Events 2012-2013
October 4
Welcome Back Brown Bag Event
“Brain, Broad and Bulger”
Speaker: Pamela Hay, Instructor, Center for Professional Research
Location: Colloquium Room, 9th fl., Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
October 11
2012 Newcomers Luncheon
“My Life as a Material Girl”
Speaker: Joyce Wong, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Location: Sloane House, 135 Ivy Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
November 6
Lunch & Learn
“Heroic Viniculture: The Role of Wine Cooperatives in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Northern Italy”
Speaker: Rachel Eden Black, Assistant Professor, MET Gastronomy
Location: Colloquium Room, 9th fl., Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
December 5
Evening Tea
“Runaway Women in the Age of Versailles”
Speaker: Elizabeth Goldsmith, Professor, CAS Romance Studies, Author of The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
Location: The Castle
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
January 30
Lunch & Learn
“Female-Supported Households in Urban China”
Speaker: Susan Lee, Senior Lecturer, CGS Social Science
Location: Colloquium Room, 9th fl., Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
February 12
Lunch & Learn
Speaker: Jenny White, CAS Anthropology, Women’s Rights and Opportunities in Contemporary Turkey
Location: Colloquium Room, 9th fl., Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
March 18
Lunch & Learn
“Your Children, Tweens and Teens Online: what You Don’t Know Could Hurt Them”
Speaker: Sophie Godley, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health
Location: Boston University Medical Campus, Crosstown Center, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 460
Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Non-BUWG members may attend but should pay $10 at the door. Please Bring you BU ID to Access the Building. ACCESSIBLE BY THE BU SHUTTLE
April 22
Lunch & Learn.
“The Immortal Life of Nitrogen.”
Join us on Earth Day to hear Robinson W. Fulweiler,
Assistant Professor and Associate Director of BU Marine Program, Departments of Earth & Environment and Biology.
Non-BUWG members may attend but should pay $10 at the door.
May 2
BUWG Networking Event
Join your colleagues on Thursday, May 2, at 5:00 p.m. for a BUWG Networking event.
All proceeds go to the BUWG Scholarship Fund.
Location: Cornwalls Pub 654 Beacon Street (Kenmore Square)
Tickets: $10 each for limited open bar and hors d’oeuvres
May 13
BUWG 2013 Business Meeting
The 2013 Business Meeting of the BU Women’s Guild will be on Monday, May 13, 2013 from 12:00-1:30 in the Kenmore Conference Room, 1 Silber Way, Room 916. Coffee and dessert will be provided. Please bring your lunch. Meeting Agenda: BUWG Business Meeting Agenda 2013 | FY13 BUWG Treasurer’s Report | BUWG 2013 Year in Review | Proposed Slate BU Women’s Guild 2013-14
May 22
BUWG Annual Lunch
Speaker: Dean Linda Wells, College of General Studies, will be the keynote speaker. Scholarships will be presented.
Location: Metcalf Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor
Date: Wednesday, May 22
Time: 12 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.