Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium Series
Women's and Gender Studies sponsors a colloquium series in which local and national scholars present their research. Because of the personalized nature of our program, students have an opportunity to interact with these scholars both formally and informally. In addition, Women's and Gender Studies cooperates with other departments and groups to co-sponsor poetry readings, films, concerts, panel discussions and art exhibits of women’s work. Recent visitors and performers include Patricia Hill Collins, Janice Gould, Jean Fagin Yellen, Mahnaz Afkhami, Londa Schiebinger, Toi Derricotte, Darlene Clark Hine, Beth Brant, Manjira Datta, Gloria Steinem, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nomy Lamm, Leslie Feinberg, Barbara Smith, bell hooks, and the Guerrilla Girls. 2008-2009 Colloquium Series Topic: More information is forthcoming. 2007-2008 Colloquium Series (in reverse order): Friday, April 11, 2008: Thursday, April 10, 2008: Dr. Jensen is a retired history professor who taught United States history for over thirty years at institutions in California, Wisconsin, and New Mexico as well as in Germany and India. She was born in 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her parents, a farm daughter from Wisconsin and an extraordinarily hard-working Italian immigrant, moved with their three children to California on the eve of World War II when her father's National Guard unit was activated in 1940. She received her PhD from UCLA in 1962. After retirement from teaching in 1994, she continued to lecture and to publish. Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1980-1925, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2006, received Honorable Mention in Social History from the OAH in 2007. Copies of this book will be available for purchase at the colloquium on April 10. In addition to her work in history, a life-long interest in art has flourished recently as Dr. Jensen has begun creating art quilts. Thursday, March 13, 2008: More information is forthcoming. Monday, January 28, 2008: More information is forthcoming. Thursday, November 29, 2007: More information is forthcoming. Tuesday, October 2, 2007: To build bridges among women faculty in different disciplines, Women's and Gender Studies will be holding a special roundtable of women working in the areas of math, sciences, engineering, and technology at UNL. Issues to be discussed include: reasons for pursuing a career in these fields, joys and challenges of work in these fields at UNL, and what is being done by the college and by the field to promote greater participation of women in these fields. Tuesday, September 11, 2007: Come join us for an informal cross-disciplinary conversation with some of the founders of the Women's and Gender Studies program (who then served as program directors) and the WGS students to whom the torch has now been passed. Among out many topics of discussion, two in particular stand out: stories about the rise of the program and where it now stands today; and the changing nature of feminism, as it has influenced generations of the past, generations of the present, and generations still to come. Dr. Maureen Honey (Former WGS Director) |
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