’s Black Gay and Lesbian Activist Ephemera.”

April 3, 2015 - 10:00am - 11:30am
Speaker/Participants: 
Dominique Johnson (Communication/GSWS)
Room 402 Cathedral of Learning

Text for discussion available through the gender studies portal on my.pitt.edu under My Resources.

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