Author: Ja-Ho King

A “New Woman”: the Art and Politics of Anita Willcox Parkhurst (1892-1984).

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Thursday April 21, 2011 4p-6:00 WRC (Women’s Resource Center) 775 Commonwealth Ave George Sherman Union Boston, MA Panelists Patricia Hills, Professor, BU History of Art and Architecture Department Ann Willcox Seidman, Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Law, and Anita Parkhurst’s daughter Katha Seidman, Independent Artist and two-time Emmy award-winning production designer, and Anita Parkhurt’s […]

Sisters and the Status of Women in Afghanistan

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2 March 4pm-6pm KCB 107 Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave. Corinne Jaber directed Sisters in Kabul and Paris Sponsored by the Boston University Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and African American Studies Program, Boston University Humanities Foundation, Department of English, and Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations

The role of women in the current uprisings in the Middle East

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5 March 5pm – 7pm Boston University STO B50 590 Commonwealth Ave Panelists: Dr. Val Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s Study at Purdue University Mrs. Mehrangiz Kar, Author, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo Sponsored by the Boston University Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Iranians Graduate Association, Study of […]

Micro finance: Does It Work?

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10 March 5:30pm – 7:30pm Brandeis University 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 Speakers: Steve Atlas, Voices from the Field (Independent filmmaker and social justice advocate for international non-profits, including ACCION) Kim Wilson, Problems of Micro Credit (Lecturer at Tufts School for Law and Diplomacy, Fellow with the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises and the […]

“Thirteen” Screening at Boston University

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22 March 6pm – 9pm Boston University COM 101 Part of WOMEN TAKE THE REEL. A film festival celebrating Women’s History Month Film with the member institutions of the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (GCWS). Please join us for Catherine Hardwicke’s [Twilight] exploration of teen angst. Barbara Gottfried, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and […]

Rethinking the Motherline: Mothers and Daughters on Screen

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23 March 3pm – 5pm Boston University flyer 11 x 17 GCB 205 A public talk / lecture by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon and author of THE UNRULY WOMAN: GENDER AND THE GENRES OF LAUGHTER and the new UNRULY GIRLS, UNREPENTANT MOTHERS: REDEFINING FEMINISM ON SCREEN. Click here for […]