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Women’s History Month 2018 Calendar of Events
Feb. 23, 2018—
Dark Horse Candidate: Documentary Screening
Feb. 23, 2018—Dark Horse Candidate: Documentary Screening Monday, March 26 | 7:30 p.m. | Buttrick 102 Public screening of Liss Platt’s personal documentary Dark Horse Candidate. Platt is a multi-media artist and filmmaker based at McMaster University in Ontario, and Dark Horse Candidate investigates family dynamics, Platt’s father’s life, and queer identity.
The Body Is Not an Apology: Community Brunch with Sonya Renee Taylor [Vanderbilt Divinity School]
Feb. 22, 2018—The Body Is Not an Apology: Community Brunch with Sonya Renee Taylor Friday, March 16 | 11:00 a.m. | Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room Taylor’s vision recognizes the deep need to love and seek radical love for our own bodies as central to building a just world. By centering bodies,Taylor builds a very practical and concrete...
Sin Big: Why Mary Daly’s Insights (and Her Limitations) Are Valuable to Us Now
Feb. 22, 2018— Sin Big: Why Mary Daly’s Insights (and Her Limitations) Are Valuable to Us Now Thurday, March 1 | 1:10 p.m. | Wilson 112 Mary Daly, radical feminist elemental philosopher (and sometime theologian), spurred much of feminist thought from the 1970s forward. Her work is provocative, historically important, and troubling, but still influential. Is the...
Crip Times 2018: Queer/Disability Politics in a Post-Truth Era [Women’s and Gender Studies]
Feb. 16, 2018—Crip Times: Queer/Disability Politics in a Post-Truth Era Robert McRuer Tuesday, March 27 | 4:10 p.m. | Stevenson 4327 Robert McRuer, Professor of English at George Washington University, will discuss his recent book, Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, and the implications of his argument for the present moment. In the book and elsewhere, McRuer contends that disability is a...
P.R.I.D.E. Trainings [Office of LGBTQI Life]
Feb. 16, 2018—P.R.I.D.E. Trainings Tuesday, March 13 | 5:30–8:30 p.m. | Kissam 216 Monday, March 19 | 2:00–5:00 p.m. | Rand 308 The P.R.I.D.E. (Pursuing Respect, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) program aims to create a visible network of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) individuals and their allies by providing an avenue through which any...
Ableism Through the Years: A Woman’s Perspective
Feb. 9, 2018—Ableism Through the Years: A Woman’s Perspective Wednesday, March 14 | 6:00 p.m. | Sarratt 325/327 Join us as we host Dr. Forber-Pratt, a Paralympic ambassador and Assistant Professor from the Peabody College of Education. RSVP here.
Danielle Allen | Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. | Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture Series
Feb. 9, 2018—Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Danielle Allen Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture Series Tuesday, March 13 | 4:10 p.m. | Community Room, Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has...
44th Annual Antoinette Brown Lecture [Vanderbilt Divinity School]
Feb. 9, 2018—44th Annual Antoinette Brown Lecture: Thelathia “Nikki” Young, Ph.D., Bucknell University Thursday, March 22 | 7:00 p.m. | Benton Chapel As the 2018 Antoinette Brown Lecturer, Dr. Young will deliver the lecture titled, “Willful Behavior, Inherent Value, and Moral Imagination: The Making of a Black Queer Ethic.” We find ourselves in the midst of a neoliberal resurgence...
Before #MeToo: Histories of Sexual Harassment with Dr. Allison Elias [Women’s and Gender Studies]
Feb. 9, 2018—Before #MeToo: Histories of Sexual Harassment Wednesday, March 14 | 4:00–5:30 p.m. | Buttrick 123 Dr. Allison Elias, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Owen Graduate School of Management In this conversation, we will take a look at histories of sexual harassment in the workplace before recent efforts that brought this topic into mainstream discourse. Dr. Elias,...